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Scotland and England stalemate at Murrayfield
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/S5wmJhXvfDI/AAAAAAAAD7E/shgMZYr_npk/s1600-h/scot-eng-beatie-cueto.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/S5wmJhXvfDI/AAAAAAAAD7E/shgMZYr_npk/s400/scot-eng-beatie-cueto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448271594230086706" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Scotland and England played to a scrappy 15-15 stalemate at Murrayfield on Saturday. The draw gave Scotland their first point this season, but effectively killed off England’s ambitions of winning the Six Nations Championship./spanbr /br /All the points came from the boot as Dan Parks kicked four penalties and a drop goal for Scotland, while Jonny Wilkinson kicked three penalties for England before going off hurt. Replacement Toby Flood kicked the other two.br /br /Flood had a chance to win the match with time up, but had his kick charged down.br /br /"Overall this game was a tale of missed chances but the draw doesn't bring our progress to a halt," said England coach Martin Johnson. "We did some very good things today but we also did some very silly things.br /br /"We had chances to win the game and we didn't need to give away silly penalties in the second half when they didn't look like scoring," Johnson added.br /br /"I said to the guys at half-time, just back ourselves to retain ball and win the game."br /br /Scotland coach Andy Robinson said he was pleased with his sides improvement following their loss to Italy two weeks ago.br /br /"The thing for us, and what I said to the team, is that we can stand toe-to-toe with anybody and play against anybody," Robinson said.br /br /"I thought the set-piece work went well today, I thought some of the invention and things we tried to do were good.br /br /"Nobody said it was going to be easy, we've got to keep working hard," he said. "We have been working hard and I'm really pleased with the attitude."br /br /Scotland play Ireland in Dublin next, while England travel to Paris to take on France.br /br /span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" Match highlights will accompany post soon, but can be viewed on the Omnisport player for now./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-1447729204448011415?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=OIsIyUEU3G8:NMXEnB8XCfU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/OIsIyUEU3G8" height="1" width="1"/ More...
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