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USA's Dave Hodges

SCO 39 v USA 15: What they said

20/10/2003

 


Dave Hodges (USA) - Captain

On the defeat:

"Our effort was always there but we let ourselves down. We were a little bit too sloppy."

"We turned over too much ball and missed a few too many tackles."

Tom Billups (USA) - Coach

On the RWC from here for the USA:

"The Japanese are playing very well right now, and I don't know about you guys, but I didn't sleep very well the other night after seeing their game against France."

On the upcoming Scotland v Fiji game:

"I think the Scottish forwards played very well tonight and I think that will give them the upper hand over the Fijians ... I'd certainly edge the Scots."

On his team's style of play:

"That old possession and pressure thing is not as valid as it once was ... I think there's a couple of things we need to address, big and small things. We need to work on our line breaks in the first phase and in every phase after that ... 24 to 9 at half time is not acceptable."

On his team's disadvantage as part-time players:

"I'd be happy if we didn't have to scramble so much. There comes a stage where you can see the difference between the full time players and the part time players. And we played a very professional outfit tonight."

"I'm proud of our guys just knowing what they have to do to get here."

On Dan Lyle (USA No.8):

"I thought Dan LYLE was immense, he did more work on the field than anyone else."

Gordon Bulloch (SCO) - Captain

On the win:

"We kept on getting offside, we've got to clean up our mistakes before Saturday but all the guys are very happy."

Simon Danielli  (SCO) - Wing

On his own performance:

"I'm obviously pleased, my job is to score tries and I did that tonight."

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