International Rugby

[paul_e]

Brilliant reading of the game from Tom Wood, that's why he's a world class player.

[Dante Lavelli]

Gone a bit scrappy in the last few minutes.

[taylorsworkrate]

Very poor performance so far

[cheltenhamlion]

We will be fine second half. Open and knock in some points.

[paul_e]

Very poor performance so far

I don't agree, we went silly after the knock on disallowed try, and the kicked penalty was a mistake in that context, but we fully deserve the double figure lead at half time.

However we are making the same mistake we always do which is to kick away first phase possession, Brown has done it 3 times and all 3 have been terrible kicks.  I can live with it as a set move for the opposite winger but trying to chip the defence in first phase is braindead.  I said yesterday Brown doesn't have the intelligence to be world class, he's done a great job of showing what I meant today.

[silhillvilla]

Kit is awful

[taylorsworkrate]

Very poor performance so far

I don't agree, we went silly after the knock on disallowed try, and the kicked penalty was a mistake in that context, but we fully deserve the double figure lead at half time.

However we are making the same mistake we always do which is to kick away first phase possession, Brown has done it 3 times and all 3 have been terrible kicks.  I can live with it as a set move for the opposite winger but trying to chip the defence in first phase is braindead.  I said yesterday Brown doesn't have the intelligence to be world class, he's done a great job of showing what I meant today.

I think it has been poor. Numerous handling errors, scrum looking shaky, lineout not great. Thankfully Fiji are extremely ill disciplined so we've got away with it so far.

Also it is extremely annoying having to watch Barritt haul himself around at a level of rugby he should not be playing in

[Dante Lavelli]

That shot of the team dressing room:  Is it normal that the manager is not leading the team talk?  Was it Robshaw or another coach?
Weirdly it was always our captain that shouted our motivational speeches but I assumed that was just because he was good at it rather than a rigby 'thing'.

[paul_e]

Very poor performance so far

I don't agree, we went silly after the knock on disallowed try, and the kicked penalty was a mistake in that context, but we fully deserve the double figure lead at half time.

However we are making the same mistake we always do which is to kick away first phase possession, Brown has done it 3 times and all 3 have been terrible kicks.  I can live with it as a set move for the opposite winger but trying to chip the defence in first phase is braindead.  I said yesterday Brown doesn't have the intelligence to be world class, he's done a great job of showing what I meant today.

I think it has been poor. Numerous handling errors, scrum looking shaky, lineout not great. Thankfully Fiji are extremely ill disciplined so we've got away with it so far.

Also it is extremely annoying having to watch Barritt haul himself around at a level of rugby he should not be playing in

remember it started to rain right on kick off, so handling errors are no surprise.  Scrum has been ok other than Youngs refusing to Hook.  Lineout has been fine other than the first one.

I agree about Barritt, he's a terrible player who shouldn't be anywhere near this side, he's a decent defender but he can't pass, doesn't run good crash ball and has a bad habit of giving away penalties when he tries to force the game.

[taylorsworkrate]

We really do need the full 5 points from this game.

[taylorsworkrate]

Oh for fuck sake. Why would Wood do that? Fucking braindead

[taylorsworkrate]

They really do need to do something about the amount of time lost at scrums.

[paul_e]

Oh for fuck sake. Why would Wood do that? Fucking braindead

To be fair to him you don't get called up for that until a month ago, and given we were already playing advantage it was a poor decision to reverse it.

I wish Tom Youngs would, once, try to hook the fucking ball.

[taylorsworkrate]

Fiji have missed quite a few kicks. Thankfully

[taylorsworkrate]

Very worrying that for spells in this game, Fiji have looked the better team. We'll need a drastic improvement even to just beat Wales