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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2021 Six Nations] England vs Scotland (06/02/21)
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<blockquote data-quote="big ginger 8" data-source="post: 1018053" data-attributes="member: 53057"><p>As I said previously Scotland were hampered by their halfbacks but there was a lot of things they did quite well. Their set piece was really good. I don't have any stats in front of me but from memory they gave away a penalty in an early scrum but had dominance after that and in terrible weather had an excellent lineout. Certainly I can't remember them losing a lineout while Turner was on (even if there were two scrappy ones) and they turned over at least two English lineouts in dangerous positions. They mostly kept the ball well and looked dangerous in broken play. They were also massively physical in defence but it remains to be seen if they can keep that up in a game with different possession stats. Their phase play definitely holds them back. England are very comfortable defending long phases (just see any recent game against Ireland) but it is Scotland's biggest work on and probably what's holding them back the most along with possible discipline issues when they don't have the ball.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="big ginger 8, post: 1018053, member: 53057"] As I said previously Scotland were hampered by their halfbacks but there was a lot of things they did quite well. Their set piece was really good. I don't have any stats in front of me but from memory they gave away a penalty in an early scrum but had dominance after that and in terrible weather had an excellent lineout. Certainly I can't remember them losing a lineout while Turner was on (even if there were two scrappy ones) and they turned over at least two English lineouts in dangerous positions. They mostly kept the ball well and looked dangerous in broken play. They were also massively physical in defence but it remains to be seen if they can keep that up in a game with different possession stats. Their phase play definitely holds them back. England are very comfortable defending long phases (just see any recent game against Ireland) but it is Scotland's biggest work on and probably what's holding them back the most along with possible discipline issues when they don't have the ball. [/QUOTE]
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