Australia v England, 11 June

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AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND
11 June 2016
20:00 AEST (UTC+10)
Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

Live on [tbc]

Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Touch judges: [tbc]
Television match official: [tbc]

A. Head to Head

44 Played 44
25 Won 18
1 Drawn 1
18 Lost 25
940 Points 674

B. Recent Form

3 October 2015 - Twickenham, London: 13 – 33 to Australia

29 November 2014 - Twickenham, London: 26 – 17 to England

2 November 2013 - Twickenham, London: 20 – 13 to England

17 November 2012 - Twickenham, London: 14 – 20 to Australia

13 November 2010 - Twickenham, London: 35 – 18 to England

19 June 2010 - Telstra Stadium, Sydney: 20 – 21 to England

12 June 2010 - Subiaco Oval, Perth: 27 – 17 to Australia

C. Teams

AUSTRALIA 

Israel Folau; Dane Haylett-Petty, Tevita Kuridrani, Samu Kerevi, Rob Horne; Bernard Foley, Nick Phipps; Scott Sio, Stephen Moore (captain), Greg Holmes, Rory Arnold, Rob Simmons, Scott Fardy, Michael Hooper, David Pocock.

Replacements: Tatafu Polota-Nau, James Slipper, Sekope Kepu, James Horwill, Dean Mumm, Sean McMahon, Nick Frisby, Christian Lealiifano

ENGLAND

15. Mike Brown; 14. Anthony Watson, 13. Jonathan Joseph, 12. Luther Burrell, 11. Marland Yarde; 10. Owen Farrell, 9. Ben Youngs; 1. Mako Vunipola, 2. Dylan Hartley, 3. Dan Cole, 4. Maro Itoje, 5. George Kruis, 6. Chris Robshaw, 7. James Haskell, 8. Billy Vunipola.

Replacements: 16. Luke Cowan-Dickie, 17. Matt Mullan, 18. Paul Hill, 19. Joe Launchbury, 20. Courtney Lawes, 21. Danny Care, 22. George Ford, 23. Jack Nowell.

There we go, not all doom and gloom.

Hi trebel. 50 point win?

Joseph has looked very sharp in this game.

Try from nothing.  Lots of unexpected mistakes from them in that period.

nathan wrote:Ford has done alright in open field play, so if Farrell is kicking we might be ok

Yep. Burrell looked a little lost in defence. Not sure if he was carrying a knock from early.

Burrel went off then? Sorry I was being as blind as normal.

Brown is so out of form.  Could we not have played Nowell or Goode at 15?

now, this is better....................

Who scored? Went to make a coffee and missed it pah!

England...you cheeky ards. Ill take it tho..

Scottrf wrote:Hi trebel. 50 point win?

If it had carried on as it started that was a real risk.

As it stands they could still pull away as we tire.

But England are showing a lot more to build on with their youngsters at least. I think if Eddie can sort the backrow and get the front row competing then they might be able to stand up to Aussie in future.

Lot of afters in this game. Billy still sounds a bit Welsh.

Poor call that, Sio goes straight in at the angle and brings the scrum down

Itoje is a beast. One of the best and most powerful locks in the world. And Kruis is awesome. And Launchbury is crazy good.

SA can keep their monsters....we have the best locks..

Ah Yarde should have done much better there!!!!!

Stand up to them in the future? We are ahead.

mikey_dragon wrote:Lot of afters in this game. Billy still sounds a bit Welsh.

Both did an interview on 5 live a few weeks back. They do still sound Welsh. Mako complained Billy didn't stop to buy some ciders. You can take the boy out of Pooler...

Ah Mako!!!! Rubbish. And Ben Youngs is not an international SH.

And again their backrow wreck a good position. Please sort this out Eddie, it's is losing games.

I think Ben Youngs has had a good game, been living off scraps at times. Put some real pace into England at times

Scrums are a total shambles this game

Were rather gifted that try. But England have done well to fight back from the early onslaught and are going in ahead at half time : which I'd not have put money on twenty minutes ago !

Way to go , but...

Nice from Farrell to make the lead six

Do Scotland have a summer tour RDW? Be interesting to see how they go.

I've been a bit off rugby this year but trust England v Australia to boost that back up. I was dancing a jig, willing the ball to bounce kindly for Joseph for his try.

trebellbobaggins wrote:Do Scotland have a summer tour RDW?  Be interesting to see how they go.

Two tests against Japan

alfie wrote:Were rather gifted that try.  But England have done well to fight back from the early onslaught and are going in ahead at half time : which I'd not have put money on twenty minutes ago !

Way to go , but...

Nice from Farrell to make the lead six

Maybe, but the mistake happened from pressure caused by england

GeordieFalcon wrote:Itoje is a beast. One of the best and most powerful locks in the world. And Kruis is awesome. And Launchbury is crazy good.

SA can keep their monsters....we have the best locks..

Who's better Mikey....?

Alun wynn Jones??? Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

nathan wrote:

alfie wrote:Were rather gifted that try.  But England have done well to fight back from the early onslaught and are going in ahead at half time : which I'd not have put money on twenty minutes ago !

Way to go , but...

Nice from Farrell to make the lead six

Maybe, but the mistake happened from pressure caused by england

True. Actually impressed with the pressure England have exerted . If they can keep up the intensity in the second half as everyone slows down a bit I'd fancy a result.

Australians in this bar think England are getting away with murder with holding on.

RDW_Scotland wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:Do Scotland have a summer tour RDW?  Be interesting to see how they go.

Two tests against Japan

Oh excellent. I'll have to see if there is a way to watch them.

mikey_dragon wrote:

GeordieFalcon wrote:Itoje is a beast. One of the best and most powerful locks in the world. And Kruis is awesome. And Launchbury is crazy good.

SA can keep their monsters....we have the best locks..

To be far I think Itoje and kruis could be better than anything Wales have. Maybe not yet but I think they have that potential.

GeordieFalcon wrote:Who's better Mikey....?

Alun wynn Jones???  Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

You know when I read that comment I said to myself "GF clearly doesn't watch much rugby, making a comment like that when guys like AWJ exist." Delusional Geordie .

Rugby Fan wrote:Australians in this bar think England are getting away with murder with holding on.

Well of course they do. Same way I think they're getting away with murder at ruck regarding handling in the ruck and not releasing.

Rugby Fan wrote:Australians in this bar think England are getting away with murder with holding on.

Have a chat with them about Moores elbows and an aus player being on the wrong side of the ruck all the time

Brown needs to come off, maybe Cole too soon sadly.

Will oz get a card for next ruck infringement?

Also, I know Eddie has tried already but it would be great to get JW into the coaching staff

Rugby Fan wrote:Australians in this bar think England are getting away with murder with holding on.

Where are you watching it mate? There seems to be a lot of angry kiwis and Aussies in there.

mikey_dragon wrote:

GeordieFalcon wrote:Who's better Mikey....?

Alun wynn Jones???  Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

You know when I read that comment I said to myself "GF clearly doesn't watch much rugby, making a comment like that when guys like AWJ exist." Delusional Geordie .

I'll happily stick with having Itoje and Kruis thank you, nobody is more over rated than AWJ.

mikey_dragon wrote:

GeordieFalcon wrote:Who's better Mikey....?

Alun wynn Jones???  Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

You know when I read that comment I said to myself "GF clearly doesn't watch much rugby, making a comment like that when guys like AWJ exist." Delusional Geordie .

Most overrated player around.

Not delusional.

Itoje just drips charisma

Harrison "yet to miss". Misses. Shut up Harrison.

The water man obstructed our player. He should be ejected.

The aussies are putting a few cheap shots in this game mind.

Get in you beauties!!!!!

That was decent from Haskell. He's not the answer at the breakdown but that helps.

Fantastic break from Haskell, cmon lads!!!

Nothing done about the water carrier is shocking. That was foul.

Camera man trying to pick up tattoos lol

trebellbobaggins wrote:That was decent from Haskell.  He's not the answer at the breakdown but that helps.

26-13

Dare to dream , Trebell

Hammersmith harrier wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:

GeordieFalcon wrote:Who's better Mikey....?

Alun wynn Jones???  Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

You know when I read that comment I said to myself "GF clearly doesn't watch much rugby, making a comment like that when guys like AWJ exist." Delusional Geordie .

I'll happily stick with having Itoje and Kruis thank you, nobody is more over rated than AWJ.

Except for Laucnbury. It's not often you bill all your players as world class now is it....