To quote someone else, a Joubert is a bit like a Sorbet… but leaves a bitter after taste instead. I am just glad that the better team won for the benfit of everybody’s sanity.
Wales didn’t look like they’d ever met each other before and weren’t playing for each other like they normally would*
Wales missed more tackles than an average team makes completed tackles. Hopefully this is some sort of record and a trophy can be awarded to Edwards while posing for a photo with a face like Lunchboy’s recent MOM and an interview to shame Brown’s
I didn’t notice Farrell at all today in open play which is the best possible indication England played ok.
Marler appears to be emulating his RFU president and continuing the tradition of props pretending to be the thickest players on the pitch but ends up double bluffing. If he did make the comment CFH suggests then I am surprised Samson didn’t lamp him*
Itoje as MOM is the first unanimously agreed point in the history of this thread, or perhaps even in the entire wider STW. Expect a flurry of full screen ads to non-premium member as the forum melts down.
“Dominant” has been refined in the dictionary to describe a state where no one entity is particularly more skilled or powerful than the other. Example: England have the dominant scrum.
Ford actually played quite well and has a future in the side IMO. It is unfair to blame him solely for Priestland’s charge down as Simpson’s pass to him was suitably awful. Danny Care looks better when he comes on in the last 20, mainly because he hasn’t had enough time to stuff the game up himself.
I hope Warburton is OK. In other injury news, Brown has been taken in for tests after the rumour he may have a heart and be human after all.
Francis was lucky not to be binned at the very least. It is a bit like a referee deciding a punch to the face was a friendly greeting or way to celebrate a try and letting it go. I think that Joubert realised leaving Francis on would be the bigger handicap for Wales so let slide. He’ll probably get even bigger on his hols as Ritchie Rees will tell you that you don’t need intent (or even any evidence of making contact with the face) to receive a hefty ban.
Wales can score tries. This is so surprising I’ll just leave it at that.
Some people here still don’t seem to realise a perfectly fine pass can travel forwards on the pitch.
I don’t understand any of the love for Watson. Distinctly average. England should have played that guy Bananaman and had him line up opposite Cuthbert for a true battle of wits. Nowell works really hard everywhwere, has speed and lines to match his hard tackling but gets lumbered with the being at fault for Manu (and the secondfirstfiveeightswhoshouldn’treallybeplayingthere at other times in the game) leaving a lot of ground to cover.
The urban myth that the AB’s win games by throwing the ball around in a carefree manner for 80 minutes is still a thing. They absolutely dominate territory by kicking more, and more effectively than any other side while doing the basics exceptionally well and rarely making mistake. If this is hard to imagine, watch Wales in the first half and imagine the opposite.
Every Welsh fan said England would win before the match. See! We told you so, we are always right and that is all that matters 🙂
* to state the obvious most seemed to be playing for England instead
** not a reference to ferreting
