Think you are right dd. defence is woeful.

looked harder not to score there!

Was bathing dd junior there for that. Seemed innocuous enough but thought I heard commentator saying it was for lots of offences?

Sounded like a good game at Twickenham, we did well to come back after giving them such a start (soft first try ?). Reading the report on line made me smile about the NZers getting pinged at the breakdown, thats one for the scrap book. Hopefully be able to find a YouTube replay later. Carter needs his 6 month rest by the sound of it, hasn’t done McGraw any harm. Congratulations to NZ for the unbeaten season.

Haven’t seen any of the welsh match, so can’t comment I that but I though that England at least looked up for the fight this week! Farrell although aggressive, a good physical presence and a good place kicker simply isn’t the right man to get a back line moving. He’s an inside centre pure and simple. Not quite sure who the answer is (Butns maybe, Flood would be better than Farrell for playmaking)
I sincerely hope that’s the last we see of Ashton for a while, that mans completely rubbish and it’s time to find a decent winger to play on the other wing as well. Put back tuillagi and I think there’s the making of something in that team.

Fair ply to NZ to absorb that much pressure and come out on top as well. There’s simply no weak links in that team at all.

And if the Australian scrum can put this much pressure on ours, we’re in all kinds of shit in the 6N. 😐

That was classic All Blacks. ‘We’re bored of losing, let’s get some trys’. Positive points for England though. Was a very entertaining game.

Ashton needs to go now. He is shit.

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Two scores will win it, plenty of time left. Come on Ireland.
Why is Ross getting had over? Sheesh.

It was more like “England line out? BRILLIANT”
Can’t take it away from them, they did what you’d expect a top team to do with set piece dominance.

Jeez…

I haven’t seen defence this woeful from Ireland in quite a while. As a-a says, shoot the defence coach now.

Blow it up now ref. This could be a serious embarrassment.

Dirty bastard.

At least O’Mahony came out of it ok.

Thankfully it didn’t in this case. When you’ve lost control of the tackle, you deservedly get an early bath.

it was a red, true no argument, but I’m just saying it was accidental IMO

Not sure I agree. I think there was intent there but it’s just a matter of opinion. If he’d done it twenty minutes earlier, they’d still have won anyway.

It has nothing to do with that a-a. I’m happily discussing the incident in isolation. You can (and will like you do) make of it what you want. It was a tip tackle, a deserved red. Even the TMO and touch judge agreed. No other incident has a bearing on my opinion of it.

a_a making friends and influencing people. 😉

Glad he wont be in Cardiff next week. You can see Folau’s AFL roots he takes high balls like he is playing for Hawthorn or someone, amazing to see that technique on a rugby pitch.

Tbf, I wasn’t aware that the refs could go to TMO for that kind of thing. Ref’s decision alone would probably have been a yellow but with the TMO reviewing it…well, we’ll never know. O’Mahony possibly deserved a yellow for the sweary over-reaction and I think it was his reaction which made the ref go to TMO. Like I said, it tarnished the game for me. No problem with the result – well beaten on the day and there really was no need.

Having said the above about O’Mahony, I have no idea how it feels to be upside down and wondering if my career is about to be finished so I assume that’s why the ref let the afters and the sweariness go.

Ok I just want to say I dont like Wales playing in all red makes them look like scousers (shudder) where have the white shorts gone?

Yes it was a_a I should of put Folau on a new line. Glad Kudrani wont be in Cardiff.

Number 7 who scored first Australian try is straight from the 118 118 advert 😆

Yeah, Cummins I think. He looked a threat all day – but even Ashton would have been a threat to the green machine defence today. 🙂

EDIT: if he’d had the service of course.