CJ Stander holds the line while others cross it on social media

Three minutes to go at the Aviva Stadium. Ireland are seven points up on the Scots in last Saturday’s Six Nations opener but camped along their own try line when Hamish Watson makes another surge for the in-goal area and hero status with it.

CJ Stander holds the line while others cross it on social media

Three minutes to go at the Aviva Stadium. Ireland are seven points up on the Scots in last Saturday’s Six Nations opener but camped along their own try line when Hamish Watson makes another surge for the in-goal area and hero status with it.

James Ryan launches himself so low his nose must cut the grass but it forces Watson off his feet and sets up a ruck on Ireland’s terms. CJ Stander pounces, clamping his mitts on the ball before referee Mathieu Raynal penalises the visiting back row for holding on.

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