Yeah. That was crap.

If I were a welsh fan, I’d be shitting myself about the fiji game.

It was very, very clearly on the line. Try.

Let alone that the ball was lost forward at least once if not twice in the build up.

Anyway, well done England, came good in the last ten to secure the bonus point. Having seen that performance, the group is going to be even more interesting than I thought. Gatling will be licking his lips I reckon.

Doesn’t need to, touching the line is good for a try

Anyone playing Scotland.

EDIT: not really – Georgia is my second team.

Samoa for me. Keen on the canadians too.

What about Fiji means they will “eat Wales”? England played absolutel sh1t and gave away a record amount of turnovers (maybe 🙂 ), had an anonymous pack, Fiji missed 11 points, etc etc. if Fiji will “eat” Wales then England must be world beaters to get a win under those circumstances

Going back to an earlier post, is May allowed to leap in the air at a tackler like he did?

No

Barritt is rushed back from injury, non?

What – so he can trundle round the pitch in his yellow boots, throwing forward passes and getting angry about giving away mindless penalties and doing nothing to resemble an international centre.

No disrespect to them, but with their naivety in the second half, and with their scrum slowly falling apart, potential world beaters like England shouldn’t have been needing a dodgy try when the clock went red to get their bonus point.

They’ll be no pushover for Wales, but if Wales dare to move the ball, they could hammer them. England shouldn’t have been turned over that many times by such an inexperienced side.

Anyway…it’ll be a cracking group – honestly no idea how it’ll shape up by the end. 😀 In a way, it’s a pity every group couldn’t have the same knife edge.

If the welsh play warrenball against this lot, they’ll find themselves in a spot of bother, especially without the excellent JD2 to add a bit of sparkle. George won’t get any change from Nadolo and roberts will just get dumped time after time. Fiji’s defence was excellent and they obviously know who to target. It won’t be a big score.

“Can the idiot commentator please stop calling him NANDOLO. It’s Nadolo you numpty.”

In Fijians “d” is pronounced “nd”, so for example Nadi is pronounced Nandi etc

Cole needs to be dropped for Brookes, Youngs for Care and I’m not even sure about Ford now. Launch was good.
Hate to say it, but Burgess played well too.

1 pt for losing by less than 7, something like that. And presumably the point for 4 tries even if you you lose.

I very much doubt that. And they say the english are arrogant?
The fijian didn’t get carded for the tip tackle on may.

It was for offside. Didn’t think you could be offside once you’re over the try line but there you go.

Tbf, I don’t think the ref was crooked – but he missed a lot. And the point that no trophies are awarded at the beginning of a tournament made up there ^^ is very true. England have a bonus point and didn’t lose anybody to injury. But as ever, the debate rages on about who should be in the starting 15. The three games between England, Australia and Wales seem even more mouthwatering for a neutral (loike me 😀 ) now.

Ansolutely, and it’d lancasters fault. England will be lucky to get past the quarters (I think we’ll make the quarters).
Someone suggested earlier that Cole is a busted flush, and I agree. He’s surviving on reputation. Brookes has been shining in the prem for a long while now. I have no idea at all why Ben Youngs starts and Care doesn’t even make the bench. It’s bad enough that Cipriane was sent home, and now it looks like Slade (whilst retained) won’t even get a crack. JJ only made the squad through an opportunity through injury to the incumbent.
Lancaster is far too conservative.

On that, why isn’t Cave in the ireland squad for the game? He looked excellent last I saw of him.