Seasonal Rugby XV 1. Dave Eggman 2. Eddie Morris 3. Benny Read 4. Heath Davis 5. James McDougal 6. Callum Laing 7. Michael Chung 8. Marcuss Deane 9. Luke Pilgrim 10. Ed Ames (k) 11. Al Farnsworth 12. Gareth Weaver 13. Steve Cambridge 14. Andrew James 15. Bobby Blunder 16. Jake Luffman 17. David Dafter 18. Jason Denton 19. Tom Delonge 20. Brett Gemmell 21. Regan Hutchinson 22. Paddy Orr Scotland 1) Jacobson 2) Ford 3) Lowe 4) Gray 5) Hines 6) Brown 7) Barclay 8) Beattie 9) Cusiter 10) Jackson 11) R Lamont 12) S Lamont 13) Ansbro 14) Evans 15) Paterson (k) 16) Murray 17) Lawson 18) Kellock 19) Blair 20) Southwell 21) Parks 22) Morrison
To be honest, I reckon good players will look very good coming off the bench now. With fatigue now in the sim, someone like Eddie coming off the bench against tired players - its no surprise he dominated off the bench. I'm not sure how big an impact this could be, but I'm wondering if Pilgrim looked 'better' as he was coming on against tired legs.
Definitely think that's the reason Morris did better. Expect a solid 10 rating off the bench from me this match.
Pretty rough to get dropped after one match, I didn't play badly and Pilgrim wasn't amazing. Definitely wouldn't have happened in a real test series. If he had outplayed me again in the second test there would be a reasonable case for bringing him in. Feel pretty shafted TBH. Still carn SR!!
Three scrum misfeeds was the clincher tbf. Plus, it will be interesting to see how much Fatigue played into your performance. You might have a stormer coming off the bench too.