- Scotland got the scare of their life... they were leading at half time, but Romania changed 9 and 10 and came back even with less than 10 minutes to play... then Scotland scored two tries of anthology to finally win the game. Congratulations to Romania who could create a surprise in this pool... don't miss their next games.
- The referee had a nice tempo for his scrum commands, including a couple of seconds between PAUSE and ENGAGE respected by both scrums. The priority was again clearly on releasing the tackles, releasing the ball, releasing the tacklee, getting away for botht he tackler and the tacklee.
- At 5mn 59s of the first half, excellent demonstration by a Romanian player of rule 22.9.c for a defender in his own in-goal zone. He put one foot behind the goal line, the other in front of the goal line, and waited for the rolling ball... he caught the ball in front of the goal line to pick it up and touch in his goal zone. Because the ball was still rolling (not very fast...) when he picked it up, he got 22m drop out (or scrum where the ball was kicked). If the ball had stopped just before he picked it up, there would have been a 5m scrum for Scotland if he had touched the ball in his in-goal (stationary ball - rule 22.9.b), so in this case he would have been better off then not to touch down in his goal but to counter attack and eventually kick as far as he could, as he was kind of alone...
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