Scotland vs Georgia Rugby World Cup, Pool A – 2011:
Match Between : Scotland vs Georgia Live
Start Time – 14 September 2011, 19:30 local, 07:30 GMT
Ground name : Invercargill Stadium
Events Name :- Rugby World Cup,2011
Sponsor Name : Rugby World Cup (Sponsor Name)
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Head-to-head
• Scotland and Georgia have never played each other before.
• Georgia will be Scotland’s 20th opponents at the Rugby World Cup. No other team has played against so many different opponents in the competition.
• Twenty five teams have played at the Rugby World Cup (including Russia who play for the first time on Thursday). The four who are yet to play Scotland are Canada, Namibia, Russia and Wales.
• Georgia have played Scotland A on two occasions – losing 69-3 in 2008 and winning 22-21 last year.
• Six members of Scotland’s RWC 2011 squad – Geoff Cross, Alastair Kellock, Richie Vernon, Kelly Brown, Ruaridh Jackson and Max Evans started the 2008 match for Scotland A against Georgia. Vernon (2), Brown and Jackson all scored tries in that match.
• After this match, Georgia will have played full internationals against five of the teams playing in the Six Nations. Wales will be the only one of the six still to play against the Georgians.
• Georgia’s best result against Six Nations opposition is their 14-10 defeat by Ireland at Rugby World Cup 2007.
Scotland
• Seventh in the IRB World Rankings.
• Aiming to win their opening two RWC matches for the third World Cup in a row. They lost their third match at both RWC 2003 and RWC 2007, against France and New Zealand respectively.
• Have reached the quarter-finals in each of their previous six World Cup appearances. They have been stranded in the quarters on five occasions, including the last four World Cups. |
• The best finish by Scotland came in the 1991 World Cup, in which they played five matches at Murrayfield in Edinburgh before losing the bronze medal match to New Zealand in Cardiff.
• Andy Robinson (ENG) is the first head coach from outside Scotland to lead the Scots in a Rugby World Cup.
• One of five teams to score 900 points or more at the Rugby World Cup. They passed the 900 barrier with Chris Paterson’s second minute penalty against Romania which opened the scoring.
• Only team to have recorded at least 100 points in the pool phase of the previous six World Cups. Romania have not managed this once in six World Cups.
Georgia
• 16th in the IRB World Rankings.
• Have lost their opening match on both previous Rugby World Cup appearances, failing to score a try on either occasion.
• Only victory at a Rugby World Cup is their 30-0 win against Namibia in 2007.
• Match against Namibia is the only RWC fixture in which Georgia have scored more than one try.
• Need four points to reach 100 in RWC matches.
• Have won 100% of their matches in the last year but their highest ranked opponents in that period were Canada who are currently 14th in the IRB World Rankings.
• Georgia’s eight victories in the last 12 months have only been bettered by England’s nine in the same period.
The venue
• This will be the third RWC match at Invercargill’s Rugby Park Stadium, all involving members of the Six Nations. On 3 June 1987, Wales triumphed 40-9 over Canada at this venue with Ieuan Evans starring with four tries. Last Saturday, Scotland beat Romania 34-24 in both teams’ opening match of RWC 2011.
• This will be Georgia’s first test match in New Zealand.
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