Scotland vs England, Six Nations 2020

[sparky]

Scotland:15-Stuart Hogg (capt), 14-Sean Maitland, 13-Huw Jones, 12-Sam Johnson, 11-Blair Kinghorn, 10-Adam Hastings, 9-Ali Price; 1-Rory Sutherland, 2-Fraser Brown, 3-Zander Fagerson, 4-Scott Cummings, 5-Jonny Gray, 6-Jamie Ritchie, 7-Hamish Watson, 8-Magnus Bradbury.

Replacements:16-Stuart McInally, 17-Allan Dell, 18-Simon Berghan, 19-Ben Toolis, 20-Nick Haining, 21-George Horne, 22-Rory Hutchinson, 23-Chris Harris.

England:15-George Furbank, 14-Jonny May, 13-Jonathan Joseph, 12-Owen Farrell (capt), 11-Elliot Daly, 10-George Ford, 9-Willi Heinz; 1-Mako Vunipola, 2-Jamie George, 3-Kyle Sinckler, 4-Maro Itoje, 5-George Kruis, 6-Lewis Ludlam, 7-Sam Underhill, 8-Tom Curry

Replacements:16-Tom Dunn, 17-Ellis Genge, 18-Will Stuart, 19-Joe Launchbury, 20-Courtney Lawes, 21-Ben Earl, 22-Ben Youngs, 23-Ollie Devoto.

[sparky]

Scotland with the early phases. Itoje offside at every single ruck. But he has his cloak of invisibility back. The Saffa ref asks him to move and lets him win the turnover from an offside position.

[sparky]

Does this ref have eyes?

Elliot Daly clearly in front of the kicker.

[sparky]

Scott Cummins penalised for not rolling away. Farrell with a penalty into the wind. Drifts away to the delight of the crowd.

[sparky]

Scotland conceded a third penalty in five minutes. Farrell with his second attempt. Lots of boos. Over.

England 3 Scotland 0. Solid so far from England.

[sparky]

Scottish hooker with another bad throw. Struggling with wet, windy conditions.

[sparky]

England kicking too much into the wind.

[Victor Meldrew]

Some of the ball handling and catching from both sides has been outstanding considering the filthy conditions.

Pretty even game.

[Victor Meldrew]

Adam Hastings looks like a star in the making for Scotland. Very solid.

[sparky]

3-0 at half time. Turgid stuff.

Really dislike the way Itoje whoops after the opposing team are penalised.

[sparky]

Scotland with the first penalty of the Second Half 3-3.

[Victor Meldrew]

@sparky said in Scotland vs England, Six Nations 2020:

Turgid stuff.

Conditions almost gurantee that.

Some good individual play though - that run and kick by Hogg was sublime.

[MiketheSnow]

England could fuck this up

[MiketheSnow]

How fucking thick are the English?

Stop kicking long ffs

[sparky]

Scotland with most of the territory and possession in the second half.

England have the better line out and scrum though. Think that will be crucial.

[sparky]

England have made many fewer handling errors, but their kicking options have been dreadful.

[sparky]

Jesus, that was a shit kick by Elliott Daly.

[sparky]

Into the last twenty minutes. 3-3

[sparky]

Neither of these sides know the old Athletic Park matra of not kicking into the wind.

[MiketheSnow]

This is fucking dreadful.

But oh so compelling