International Rugby

[PaulWinch again]

Throwing this away now.

[taylorsworkrate]

Only one winner now. England players look dead on their feet.

[paul_e]

Fuck me this is chronic, awful defending in the last 10 minutes.

Aty least we've got George fucking Martin on to save the day.

[paul_e]

No idea how there wasn't a yellow card at the end of that break from Earl, that was the clearest 'professional foul' you get in rugby,m Fiji were fucked and they knew it so they were desperate to give away the penalty to stay within 7.

[PeterWithesShin]

Never in doubt.

[Pete3206]

What's not in doubt, is that we've had 3 cracking quarters and I cannot wait for the last one later.

[taylorsworkrate]

Well, I suppose you have to give England credit for not falling apart after Fiji drew level. A wonderfully enjoyable game of rugby. Ben Earl man of the match by a country mile.

Bring on the semi final battering from South Africa or France

[paul_e]

fantastic result, given lots of people were worried about us getting out of the group we've done superbly to make the semi-final.

Lawes was exceptional, it's not flashy but the guy is a fucking machine, I honestly think he's the best 5/6 in the world now and has been for a while.

[Villa Lew]

Rugby good, Cricket not so good!

[PaulWinch again]

Fair play England when Fiji came back we could have wilted but didn’t and won it. Top work.

[paul_e]

Fair play England when Fiji came back we could have wilted but didn’t and won it. Top work.

I reckon what happened is England made a few changes and it caused our intensity at the breakdown to drop slightly. Once everyone was back up to speed we didn't look like we were going to let them through again.

[PaulWinch again]

No it was really pleasing the discipline in that phase was excellent.

Farrell did well tonight.

[rougegorge]

Could yet be proved wrong, but the fact that both England and Argentina have made the semi finals highlights the ridiculous drawing of groups years before the tournament.

There is no logic to it, and given that there are always so many 'also rans' competing at every World Cup leaving very few realistic winners, there seems little excuse getting the draw so badly stilted.

[taylorsworkrate]

Long term it may actually have been a blessing to go out tonight. I just hope that the RFU don't see a semi final being reached as a reason to not start to fix everything that is wrong with ths current state of English rugby.

[taylorsworkrate]

Could yet be proved wrong, but the fact that both England and Argentina have made the semi finals highlights the ridiculous drawing of groups years before the tournament.

There is no logic to it, and given that there are always so many 'also rans' competing at every World Cup leaving very few realistic winners, there seems little excuse getting the draw so badly stilted.

I totally agree that it needs to change, but as Warren Gatland said the other day, teams should have played better at the last world cup and they wouldn't have been in this situation.