Scotland 100 - 8 Japan (in a slaughter not rugby)

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Scotland 100 - 8 Japan
Guardian, UK - 14 Nov
Scotland racked up a record score by hitting a century against a Japan side that was simply outpowered. The surface at the prestigious Scotland racked up a record score by hitting a century against a Japan side that was simply outpowered. The surface at the prestigious St Johnstone soccer ground was ideal for handling rugby ....
....The flow of Scottish points was briefly interrupted by a penalty from Waturu Ikeda, but the dark blue engine was soon back at maximum revs when Dan Parks went over for try number four.
A bizarre score followed, emanating from a Japan line-out, which ended with Petrie stealing the ball and racing away for a solo try.

[Mulboyne]

Telegraph: Scots far too strong for 'disgraceful' Japanese

Japan officials had complained that Perth's McDiarmid Park was not worthy of full Test status so, by the same token, their team was at least a match for the venue. As it happened, most of the 10,278 spectators who packed into St Johnstone's tidy football ground on Saturday evening had nothing but praise for the setting; few, however, left with anything good to say about Scotland's opponents. Frankly, Japan were a disgrace to international rugby.
What little praise Japan deserve is limited to a first-quarter effort in which they held Scotland to a narrow advantage, but from the moment Hugo Southwell opened up Scotland's lead with his 20th-minute try they were folding faster than an origami expert...In fairness, Japan were critically undermined by the absence of many of their better players, a consequence of their preference to remain at home to play for their club sides in the Top League competition. On the technicality that players are employees of the industrial companies that are the bedrock of rugby in Japan, rather than members of independent clubs, the International Rugby Board cannot insist on their being released, but they can certainly consider whether Japan's games should be accorded full Test status when they field such hopelessly under-strength sides as this.
The irony of the exercise was that Japan's current tour was designed, in part, as a flag-waving exercise in support of the country's bid to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup, but the flag looked distinctly tattered by the finish.

[Steve Bildermann]