Scotland squeeze through to World Cup quarters by 3 points

“That’s pretty worthwhile. If we get into the quarter-finals, then it is an absolute bonus”, Jones said via a video uploaded on the Rugby World Cup’sofficial Twitter page.

Namibia earned its first ever competition point at the World Cup from a 17-16 loss to Georgia on Wednesday, and coach Phil Davies said he hopes his team can show the same doggedness.

“That is phase one and we need to move to phase two, which is the knock-outs, but I think there were a few pretty good things out there”.

“This is huge for us and we are absolutely delighted to get over the line today”. “We’re going back to the way we want to play, and hopefully it’ll get us the win”.

“It made it a little bit slower and there were more re-sets than we would ideally have wanted, but it was OK”.

With time running out and Samoa threatening to break free at anytime, Scotland were awarded a penalty under the posts when they held a slender three point lead. “It’ll be sore tomorrow, but it doesn’t hurt as much when you know you’ve won”. Not only did Cotter save his strongest team for yesterday, but there were seven pairs of fresh legs in the starting XV.

Although Ireland has the recent edge on Saint-Andre’s team in the Six Nations, the French often save their best for the World Cup. Wilson was not looking at the Samoan player, but he knew that he was there. “They’ve had it in mind for a very long time”. The Glasgow boys can fall back on their experiences, so can the Edinburgh boys and myself.

There was no comeback against South Africa when they were quickly down 3-20 and eventually lost 16-34.

Vern Cotter’s charges hardly looked like a side battling a numerical disadvantage, tough, and Hardie was on hand to finish off a powerful rolling maul, Laidlaw’s extras drawing them level. It was just about waiting to see who would be ready and who wouldn’t.

“Ah, I hate Scotland!” medical student Haruka Imafuji, 22, told AFP while drowning her sorrows after watching the game at a Tokyo bar as the clocked ticked past one in the morning local time. We learnt a lot from the South Africa game. We’re enjoying being in the position to qualify.

Samoa were there for the pride and tore into their opponents from the off, ensuring a stadium packed with Scots went through the whole gamut of emotions as three tries were scored in two minutes, with a fourth added eight minutes later.

A lineout drive try to John Hardie and a penalty brought Scotland back into it to be just three points behind at the halftime break, something that certainly didn’t reflect the run of play, and while Samoa had dominated everything it seemed that they had not landed the knockout blow. We can inspire the next generation of young people in Japan to play rugby.

“All experience is important in rugby”.

“It is something we have talked about”, Hodge said.

Coach Stephen Betham echoed his captain’s thoughts.