Excellent in parts from Scotland, but it’s not enough. A 10-point win for France.
Scotland are back here in two weeks to take on England.
Final mention goes to our record crowd at Hive Stadium. Each and every one of you were fantastic, and we’re so grateful to you all.
See you soon.
Cruel for Scotland as we lose out on a losing bonus point. After several phases Gros goes over.
5-15, and that’ll be it.
Perhaps a final chance. France drop it on our 22, and we’ll have around two minutes to get up the field and score.
A few phases from the lineout but then France get the penalty.
They kick to around 30 metres from our line.
Kicks from either side, and as France try to run down our right wing they drift into touch.
Scottish lineout on halfway.
We kick over the top, and Rhona blocks the attempted return kick.
French lineout around 30m from their line.
Some powerful carries and then France are pinged for not rolling.
We’re just outside their 10m line with the lineout on our right.
France win their lineout and fire at the line phase after phase, but we hold firm and then Gallagher gets another jackal penalty!
We’ll have a lineout on our 22.
Scotland build the phases but can’t move forward. Orr chips in behind and France return it, and then a few phases later we’re penalised at the ruck.
France kick to around six or seven metres from our line.
France don’t roll away, and Helen Nelson’s kick gets us around 35 metres out.
The lineout isn’t straight. Scotland will throw in instead.
Lisa Cockburn comes on for Leah Bartlett.
France kick and Rollie makes a half-break, and Orr then does the same but is bundled into touch.
France lineout just inside their half.
We make metres on the left after the scrum, but the last pass is forward. French scrum just inside their own half.
Another stolen lineout! Scotland clear to halfway, then France kick back but it goes dead. We’ll have the halfway scrum.
A change at scrum half, as Mairi McDonald replaces Caity Mattinson.
We steal the lineout and clear to just outside our 22. France lineout there.
Elliann Clarke is on, replacing Christine Belisle.
Mwayembe gets the jackal pen a phase after Coreen Grant grabbed the ball when it hit the post.
France kick into the left corner.
And Coreen gathers it!
A penalty at the breakdown one phase after the scrum for France.
Queyroi will kick at goal, around 35 metres out.
Yes, referee Sara Cox deems it a shoulder charge. It’s a penalty where Rollie’s kick landed, so we’re taking a kick to touch from inside France’s half.
But it’s not found touch, and then Thomson knocks on when France kick it back.
France scrum just inside our 10.
Kicks from either team, and Nelson finds touch on halfway.
But we’re going back to look at a potential shoulder charge on Chloe Rollie.
From the scrum restart, France work to the right and Arbey scores in the right corner.
5-8.
Wright won’t be able to continue. Elis Martin comes back on at hooker.
With France on the attack, again the referee makes the correct decision and stops play with an injured player. It’s Molly Wright who’s down.
Double change for Scotland, as Molly Wright and Chloe Rollie replace Elis Martin and Meryl Smith.
Lineouts galore. This one is France’s, and it’s just outside our 22.
France steal the lineout and have an overlap on the left, but they drop the ball.
Our scrum, 10 metres from our line.
We steal the lineout and kick again, but France return it and we’ll have a lineout just outside our 22.
France kick, and Orr finds space on the left to run it back.
Orr sees space in behind and boots, and it rolls out in France’s half for their lineout.
Mattinson goes to the sky, but the ball sails straight out.
France’s lineout about 35 metres from our line.
Nelson finds touch. France will throw in from just inside our 10, on our left.
France win their lineout, but knock it forward and an offside player collects it.
Scotland lineout just outside our 10.
France stream down the right and then kick out to space on the left, but it goes dead.
We elect for a scrum about six metres from our line.
France kick it back, and Meryl Smith spills it into touch.
France lineout on our 10.
COME ON SCOTLAND!!!
We’re about to get back into it.
Elis Martin got the only try of the first half, to the delight of the forward pack who worked a strong and well organised maul.
The ball is in there somewhere and grounded, promise!
France win their lineout and maul forward, but Gallagher and Rachel Malcolm are in there causing havoc and they’ve made the ball unplayable!
That’ll do for the opening 40. We lead by two at the break!
This time France get the breakdown penalty.
They kick it out just inside their own half, with the clock in the red.
Mattinson kicks in behind, and France run it back. But Emma Orr steals it at the ruck, winning a pen!
We kick out in France’s 22 on the right.
Kickoff gathered, and the boot from Thomson to return it is huge!
France find touch on halfway in reply, and we throw in on our left.
Maul try!
It’s a try for Elis Martin on her first start for Scotland, as her throw-in finds Nelson and the maul hauls her over!
The conversion just curls away. 5-3.
An excellent maul gets us inches short, and France are forced to concede the penalty again.
We go back into the left corner.
We’re awarded a penalty for France going off feet at the breakdown.
Thomson boots it into the left corner.
Thomson sends an excellent boot downfield which France just keep in play, but we soon get the lineout on their 22.
You’d have to say France have had the better of this, but Scotland’s defence is resilient and brave.
A counter-ruck causes Bourdon Sansus to knock on, and we have a scrum five metres from our line.
After an initial kick is charged down, we get the ball clear and substitute Bourgeois puts a foot in touch catching it!
We’ll throw in at halfway.
It was Bourdon Sansus who went quick, and France worked all the way up to the line, but excellent work from a host of Scots including Stewart and Thomson hold the ball up!
We’ll exit via the goal line dropout.
France win a jackal penalty in our half and go quickly, working play left.
Scotland on the attack, but an injury to Vernier in a tackle and play is correctly halted.
We’ll restart with a scrum for Scotland just inside France’s half, on our left flank.
The scrum wheels, and Scotland are given the penalty.
Nelson gets us just outside of our own 22.
We kick clear, then France chip over the top but Alex Stewart catches brilliantly under pressure.
Then Thomson boots over the top to the right wing, and it rolls out.
France lineout just inside their 10.
From the 22, Nelson tries to find space but it goes too long and over the dead ball line.
French scrum, just inside our half.
From the scrum France come firing up the left, before working back right.
But a knock on from Konde ends the attack, and Scotland get the scrum on our own 5m line.
France win their lineout and work a couple of phases, but Evie Gallagher makes a trademark steal at the ruck and wins the penalty!
Nelson going for goal.
Nelson misses left, and France have the 22.
France exit, and Scotland play a few phases before Thomson chips into the 22 and out.
The visitors throw in from there.
Queyroi makes no mistake.
An intentional knock-on, and France get the penalty on our 22 in front of the posts.
They’re going for goal.
We grab the ball from the lineout and exit!
France will throw in from around 25 metres from our line.
Ambitious from Scotland as Mattinson decides to run a kick back and throws to the left wing for Coreen Grant in space, but it goes out.
France lineout, just inside their half.
Romane Menager breaks almost through to the line, but she’s tackled and Christine Belisle grabs a free ball.
But we’re penalised at the ruck, and France kick to the corner.
Thommo kicks again, and this time France can only put it out just outside their 22.
We’ll throw in on the right.
France steal the lineout, but then kick out on the full.
Another Scottish throw-in, this time on our left just inside France’s half.
Three or four phases, then Lisa Thomson puts boot to ball.
France return it, and Scotland have a lineout around 30m from France’s line, on our right.
We exit from kick off, then France knock on.
We’ll put into the first scrum, a few metres inside France’s half.
COME ON SCOTLAND!
Scotland’s first home game of the 2024 Guinness Women’s Six Nations is seconds away.
Excited for this one?
To a deafening cheer from the record crowd, Scotland and France enter the pitch!
We’ll have a wee singalong, then it’s time to getting going.
The teams head into the changing rooms, soon to reappear.
Emma Orr and the Scotland team are completing their warm ups.
Louise McMillan scans the programme ahead of her 50th cap.
Here is a reminder of your Scotland team to play France this afternoon.
Kick-off is now just 45 minutes away!
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The Scotland squad have arrived and were led into the stadium by Louise McMillan, who will make her 50th appearance today.
The Scotland changing room inside the Scottish Gas Murrayfield.
Ultramarathon runner Jasmin Paris will be delivering the match ball for today’s game.
We encourage all fans to be in their seats promptly to give her the welcome her inspirational efforts deserve.
Have a listen to this week’s podcast episode which features Scotland full-back, Meryl Smith.
Here is everything you need to know if you’re coming along to Hive Stadium today.
Here are the kick-off times wherever you’re watching today.
You can still be at Hive Stadium today – tickets will be available right up until kick-off at 2.15pm.
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There will be a record crowd inside Hive Stadium today.
A crowd of more than 5,000 will be there to cheer on Scotland, beating last year’s record of 4,862!
Good morning from Hive Stadium in Edinburgh ahead of Scotland v France in the Guinness Women’s Six Nations.
It’s a big day for Louise McMillan, who will make her 50th appearance for Scotland this afternoon.
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Kick-off 2:15 pm
