HAMAMATSU — Scotland coach Gregor Townsend is optimistic the weather will clear sufficiently after Typhoon Hagibis passes through to ensure his side’s must-win clash with Japan goes ahead in Yokohama on Sunday. But he said had also been told “things can change” if a force majeure is declared under “exceptional circumstances,” and he did not know whether that could yet make Monday a possible date. “We believe that the game hasn’t been canceled because the weather will be better on Sunday and it looks like the game will be played,” Townsend told reporters in Hamamatsu. “I have since been told there is force majeure (rule), that things can change because of exceptional circumstances,” he said. “But just now I think they are planning for it to go ahead on Sunday,” he said.

Source: National Post October 10, 2019 11:15 UTC