Quote from: paul_e on September 09, 2023, 09:53:18 PMQuote from: AV84 on September 09, 2023, 09:48:51 PMAbsolutely abysmal from Argentina. They look like a team that have never met each other before. Error after error after error. I think a big part of it was the drop goals in the first half, they setup to outnumber us in defence so we'd wear ourselves out trying to break them down, by not doing what they wanted we build a bit of pressure on the scoreboard and it's led to them being very reckless in the breakdown. It's been a a weirdly perfect 14man performance from us that I don't think anyone saw coming.I think it's just Argentina being shit. They knocked on as many passes as they made. They gave away penalties. They never looked like scoring themselves until the 70th minute. Credit to England, they took their points and slowly choked the life out of Argentina, but you can't overstate how awful Argentina were.
Quote from: AV84 on September 09, 2023, 09:48:51 PMAbsolutely abysmal from Argentina. They look like a team that have never met each other before. Error after error after error. I think a big part of it was the drop goals in the first half, they setup to outnumber us in defence so we'd wear ourselves out trying to break them down, by not doing what they wanted we build a bit of pressure on the scoreboard and it's led to them being very reckless in the breakdown. It's been a a weirdly perfect 14man performance from us that I don't think anyone saw coming.
Absolutely abysmal from Argentina. They look like a team that have never met each other before. Error after error after error.
Yeah Argentina were poor, but a lot of that was down to England. Ford and Earl in particular were brilliant.
Quote from: PaulWinch again on September 09, 2023, 10:10:34 PMYeah Argentina were poor, but a lot of that was down to England. Ford and Earl in particular were brilliant.Agreed, and even those with different tinted glasses cannot fail to agree with that.
Quote from: Fasth56 on September 09, 2023, 10:16:05 PMQuote from: PaulWinch again on September 09, 2023, 10:10:34 PMYeah Argentina were poor, but a lot of that was down to England. Ford and Earl in particular were brilliant.Agreed, and even those with different tinted glasses cannot fail to agree with that.England had nothing to do with the fact Argentina were constantly over or under committing to rucks, or weren't supporting players who had the ball. They knocked on when nobody was near them. Couldn't even throw the ball into a line out at one point. England played their own game really well, Ford was very clever taking points when he could, and their line speed in defence was good, but Argentina were flawed in every aspect of their game from the very start. It will be very interesting to see how the rest of the games in this pool play out.
Sounds like the French authorities managed to fuck it up royally for thousands of people last night. A mate was there last night took him over 90 minutes to enter the stadium, 45 minutes at half time to get a beer, hundreds of toilets were out of use and after the game the Metro wasn’t running.
I'd add Lawes, Manu and Mitchell as well.
Is the tattoo thing still a thing with Japanese society?