Ireland vs Scotland 6 Nations - Saturday 1st February 2020 - Match Thread

by Tramptastic Tue 21 Jan 2020, 1:55 pm

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IRELAND V SCOTLAND

1st of February 2020 16:45 Kick off

Referee: Mathieu Raynal (France)
Assistant 1: Pascal Gauzere (France)
Assistant 2: Federico Anselmi (Argentina)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand)

Ireland: 15 Jordan Larmour, 14 Andrew Conway, 13 Garry Ringrose, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 Jacob Stockdale, 10 Jonathan Sexton (c), 9 Conor Murray, 8 Caelan Doris, 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 CJ Stander, 5 James Ryan, 4 Iain Henderson, 3 Tadhg Furlong, 2 Rob Herring, 1 Cian Healy
Replacements: 16 Ronan Kelleher, 17 Dave Kilcoyne, 18 Andrew Porter, 19 Devin Toner, 20 Peter O’Mahony, 21 John Cooney, 22 Ross Byrne, 23 Robbie Henshaw

Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg (c), 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Sam Johnson, 11 Blair Kinghorn, 10 Adam Hastings, 9 Ali Price, 8 Nick Haining, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 Jamie Ritchie, 5 Jonny Gray, 4 Scott Cummings, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Fraser Brown, 1 Rory Sutherland
Replacements: 16 Stuart McInally, 17 Allan Dell, 18 Simon Berghan, 19 Ben Toolis, 20 Cornell du Preez, 21 George Horne, 22 Rory Hutchinson, 23 Chris Harris

Perennial World Cup Quarter Finalists vs A Team With No Clear Strategy That Doesn't Currently Play To It's Strengths, Please Come Back Vern

Historical head to head data is useless as Scotland won for the 1st hundred years but Ireland have been dead good since the year 2000, except in 2010 at Croke Park which tells you Dan Parks is the finest rugby player Scotland has ever poached from Australia.

New head coach for Ireland in Farrell vs Townsend with new back room staff

Captain Sexton vs Captain Hogg - Eurgh, there's going to be so much moaning at the ref.

I'm looking forward to seeing a healthy amount of abuse in the thread below, please enjoy.

by **Rugby Fan** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 4:54 pm

Kyle Sinckler moment for Doris

by lostinwales Sat 01 Feb 2020, 4:54 pm

Clash of heads from Irish player to Hastings. Hastings head bounces off and into Doris's chin and down he goes. Tough debut

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 4:56 pm

Unlucky penalty that - Haining did well to react but no one with him.

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 4:58 pm

Lovely try - we didn't do much wrong there

It's yet another early try conceded though!

by majesticimperialman Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:00 pm

Nice try by Ireland.

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:00 pm

Sexton converts

7-3 Ireland

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:01 pm

Our individual tackling has been much more aggressive but Ireland are finding space

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:03 pm

Zander gets an early one over Healey

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:04 pm

Hastings kicks a second pen

7-6 Ireland

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:04 pm

Very important that Hastings' kicking started well.

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:06 pm

Got away with that one - Cummings played it on the ground

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:06 pm

Haining has made a pretty good start

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:07 pm

Haining has started well - looks comfortable at this level so far

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:08 pm

Peter Omahony. A man I’d happily punch in the coupon

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:11 pm

I liked that passage - we made life bloody awkward for Ireland. Need to do that for 80 minutes.

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:11 pm

Bloody lineout!!

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:13 pm

That's twice now we've coughed the ball up easily on their line

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:14 pm

I hope us not taking our chances does not come back to haunt us again

We are playing well but turning over ball again

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:14 pm

I thought you weren’t allowed hands in a ruck.

New trial rules?

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:14 pm

tigertattie wrote:I thought you weren’t allowed hands in a ruck.

New trial rules?

Local rules!

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:16 pm

Fraser Brown loves a stupid penalty.

by TheMildlyFranticLlama Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:16 pm

So thick from Brown!

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:16 pm

Fraser brown. Muppet

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:18 pm

Peter Omahony. Muppet

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:18 pm

Peter O'Mahoney gets done for obstruction, is that the first time ever?

by TheMildlyFranticLlama Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:18 pm

Hoggy. Muppet

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:18 pm

Come on Hogg - what have we been saying about stupid mistakes!

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:20 pm

They’re not saying booooo

They are saying booooo-urns

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:21 pm

I'm loving the physicality and niggle we're bringing to this! About time.

Just need the accuracy now which hasn't been great so far.

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:22 pm

FFS Scotland!!!!

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:22 pm

Mon the Mish

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:23 pm

Hastings lines up a difficult penalty

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:23 pm

No idea how the ball came flying out back there. Surely there’s hands on the floor?

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:23 pm

We're doing everything right here except in the red zone - we're coughing it up immediately.

by Gooseberry Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:24 pm

Good for the championship that scotland have turned up switched on even if they lack that touch of quality and composure to turn pressure into points.
Ireland maybe feeling the pressure more, scotland had no expectations on them whereas ireland seemed to be shipping soft penalties out of frustration over a game they were supposed to walk.
I'd be very surprised still if Ireland dont win, the odd times they get it right they look brilliant. But competitive games are what makes the 6 nations special

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:25 pm

Stupid penalty Price

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:25 pm

Gaaaah stupid Price!!

There should be a 10k fine for every stupid penalty - it's epidemic in our game these days

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:25 pm

If in doubt. Give away a stupid penalty

by Brendan Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:25 pm

Ireland need more fight

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:27 pm

Scotland are performing much better than Ireland but are 4 points down - says it all really!

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:27 pm

Sexton kicks the pen

10-6 Ireland

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:28 pm

That was a really harsh call

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:29 pm

BigGee wrote:That was a really harsh call

It was, but we've got away with plenty this half!

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:29 pm

Was lazy play by Grey. Just flopped down over the ball from the side

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:30 pm

Justice is served as Sexton misses

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:31 pm

Scott Johnson running in treacle

by TheMildlyFranticLlama Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:31 pm

tigertattie wrote:Scott Johnson running in treacle

Keep your grubby dreams to yourself man!

by tigertattie Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:32 pm

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:
tigertattie wrote:Scott Johnson running in treacle

Keep your grubby dreams to yourself man!

If it were a dream it would have been Anne Lundon laying in treacle

by **BigGee** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:34 pm

We are playing well, but boy have we left some points out there

That is going to cost us you just know

by **RDW** Sat 01 Feb 2020, 5:34 pm

Loads of positives from Scotland bit plenty frustrations too. We've been so aggressive and made life incredibly difficult for Ireland, but we've also coughed up possession easily in their 22 on 3 occasions - convert even one of those and we're in the lead.

We're very much in the game though!

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