Scotland Vs Italy

Supercell

Looking forward to this.
Potentially a second shock on the cards?
I'm backing Scotland..but not by a huge amount to win this

Diamondmaker

Ill back Ita;y. Off to watch it now!!

Supercell

Italy murdered Scotland on their first try then gave a soft penalty away.
Hope this isnt a penalty kick to victory game.

Supercell

Another soft penalty..aghh..tis like watching the Irish muppets giving victory on a plate to the opposition.

Supercell

Italy have zero disipline, this isnt a contest.
Scotland to win by a huge margin, purely because Italy are utterly crap.

Stev_o

LOL bad call there mate they may have no discipline but they they are scoring

Supercell

Try Italy!!

Good stuff..lets keep the disipline lads and make a game of it!!

Ghost Train

nice try from italy (ref got knocked over haha)

BOHSBOHS

deliberate obstruction there by the ref!

Supercell

Stev_o wrote:

LOL bad call there mate they may have no discipline but they they are scoring

Heheh, its murphy's law isnt it !!
Great to see it, hope they tighten themselves up and make a contest of this.

Supercell

Italy lead 10 - 6 !!

Stev_o

Ha does anyone ever notice when the commentators say "Oh x is so very good he's been having a blinder" the player their talking about tends to do something bad. Goes the same way about negative comments the player does something incredible.

Ghost Train

Ouch (great slow mo though of the collision)

Supercell

Its all Italy now, they need to score from this.

Stev_o

Longfield wrote:

Its all Italy now, they need to score from this.

What happened to "Scotland to win by a huge margin, purely because Italy are utterly crap.":p

IrishMike

Scotland just scored a penalty to retake the lead which they should maintain for the rest of the game
Have them backed -4 in the handicap betting.
Come on scotland mike needs to clean paddypower out

Supercell

Stev_o wrote:

What happened to "Scotland to win by a huge margin, purely because Italy are utterly crap.":p

Lol, Italy camped in Scotland half so making mistakes didn't count so much.

These two sides are not WC winners by a long way..but are serving up a pretty good contest so far

Supercell

Italy totally terrible in defence again, handing Scotalnd three points on a platter again.

Jesus reminds me of my days as a tight head prop playing for Newpark..were were brutal!!

Jackz

Our buddy Nathan in the bin.

Stev_o

Scotland narrowly beat Italy

18-16

Shame really i think Italy deserved to win more then Scotland did

Supercell

The better team on the night was Italy , but their utterly shiite disipline cost them.

Remind anyone of another northern team in the WC?..

IrishMike

Probably the worst match of the world cup so far.
Absolutly shocking.
Whatever team plays scotland will barely have to turn up, they are woeful.
They must have kicked 15 garryowens 15 of which the italian full back caught.
You would think they would have learned but no they just kept doing it.
Shocking, makes me sick to think i backed them

thebaz

Scotland always push above there weight in the World Cups, but the rugby they play is so unattrative, no wonder they play to half empty stadiums and no one wants to sponsor them -- the wimbledon of old of rugby

zAbbo

Thought it was a good game, not on the same skill level as the Fiji v Wales matchup, but an exciting finish nonetheless.

I guess not betting (and losing) allows me to have this objective view, unlike IrishMike & Longfield's bile towards Italy & Scotland.

Marshy

zabbo wrote:

Thought it was a good game, not on the same skill level as the Fiji v Wales matchup, but an exciting finish nonetheless.

Yeah I'd agree. It was never gonna be the same type of game though. Scotland were always gonna get most of their points via Paterson and Italy via Bortolussi. I was surprised at how well Italy played in parts of the first half even when they lost Bergamasco. I thought they'd win at that stage.

But going on performances throughout the tournament, Scotland were the better team and probably deserve to go through.