QF4: Australia v Scotland, 18 October

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AUSTRALIA v SCOTLAND

18 October 2015
16:00 BST (UTC+01)
Twickenham, London

Live on telly

Ref: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
ARs: Glen Jackson (New Zealand) and Pascal Gauzere (France)
TMO: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)

A. Head to Head

28 Played 28
19 Won 9
0 Drawn 0
9 Lost 19
671 Points 330

B. Recent Form

23 November 2013
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
15 – 21 to Australia

5 June 2012
Hunter Stadium, Newcastle
6 – 9 to Scotland

21 November 2009
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
9 – 8 to Scotland

25 November 2006
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
15 – 44 to Australia

20 November 2004
Hampden Park, Glasgow
17 – 31 to Australia

C. TEAMS:
AUSTRALIA

15 Kurtley Beale; 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Drew Mitchell; 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Will Genia;

1 Scott Sio, 2Stephen Moore, 3 Sekope Kepu, 4 Kane Douglas, 5 Rob Simmons, 6 Scott Fardy, 7 Michael Hooper, 8 Ben McCalman.

Substitutes: 16 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17 James Slipper, 18 Greg Holmes, 19 Dean Mumm, 20 Sean McMahon, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Matt Toomua, 23 Quade Cooper.

SCOTLAND

15 Stuart Hogg; 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Mark Bennett, 12 Peter Horne 11 Tommy Seymour; 10 Finn Russell,  9 Greig Laidlaw;

1 Alasdair Dickinson, 2 Ross Ford, 3 Willem Nel, 4 Jonny Gray, 5 Richie Gray, 6 Blair Cowan, 7 John Hardie, 8 David Denton. 


Substitutes: 
16 Fraser Brown, 17 Gordon Reid, 18 Jon Welsh, 19 Tim Swinson, 20 Josh Strauss, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Richie Vernon, 23 Sean Lamont.

Pretty doomed TJ...

For some reason I think that Scotland may sneak this.

Australia 818 caps v Scotland 430 caps.

Good luck Scotland

If we lose its clearly because the tournament organisers are forcing us to sing our anthem far too fast....

and other such excuses that I'm getting in early

Scotland don't have a bad recent history against the crims, could be closer than we may think.

If we win, would this be a bigger shock than Japan vs SA?

No sign of hurricane, Billy.

Just before this game starts I would like to say Joubert is an arse

He could have reached!

This already looks like Aust mean business

What the hell - why didn't Foley just lean forward, ground it and score?!

He's not a selfish player, Rory.

Yeah... he was there.

The Loaded Dog wrote:No sign of hurricane, Billy.

I am lurking in the background waiting for you crims to experience some Scottish justice

Ffs. If you are going to fly out the line you need to make the tackle.

Thought Beale did knock that on.

Tackle like that and this will become a 60 pointer

Good defence up until then. We just need to get some territory now. Restart crucial.

Unfortunate. Aus well on top and thoroughly deserve the first score but surely there was a knock on when the full back was tackled on the left earlier in the move?

We're really good with ball in hand. We're really bad when we're defending.

So why do we like kicking the ball away so much?

Here comes a restart............

Penalty back but I can't help feeling a SH side would have crossed the line. (No direct criticism of Laidlaw personally, but) Is there a SH in the northern hemisphere capable of recycling quick ball?

Australia falling off a lot lol tackles

Get in there, simple as

CMON SCOTLAND!!!!

Denton has matured into such a phenomenal ball carrier. The raw talent was always there, but he seems to have more confidence in his immensely powerful strides. He is one of the key reasons Scotland are getting front foot ball here.

Fantastic!

Well done nobody at home

What embarrassing defence there from the Aussies... Getting nervous Tom?

That's a great try from a player I didn't think should be there. I'll take humble pie. Great effort from Horne.

Dozer putting in a great shift thus far too

Wtf. Horne scored a try????

Well played wee fella

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Denton has matured into such a phenomenal ball carrier. The raw talent was always there, but he seems to have more confidence in his immensely powerful strides. He is one of the key reasons Scotland are getting front foot ball here.

I think that's unfair on the rest of the forwards. They are all carrying well

It's ironic but Scotland are the last 6 nations team standing in this world cup.

Cmon boys, give it everything.

Wow Wales really softened this Aussie pack up for you guys...

Huge test for this hyped ozzie scrum now.

If Australia can just keep within a score or two of Scotland they might be able to claw something back before half time. Not playing like this though. The Wallabies are clearly rattled and have reverted to an error ridden game, getting man-handled all around the park.

Amazing! Go Scotland!! (...If they were playing England, their opponents might even be accused of arrogance: expecting that to turn up was enough to win. )

PS: what a day it would be for Scotland to get their 32 year Twickenham monkey off their backs!

He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy!

nathan wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Denton has matured into such a phenomenal ball carrier. The raw talent was always there, but he seems to have more confidence in his immensely powerful strides. He is one of the key reasons Scotland are getting front foot ball here.

I think that's unfair on the rest of the forwards. They are all carrying well

What? How is that unfair on their forwards for highlighting their best?

What about the holding onto the ball from Oz?????

Great passing from Australia.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

nathan wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Denton has matured into such a phenomenal ball carrier. The raw talent was always there, but he seems to have more confidence in his immensely powerful strides. He is one of the key reasons Scotland are getting front foot ball here.

I think that's unfair on the rest of the forwards. They are all carrying well

What? How is that unfair on their forwards for highlighting their best?

Not even going to bother getting into a debate with you, sorry to disagree with you. Promise I won't do it again.

Is it just me or are the Aussies getting away with murder at the breakdown?

Bleedin crims

Fanster wrote:Wow Wales really softened this Aussie pack up for you guys...

Yeah, right. and England really softened up Foley's kicking by using up all his successful kicks, too Let's all just concentrate on the pulsating game currently under way, not mention any more teams who have already been eliminated.

Nel really powerful in the Scrum too. Scotland going well, great nudge from wee Greig

nathan wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

nathan wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Denton has matured into such a phenomenal ball carrier. The raw talent was always there, but he seems to have more confidence in his immensely powerful strides. He is one of the key reasons Scotland are getting front foot ball here.

I think that's unfair on the rest of the forwards. They are all carrying well

What? How is that unfair on their forwards for highlighting their best?

Not even going to bother getting into a debate with you, sorry to disagree with you. Promise I won't do it again.

Bizarre.

Looked like he was off his feet for me

Never supporting his own weight

It's extremely frustrating that so many SH players go over and beynd the ball, and have hands and elbows on the floor when poaching, the NH teams are so much nicer about it...

I was always taught as a ref to never allow that sort of behaviour, but it seems acceptable here, that was a soft penalty.

Joubert again, seemngly looking to see how he can penalise Scotland instead of looking at whats going on.

Fanster wrote:Wow Wales really softened this Aussie pack up for you guys...

That isn't really fair on Scotland we've all had a weeks rest before this game. It might be that Australia peaked too early against England and are now on a bit of a slide, but I think Scotland are just playing really well to be fair to them. I am worried that Scotlands self belief will start to fail them early in the second half though. Australia will probably just step it up s gear after half time.