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Georgia are trouble if they are allowed to build pressure by staying in the opposition 22, firing off their forwards on short, charging runs and retaining the ball. Scotland weren’t about to let that happen. They upset Georgia’s platform at the scrummage where Euan Murray did real damage, climbed into their driving mauls off line-outs and hit their ball carriers in the open.
That’s Scotland’s game all over. Before last season’s Six Nations, Andy Robinson was asked what Scotland did particularly well, what is, and always has been, their national, natural style? “Causing chaos,” Robinson replied.
It wasn’t a flippant remark. Scotland spoil and harry better than any other side in world rugby.
Georgia obviously believe in safety in numbers because they defend very tight to the breakdown too. Early on Scotland realised that the best way to unsettle them was to go wide but, and this is the clever part, they understood that before they could go wide they had to earn the right by driving at the inside shoulders of the defenders, fixing them. That’s a strategy which should serve England well.
Scotland were clever in other ways. Georgia are one of the great scrummaging nations yet in the first half Scotland restricted their opponents to four scrums.
When they did crop up, Scotland’s front row of Allan Jacobsen, Ross Ford and Murray were all over the Georgians.
Georgia will stress test England in that area on Sunday. If England come through, then their path to victory will be significantly easier.
This post has been edited by comus-74 on 15 Sep 2011, 19:09 
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