1 October (Auckland) There probably won’t be too many people expecting Scotland to win this one, but that won’t stop Scottish fans believing! The only piece of hard data which we have separating these teams is Scotland’s superior income equality – or, at any rate, their income equality to the United Kingdom as a whole. Even though England a ...

25 September (Wellington) We have a make or break game today between Scotland and Argentina – very likely that the winner of this game will go through as the second-placed team in group B (probably meeting the All Blacks in the next round) and the losers will be out. The Bravehearts are 8th and the Pumas 9th in the IRB world rankings, so it’s g ...

(Saturday 10 September, Invercargill) Today we have an interesting contest between Scotland and Romania. In rugby terms, not much of a match you may think. But Romania have beaten Scotland on two occasions since the ’80s, and eight of the Romanian squad play their rugby in the French leagues, which we all know is not for the faint-hearted.   ...