International Rugby

[PaulWinch again]

England will have a very uncomfortable afternoon. Might sneak it, but only to set up a humbling next Saturday.

Maybe depends if England play a smart game.

[Lsvilla]

Expecting England +15 points. Purely on the balance of support. Need to play smart.

[Jon Crofts]

This referee likes his whistle

[Exeter 77]

If there is any consistency in refereeing that Fijian yellow will be upgraded to a red.

[Jon Crofts]

Curry needs to go to tackle school.

[Jon Crofts]

If there is any consistency in refereeing that Fijian yellow will be upgraded to a red.

Nah. A perfect example of a yellow being upheld.

[taylorsworkrate]

Pretty good first of half of rugby all round. England for the 1st time in ages aren't just running the ball straight into the defender with no outside or inside support. Its a small thing but with how exceptionally poor the last couple of years have been its great to see

[paul_e]

If there is any consistency in refereeing that Fijian yellow will be upgraded to a red.

Nah. A perfect example of a yellow being upheld.

Yep agreed, looked correct to me. In fact I think they've been good and consistent around head collisions in every game since the ridiculous decision on Curry. Take that 1 decision away and I'm happy with the officials so far, it's just frustrating that the 1 huge error cost us a key player for pretty much the entire group stage.

On the game I think the decision to start with Smith at 15 looked a good one, he was excellent when he was first on and it put us into the right mindset.

Mitchell has been excellent, Lawes has been world class (again), Itoje is putting in his best performance for England for about 2 years and Farrell has been much better in not just kicking possession away in 2nd or 3rd phase. If we'd played like this for the last year we'd have gone inot the world cup thinking we had a real chance of making the final again.

[Risso]

The Farrells used to live just up the road from us in Wigan, and Owen used to knock around with my nephew as a kid.

[paul_e]

Ref has been generous there to not reverse that one, dragging someone out of the ruck by their feet is shitty behaviour.

[Risso]

Their number 7 giving somebody a whack in the face was a bit lucky too?

[dave shelley]

Hmm, I'm becoming a bit fearful.

[dave shelley]

FFS!

[Brazilian Villain]

Just flicked over....

[Pete3206]

England are going to pieces