a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tbSqtgGek8w/TWuKoZr9i6I/AAAAAAAAFEM/9b4725-RB2E/s1600/ronan-ogara-scotland.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tbSqtgGek8w/TWuKoZr9i6I/AAAAAAAAFEM/9b4725-RB2E/s400/ronan-ogara-scotland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578704990123166626" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Scotland coach Andy Robinson was left fuming after Ireland clung onto a 21-18 lead to win a closely fought fixture at Murrayfield this weekend. Despite coming close, Scotland have now lost three from three in this year's Championship. /spanbr /br /In a game littered with penalties, Robinson was left scratching his head as to why more was not done about the persistent infringing; highlighting the 13-4 penalty count against his side, and the sin-binning of prop Allan Jacobsen as key to his team's defeat.br /br /Three tries for the Irish, coming from Jamie Heaslip, Eoin Reddan and Ronan O'Gara, who also added three conversions, was enough to grant the visitors a win, although the performance was far from convincing. Scotland responded with four Chris Paterson penalties, a Dan Parks drop goal and penalty, yet could not find the cutting edge to breach a resolute Irish defence.br /br /Despite a strong last quarter, the Scot’s were held out at 21-18, and are yet to register a win in this year’s Six Nations. They now have to travel to Grand Slam-chasing England on March 13.br /br /After the game, a pleased Ireland head coach Declan Kidney said: "It's encouraging when we are scoring tries - three in this game, three in the last game (against France), that is always positive.br /br /"It is a difficult place to come and win. We got three tries and we let a couple of others slip away. But we won the match. The way the things are in the country, why not celebrate that? Hopefully people will have a good night."br /br /Scotland coach Robinson pointed the finger at referee Nigel Owens as the reason to his side’s defeat. "There are a number of issues that I have about the game; firstly, the high Irish penalty count and no sin-bins and their ability to slow our ball down illegally.br /br /"Secondly, I thought the scrums just after half-time - when we've got the Irish going backwards and there was a penalty against us and then from the next scrum our prop (Jacobsen) was sin-binned - was a major turning point in the game.br /br /"We were just about to get on top of the Irish and to lose a player like that is pretty hard to come back from. I want to know why he made those calls," he added.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pJIuAaA8zao?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pJIuAaA8zao?fs=1amp;hl=en_GBamp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span04:19/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-1555475254344556019?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divpa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NdBSqh5PVY1lriHKaVRS-9JurIY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NdBSqh5PVY1lriHKaVRS-9JurIY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NdBSqh5PVY1lriHKaVRS-9JurIY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/NdBSqh5PVY1lriHKaVRS-9JurIY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=VTUJqOD8IPU:6LOzmJmtgPU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/VTUJqOD8IPU" height="1" width="1"/ More...