Three Six Nations games were played this weekend, two Saturday afternoon and evening and one on Sunday. Unfortunately the Saturday games overlaped with two Super Rugby games.
So, we’ve decided to do one combined Six Nations Article… giving progress and scores from all three Six Nations matches.
Here it is…
Scotland (0) 12 / 8 (3) Ireland (Final Score)
Scotland and Ireland did battle in the Six Nations at 16:00 SA Time (14:00 GMT) on Sunday 24 February 2013.
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast on SuperSport 5 & SHD on TV in SA.
Scorers:
Scotland:
- Penalties - Greig Laidlaw (4)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – 0
- Conversions – 0
Ireland:
- Penalties - Paddy Jackson (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries - Craig Gilroy (1)
- Conversions – 0
Teams:
Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Sean Lamont, 12 Matt Scott, 11 Tim Visser, 10 Ruaridh Jackson, 9 Greig Laidlaw, 8 Johnnie Beattie, 7 Kelly Brown (captain), 6 Robert Harley, 5 Jim Hamilton, 4 Richie Gray, 3 Geoff Cross, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Ryan Grant.
Replacements: 16 Dougie Hall, 17 Jon Welsh, 18 Moray Low, 19 Alastair Kellock, 20 David Denton, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Duncan Weir, 23 Max Evans.
Ireland: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Craig Gilroy, 13 Brian O’Driscoll, 12 Luke Marshall, 11 Keith Earls; 10 Paddy Jackson, 9 Conor Murray, 8 Jamie Heaslip (captain), 7 Sean O’Brien, 6 Peter O’Mahony, 5 Donnacha Ryan, 4 Donncha O’Callaghan, 3 Mike Ross, 2 Rory Best, 1 Tom Court.
Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 David Kilcoyne, 18 Declan Fitzpatrick, 19 Devin Toner, 20 Iain Henderson, 21 Eoin Reddan, 22 Ronan O’Gara, 23 Luke Fitzgerald.
Date: Sunday 24 February
Venue: Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Kick-off: 16:00 SA Time (14:00 GMT)
Expected weather: Cold weekend in the United Kingdom with generally cloudy conditions with some showers expected for Edinburgh. Should mean it is going to be another arm-wrestle with some slippery and heavy conditions. Temperatures will get to a high of 8 degrees and a low of 1 degree.
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Assistant referees: Jérôme Garces (France), Greg Garner (England)
TMO: Eric Gauzins (France)
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Italy (6) 9 / 26 (9) Wales (Final Score)
Wales and Italy did battle in the Six Nations tournament at 16:30 SA Time (14:30 GMT).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 6 on TV in SA.
Scorers:
Italy:
- Penalties - Kristopher Burton (3)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – 0
- Conversions – 0
Wales:
- Penalties - Leigh Halfpenny (4)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries - Jonathan Davies (1), Alex Cuthbert (1)
- Conversions - Leigh Halfpenny (2)
Teams:
Italy: 15 Andrea Masi, 14 Giovambattista Venditti, 13 Tommaso Benvenuti, 12 Gonzalo Canale, 11 Luke McLean, 10 Kristopher Burton, 9 Edoardo Gori, 8 Ratu Manoa Vosawai, 7 Simone Favaro, 6 Alessandro Zanni, 5 Francesco Minto, 4 Antonio Pavanello, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni (captain), 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 1 Andrea Lo Cicero.
Replacements: 16 Davide Giazzon, 17 Alberto De Marchi, 18 Lorenzo Cittadini, 19 Quintin Geldenhuys, 20 Paul Derbyshire, 21 Tobias Botes, 22 Luciano Orquera , 23 Gonzalo Garcia.
Wales: 15 Leigh Halfpenny, 14 Alex Cuthbert, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Jamie Roberts, 11 George North, 10 Dan Biggar, 9 Mike Phillips, 8 Toby Faletau, 7 Justin Tipuric, 6 Ryan Jones (captain), 5 Ian Evans, 4 Andrew Coombs, 3 Adam Jones, 2 Richard Hibbard, 1 Gethin Jenkins
Replacements: 16 Ken Owens, 17 Paul James, 18 Craig Mitchell, 19 Alun-Wyn Jones, 20 Sam Warburton, 21 Lloyd Williams, 22 James Hook, 23 Scott Williams.
Date: Saturday 23 February 2013
Kick-off: 16:30 SA Time (15:30 Rome Time, 14:30 GMT)
Venue: Olympic Stadium, Rome
Expected weather: There is an 80 percent chance of rain with a high of 12°C, dropping to 4°C
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant referees: Alain Rolland (Ireland), Pascal Gauzere (France)
TMO: Geoff Warren (England)
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England (9) 23 / 13 (10) France (Final Score)
England and France did battle in the Six Nations at 19:00 SA Time (17:00 GMT).
This was the live match discussion Article.
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 6 on TV in SA.
Scorers:
England:
- Penalties - Owen Farrell (4), Toby Flood (2)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries - Manusamoa Tuilagi (1)
- Conversions – 0
France:
- Penalties - Morgan Parra (1), Frederic Michalak (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries - Wesley Fofana (1)
- Conversions - Morgan Parra (1)
Teams:
England: 15 Alex Goode, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Brad Barritt, 11 Mike Brown, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Tom Wood, 7 Chris Robshaw (captain), 6 Courtney Lawes, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Joe Marler.
Replacements: 16 Tom Youngs, 17 David Wilson, 18 Mako Vunipola, 19 James Haskell, 20 Thomas Waldrom, 21 Danny Care, 22 Toby Flood, 23 Billy Twelvetrees.
France: 15 Yoann Huget, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Benjamin Fall, 10 Francois Trinh-Duc, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Yannick Nyanga, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Yoann Maestri, 4 Christophe Samson, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 Benjamin Kayser, 1 Thomas Domingo.
Replacements: 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Vincent Debaty, 18 Luc Ducalcon, 19 Jocelino Suta, 20 Antonie Claassen, 21 Maxime Machenaud, 22 Frederic Michalak, 23 Florian Fritz.
Date: Saturday 23 February
Venue: Twickenham Stadium, London
Kick-off: 19:00 SA Time (17:00 GMT)
Expected weather: Continuing to be cold and generally cloudy, with the occasional light wintry shower – which will impact on the quality of the rugby. It will be a high of 4°C and a low of -2°C
Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Assistant referees: John Lacey (Ireland), Leighton Hodges (Wales)
TMO: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
February 24th, 2013 at 17:36 SAST
Hold Bravehearts Hold!!!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:37 SAST
Great, great defence by Scotland. They must not lose it now. 1 minute left
February 24th, 2013 at 17:37 SAST
YES Scotland scrum not far from our try line
February 24th, 2013 at 17:37 SAST
Just under a minute left
February 24th, 2013 at 17:37 SAST
Just hold on to the ball, boys
February 24th, 2013 at 17:38 SAST
Tense stuff
February 24th, 2013 at 17:38 SAST
30 seconds, and a reset. Playing into the Scots hands
February 24th, 2013 at 17:38 SAST
And the Bravehearts have done it! Congrats to the lads in skirts!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:38 SAST
Scrum reset what is Irish scrummy doing on top of the scrum!?
February 24th, 2013 at 17:38 SAST
Jim Hamilton MOM
February 24th, 2013 at 17:38 SAST
Scrum reset again
February 24th, 2013 at 17:39 SAST
Ireland collapsing on purpose. Hoping ref will award them a penalty
February 24th, 2013 at 17:39 SAST
And they get it.
February 24th, 2013 at 17:39 SAST
Oh dear
February 24th, 2013 at 17:40 SAST
Farkit Ireland get a penalty!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:40 SAST
Scotland win, well my Bru goes south on this one
February 24th, 2013 at 17:40 SAST
Yes Ireland knock on and Scotland win OH YESSS!!!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:40 SAST
Gosh, that was qute an end there!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:41 SAST
Knock on, a fitting end to a very poor Irish game. Very well done Scotland. Played all 80 minutes against 15 men, and the stats, but they have come out on top. Well done lads. A very happy Bean1 here!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:41 SAST
Wow just grit by Scotland, Ireland unlucky not to win
February 24th, 2013 at 17:41 SAST
But not good enough and Ireland mess it up as they have done all match. Just shows you what heart can do against incomptence.
February 24th, 2013 at 17:42 SAST
Kudos to Scotland and Italy this 6N, they have both made the 6N worth watching, thats for sure.
February 24th, 2013 at 17:43 SAST
20% possession beating 80%! We don’t see that too often!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:43 SAST
Thanks lads, see you for the next one. I’m off to write an essay on GBS’s Bulls/Stormers analysis thread. It’s not going to be pretty.
February 24th, 2013 at 17:44 SAST
This was a lekker sporting weekend, Friday to Sunday… and tomorrow there’s more, with the Varsity Cup… salivating at the propect of Tuks vs Maties!
We covered 11 Live Matches… 10 rugby matches and 1 Cricket Test… that is great going!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:45 SAST
Ahh would have been so good to have been at Murrayfield now, cheers all
February 24th, 2013 at 17:48 SAST
Ciao a tutti!
February 24th, 2013 at 17:49 SAST
The stats from this game are going to be framed and put up in pride of place at Murrayfield for ever more!!!!! For Ireland, the stats are going to be made into bog roll – a bit like the way they played!
February 24th, 2013 at 22:30 SAST
Hoots Laddies!
February 25th, 2013 at 08:04 SAST
Well done Scotland. This result and the England result (where I predicted an upset) really sent my Bru ranking into a tailspin!
February 25th, 2013 at 10:57 SAST
330 @ GoBokkeAndIreland:
Thanks GBAI, such a close game but we’ll take the win. A pity for Ireland in 6 Nations in general though as before the tournament started I wrote that I’d considered them to be challenging England and France for the title, pffft we all know now what an error that was on France but for Ireland I really thought that you had brought through a crop of exciting young players who along the established experienced core would do well and after the Wales game thought that view had been vindicated, but since then you have had even more injuries to contend with, some of the good forwards were already out and then you got that trio of top backline players injured – D’Arcy, Sexton and Zebo, and no one could have thought that O’Gara would have regressed so badly. I had speculated that Ian Madigan who was added to the squad would get to play, even if only off the bench, on Saturday, but they went for Jackson and O’Gara and considering it was their kicking, both to posts and out of hand, that cost Ireland big time, I for one am glad that the Ireland selectors slipped up there and left Madigan out. With nothing to lose now surely if Sexton is not ready for next game then Madigan must be in the match day 23.
February 25th, 2013 at 11:16 SAST
Scotland’s press conference, really enjoy Scott Johnson especially his response on the question about selections
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