Get ford off! He is stinky bad at the moment.

Sod that. I’d sooner listen to Piers Morgan than Inverdale and Nichol.

Meh. Farrell made the try and watson was right next to ford anyway.

Good pressure and aggression from Italy

Will 60m fitness tell???

Poor discipline/composure from England so far

I think the test of an England performance should be: “does Haskell look like their best player” 🙂

Ford is playing with the 9.5 shirt, just a delay between 9 and Farrell. He not really adding anything and you’d be better off with a second centre 😉 no idea how the backrow can’t win a turnover when the ball is unchallenged on the floor- a few times they just needed to pick the damned thing up!

England are at 6’s and 7’s (ironically) and somehow look better without a set piece or structure which is a minuscule consolation

Mr Angry eschewing the half time oranges in favour of arguing with the ref there.

Keeps the haters happy though – look on the bright side!

Edit: no this IS crap at the moment, sorry

Nah, Joseph is a lucky boy 😀

🙂

Look how useful having a centre is! 🙂

Imagine what we could do with two!!!

Gives EJ some interesting choices to make. Time to change the start sheet?!?

At least a good 30 mins or so. 😉

Some pretty solid individual performances. I still don’t think we’ll beat wales, but it could be worse at this stage. Beating this Italy in Rome by that margin is a pretty good result. They ran France close enough.
Agree with THM, the young lads didn’t look at all uncomfortable. First half excepted, fairly encouraging.

Get Slade and Manu back, give the likes of George, Itoge, Clifford and Hill more time on the field and I’ll be happy. If it means taking a couple of losses on the chin, then fine.
I did find it interesting, following Mako’s impact of the bench last week, Marler had a similar impact.
Youngs MOTM??? WTF????

I think France will be the ones to watch this tournament.. I was quite pleased Wales drew with Ireland as I was expecting Ireland to destroy us..

Then again Wales v england at Twickenham won’t be an easy match ffo the Welsh.. But we beat them there last time..

Interesting tournament so far.. Discounting Italy and Scotland it seems anything can happen..

Ummm, that was shite. The problem with games like this is that Joseph will be seen as the hero when in fact he butchered umpteen chances, that against a better side (no disrespect to excellent Italy) he will just be hammered. Must have been three chances to offload to a guaranteed try in the first half where he kept the ball.

North did the same in the Scotland game, Wales would have been much further ahead if he had offloaded instead of keeping the ball. His run at the end was against a knackered defence.

Seems to be a NH malaise.

Not confident that we will get any traction against Wales, Ireland or France. I’m not knocking Jones, I think these are issues he will have to solve.

In the words of one great man “trundlemuppets”..

Been out all day,worth watching? (I realise England won)

Should be watching this demolition of Saracens by Wasps. Scoreline is incredible..

HOLY CRAP!!!

Wish chiefs could have pulled this off. Insane.

Who do we think is for the drop? Wuss looking decidedly dodgy.