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Gilchrist out, Russell a concern. Potentially big losses. http://thescotlandteam.com/2015/09/28/gilchrist-out-of-rugby-world-cup/ Important for us. A win gets us top regardless of other results*, while a loss, especially with no bonus points, opens up a possibility, however slim, of...

Ehwah WoohWah.

A year beforehand, when everybody but the Repechage side has qualified wouldn't be unreasonable IMO.

Can't ask for anything more than 10 points from 2 games. We were more consistent today, handling was significantly worse in the first half though. Hopefully Russell and Gilchrist get up, both quality players. If everybody's fit I reckon that this team will take the field: Hogg, Maitland...

Another offload and a try.

And then Russell looks for the offload and gets it stripped. If you play with fire you're gonna get burned.

Case in point mxyzptlk

The short answer is that it's better than the alternative. The medium answer is that I think we are doing it a bit much. A couple of times even tonight we've lost good momentum because of forcing the offload. Bennett has lost one looking for the offload, Hoggs lost one, think one of the...

Being given nothing at the defensive breakdown again. 2 missed shots, plenty of missed try scoring opportunities. Eagles still probably deserve to lead. Might see Laidlaw and the front row on fairly early in the 2nd half. Gilchrist was a big loss, was having a good un.

The handling has just been nothing short of abysmal. Fix that up and we should be on top.

Same bloody issues as last week. Miss a kick, penalty conceded, try to opposition off the lineout. Playing slightly better than we were at this stage last game, but need to cut out the mistakes.

Cuthberts barely looked up to Pro12 rugby since the Lions tour, playing him out of position at international level would be a big mistake.

Props have been pretty good, as have the flankers. Phipps has been good. Everybody else has been somewhere between poor (Beale Miracle ball and pass over Mitchells head, Mitchell losing ball in contact and giving away penalty, Cooper Card) and ok but with errors (Tomane trying to score with...

Trying to win well before they're trying to win the game. Even against minnows, that's always a mistake.

We've got a side capable of playing to the Japanese game plan, potentially to a "better" standard as well. Would need 1 or 2 decisions I'm not sure Cotter would be comfortable making though. Specifically, playing both Strauss and Denton rather than one of them and Wilson, Fraser Brown ahead of...

Yeah... maybe. Or maybe not. It's a world cup, who knows what'll happen. If we execute well enough we will be competitive at the least.

Very happy with Russell thanks. I praise jebus everyday that Allen chose to commit to the Italians, since Finn would likely have missed out on the June tour last year and we'd be in a lot worse of a position.

Ford starts, Fraser Brown covers openside from the bench, and Kevin Bryce comes in to be reserve openside. Thats the other change from Hardie ruled out. Still a good side about 8 or so of the best 15 compared to 11 or so against Japan, 10 changes to the starting 15 means we're somewhat fresh...

That was absolutely wonderful. Fabulous result. Feel so so sorry for Amos and the Williamses. They just completely got that last 5m lineout wrong. Biggar was absolutely immense.

For all the shit piled on the ref for "bias" he gave us absolutely nothing at the breakdown, despite Hardie, Wilson, Scott and Lamont being set over the ball numerous times in the game. 70% of the time it was the Japanese stuffing up their own opportunities anyway, with forward passes, dropped...