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I've said before all top the teams in the 6N are very close and a few bad performances from players and you can get hurt.
Selection really hurt us in the first 50 (as well as poor excectutuon and individual errors-tackling mainly)
AWJ hasn't been at his best and was poor yesterday, he's allowed an off game but we don't have enough players of calibre in the tight 5 to carry a poor performance.
Bradley Davies isn't an international class starter, which highlights AWJ's off day.
Baldwin is a liability on the pitch-gets into the line and ducks it up by dropping/overrunning/attempting an offload etc, I'm not sure why he's picked above Owens? His lineout throwing yesterday was poor, but not helped by the fact that Davies can't jump, and some silly calls to the tail (AWJ's calls).
Warbuton isn't fit, and has barely played any rugby since the WC, genuine world class player when 100% but shouldn't play if he's not.
Gareth Davies, horrendous again today, has had lots of plaudits this campaign but I don't believe the hype, a decent run and a try doesn't make up for a full game of terrible kicking, delays at the base of rucks and looped passes to feet/heads. Webb head and shoulders above him.
Scrum I though we dominated but never going to get anything from Jouber, Dank Hole was illegal most of the game IMO.
Lineout was shit.
Ball carrying was non existent.
England played with power and pace and should really blew us away and put 40 on us and that would have been that.
As it was we somehow managed to claw our way back in to it and could have nicked it at the end, much as it would have been undeserved.
Officials were terrible today, missed big calls for both teams and I think England benefitted from being the dominant team (as often Joubert does).
I think Francis' gouge is inexcusable and I hope he gets a long ban, if that was Brown or Hartley you'd be building a gallows kone.
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I'm beginning to hate the way international rugby is goverened at the moment. We have to wait half an hour for every conceivable angle of something to be replayed, it seems that it's almost impossible for a try to be scored without something suspicious being scrutinised, and the game gets ruined round about the hour mark when the subs roll on. Then we wait in the days following the game for allegations of foul play to be proved/disproved.
And elsewhere, the mighty Wasps continued along their upward path with a fine win against Leicester, a couple of the tries were beauts, watch the highlights whenever ITV4 deign to show them.
Francis is a 3rd choice player so there won't be a huge uproar, I think he'll get 10 weeks, if he gets found guilty I hope we don't consider him for a year, dirty bastard. Hartley got away with a neck roll though which could have been a yellow....
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That said, they were definitely off the pace. I'm not sure any international team can have the same management team in place for that long, no matter how good they are, without getting stale. I also think a number of Wales' big names flatter to deceive a bit - Warburton in particular. Time for a shake up.
It's the reason I wouldn't have Gatland coaching the Lions. I think he'll take the old gang along rather than form players from other nations (I would take one Welsh back row on a Lions tour at the moment - Faletau - whereas I think Gatland would take 4).
Agree re the back row, they're not playing well yet untouchable...
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Citing officer needs to look at intent for all foul play, or if accidental is deemed enough, a lot of players will be cited in every game.
Brown was stupid and reckless yet escaped all sanction despite kicking Murray in head.
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