I was just thinking that could be a good game, it's at Kamaishi too so should be a great event.
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Get in. Was just on the cusp of getting worried there. A try every fourteen minutes would do fine.
ITV were telling us yesterday that the last time Scotland won three straight competitive games - which we'll need to, with bonuses, to reach the quarters - a Hastings was playing. Nicely symbolic scorer of the first seven points then.
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I haven't been this delighted with a Scotland start since we went 3-0 up on New Zealand in Malaga in 1982. And we ended that one failing to get the crucial bonus point.
Beautiful as this is, won't relax til we have the fourth.
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45th minute, job done. Lovely. Scotland still majorly up against it for reaching the quarters (and that's before we get into potential typhoon/hurricane interference with the fixtures) but at least they won't have done anything daft against the sides we were expected to beat.
I know we're just here to talk about rugby but, believe me, after a lifetime of watching the National XI over-performing against football's biggest nations then slipping up versus the minnows, this in itself is beautiful, sweet relief.
There's a fifth try. For Scotland. Barely 51 minutes played. I love rugby.
Right, that's me finished talking to myself. Apologies. Thread back to normal for Wales v Fiji.
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Russia seem to have been worn down by the tournament and their margins of defeat as the pool has progressed have been 20, 25, 35 and now 47 and counting.
Take nothing away from Scotland but they're playing a side that is shot.
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Just seen the stats from that game and there wasn't a single penalty (I mean an attempt at kicking a goal from a penalty, since rugby uses the word penalty much more broadly than football does). Anyway, this sounds unusual. Is it? Seems to me that a significant proportion of points in RU usually come from penalties, and to actually have none of them, not even attempted, is surprising.
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Not in the context of the game. Penalties were no use to Scotland, who needed to score 4 tries. After going three scores down, penalties were no use to Russia either, scoring a consolation try against a top tier side was a bigger prize to them. And having scored the 4th try, Scotland rightly treated the rest of the game as scoring practice, ready for Japan.
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There has bean a few games so far with no successful penalty point kicks. Certainly the bigger nations (SA and NZ) haven't bothered with them against the lower tiers, probably knowing they will always have enough to score plenty of tries, but even games like Georgia - Uruguay (33-7) was just tries and conversions.
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Originally posted by Greenlander View PostThere has bean a few games so far with no successful penalty point kicks. Certainly the bigger nations (SA and NZ) haven't bothered with them against the lower tiers, probably knowing they will always have enough to score plenty of tries, but even games like Georgia - Uruguay (33-7) was just tries and conversions.
But anyway, I can see from the comments (thanks btw) that it's not nearly as unusual as I imagined
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Originally posted by Alex Anderson View PostBeautiful kicking from Biggar and predictable recklessness from Fiji helps the momentum change well before half-time. Sod Japan - Wales should be everyone's second team.
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