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We played well, but I don't actually think we were made to play as well as I thought it would take to beat them.
We were lucky when they had a three man overlap down the left side and Sackey had to take the gamble of coming in off his wing (which we wingers are coached not to do) and wrapping up runner and ball, with Mortlock eventually losing the ball completely, contributing to a pretty miserable day for him.
We were lucky when they had a three man overlap down the left side and Sackey had to take the gamble of coming in off his wing (which we wingers are coached not to do) and wrapping up runner and ball, with Mortlock eventually losing the ball completely, contributing to a pretty miserable day for him.
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Although it was a great bit of play of play from Sackey was play actually being stopped there? Saw the after match discussion and they were debating this did'nt see the decision though...mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:We played well, but I don't actually think we were made to play as well as I thought it would take to beat them.
We were lucky when they had a three man overlap down the left side and Sackey had to take the gamble of coming in off his wing (which we wingers are coached not to do) and wrapping up runner and ball, with Mortlock eventually losing the ball completely, contributing to a pretty miserable day for him.
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Also cheered me up no end to see the Aussies completely lose their discipline and try drop kicks from the halfway line on more than one occasion!
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mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:We played well, but I don't actually think we were made to play as well as I thought it would take to beat them.
We were lucky when they had a three man overlap down the left side and Sackey had to take the gamble of coming in off his wing (which we wingers are coached not to do) and wrapping up runner and ball, with Mortlock eventually losing the ball completely, contributing to a pretty miserable day for him.
actually it didn't matter as there had aleady been an infringement, when play stopped it went back for a penalty to England
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Yep, just checked and you're dead right... I must have missed what ensued by celebrating.communistworkethic wrote:mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:We played well, but I don't actually think we were made to play as well as I thought it would take to beat them.
We were lucky when they had a three man overlap down the left side and Sackey had to take the gamble of coming in off his wing (which we wingers are coached not to do) and wrapping up runner and ball, with Mortlock eventually losing the ball completely, contributing to a pretty miserable day for him.
actually it didn't matter as there had aleady been an infringement, when play stopped it went back for a penalty to England
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I was in Marseille for the New Zealand Italy game - superb weekend, great party atmosphere. Makes me want to go on more rugby away trips. New Zealand 2011 anyone?CAPSLOCK wrote:He'll have dog shit on his shoes in the morningspraggy wrote:absolutely fecking superb that. Wish I was in Marseilles tonight - my boss is the jammy sod.
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mummywhycantieatcrayons wrote:Awesome. Watched it in an Irish pub in Utrecht rammed full of Aussies. They didn't give us a hope before kick-off but they all trundled out quietly or blaming the Irish ref.
Ideally I'd like France to play out of their skins tonight, sneak one past NZ, and then not show up against us.
Good side as they are, I'd much rather play the surrender monkeys.
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Well done, England, congratulations.
From what I've seen of them over the last few years (not a lot I must admit) England hit them where it would hurt the most - the scrums. The wobblies have been suspect in that part of the game for a good while. FaninOz might be right in stating Australia were odds on here but I certainly wouldn't have put money on that contest. I wonder how the line-outs went? At one stage Australia were diabolical but seemed to have improved markedly over the last couple of seasons.
I haven't seen the game as I was enjoying some much needed beauty sleep but I wonder whether England targeted Gregan when the Oz boys actually won a scrum. He, among others, is not the player he once was in his younger years and (my opinion only) seems to have become a more one dimensional player when it comes to clearing the scrums and rucks.
Whatever. Enjoy the ride. Good luck against Gallic hordes.
From what I've seen of them over the last few years (not a lot I must admit) England hit them where it would hurt the most - the scrums. The wobblies have been suspect in that part of the game for a good while. FaninOz might be right in stating Australia were odds on here but I certainly wouldn't have put money on that contest. I wonder how the line-outs went? At one stage Australia were diabolical but seemed to have improved markedly over the last couple of seasons.
I haven't seen the game as I was enjoying some much needed beauty sleep but I wonder whether England targeted Gregan when the Oz boys actually won a scrum. He, among others, is not the player he once was in his younger years and (my opinion only) seems to have become a more one dimensional player when it comes to clearing the scrums and rucks.
Whatever. Enjoy the ride. Good luck against Gallic hordes.
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