Anyhow – enjoy your beers, welsh fans. I can’t even drown my sorrows as I have to go to work and fly home from Japan – thank god nobody on my crew is welsh!!!!!

dantsw13, I’m spending ten or so hours of tomorrow going the other way, ex-LHR T5. Will raise a glass to you over lunch!

Wales travelled to Twickenham short of how many 1st choice players? Wasn’t it 5 from the intended squad. They fielded an inexperience wing, the 2nd choice scrum-half, an injured full-back and a massively under-powered front row. They then lost another 3 players through the game.

And won.

In Twickenham.

England had all the advantage.

I think a little gloating is allowed before Australia rip Wales to pieces. 😆

(England need to be more than a little concerned about the selection, and the performance and replacement policy.)

Incredible and through sheer determination the right result.

England must wonder what they have to do after 60 minutes of dominance pegged back only by the glorious boot of Dan Biggar.

Gwlad!

Courtesy of the excellent Dai Lama (Yes, he lives again!)

Please don’t remind me 😯

Again to quote Dai,

Massive congratulations to Wales to win a game they should not have had a look in. Smart work for the try. England substitutions (injury related or not) had a bigger impact than the Welsh. A game we should have seen out being 10 up with 20 to go. Line out call was totally idiocy. Just look at prior line out which was dire with a terrible throw. My 6 pence is Farrell didn’t fancy the kick. In any case a stupid call.

I thought JW and other studio pundits where spot on with their analysis of the poor defensive decisions for the Welsh try, rushed up and created space behind.

Australia is now a knock out game for England. Only cancellation is I could see Fiji nabbing a result against a depleted Wales and they will be very much second Favourites to Australia.

Fiji game is far from a foregone conclusion for Wales, and they are unlikely to beat Oz. This group isn’t over yet.

That was sadly predicable…. Fair play to Wales, a great result from a depleted side.

Interestingly I’ve had an ‘insider’ from a rugby company o er for dinner. The amount of money on offer to a certain leage player with a guaranteed wold cup place is apparently astronomical, mainly via a central contract type arangment. Sadly I feel it’s tainted the entire team ethic, particually as he’s mainly there because of his ‘leadership’ qualities. One things for sure, it’s not for his ability in a union side!

Oh dear. Go back and read that again, in the context of what was written before and after it, and see if you can work out what was going on.

Nice backtrack ape,still; always next weekend eh? Enjoy you Sunday but maybe avoid the papers.

It’s gone over your head hasn’t it 🙂 Keep thinking, you’ll get there in the end. If you’re still struggling at lunchtime I’ll help you out.

Ha! Just looked at the geocaching thread,sorry ape,but this thread contains posts like that every year with no irony whatsoever. My humblest etc…

No bother mate. Now that’s all cleared up I’ll go and get on with my crying 🙂

England lost that game more than Wales won it. The current set ups problems have been obvious for months if not years:
– mediocre management
– a captain who makes bad decisions and doesn’t seem to inspire
– a lack of creativity in the backs (which wasn’t helped by dropping Cipriani)
– niggling disciplinary problems, especially when under pressure

I think Australia might complete the demolition job Wales started in the last ten minutes. It’s never the same when the hosts are knocked out but I still think the Irish could reach the semis.

Back on Wood booting Williams in the head… Wasn’t it also him who kicked North in the head recently too? He should have realised by now that his kicking is about as effective as Burgess’s and not worth the effort 🙂

Aye predictible it was, I knew we were dreadful and this was expected. This might be the kick up the arse we need, but I expect we will leave the group with a whimper. Look forward to 6N now and hope that a new management team will change things in a sensible manner. Lancaster is dead to me now..
I’ve said it many times before, Welsh passion is a phenomenal thing, they often cannot sustain this level against anyone but us. Maybe we need to learn to hate a bit more?

No,that was the Wasps 8 wasn’t it? He was cited and knighted. Why can’t England not just play the way they can? Having two centres was a first for them in 2003,but I suspect they would have won it anyway. At least they looked like England last night. Still, if they don’t qualify; they will get in a new coach with 4 years to get it right.
Enough talking about losers, the blue machine marches on this afternoon. I am sure all the England supporters will tune in and wish us all the best.