[RWC2019][Pool A] Round 4 - Japan vs. Scotland (13/10/2019)

[bushytop]

Was that Zander Fagerson going "If we're going to lose, let's lose on style".

Yeah, surely he should have said 'on fleek'!

 

[TRF_Olyy]

What a game

 

[Reiser99]

I'm confused, are you allowed to move a defending player from the ruck by lifting his leg from the side, because surely that's coming in from the side?

 

[Leinster Fan]

Congrats to Japan!!!!

Amazing achievement, deserve huge credit.

 

[User1245]

YES!! Japan! What a team!

 

[Reiser99]

Fantastic game. Japan deserved that with an outstanding first half. Scotland fought back better than I expected though.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

To think that this match could've been cancelled. The game of the tournament so far.

 

[Alex Anghel]

I hope Japan will be included in the Rugby Championship. A team currently far more interesting than Argentina.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Brilliant Japan

 

[RugbyTackle91]

Scotland why do you keep kicking it.

Honestly, SA are going to demolish Japan next week.

Absolute rubbish

 

[Bada-Bing!]

What a performance from Japan. Out go Scotland, but no doubt they would have preferred to go out this way than not playing.

 

[bushytop]

Great game both sides... lived up to the expectations.

To the Scots, real good effort at the end there and a little unlucky to have drawn such a tough group.

Japan... well I wouldn't want to play you for a place in the final should Wales make the semi's... Springboks please!

 

[donmcdazzle]

Absolute rubbish

ok well let's come back in a week and see who is right.

Their line out was shaky, scrum just ok. SA will dominate the set piece, and their defence won't succumb like Scotland's just did.

 

[RugbyTackle91]

ok well let's come back in a week and see who is right

I don't see how you can confidently say Japan are getting demolished based on this World Cup

 

[Reiser99]

If we WR want to salvage this world cup in anyway they need to make sure Japan get some regular top tier rugby.

 

[donmcdazzle]

I don't see how you can confidently say Japan are getting demolished based on this World Cup

Set piece is too shaky for a team like SA.

 

[BobbyM]

Really poor execution at times from Scotland there. So many passes not going to hand or if caught stopping forward momentum. Also missed a raft of tackles and were turned over far too often.

Russell meant to be one of the box office 10's in the world, and he has been poor in this tournament.

Hogg has lost more than a yard of pace the last couple of years.

G Horne and Price should be battling out for 9 shirt for Scotland going forward, and Cummings should be starting alongside Gray in 2nd row.

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Fantastic spectacle and well deserved. Jamie Joseph is an absolute legend managing to knock off both Ireland and Scotland. The performances in both the matches exceeded what I considered Japan's ceiling to be and I loved how they stuck to the gameplan of trying to score rather than trying to defend a lead (which might have proved fatal).

I still think the Bok pack will eat them for lunch, but you never know. If they can get that prop and Mafi back fit somehow then maybe they will have enough muscle to give their backs any sort of chance to play rugby.

 

[TRF_heineken]

Another Scotland generation wasted.

What generation? Their project players plan is failing miserably.

 

[User1245]

I've always liked the Scots but it's great for the tournament for Japan to progress.

Chin up Scotland, you were part of history today.