International Rugby

[Brazilian Villain]

Ermm... might stick to the curling.

If you can't beat Italy in Scottish weather conditions...

[nigel]

Italy have really progressed over the past 2-3seasons

[paul_e]

Italy have really progressed over the past 2-3seasons

It's built around the centres, Menoncello is the best centre in the world and Brex is a monster in defence next to him.

[cdbearsfan]

Well done Italy. Time to go, Townsend.

[Jon Crofts]

Better team won, Jocks played for 3 minutes.

[Crown Hill]

Why on earth are Wales wearing this awful Rugby League strip? No wonder they are getting stuffed!

[Brazilian Villain]

Gwan Wales! The comeback is on.

[taylorsworkrate]

It's weird that England's margin of victory feels underwhelming but Wales are atrocious.

Really would have liked England to have been ruthless and put 70+ points on them but they took their foot of the gas in the second half

[Brazilian Villain]

Really would have liked England to have been ruthless and put 70+ points on them but they took their foot of the gas in the second half

Probably a sensible approach, given the condensed schedule this year.

[taylorsworkrate]

Really would have liked England to have been ruthless and put 70+ points on them but they took their foot of the gas in the second half

Probably a sensible approach, given the condensed schedule this year.

Probably correct.

It is not great seeing a Welsh team this embarrassingly poor though.

[paul_e]

England didn't play particularly well but easily got 48 points and probably left another try or 2 on the field, I was a bit disappointed that we lost our patterns of play when Spencer came on, we really need a better option as the backup 9. The pack were mostly very good, I do though still have problems with how often Earl seems to play for himself and I thought Curry was really dumb with his yellow card. Itoje was a little unlucky that he came on right when we were on a warning but he always plays on the edge of the rules so it's always a risk.

This Wales squad might be the worst 6N team ever and I just don't see how they get anything this year, just not good enough on any level. Wainwright and Williams are decent enough players that you can accept them being there and Rees-Zammit is exceptional but the rest of that team is players that wouldn't have made the training squad for them 10years ago, the drop in standards in Welsh rugby is alarming and is going to be very difficult for them to fix any time soon. I remember thinking similar about Scotland a while back and they came back a lot stronger but I don't think they were ever this bad.

I don't think any of the Welsh yellows were wrong either, Thomas, Lake and Plumtree were just really stupid and gave the ref no choice and the other is what happens when you give away 8 penalties in the first 12minutes, that stat alone shows how out of their depth they were.

[nigel]

Weird sort of game.
I actually found it quite boring, as I knew England were going to win, easily, within the first 10 minutes.
I thought Wales would put up more of a fight in the first half with England getting on top in the last 30 mins

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

I needed that conversion at the end for a huge £50. The little tease.

[Brazilian Villain]

I thought Wales would put up more of a fight in the first half with England getting on top in the last 30 mins

They played more like All Saints than All Blacks.

[PaulWinch again]

England all over the place here.