The Silver Fern

Another try for Fiji on HT, 15-7

2nd yellow card for Scotland

And Try Fiji, hard to see anything but a Fiji win from here, Scotland struggling with conditions 2 yellow cards in the first half on top of it isn't going to help.

Scotland struggling with the conditions and slowing it down at every chance, Fiji are keeping them in front going for miracle passes over and over.

Scotland over early, converted try

@sparky said in Waratahs v British Lions:

@ACT-Crusader It'll be Bundee.

Bundee has been better so far this tour cause Tuipulotu has looked rusty coming back from a long term injury but given how scratchy some of the combos have looked if he wanted to pick Jones at 13 he could be tempted to just play the Scottish 10-12-13 combo in the first test.

I expect he's going to either go with that or just pick the Irish combo, a mix and match seems more risky.

Super Rugby is no longer the premier competition without the Saffas it's becoming harder and harder for the ABs to build enough depth to field a dominant test side when they're only playing against themselves and the Aussies, the deck is stacked against it.

All of the top 14 basically has 2 teams, the likes of Toulouse and Bordeaux go away from home in a top 14 game and make 16-17-18 changes to the 23, they have about 70 players who can play at test level.

Justice for the randomly added 6 minutes, that was so suspect.

Literally went back in time in plain view but no one noticed except everyone at home.

@Yeetyaah said in Māori All Blacks v Scotland:

What the hell is happening with the match clock? It was at 72 mins then went back to 66 mins.

Not good when you have people gambling on this and they just invented 6 minutes of clock from nowhere, very shady

The gulf between the kicking games has basically been worth 20 points

@Yeetyaah said in Māori All Blacks v Scotland:

Crazy to think Scotland were paying $3.70 before kickoff.

9.5 point underdogs they were on the line

@Dan54

Well they've got their 8 best players with the Lions and have kept many of the big guns for Fiji and Samoa.

None of the starting 15 started in any of the 6 nations games, that's what i mean by a second string.

Big step up from Japan even against a second string, aren't going to get away with poor defence and just wanting to play with the ball.

Scotland have built way more depth in the past 2-3 years with Glasgow becoming a consistent top team in the URC, not one of this 15 would start a Six Nations game.

Wasn't long ago the was nothing outside the best 10 players.

They need to beat Fiji and Samoa for the World Ranking points to get into the top 6 (currently 7th) for the World Cup draw, so the plan is obviously just to give most of the 2nd string a game in this one since it doesn't matter in terms of World Rankings.