International Rugby

[Villa Lew]

Bookies have England just favourites to beat the All Blacks, which doesn't happen too often.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s very doable, but we do have a couple of key absences.

[Crown Hill]

Last two times I’ve seen us play the All Blacks at Twickenham we should have won both. I think all matches have been close for over ten years now. Certainly not the aura there was in “amateur” days.

Our summer tour seems to have built up our squad now.

A couple of injuries today but expect it to be close as usual these days!

[Gareth]

Well that was good fun

[PaulWinch again]

Very impressive.

[PaulWinch again]

Ford was very good today.

[Exeter 77]

Just noticed Scotland collapsed from 21-0 up to lose 33-24 against Argentina.

[cdbearsfan]

Two bottle jobs in as many games. Shitebags.

[paul_e]

After a day of dragging son around the Aston uni open day I've still only seen highlights but it looked like a better performance than I expected from England. We caught them cold early on and had more depth from the bench to keep our standards up.

From the timings though it seems like losing Steward early helped us out and if that's right I hope we move on from him now. With how we are setup we really need a creative 15 and with Smith, Furbank and Hodge we have 3 really good options.