England U20s Six Nations

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Squad has been named for the Italy game.  


15 Ben Redshaw (Newcastle Falcons)
14 Toby Cousins (Northampton Saints) *
13 Ben Waghorn (Harlequins) *
12 Sean Kerr (Harlequins)
11 Alex Wills (Sale Sharks) *

10 Rory Taylor (Gloucester Rugby)
9 Archie McParland (Northampton Saints)

1 Asher Opoku-Fordjour (Sale Sharks) *
2 Craig Wright (Northampton Saints) *
3 Billy Sela (Bath Rugby)
4 Olamide Sodeke (Saracens)
5 Junior Kpoku (Racing 92)
6 Finn Carnduff (c) (Leicester Tigers) *
7 Henry Pollock (Northampton Saints)
8 Zach Carr (Harlequins) *


Replacements

16 Jacob Oliver (Newcastle Falcons)
17 Scott Kirk (Bath Rugby)
18 James Halliwell (Bristol Bears) *
19 Joe Bailey (Exeter Chiefs) *
20 Nathan Michelow (Saracens) *
21 Ben Douglas (Newcastle Falcons)
22 Josh Bellamy (Harlequins)
23 Ollie Spencer (Newcastle)

Some good players, the two starting props are beasts for this level, both exceptional in the loose.  There are quite a few other recognisable names in there (and ones I'm not too familiar with).  To be honest we could do with another strong generation.  The last couple of tournaments the performances have been pretty underwhelming.

Georgia scored a penalty, and England have just answered with an unconverted try.

On a PC, this link works best for me:

https://www.televizia.org/ragbitv/

Harvey Cuckson, our No.4 lock, went off injured after only 15 minutes. He walked off unaided, so it might be a head knock.

Georgia just got a breakaway try under the posts, so lead 10-5 after 20 minutes.

Georgia had a second try disallowed after one of our players was held back at a ruck. Georgia were on penalty advantage, so they kicked the points.

13-5 to Georgia after 37 minutes.

We just kicked a penalty to the corner but overthrew the lineout, and play is back on halfway.

Another Georgian penalty and it finishes 16-5 at halftime.

The Facebook livestream link seems to work this week

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=757978999872416

Not a good start to the second half.

We made a break into their 22, and gave away a penalty. They made a break into our 22, and we gave away a penalty. One of our players got yellow-carded, and Georgia score a converted try from a lineout maul.

Georgia lead 23-5

Another try just before the yellow card ended sees the score at 28-5

We can't keep hold of the ball. Four or five phases, and we knock-on, or give away a penalty. Just happened again there.

We finally held on to the ball, and scored a try. Five minutes later, we lost a lineout, and Georgia put it through the hands across the backline to score.

35-12 to Georgia after 61:30

Straight off the restart, we try putting it through the hands, and give away an interception try.

42-12 after 63 minutes

England won't want to look at the penalty count at the end of this match.

Bored with scoring tries, Georgia took three points in front of the posts.

England did manage a try and we now have a minute left to see if we can score again, and break 20 points.

We had a lineout right on the Georgian line. We took the ball cleanly but knocked it on over the line while driving for the try.

Georgia win the resulting scrum, but decided to play it out rather than kick dead. We win another penalty, which we tap. Then we knock it on a couple of passes later, and the game is over.

Final score: 45-17

Highlights are up, with Georgian commentary.