RWC 2019 Scotland Team Guide, Key Players, Squad, Match Fixtures

Scotland Rugby Team is Included in the Pool A in the RWC 2019. Currently world rank 7 position team of Scotland have a best performance in the world cup so far in fourth spot and looking to make better this time of Rugby world cup at Japan.

If this is the most wide-open World Cup to date, Scotland sit just outside the realm of credible winners as many players of their side are currently in great form. They are not going to win this Competition, not because they are incapable of beating the best team on the world likes of All blacks, Australia etc on their day, but because they have proved time and again they cannot make it their day more than once in a while.

When we think of scotland then We always thing of their two most of recent fixtures against England. In 2018’s Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield venue, scotland played the rugby of the gods, the kind that could make anyone believe they were world-beaters and may win this 9th Edition of the Rugby world cup title. Finn Russell and his myriad runners tore the second best team in the world at the time to shreds. It was “their day”, all right. Then, as surely as night follows their day, Scotland travelled to Dublin in the next round and on that occasion its imploded.

In 2019’s Calcutta Cup encapsulated this Scotland vintage as well as any game: 31-0 down after half an hour; 38-31 up with three minutes to play; 38-38 at the death.

If we seen this time of RWC 2019 clash then Scotland who is drawn in the Group A so it theoretically the hardest for the scotland as team to face Japan ranked higher than Fiji and also to Argentina and Italy in other teams to face. Scotland will open with all guns blazing against Ireland, their chances of winning directly linked to that match, but the game that will likely decide the pool is their final-round fixture against the hosts in Yokohama, where the final will be played.

“I went out on 9 September 2018, exactly one year before we go, to get a good look at the country at the specific time of year we are going,” explains Scotland’s performances services operations manager David Edge.

Scotland fixtures

Scotland vs Ireland: 8.45am Sun 22 Sept (Yokohama)
Scotland vs Samoa: 11.15am Mon 30 Sept (Kobe)
Scotland vs Russia: 8.15am Weds 9 Oct (Shizuoka)
Scotland vs Japan: 11.45am Sun 13 Oct (Yokohama)

Ireland vs Scotland

Kick-off time: 8.45am BST, Sunday 22 September at International Stadium Yokohama

TV channels: All matches at the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be broadcast on ITV, which you can also stream on the ITV Hub.

Scotland vs Samoa

Kick-off time: 11.15am BST, Monday 30 September at Kobe Misaki Stadium

TV channels: All matches at the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be broadcast on ITV, which you can also stream on the ITV Hub.

Scotland vs Russia

Kick-off time: 8.15am BST, Wednesday 9 October at Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa

TV channels: All matches at the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be broadcast on ITV, which you can also stream on the ITV Hub.

Japan vs Scotland

Kick-off time: 11.45am BST, Sunday 13 October at International Stadium Yokohama

TV channels: All matches at the 2019 Rugby World Cup will be broadcast on ITV, which you can also stream on the ITV Hub.

Key Players

Finn Russell – Fly-Half
Hamish Watson – Back-row
Duncan Taylor – Centre

Team Squad

Forwards: John Barclay (Edinburgh), Simon Berghan (Edinburgh), Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Scott Cummings (Glasgow Warriors), Allan Dell (London Irish), Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Stuart McInally (Edinburgh), Willem Nel (Edinburgh), Gordon Reid (Ayrshire Bulls), Jamie Ritchie (Edinburgh), Blade Thomson (Scarlets), Ben Toolis (Edinburgh), George Turner (Glasgow Warriors), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh), Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors).

Backs: Darcy Graham (Edinburgh), Chris Harris (Gloucester), Adam Hastings (Glasgow Warriors), Stuart Hogg (Exeter Chiefs), George Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Pete Horne (Glasgow Warriors), Sam Johnson (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Kinghorn (Edinburgh), Greig Laidlaw (Clermont Auvergne), Sean Maitland (Saracens), Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors), Finn Russell (Racing 92), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Taylor (Saracens).

Rugby World Cup key dates

• Group stages: 20 September – 13 October
• Quarter-finals: 19-20 October
• Semi-finals: 26-27 October
• 3rd/4th play-off: 1 November
• Final: 2 November

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