England - the build-up and winning the World Cup at a canter

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Here we go again.....

Geordie wrote:

mountain man wrote:Daft by Arundell. Not thinking.

Never mind Young's is on

Can't abide that Liam Williams...

Williams was doing what he always does, fishing for cards and penalties, Arundel fell for it hook line and sinker.

Plus England players looking brittle which isn't very encouraging

Worst half of rugby between two six nations sides Ive seen in years. Both teams totally disorganised.

That's about 4 or 5 pens in the red zone now - time for a yellow?

Collapse2005 wrote:Worst half of rugby between two six nations sides Ive seen in years. Both teams totally disorganised.

Close call between this one and last week ....

Cripe,
I go outside to cut the grass, figuring I can catch up with all the first half tries later on this afternoon, and what do I see when I come in?  It's halftime and England are playing another stinker.   

Where is Malins  when we need him?

Collapse2005 wrote:

Geordie wrote:

mountain man wrote:Daft by Arundell. Not thinking.

Never mind Young's is on :smile:

Can't abide that Liam Williams...

Williams was doing what he always does, fishing for cards and penalties, Arundel fell for it hook line and sinker.

What was the call on that? From the stands, it looked like Sanjay called a mark from a legit kick, took it quickly and therefore Arundell's tackle was fine. Was there a penalty on the kick?

Never mind Malins, get Phil Vickery on ...

He wasn't 10 metres away.

Poorfour wrote:

Collapse2005 wrote:

Geordie wrote:

mountain man wrote:Daft by Arundell. Not thinking.

Never mind Young's is on

Can't abide that Liam Williams...

Williams was doing what he always does, fishing for cards and penalties, Arundel fell for it hook line and sinker.

What was the call on that? From the stands, it looked like Sanjay called a mark from a legit kick, took it quickly and therefore Arundell's tackle was fine. Was there a penalty on the kick?

I think you have to be 10m from a mark?

Heaf wrote:Never mind Malins, get Phil Vickery on ...

Have heard he's considering retirement. We all pray it's not true

JvP out, get Mitchell in.

mountain man wrote:JvP out, get Mitchell in.

That's far too progressive. Who's the next oldest EQ scrumhalf in the prem?

Fair play to Durders, he's putting a positive spin on it but England need to score a few tries now

Fair play to the ref for not forgetting the yellow warning at half time

Harsh yellow for Reffell but I'll take it.

They were warned and he did put his hands on the ground first

Not a good sign for Lake, I guess Dee could be first choice as it stands. Rubbish game so far, both look rusty. Game won/lost at the lineout drive so far.

Now the ref is starting to guess at the scrum though ... that was far from clear, probably should have reset

mikey_dragon wrote:Not a good sign for Lake, I guess Dee could be first choice as it stands. Rubbish game so far, both look rusty. Game won/lost at the lineout drive so far.

I think rubbish is being too generous to both sides ...

What's happened to Wales' line-out?

Oh FFS - stop dropping the ball guys

Now's about the time for the ref to ping every English scrum and for England to go to pot based on the script ...

Wow and as soon as I type that it starts ...

So, this England scrum. I'm sure some said was good.

These “spiral bombs” are so rubbish. Play rugby

FFS.

Williams milking pens again

OK time for another scrum pen against England ...

FFS.

Billy V. with a stinker of a pass to Genge. aaargh.

So a yellow card warning at the scrum coz that always fixes it ...

Don't give a pass to Arundell all game then sub him off. Nice.

Farrell is now in the albatross position in the back line.

Ref just guessing and now ruining it ...

Mind you I did call that happening ...

Give me strength. This is an effing disaster so far.

Borthwick out

Bang on script ....

I hear the Women's football is going well

This is hopeless but all comes of the ref being clueless at the scrum ....

I'm not sure this could go much worse

That was a very dangerous attempt at - something - by Steward. Could easily have been a red. Jeez.

Poor by Steward, he can do much better than that.

How is that a yellow card???? Its an English pen if anything.....the Welsh TH completely folds making Genge lunge forward. Even if he thinks Genge is at fault....a yellow????

Steward compounding an awful game with a yellow (should be more)....offers nothing but ability to catch. Too slow....too ponderous.

Pretty dire performance yet again against a not great Wales side.

So, down to 13 now. England losing at home playing awfully.

lostinwales wrote:Don't give a pass to Arundell all game then sub him off. Nice.

He's not a winger....never has been and it shows.

mountain man wrote:So, down to 13 now. England losing at home playing awfully.

When will the boo birds come out? Should be soon....

So can we all agree steward's ref against Ireland was a red now?

Sgt_Pooly wrote:How is that a yellow card???? Its an English pen if anything.....the Welsh TH completely folds making Genge lunge forward. Even if he thinks Genge is at fault....a yellow????

Steward compounding an awful game with a yellow (should be more)....offers nothing but ability to catch. Too slow....too ponderous.

Pretty dire performance yet again against a not great Wales side.

As I said ref has no clue at the scrum - and then to give a yellow because he's clueless is ridiculous ... and it all went even more badly wrong after that decision ...