Priestland / Biggar. Must have been the French commentator’s accent or the rowdy bar 😉

I’m sure the Welsh lad was fuming at Cole’s infringement so he went for the eyes, cheap shot and very stupid in full view.

Too many subs and poor game management (once again) at the end when comfortably ahead and in control. I’ll catch the highlights online to see how we turned penalty advantage into a score against. Defensive error on last score, bad mistake in a key area of the field.

Always a good sign to win when not playing particualry well. Much to work on and big improvements possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysgol_Gyfun_Gymraeg_Glantaf

Hardly Harrow, is it? 🙂

About as accurate as the rest of the post!

Those tries in the last need to have been prevented, for gods sake! But still, before the game if I hadn’t watched it I would have said the final score reflects the teams, occasion and location.

Good to see North back in some form, but Itoje, jeez if we could find a few more like him.

I doubt Gustard will be happy with the line speed I’d defensive effort in the last 20 mins. Part of me can’t help wondering if the RWC horror show started to play on their minds after the charge down try. They seemed determined to hit the self destruct button. That’s not meant to be disingenuous to Wales who upped the intensity, but the cool heads were lost.

Kruis has been going well and it’s good to see Billy doing the full 80.

DanW; I wish Simpson was on the pitch! He was the form nine in the prem until getting broken.

Thought the back three were pretty good, I like Watson he took some good balls in the air even if a few were knocked on, Brown had a good game and Nowell was busy. Again a fallow callow back three.

I rate North, Williams offers more in attack (to my eyes than Halfpenny) but Cuthbert isn’t great especially when you kick over the top of him. Wales looked really dangerous once the shackles were off.

Aw, look

Flashy – off the top of my head I can think of a couple of footballers who have degrees. Juan Mata of Man U and Duncan Watmore at Sunderland.

Here’s an idea, now that rugby allows substitutions as players can no longer last 80 minutes, maybe we could do the same with referees?

It seems to be in the last ten minutes that Joubert makes most of his mistakes – sub him at 65. 😉

I agree.

Apart from scoring tries, being brilliant in the air, showing scintillating speed and footwork and running over Alex Cuthbert he’s done nothing.

I’m not so sure that Gatland played Wales to EJ’s game plan and it backfired. It seems that Wales resurrected themselves in the final 20 – which in the past has been when EJ makes his changes putting other teams to the sword with fresh players.

Did Gatland tell them to hold back a little then attack the final 20 knowing England would be slower? If he did it almost worked, and certainly would have done if they weren’t 16 down at HT.

Just the French now though, and we all know what a lottery that could be.

#mighty maro

Sorry about that, I just wanted to be on trend 😉

Line-outs are becoming as bad as scrums. Does no one throw down the middle? Getting so obvious that we might as well go to league throw ins.

Indeed – that’s why I said he should be at fullback. 😉

Besides, whatever good he does, Brown is simply not top class. Watson could be. Goode is far, far too slow for international rugby despite being a skilled all-round footballer at club level.

Top teams have great fullbacks who can create and take chances – think Ben Smith, Israel Dagg, Willie LeRoux, Israel Folau, Rob Kearney (in latter days perhaps) etc.

Firstly, I hope you enjoyed that game idlejon. I did

Not sure that ‘enjoyed’ is the correct word. My girls learned new combinations of unusual words. England deserved to win – no complaints there.

I’m sure he’ll get whatever he deserves. It was careless, but played in real time I can’t see that it was a real attempt at gouging. I’ve recreated it with a pile of soft toys, dolls and children…I’m off to casualty now. 😆

Now, on a serious note – who was talking about the post RWC 6Ns being meaningless? 😆

Are France capable of a) putting a big score on Scotland today. 2) beating England next week to steal the championship win?

Don’t be too hard on yourself pigface, it was more like 50mins.

Oh he is world class, a world class twunt 😆

Cheers Ducky

He’s probably the best we’ve got and certainly did some good stuff yesterday but there’s still plenty of room for improvement. He should have scored in the corner when he made that break in the first half and his passing remains a bit suspect. In particular it was noticible that he received
a much better pass from Itoje than he gave in the build up to the try.

looks like Marler is just trying to get Evan’s arm out of the way 🙂