6N 2017: Wales v England, 11 February

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WALES v ENGLAND 
11 February 2017
KO:16:50 GMT
Principality Stadium, Cardiff

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

Referee: Jerome Garces (France)
Touch judges: Pascal Gauzere (France) & Nick Briant (New Zealand)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand)

A. Head to Head

129 Played 129
57 Won 60
12 Drawn 12
60 Lost 57
1,673 Points 1,518

B. Recent Form 

29 May 2016: Twickenham, London
27 – 13 to England
2016 mid-year rugby union internationals

12 March 2016: Twickenham, London
25 – 21 to England
2016 Six Nations Championship

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

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

WALES

15-Leigh Halfpenny, 14-George North, 13-Jonathan Davies, 12-Scott Williams, 11-Liam Williams, 10-Dan Biggar, 9-Rhys Webb; 1-Rob Evans, 2-Ken Owens, 3-Tomas Francis, 4-Jake Ball, 5-Alun Wyn Jones, 6-Sam Warburton, 7-Justin Tipuric; 8-Ross Moriarty.

Replacements: 16-Scott Baldwin, 17-Nicky Smith, 18-Samson Lee, 19-Cory Hill, 20-Taulupe Faletau, 21-Gareth Davies, 22-Sam Davies, 23-Jamie Roberts.

ENGLAND

15-Mike Brown, 14-Jack Nowell, 13-Jonathan Joseph, 12-Owen Farrell, 11-Elliot Daly, 10-George Ford, 9-Ben Youngs; 1-Joe Marler, 2-Dylan Hartley (captain), 3-Dan Cole, 4-Joe Launchbury, 5-Courtney Lawes, 6-Maro Itoje, 7-Jack Clifford, 8-Nathan Hughes.

Replacements: 16-Jamie George, 17-Matt Mullan, 18-Kyle Sinckler, 19-Tom Wood, 20-James Haskell, 21-Danny Care, 22-Ben Te'o, 23-Jonny May.

England are all kinds of offside. Fair play if you can get away with it.

Marler and Lawes are having huge games....Marlers tackling is superb.

I'm still waiting to see Clifford really enforce himself on the game.

Engine#4 wrote:England are all kinds of offside

You play to the ref. NZ have done it for 100 years....

Competitive game so far, closer than I expected given the Eng back row. Wales must be feeling quite confident now though.

Yongs about a small continent off side

and there is the turning point I fear. wales starting to dominate.

GeordieFalcon wrote:

Engine#4 wrote:England are all kinds of offside

You play to the ref. NZ have done it for 100 years....

Caught before I added to it

gorgeous set move

Clifford was taken out by Scott Williams...id question that

Very slick try.

there did look to be a man taken out there actually.

good try wales

Having said that...Clifford needs to be replaced by Haskell

Wales only got into this part of the field from being offside in front of the kicker ages ago so can't complain too much ... and Young's wasn't offside anyway - he was still behind the back foot when the ball was lifted ... the pass was just too slow ...

Great game. Both teams really trying to inject some pace into the game.

and now they score from this field position

Stilll find it staggering people don't rate AWJ. The guy is a colossus

BBC guys looks confident of Wales well beating this weakened England team.

Launchbury looks injured

How's the game been, just come back from the tigers game on a high and spotted the score

Tipuric is a pain in the arse.

England losing shape in attack, tired already.

True Raven wrote:Stilll find it staggering people don't rate AWJ.  The guy is a WELSH colossus

clue

GeordieFalcon wrote:Clifford was taken out by Scott Williams...id question that

yep

Wales' defence, especially in the backs massively improved through that half, seemed to have our number by the end. Clifford looks very, very lightweight in this game. We need to run straight and hard and stop getting stripped. I'm not overly optimistic, we looked deflated at the end and out of ideas.

Lovely training ground move for Wales' try there!

Whatever the result, this is some game

Noble-Surfer wrote:Lovely training ground move for Wales' try there!

I am still in shock we used a planned move

Very tight game so far. England missed 2 kicks at goal.

Wales turning dow a chance to take 2 kicks at goal.


Still another half to go.

Well done Owen...no fuss just get on with it.

Poor by the ref though.

intense. kudos to farrell for not milking that late tackle

Meanwhile Clifford is prancing around like a fairy.....

Come on ref?!

knock on!

ENGLAND MAN!!!!!!

Standing stiull with the feckin ball!!!!

Did we not have an advantage there that ended when we lost the ball?!

england are still trying to arm wrestle while the game breaks up in front of them handing advantage to wales

looking like a big wales win now. they can't lose this.

Moriarty and AWJ are putting huge hits on everyone out there legal or not!

Get Ford off...Farrell to 10 and bring teo on (never thought id see the day id say that!!)...we need some flippin power.

And get Haskell on for that prancing fairy.

these subs will be good for england

oh dear skippe ron 46, i said Hartley's shifts would get shorter

I think we're seeing how far behind Vunipola Hughes is :-(

Davies being a cocky little Poopie there but he is right. Eng have had to make the changes getting their ass handed to them.

GeordieFalcon wrote:Well done Owen...no fuss just get on with it.

Poor by the ref though.

Ford got taken out late before that too ...

and England have imploded. well done wales.

dreadful kick from Brown!! We need to settle down here and re-group, good to see changes being made, we need some impetus from the bench

Wales victory all over this

Ford escaped a yellow card purely by being smaller than Webb.

Then again I would've binned Moriarty for a deliberate cheap shot so it's evened out.

Hood83 wrote:I think we're seeing how far behind Vunipola Hughes is :-(

good but way way behind this world class welsh backrow too, at this stage in his career anyway. Lets hope he learns from it.

Eng can relax now and accept the 6N has gone but they can work on their team when they have these injuries.