‘My team is motivated by achieving something great’Gregor Townsend says he’s sure game will beat typhoonDrama is meant to be staged on the field of play, but in the buildup to what is meant to be the final match of the group stage between
Japan and
Scotland it is taking place in a media conference with Typhoon Hagibis prompting several blasts, not least from the Brave Blossoms coach, Jamie Joseph.
He reacted to suggestions his team would be happy if the match were called off because it would mean Japan would, for the first time, qualify for the knockout stage, by saying that they were as desperate that the game be played as Scotland, but for different reasons: “My team is motivated by achieving something great, not by avoiding embarrassment,” he said.