Test Match No. 189: The 5th Rugby World Cup (Australia), game 1

日本語 Photo Journal
12 October 2003 in Townsville
●Japan 11-32 Scotland National Rugby Union Team○
Japan's in full throttle but needed one more push
 
Data:
12/10/2003, the 5th WC Pool B
Japan 11 Scotland 32
Dairy Farmers Stadium, Townsville
Half-time: 6-15
Referee: Stuart Dickinson (Australia)
Touch Judges: 1st Scott Young (Australia), 2nd Nigel Whighthouse (Wales), 3rd Alain Rolland (Ireland)
Crowd: 19,710
 
JAPAN: 15 Tsutomu Matsuda (22 Toru Kurihara 77), 14 Daisuke Ohata, 13 Reuben Parkinson, 12 Yukio Motoki, 11 Hirotoki Onozawa, 10 Keiji Hirose (21 Andrew Miller 50), 9 Takeshi Tsuju (20 Yuji Sonoda 50), 8 Takeomi Ito, 7 Takuro Miuchi (capt), 6 Naoya 'Tofu' Okubo (72 Yasunori Watanabe 72), 5 Adam Parker, 4 Hajime Kiso, 3 Masahiko Toyoyama, 2 Masao Amino (17 Masaki Sakata 2nd Half 40), 1 Shin Hasegawa.
Reserves: 16 Masahito Yamamoto, 18 Hiroyuki Tamuma.
Try: Onozawa; Penalty Goals: Hirose (2).
 
SCOTLAND: 15 Ben Hinshelwood, 14 Chris Paterson (22 Simon Danielli 79), 13 Andy Craig, 12 James NcLaren, 11 Kenny Logan, 10 Gordon Ross (21 Gregor Townsend 66), 9 Bryan Redpath (capt), 8 Simon Taylor, 7 Jon Petie (19 Martin Leslie 57), 6 Jason White, 5 Stuart Grimes, 4 Scott Murray (18 Rose Beatie 66), 3 Bruce Douglas (17 Gavin Kerr 73), 2 Rob Russell, 1 Tom Smith.
Reserves: 16 Gordon Bulloch, 20 Michael Blair.
Tries: Paterson (2), Grimes, Taylor, Danielli; Conversions: Paterson, Townsend; Penalty Goal: Paterson.
 
Scoring sequence (Japan's score shown first): 5min-try Scotland, Paterson; conv. Paterson-0-7, 14min-pen Japan, Hirose-3-7, 16min-drop goal Japan, Hirose (missed), 17min-try Scotland, Grimes; conv. Paterson (missed)-3-12, 23min-pen Japan, Hirose-6-12, 32min-pen Scotland, Paterson-6-15, 40min-pen Japan, Hirose (missed), Half-time, 54min-try Japan, Onozawa; conv. Miller (missed)-11-15, 65min-try Scotland, Paterson; conv. Paterson (missed)-11-20, 75min-try Scotland, Taylor; conv. Paterson (missed)-11-25, 78min-try Scotland, Danielli; conv. Townsend-11-32.
 


In the first match of the 5th World Cup, Japan put up such a good fight that Scotland got flustered, but that was as far as Japan could get. Scotland scored three tries from the 25th minute of the game and stretched their lead. However, it became a thrilling game because Japan conceded only five tries. The spectators in Townsville went wild with excitement, and later became good supporters of Japan. This was the best game Japan has ever played in the five World Cups. Ito, Onozawa and Ohata actively used their speed in offence. The try Onozawa scored in the 15th minute of the second half was a difficult kind of play used to disrupt the opponent in modern day rugby with a developed systematic defence. As for the defence, Japan's stepping-forward tackling invited the opponent to make mistakes.