6N 2016: England v Wales, 12 March

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ENGLAND v WALES
12 March 2016
KO: 16:00 GMT
Twickenham, London

Live on ITV, RTE, SC4, FR2, DMAX / BBC (H)

Referee: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Touch judges: [tbc]
Television match official: [tbc]

A. Head to Head

119 Played 119
53 Won 54
12 Drawn 12
54 Lost 53
1,428 Points 1,371

B. Recent Form

26 September 2015: Twickenham, London
25 – 28 to Wales
2015 Rugby World Cup Pool A

6 February 2015: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
16 – 21 to England
2015 Six Nations

9 March 2014: Twickenham Stadium, London
29 – 18 to England
2014 Six Nations

16 March 2013: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
30 – 3 to Wales
2013 Six Nations

25 February 2012: Twickenham Stadium, London
12 – 19 to Wales
2012 Six Nations

13 August 2011: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
19 – 9 to Wales
2011 Rugby World Cup warm up test

6 August 2011: Twickenham, London
23 – 19 to England
2011 Rugby World Cup warm up test

C. Teams

ENGLAND

[tbc]

WALES

[tbc]

This decision by TMO is hilarious.

kingelderfield wrote:

GeordieFalcon wrote:Get George Ford off the pitch. Going to cost us the game.

Needs to sharpen his game. Reconsider his kicking from hand (not referring to the charge down but his cross kicking 'attack' plays).

He is a ball in hand player and understanding how best to exploit that game will determine his future.

Great shame the moment we bring on an attacking IC that we take off our attacking ball in hand 10.

Ultimately Farrells game will not unlock SH defences.

Ultimately though Fords game is so iffy I have palpatations every time he gets the ball. His decision making looks poor or totally lacking in confidence what to do.

Farrell is solid and in games like this id prefer that for the moment.

This kiwi official is in NZ right?

Tidily winks what what

Should have been a red card

Just sums up England 16th and now 17th man for the evening. Well done England.

Joubert bottling that decision - leaving it to the TMO

Seemed unintentional though!

Should of been yellow at least

mikey_dragon wrote:Just sums up England 16th and now 17th man for the evening. Well done England.

Lol

mikey_dragon wrote:Just sums up England 16th and now 17th man for the evening. Well done England.

I'm sure if that was Hartley you'd have had a different opinion....

LOL what has rugby become? you can bet your house this wouldn't even have been checked by the TMO if it was an English fool play. Brown got let off for foot in the face area and now this?

Some of you Welsh fans spend all week begging Wales up and when they are losing its because of the ref. Have a word with yourselves

Why isn't Danny care sprinting there!!

Not one mention of Marler punching Evans, yet a penalty and the threat of more for what looked accidental by Francis.

Pot Hale wrote:Naughty boy Cole but he can't complain.

Hartley should of been carded in the earlier phase, that was blatant in from the side.

Doesn't matter now though, Wales have been awful over all, England are deserved winners, best of luck to them for the Grand Slam. No issues with Joubert for me, this wasn't a game decided by a referee, it was one team dominating another. At least that makes a change.

At least we got a consolation try, 2 more tries in 6 minutes is too much I think.

GeordieFalcon wrote:

kingelderfield wrote:

GeordieFalcon wrote:Get George Ford off the pitch. Going to cost us the game.

Needs to sharpen his game. Reconsider his kicking from hand (not referring to the charge down but his cross kicking 'attack' plays).

He is a ball in hand player and understanding how best to exploit that game will determine his future.

Great shame the moment we bring on an attacking IC that we take off our attacking ball in hand 10.

Ultimately Farrells game will not unlock SH defences.

Ultimately though Fords game is so iffy I have palpatations every time he gets the ball. His decision making looks poor or totally lacking in confidence what to do.

Farrell is solid and in games like this id prefer that for the moment.

Agree its a form thing and yes we should have the point of difference from Farrell on the bench.

North out.

Ah let him off

Shifty wrote:

Pot Hale wrote:Naughty boy Cole but he can't complain.

Hartley should of been carded in the earlier phase, that was blatant in from the side.

Doesn't matter now though, Wales have been awful over all, England are deserved winners, best of luck to them for the Grand Slam.  No issues with Joubert for me, this wasn't a game decided by a referee, it was one team dominating another.  At least that makes a change.  

At least we got a consolation try, 2 more tries in 6 minutes is too much I think.

No he shouldn't have , the ball was out

JDizzle wrote:Not one mention of Marler punching Evans, yet a penalty and the threat of more for what looked accidental by Francis.

Yes. Clear striking.

Madge?

oh ok...

WHAT IS HAPPENING!

Wales have woken up apparenty

Are you kidding me????

3 tries to 1. If England do win this, it will have to be because of the refereeing :P

Oh My God!

Fuming, webbs passing is perfect and straight from the ruck.  Should have been on sooner!  Gives us space in the backline

England switched off 20 minutes back

VinceWLB wrote:3 tries to 1. If England do win this, it will have to be because of the refereeing :P

Make that 3-2

wales606 wrote:WHAT IS HAPPENING!

Wales have woken up apparenty

Well I told you that would happen at half time, were not totally useless, were just really lazy in the first half.

Wasn't in touch IMO (unsurprisingly).

Well done England and Joubert. Now go get the slam.

Wales actually played for about 10 minutes of that game

Good stuff,but it should not have been like that.

Well done wales for the comeback!

Wales robbed.

Joubert should have been motm... LOL

Good game though both sides will be frustrated.

Just shat my load in the last 10 mins, not a coincidence that Webb came on just before that

Well played Wales

Thank fk we held on for that

Pot Hale wrote:

VinceWLB wrote:3 tries to 1. If England do win this, it will have to be because of the refereeing :P

Make that 3-2

?

Well done England, by far the better team. Score line flatters us

Well England were lucky in the end. Another couple of minutes... Who knows.

Well done England. Triple Crown Winners.

Now all we need is for France to put 20 points on Scotland tomorrow to make the final round match interesting.

Please don't let that final what 5 minutes and the scoreline gloss over what was a shockingly poor performance for us for 70 odd minutes.

Something still needs to be done to our backroom staff.

VinceWLB wrote:Wales robbed.

Joubert should have been motm... LOL

We were dreadful for 70 mins that's not jouberts fault

True Raven wrote:Well done England, by far the better team. Score line flatters us

Olly wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:Just sums up England 16th and now 17th man for the evening. Well done England.

I'm sure if that was Hartley you'd have had a different opinion....

I actually don't mind him. It's MM that hates him.

Just need to congratulate the better team over the course of the game. Wales are developing a habit of doing little for most of the game and trying to explode inside 20 minutes to win.
Didn't work today, we didn't commit enough players to the rucks at times, our tackling and man marking was woeful on occasion.
Mike Brown and the England number 4, were outstanding today.

wales606 wrote:Wales actually played for about 10 minutes of that game

True.

Congrats England. Well deserved. Big questions have to be asked about our coaching team after that, that should've been asked before today.

Well that was some game. Well played to both England and Wales.

Must have been some seriously nervous English fans at the end there.

Good luck England and I hope you now win the slam.

BamBam wrote:Just shat my load in the last 10 mins, not a coincidence that Webb came on just before that

Agree, Webb should be back as first choice going forward.

Thought Preistland did well too tbh.

Pot Hale wrote:Well England were lucky in the end. Another couple of minutes... Who knows.

Well done England.  Triple Crown Winners.

Now all we need is for France to put 20 points on Scotland tomorrow to make the final round match interesting.

If you play like that then France won't live with you no matter what the result tomorrow.

Well played England, excellent first half, but slacked off tremendously towards the end. A shame Wales didn't join in sooner, otherwise it could have been a great game.

Still think England will find it tough to win the slam - one amazing French performance at this Six Nations has yet to be delivered.

Real exciting finish. Think Joubert dealt with the potential reckless 'eye contact' fairly well - it was a tough call (I don't think it was intentional but potentially dangerous/reckless).

Hopefully this serves as a lesson for England though to be more positive. Tries are decisive. They should have gone for the try instead of kicking at least a couple of those 2nd half penalties. Great kicking performance from Farrell nevertheless and beastly outing from Itoje too!

True Raven wrote:

VinceWLB wrote:Wales robbed.

Joubert should have been motm... LOL

We were dreadful for 70 mins that's not jouberts fault

Agreed somewhat, Wales played better when they got the dreadful Gatland gameplan out of their mindset.