Highlights Six Nations Rugby

Welcome to highlights. We will see the matches in Dublin where Ireland

are playing Italy and a compelling game with a great finale at

Twickenham where England play Wales. Wales have only won once in the

receding 24 years. The big question with the new-look English side

suffer the Welsh back in their search for the Triple Crown? Hoping

to secure their t win of the campaign against the much improved

Italy side chasing their t-ever Six Nations victory. We will start at

Murrayfield between Scotland an France that round off this third

weekend amounts match where Scotland had a lot to prove having

played to and lost to for the fifth consecutive Six Nations

Championship gains at French side inactive because of the

postponement against Ireland. They will have to play four successive

weekend. COMMENTATOR: A wonderful noise to follow the flames and the

fireworks for a full house in Murrayfield for the t time since

1994. Much expected of Stuart Hogg, an indicator there is a ground

swefl support for the Scotish press. Huge numbers of French supporters

as well. Scotland's back row John Berkley a blind side filled in with

an injury. But no Murray. The Edinburgh half back Laidlaw ready

to switch a round in 9 and 106789 Morrison is back. Can Hogg provide

some sparkle? A similar line-up in the back. Among the replacements,

Glasgow's stand-off Weir waits for his debut t only player not to come

off the benched in Wales. The French benched is simply packed

with talent. (Whistle blown). Scotland in the pristine white when

Scotland comes to visit. They get their t hands on the ball from

Laidlaw's start. Immediate lid it goes high for Parra. Immediately a

stand-off and thousands upon thousands of French fans here A

good carry by Graeme Morrison. Then a bit of a fumble from him but went

backwards. Well, Still skorbgs carried by Geoff Cross. A penalty I

think for Scotland. So if there is no advantage they will have a good

field position. There is the penalty. The officials did not see

that. The will the officials make the most of this opportunity? Way,

way short, unfortunately. The French defence is well set. Denton

straight in and again Scotland pounding away but it has all been

soaked up by the French defence. Back to Morrison. Hogg this time

almost squeezed himself - a tackle. I think Hogg has the ability to

pick a defender and run at him. Maybe a forward. Lose passe gain.

Scotland for the moment at a standstill once more. Laid lay. Is

it wide to Lee Jones? Hogg! With a triefplt he is there as Scotland

have their reward! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Just watch him. Just at

drop pass and the defenders go to the right-hand side, they go the

other way. Laidlaw flips it back. There is a lovely pass. I think it

is Jones, but that is a very good finish. In the end when it finally

came an elusive try for Scotland, it looked really simple.

touchdown as well. The right-fooder is very good from Laidlaw and

Scotland have a 7-point lead. Scotland again edging forward. Now

with a bit more pace about them as well. Berkley find one there. Blair

looking for Lee Jones. When there is no fullback at home... Scotland

in trouble. Medard into space. Stuart Hogg in front of him. It is

a little chip. Hes has taken and the pal will come to Scotland and

to Rory Lennon and now Scotland try to run it to the middle of 22.

Morrison. Good play, this is. Breathless stuff! He is through.

Taken down by a tough tackle. Amazing passage of play from both

sides. Laid lay wide to Lee Jones tries to step inside. He is taken

down. Geoff Cross. Again they have numbers on the right-hand side.

Laidlaw decide to bring the passage of play to a 50. He runs back. The

big number 8. He decides to kick. That is a very good kick, actually.

Good distance. A bounce. In-field to Hogg. Stuart Hogg a flash ever

yellow and away but as he kicks too long. Just watch. This is a danger.

Once he dropped the ball Medard is away. Jacobson just rolling forward

again. Laid-back but nobody there but the French are off-side and

Scotland have a penalty and a very, very pickable one as well. You have

the tick the point. Turn the pressure into points. Very, very

good play for Scotland. Laidlaw and the conversion successful of Hogg's

try. The kick is through from the Edinburgh flyhalf of. Scotland lead

2-nil. Looking for a quick ball. Bounces off one tackle. To fly half

L threw himself and now wide. Good hands. A wonderful try for Fofana.

France hit back. Again it is a mis- tackle. By Greg Laidlaw, he has to

make those. Just watch. Over he goes. Pulse in number 12 he has a

position - pulls - hot an angle this is. A good angle and

tremendous finish. France have 7 point in the bag and Scotland's

lead is town to 3 after half an hour here at Murray field a restart.

Taken well there. I think there is a winger injured there to injuries.

Very sad. Very, very awkward. Landed on his right footy think.

Went a penalty for France this time. Pretty sure they will take a pop at

goal on the far side S Jacobson went down there. In the end the

scrum, the French seem to have the upper hand. Parra find another 3

points for France and we are all square at Murrayfield! Sets off.

All in him. Trying to hack it clear. Scotland give up the penalty.

France have it. Jacobson just in on the ball. Off his feet. They will -

can their luck slowly build? little chip. They are up again.

Comes back for the penalty. They will kick a goal. I quite like that

as well. They know they have the penalty, why not? Rather than go

for the drop goal go for the try. A chance for Morgan Parra to give

France the lead for the first time thin match. Which he does. 14 point

in front, the visitors! What can deprapbs do with this? Fofana has

secured it. -- France. He has worked the defence A great turn-

over. Well done the Scotland forward. Beat to Hogg. His pick is

take en and gives to it his opposite winger. A real chance now.

If he come on - gets the ball. Taken and gives it. A tie for Lee

Jones A second try for Scotland! (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) They turned

the ball over. Brilliant coming up with great play, good space. Does

not panic. Easy give-and-take. Lovely try. Weir has his first

international point as well. Scotland have a four-point lead.

Holding his man off. Yes, over the game line. France competing well.

Now it's a turnover. This is where France can be dangerous. They have

the advantage. A couple of penalties. They may not need it.

Medard! Under the posts! Once more, France reply in style. Just the

lack of concentration on the Scottish side. A lovely runner,

Medard. Two tries a piece but France in front. A great take. A

difficult pass. Beauxis has plenty of time and has the drop goal!

France have a six point lead. A big drop goal. Good decision. Three

points. Scotland have been fantastic. Scoring tries. But just

not enough. That's it, that's all they had to do. Secure that line.

The match is over. Victory for France. Their second one. They go

to the re-match with Ireland next weekend. After we showed a lot of

character. In the second half, we had good contact. It was a good

game. It can get so frustrating when you see the opportunities.

Suddenly we got lost in contact. I need to look at the tapes. I think

we were harshly treated. We are bitterly disappointed. After the

end of the day, we did not get the win and that is what we wanted.

was a costly gain from an injury. Of you? Yes. We lost three or four

players. One suspected broken leg. Pretty tough. At other

disappointing result for Scotland but France now have three matches

back-to-back against the other home nations. Wales were 1-2 as well.

What a match it turned out to be. Good afternoon. Welcome to

Twickenham. The conditions are perfect. A rich green grass and a

clear blue sky. England were worried about high it. Morgan

worried about high it. Morgan starts at number eight. A lot

depends on the half-back partnership. Owen Farrell moves

from 12 to 10. Alan Wyn Jones is back in the second row. In the

heart of the line-up. Rhys Priestland will pull the strings.

From the bench will come lots of experience for Wales. Stephen Jones

is there. Rhian Jones is on the bench as well. He played so well in

the last round. Two side, unbeaten. England against Wales. Owen Farrell

Mike Phillips weights and cheques where his partner is. Takes the

responsibility himself. -- waits and checks. Pass from Morgan. Leigh

A penalty in Wales' favour. From the crowd, they're not happy about

the fact they thought the ball was held on the floor. Not releasing.

Well taken to Phillips. North! A great tackle. Here we go. Wales -

the chase is on! The ball goes dead. It was all so easy. That's what

Wales can do. They have so many The prop, there he is. Switched by

Dixon. England have a penalty He knew there was a penalty

advantage. Offside against Wales. England take the lead! Owen Farrell

Too slow. That was a penalty. It was mad. You don't work to get a

three point lead and then just give Tuilagi! What a tackle by Sam

Warburton! Ben Morgan, another good This is Lee Dixon. Up and puts him

The pass goes astray. Back to the original penalty. He looked like he

got him right around the ankles. A A thumping tackle. Jamie Roberts is

He knows that was the wrong option. England's making the turnover. Here

Warburton with the interception of the pass. England with the penalty.

Wales over the top. The back foot's Three from three. Nervous Owen

Farrell. A good kick there from a Charged down! England crawl

forward! There it is! Halfpenny Three points on the board!

Happiness for England, suffering for Wales! Priestland's back foot

is way behind. Owen Farrell's put the three points on the board. It's

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Is that advantage over? It surely must be. This is Jenkins. England

Jones tackled by Barrett. Jonathan Davis was outside Priestland so he

goes on his own. Penalty to Walres! When the referee tells you, doesn't

matter if you agree or not. You let 12-12 now with eight minutes to go.

It is not about creativity here, it is about mistakes. Excellent by

England there. Rob Shaw to Lawes. Wales makes the charge! They've

done it! Scores a try! That might take Wales to their Triple Crown at

Tickenham! They've never won a Triple Crown here! A mistake that

could cost England dear! Individual North - and the ball elludes both

North and Stettle. How close was that? Good drive by Wales. Still on

play for nothing now. England joining. One metre short! Which way

will they climb? Here we go. It is going to take off. Didn't go there.

Lucky if he did. This could be it? Yeah, it will be. Takes him there.

Does he play? Not there. Is it there? Is that down? I do not think

he can give that because he has been asked for a tie or no-try.

Interesting the ball is down. No try! The game is over! The tie has

not been awarded to England and Wales have won here at Twickenham

and they complete the Triple Crown. Three wins out of three! The game

decided by the break-away try by Scott Williams and Wales start the

celebrations. We not play well at all but so for the Six Nations, we

completely ignored that. We knew England were fully out there. It

was so tough but to have a Triple Crown is unbelievable. We failed to

capitalise on the momentum we had but equally I think we should take

great credit from the performance coming into the game. 108, two caps

on the Sydney and everything behind that. The developing side has given

experience and throts learn, lots of credit to take. We have the

regroup now, learn the lessons and move onto what is in front. That

was a tough match-up. Nothing in it. What do you say? I thought probably

the turning point for the game for us was in the 10 minutes when it

was 3-all and we kept hold of the ball and we played really well but,

yeah, England were tough. I thought they played extremely well. They

did not make it easy for us and we just probably had a bit more

firepower than they did. But there was not much in it. What a match,

drama. And controversy. We will talk 3. That in a minute. One more

match. That is the third match weekend. The same line-up today for

Ireland that was flamed for the game that never was. The Irish pack

has a settled look to it. The front row all the better for the tight-

head prop Mike Ross. Three destructive ball carriers. In the

backline a change to the side that will run out against Wales. Carney

seems to be getting back to the form which made him fullback for

the Lions. Italy have built their game on a powerful scrum but two

inexperienced props today The captain, captains his side for a

record 38 time and Jack Purnell, scrum-half of by trade one of 10

players in the starting XV. He may make his 118th appearance for

Ireland A record passing Ryan O'Driscoll. Ireland with a bit of

space to exploit. He has not done well. They have had opportunity to

put the ball deep but passed them. And through, Italy have three

points. They have the lead on their own. Sexton then to tie draw

Ireland level. They look good and it is. Jonathan Sexton rises from

the ground. Nothing between these two sides. Sexton steps inside

struggling on. Not quite held. Wide! Oh for the try! A quick ball.

Didn't give Italy a chance to realign their defence. John Sexton

effectively taken out two players over there. They are in trouble

again. Clashes on. So near to the line. Tries to get it down. Held

just short. There is Craig Juobert. Italy so many men over. A tie for

Italy. He scuffle under the post. Sergio, the captain, hits back for

the Italians. Look at the men over. That was a great hit. They packed

the left-hand. Keith there virtually the lone defender. He was

not going to let that opportunity go. A quicker ball. Wide it goes.

Sexton. Nearly through. Good defence from Italy. Dives in there

himself. Ireland looking for a tie to finish this first half. Carried

on by Callahan. A secondary drive from the forward sets it up two

metres out. Murray back to Gordon D'Arcy. Wide out there to Carney.

Surely ferries gives it wide to Tommy Bow and Bow is in for the tie

which will give Ireland the lead at half time. The man his size would

have made line but very unselfishly he has given the pass and for his

team he has made sure of the five points. A final kick of the t half

is very good indeed as was his has its induction. Ireland have a

seven-point led at half time. Again, a little uneven at times in its

quality but certainly Ireland have taken the chances. Trimble in the

flyhalf of position. Into the to centres. Ferries! Offloads well.

Had the ball there. The the attack - sure hey tie coming now is Mike

Ross. Down on the line. Italy in desperate scrum bling defence.

Ireland set it up 2 metres out. Nothing there yet. Sexton a long

pass. Tommy Pow is for his second try - Bow -- and Ireland now

marching clear. Now you can see them really on top. That is

territorial pressure. When they do get these chances now you feel a

try is the always going to come. There is the record-breaking man.

Number 100 - 18 for Ireland. One more in Bryan O'Driscoll. Only

George Gregan is ahead of him. Chance still for Ireland here.

Three metres out. Advantage again to Ireland, penalty coming for them.

So close Ireland, trying to burrow through. Craig Joubert tie has been

given. The celebrations are there number 4 for Ireland and it looked

like was Tom Court who got the ball down eventually. A charge from

Trimble. A corner. Another try for Ireland. Trimble is in a gift for

Italy. Well taken by Andrew Trimble. He is never going to be caught from

there. Difficult pointed to the last. A complete kicking

performance from Jonathan section tofpblt Ireland utterly emphatic

tofpblt Ireland utterly emphatic winners by 42 point to 10. After a

run of two or thee disappointing results I have tried here but you

cannot argue with that surely? Look, they are a very good side and

coming very well. Improving all the time with their physical side. That

is the sort of score line on him with the sloppyness we had in the

first half it was really satisfying. Obviously the score line we are not

happy with because towards the end a few defensive error was the ball

for us. It is definitely not what we want to give up easy point. Stop

making those errors and we will not give way to the tries. A quick word

on Rowland Ogarra? He is such an example for everyone. You can have

all the attitude in the world but you need the attitude. That is

though table looks midway through the championship because we have

the outstanding Ireland match to come next weekend but it means as

things stand we are on course possibly for a grand slam decider

between Wales and France or maybe a wooden spoon decider as well

between Scotland and Italy on the final weekend. We might as well

start with you Andy Nicole and Jeremy Guscat. The not a hugely

convincing win? No, a very poor game for the French even if we

manage to win. We were very passive in the first half. We missed a lot

of tackles and we were not really good in the line-outs we lost many

balls. I think Scottish started with a lot more passion than what

we did but finally in the second half we turned over and we managed

to come back. From a Scotish perspective? Another, another,

another failed frustration. Never easy in Scotland. But again there

are more good things and encouragement. Sarah Stewart Hogg

is a real find, a really talented kid. His t try and looks

electricity anywhere near the ball but still not really getting from.

There is no shame for France. France is a good side but Scotland

have just about got there but not quite. You reason couraged and from

a English perspective you are very encouraged by what happened

yesterday? Yes, a wonderful game of rugby to be honest. I did not think

it would happen but Lancaster said that is what wanted his site to do.

He produced it. There is a great defensive effort which take as good

mind-set. You have to be committed. Against that three-quarter line of

Wales which is determined to bash down the fortress at Twickenham.

They held firm, took their opportunities and maybe the one at

the end did he, did he not? The referee decided no, so there will

be it but there can be no shame in that performance. I think they look

to Paris thinking they have every chance of winning. Maybe a France-

England showdown but how confident are you? I think we can play better

than today. I think we need to have the ball in hand the create

opportunity. At the moment we rely too much on turnovers and walking

together during the three weeks now will by a lot of confidence into

the team. OK. At this stage half way through the championship the

winners of this year's RBS Six Nations is Wales. Yes, Wales!

have to say France. (LAUGHTER) luck to Wales. You do not believe

it? France v Ireland next weekend the outstanding game from a few

weeks ago thanks to the Arctic conditions in France. So we hope it

will be balmy sunshine and we will have a great weekend. See you then.