Come on Wales!! 3 mins to go… 😯

Argh! Pen on 79and a half mins… baby blacks nick it by 1 point 😥 (scored by Beauden Barrett’s baby brother!)

Takes something very special to beat the Baby Blacks. 🙂

Watching Saxons v SA A. Local ref is appalling. SA try from knock on, eng pinged for perfectly legal rucking, quick tap pen – tacklers no more than 1yd allowed to turnover. Cumulating in Wade being taken out off the ball as he crossed the line. Should have been yellow &PT, but just a pen.

Well England are 29-26 up after trailing 26-8!

EDIT:

Good win in the end. The Saffas didn’t appear to have seen a rolling maul before…..

Note for Jamba – Cipriani controlled it all very well.

Local ref is appalling. SA try from knock on, eng pinged for perfectly legal rucking

Glad it wasn’t just me seeing that. What about the maul from a lineout – player (16?) joins back of the ruck, binds, ref taps him on the back and penalises? for what? couldn’t work it out!
But yeah, amazing to get a win out of that!

Thought they were going to after their first try, but Wales have been excellent since then.
Prior to that, how good was Liam W’s tackle on Naholo?! Oops they’ve just collided

Sorry – wish I’d been wrong.

Come on Wales!

Great game of rugby. Score was a pretty fair reflection of both teams and although Nadolo probably should have been binned it likely wouldn’t change the outcome.

Shame it looked like half of the first team had already played this week but you can’t fault the effort.

It would be nice if we could manufacture another Liam Williams. Patchell is a million times more use than Anscombe and looked good with ball in hand in the first half. Taking the ball a bit flatter and putting some pace in the attack was a noticeable difference at times. It could be interesting to see him come in at first receiver a bit and interchange with Biggar over time but I guess it is a moot point for when North/ Halfpenny come back. I think Sanjay’s tenacity and “nastiness” make him the player he is and that is hard to replicate. Nice to see Mini Jiffy finding a bit of form too actually throwing some nice passes and finishing pretty damn well.

I’m not sure what you could change in the forwards. They seemed to do what you could realistically expect of them but were up against it with so little possession at the start of the second half. A bit of lineout practice and not putting the poor guys out midweek probably isn’t a bad start for improvement

Liam is actually quite a bit bigger *in real life* that his stats and skinny legs would suggest. I think the hard in to contact thing is mainly a blatant disregard for his own well being! Between that and his knackered knees the poor guy probably won’t be playing at this level long

What a dodgy pitch… not only the poor grass, but the shitty paint getting all over the players. Bloody ridiculous.

The novel thing about the pitch is it shows clear dominance in the scrum of England as it is immaculate on their side!

Good first 30 minutes for England but undone a little by a poor last 10.

Fortunate to escape after a stupid play by B Vunipola handed the Aussies the ball in our 22 right at the end but a bit of heroic defence (and infringing) kept them out.

Haskell seems to have got the preemptive biscuits in to the officials before the game too which helps 🙂

Still, Nick Phipp’s random pass generator is certainly keeping England in the game….

Oh bloody bloody! Wwooooo!!