QF1 - Match Thread - England v Australia - 19/10/19 - K/O 08:15 BST

[Guest]

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Thought I'd get these made nice and early for a few reasons - but one being that we're already now looking ahead to the QFs with several teams having finished their group stage, so it's all heating up for the proper knockout stuff...barring any more disruption.

England



Team: Daly; Watson, Slade, Tuilagi, May; Farrell (capt), Youngs; M Vunipola, George, Sinckler; Itoje, Lawes; Curry, Underhill, B Vunipola.

Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Marler, Cole, Kruis, Ludlam, Heinz, Ford, Joseph.


Australia



Team: Beale; Hodge, Petaia, Kerevi, Koroibete; Lealiifano, Genia; Alaalatoa, Latu, Sio; Arnold, Rodda; Naisarani, Hooper (c), Pocock.

Replacements: Uelese, Slipper, Tupou, Coleman, Salakaia-Loto, White, To'omua, O'Connor.



Venue: Oita
Referee: Jerome Garces
AR1: Romain Poite
AR2: Mathieu Raynal
TMO: Ben Skeen

[Heaf]

Woohoo - nice composure there

[Gooseberry]

Well we will soon see if dropping Ford to the bench was a good thing or not i guess.
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Slade slipping off a couple of tackles and then knocking on. Doesn't look like he's 100%.

Australia in control so far.

3 minutes later...

3 minutes after that

[lostinwales]

repeat

[RiscaGame]

That kick was sublime, especially at that speed

[Geordie]

Aaawww Johnny May!!!

[majesticimperialman]

2 try's 2 minutes.

[formerly known as Sam]

Farrell looks to have found some form.

First try really nice phase play with good options. Second one just falls in Slade's hands and it's a lovely little grubber to put away May.

[Duty281]

Magic.

[lostinwales]

Catch from May was quite something too

[Heaf]

Nice kick again

[BigGee]

Farrell been using his week off to practice his kicking clearly!

14-3 England

[Heaf]

Oz still dangerous though - making a lot of line breaks

[BigGee]

If Oz don't score next, it may be game over

[Geordie]

Now dont get cocky.

Australia have strike runners thay can score very quicjly...

[lostinwales]

Australia have wonderful runners. They are also, as ever, doing twice as much work to earn metres as we do

[BamBam]

That looked a bit funny at their lineout, they set up the maul didn't they?

[BigGee]

Slade does not look right up to speed yet

[No 7&1/2]

Trying to comment on this game is quite hard as 3 things have happened since I started typing.

[Gooseberry]

Australias decisin making in their own 22 is poor. Its playing into englands hands in both senses

[Geordie]

Slade is having a Jekyl and hyde performance.

[TightHEAD]

Slade is not international class

[tigertattie]

Oz are playing very Scottish-like. Lots of running around with little composure

[kingelderfield]

Do Ozy flatter to deceive, just lack confidence or is more fundamental, coach + stratergy?

[BigGee]

Penalty England

17-6 England

[Geordie]

Slade is not international class

I think he is....i just think he operates at prem level pace and hasnt quite realised that international level is faster and Australia etc are faster again.

He needs to speed up

[formerly known as Sam]

Slade is not international class

I think he is, he's just not match fit. He was awesome Vs Ireland in the 6N. He's only played about 40 minutes since May though.

[Heaf]

He needed the France game to get up to speed ...

[kingelderfield]

Slade is international class. So much so that even with very little game time he still has the base line ability to draw on.
Were you being sarcastic?

[Geordie]

Curry...how good.

[BamBam]

What was this turnover for? Curry put in a great tackle but didn't see anything else

[Steffan]

Australia just look frantic to be honest

[Guest]

Who is the British commentator?

[BamBam]

That should have been our penalty

[No 7&1/2]

Er. Tip tackle.

[Guest]

No

[Guest]

Farrell having a sook to the ref

[No 7&1/2]

It wasnt a question ebop.

[BigGee]

Was touch and go, seen them given

[Taylorman]

Good start England, again. They always start campaigns well, and that’s what the knockouts are.

[formerly known as Sam]

Who is the British commentator?

Nick Mullins is commentating. Ben Kay is the other English voice providing the insight.

[Heaf]

Oz are dropping it ...

[TightHEAD]

Where is the TMO!

[Duty281]

Same old Garces, taking half a lifetime on scrum resets.

[Heaf]

Garces wrong again ...should have pinged Oz about 3 resets ago

[formerly known as Sam]

Er. Tip tackle.

Not sure how much arms were involved by Pocock underneath either. Surprised the TMO didn't tell the ref to have a second look at that.

Sinckler seems to be struggling in the scrum.

[TightHEAD]

Aussies scrummaging like Wales, loose head in boring in.

[Guest]

Who is the British commentator?

Nick Mullins is commentating. Ben Kay is the other English voice providing the insight.

Thanks for that

[BigGee]

Scrum penalty Oz

17-9 England

[Gooseberry]

Very odd feeling game so far. The balls hardly been in play but when it is theres almost always something big happening.

[Heaf]

Er. Tip tackle.

Not sure how much arms were involved by Pocock underneath either. Surprised the TMO didn't tell the ref to have a second look at that.

Sinckler seems to be struggling in the scrum.

I wasn't sure either way about that tackle but certainly should have been looked at ...

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