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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4170 on: September 17, 2023, 08:33:59 PM »
Poor from Japan on their own line there.

Good from England to shift the point of the attack though, not often you see prop pick by the line and then shift the ball out 1.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4171 on: September 17, 2023, 08:34:26 PM »
I wish we would stop kicking the ball away.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4172 on: September 17, 2023, 08:39:31 PM »
Idiotic from May - ill discipline is kicking in.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4173 on: September 17, 2023, 08:47:08 PM »
Stop kicking the fucking ball.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4174 on: September 17, 2023, 08:47:12 PM »
Both sides seem very wasteful in possession

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4175 on: September 17, 2023, 08:47:31 PM »
It's like watching a bunch of kids all chasing the same ball and then dropping it. Both Japan and England looking very sloppy.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4176 on: September 17, 2023, 08:47:53 PM »
We look like a team that hasn't been told how they're supposed to play so we get quick ball but stand deep and get met on the gainline, or we try to crash through and then don't have any idea what to do next.

What it leads to, inevitably, is Ford making decisions for himself and he goes to the boot because there's no pattern.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4177 on: September 17, 2023, 08:52:05 PM »
Not great - need to improve.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4178 on: September 17, 2023, 08:56:22 PM »
I love how Andrew Trimble always has his little clip board of notes. Liked him as a player, like him as a pundit now too.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4179 on: September 17, 2023, 08:56:30 PM »
Not great - need to improve.

Agreed, last week papered over some very clear cracks but this is us back to all the same problems we had in the summer and the 6N.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4180 on: September 17, 2023, 08:58:42 PM »
Looked like two poor teams butting heads with very average handling skills and lots of dull arsed kicking.

England in the first minute refusing opportunity to try and lay down a marker and reverting to cautious type was annoying.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4181 on: September 17, 2023, 08:59:33 PM »
Rob Kearney very critical of England and their complete lack of desire to attack.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4182 on: September 17, 2023, 09:00:02 PM »
They just don’t look like they’re connected at all.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4183 on: September 17, 2023, 09:01:12 PM »
Very scruffy from England.  We are going to get hammered if we play like this against a really good side.  Too many simple errors.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #4184 on: September 17, 2023, 09:02:06 PM »
Very scruffy from England.  We are going to get hammered if we play like this against a really good side.  Too many simple errors.

I was just thinking they're lucky the draw was made when it was. Any other pool and they'd be in big trouble.

 


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