Don’t set yourself up @aa you’ll just feel even worse when you don’t make it out if the group 8)

Danw I agree with the strategic call, but I think they would have scored more by mauling from those penalties. That’s where the leadership counts – as soon as we destroyed them the first time, we should have been doing it again and again – the ref had already awarded a penalty try so the poor Fijian maul and cynical destruction of it was firmly established as a precedent.

An hour of that and Fiji would be 50 down easily in my view – and I thinks points difference might matter in this pool.

No. He didn’t play in any RWCs. 3 caps plus 2 for the Saxons in 2013.

England have this bizarre notion that RL players can be parachuted straight into the England Union Team in order to play centre.

Along with the aforementioned Farrell, Hape and Tomkins we’ve also had Henry Paul and (shudder) Barrie Jon Mather. They’ve all been embarrassing failures.

SB is better than the lot of them but that doesn’t mean he should be there. Surely in all of England there’s an inside centre better than a pedestrian Saffa and a RL forward who’s still learning where to stand?

Those Georgians are monsters! 😯

Tom Youngs is too fast to be an England centre.

Ha, she’s been with me long enough to know the priority is:
Bike
Rugby
Wine
Beer
Wife
😆

(Hopefully she’s not reading this! 😳 )

Didn’t get out early today, so I’ve got to miss one of these at least if I want to get a bike ride in on this fantastic day.

The official website is saying only 14k at a ‘sold out’ Kingsholm today, which is well short of capacity – evidently not over packing the terraces or something.

COME ON JAPAN!!!!!!

HONTO NE!!!!!!

GO Japan

Wow, thought theyd have taken 3 point for a draw!

superb

WTF

Wow!

Whoa!

Yes, yes, yes!

Brilliant result for the whole tournament and the whole game!

What a game 😀

I’m just back from Japan, and heading back there next Thursday. I feel some of my Japanese whiskey coming out tonight.

Well, it might be unsporting, but I’m so happy Japan only have four days to recover before they play us.