Six Nations debrief after Scotland's 31-19 win over Italy at Murrayfield
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00:00Hello it's Graeme Bean from the Scotsman at Murrayfield where Scotland have just
00:05beaten Italy by 31 points to 19 to open their Guinness Six Nations campaign in
00:14winning fashion. It was a bonus point win, five tries scored including a hat-trick by
00:20Hugh Jones the centre. Scotland started really brightly, they were 14 and up
00:27after eight and a half minutes but they got pegged back by Italy in the second half and it
00:31was 19 all at one point but they pulled away with two tries and four minutes by Jones in the second
00:37half to eventually win with a little bit to spare. So it was a bright start by Scotland,
00:43the first try was scored by their co-captain Rory Darge from close range and then Jones got the
00:49first of his treble shortly after, after good work by Doohan Vandermeer who impressed particularly
00:55in the first half. Tommaso Allen reduced Scotland's lead with two penalties that made it
01:0114-6 at the midpoint of the half and Scotland got a third try through Ben White
01:08after a great offload by Dave Cherry back in the test team for the first time since the
01:132023 World Cup. Tommaso Allen got his third penalty of the day to make it 19-9 at half time,
01:21he then got his fourth penalty early in the second half to reduce Scotland's lead to seven
01:26points. That lead was wiped out by a try from Juan Ignacio Brix after a mistake by Finn Russell,
01:35tried to play into a pass to Jones but was intercepted. Brix ran in an easy score from
01:40halfway. Tommaso Allen's conversion made it 19 all and Scotland were wobbling a little bit and the
01:47crowd were getting a little anxious but Townsend looked his bench but on fresh legs and Scotland
01:55scored two tries midpoint of the half both from Hugh Jones, the first one after a brilliant run
02:01by Darcy Graham, cut inside and ran halfway into the pitch before playing in Jones and then the
02:07final score of the game came after a good pass from the replacement Tom Jordan who found Jones,
02:14who still had a lot to do but managed to squeeze his way over and that made the final score
02:20Scotland 31, Italy 19. So a good opening weekend for the Scots, it's Ireland next at Murrayfield
02:28next Sunday, a tough test but please stay tuned to the Scotsman website for all the latest news.