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I think as an England fan, the best thing about saturday was just how much improvement can still happen with this team. We blew two tries(the knock on at the maul was terrible) and we had multiple knock ons and turnovers in the all black 22.
The one thing that is most pleasing for me though has been the consistency of the team defensively since August. This team has not given up 20 points in a game since the start of the warm ups in August. That is 2 games against Wales, a game against Ireland, USA, Tonga, Italy, Argentina, Australia and NZ.
To me the last two games especially to hold NZ and Australia to 2 tries combined says a whole lot about where this team is at, and all credit for that has to go to Eddie Jones and his amazing assistant coaches.
It also helps when you have generational talents like Itoje, Underhill, Curry, Farrell, Tuilagi and the vunipola’s playing for you.
Eddie is an amazing coach, but people need to realise that he is also partly lucky to have come at a time where England are producing some extraordinary talent. You could see how good for example Itoje would be at 18/19 when he was winning the junior rugby world cup and the same with the other guys, as England have won the U20 world championship 3 times since 2013 and a lot of those players are in this team, so it is a great combination of coaching and extraordinary talent
Eddie Jones has performed a coaching master class for the ages
Exactly! Took all the pressure away from the team. I expect him to come up with something this week also to take all the pressure away from the team
All Blacks all over: England knock New Zealand out of Rugby World Cup
Yeah I guess he will have to make that choice. The great thing is if he wins the world cup, he can choose to do anything he wants. If it’s cash, no one will be able to match England, but he might also want the challenge of coaching Australia again. I also heard that he does want to coach Fiji sometime, but maybe after 2023
All Blacks all over: England knock New Zealand out of Rugby World Cup
Yeah he is signed up with England until 2021 and I hope he stays longer, but I mean who knows what he might choose to do after the world cup. I think when you consider that Curry is only 21, Underhill only 23, Itoje only 24, Billy V only 26 and on and on, and I truly believe that our team in 2023 will be even stronger, with a lot of these guys with even more experience, so hope he is there to take advantage of that
All Blacks all over: England knock New Zealand out of Rugby World Cup
Hopefully he wants to stay with us till 2023. I think he is a fantastic coach. The best thing about him is that he takes all the pressure off his team all the time. Look at this week talking about spying on his team and all that stuff, there was barely any talk of the England players
All Blacks all over: England knock New Zealand out of Rugby World Cup
A lot of Australia fans were saying a lot of negative stuff about Eddie just this week. This is a guy who reached a final with Australia, was a key reason why SA won in 07, and south africans players say it all the time, engineerned the biggest upset in world cup history, and has now taken an England team that was so disappointing in 2015 with a lot of the same players to a world cup final.
To say he should not be considered for the Australia job is beyond crazy, seeing as he is the best imo international head coach in rugby and also happens to be Australian
All Blacks all over: England knock New Zealand out of Rugby World Cup
Yeah I think you should maybe focus on your next game mate, rather than talking about a final you are not in
All Blacks all over: England knock New Zealand out of Rugby World Cup
Funny seeing some Australia fans acting like Eddie is unveiling this new line up, when a 19 year old is starting for the first time at 13 in international rugby for their team.
I know a lot of SH fans don’t want the six nations, but that midfield is the same midfield that played in what was by far the best game England has played this year, which is against Ireland in Dublin at the start of the six nations.
That same midfield trio of Farrell, Tuilagi at 12 and Slade at 13 also played 4 of the 5 games in the six nations together, and Slade is a much better defender at 13 than Tuilagi and gives another left foot kicking option in addition to Daly in the backline. The only reason Ford has started all these games so far is because Slade has been injured.
He is also so much better than Tuilagi at distributing the ball from 13.
Lawes is a much better tackler and carrier and is more dynamic than Kruis and is a Lions test match player, so I am not sure that is a step down at all. Besides the last time we beat Australia, Lawes and Itoje started in the exact same spots they will start on saturday.
Let’s hope both teams play well and it’s a good game, but I for one like the selections Eddie has made.
Eddie Jones proves two can play at the selection surprise game with England team announcement
I think the Australian line out is very good, but again the English line out has been the best in the comp especially defensively and as long as the saracens trio of Jamie George, Itoje and Kruis play, I am not worried at all about the England line out offensively or defensively.
I have seen the Australia line out have good days, but I have also seen the english line out completely dismantle opposition teams, and really the only time the english line out has had a bad game was last autumn against NZ after Kruis went off injured. People tend to forget that before that happened, England had not lost a line out, and also had scored from a line out in the same game.
We will see in this game how really improved the wallabies line out is, as Wales had the worst line out in the six nations, and Georgia, Fiji and Uruguay are not really great opposition, and I did not see a great aussie line out in the rugby championship
Wallabies (lineout) rising: Rugby World Cup quarter-final hope against England
I’m sorry Lewis, there is really no way you can be trying to tackle players around the legs or below the waist and that turn into a high tackle, so I don’t buy this players are ducking into high tackles. No the defender is not low enough and is not setting his feet to make a good tackle. There are too many players wanting to make an NFL style big hit, rather than a good solid rugby tackle, the former leads to red cards, you can do the latter effectively without hitting head high
The majority of red cards in this tournament have been for players just flying to make a big hit without steadying their feet, which means they cannot adjust to the ball carrier.
I also don’t want to hear anything about players height also. Courtney Lawes is 6’7 and I cannot remember ever seeing him called for a high tackle, because his tackle form is always perfect. Even taller players like Charteris and Toner tackle low and hard and don’t go for high shots. Maybe teams should have videos of Dusautoir and Lydiate for how to make good effective low tackles
The Rugby World Cup has turned into a joke
I don’t understand how people cannot get the simple fact that if you don’t tackle high, you won’t get red carded. The majority of players in this world cup have managed to do that pretty well, so yes those who don’t do it should be red carded.
Get the high shots out of the game, and it will be a safer game and an even better spectacle with players able to offload
The Rugby World Cup has turned into a joke
What strengths do Georgia have that England don’t possess? The spine you mentioned as being strong, the english spine of George, Itoje and Billy Vunipola is so much stronger.
The Aussie set piece creaks whenever you have played England in the last 4 years and you have really not been tested by a good set piece all WC, as that is the weakest part of the wales team. Last time I checked this was the same Aussie set piece that lost a scrum to a 7 man NZ pack. No matter how good the Aussie set piece is, the english one is so much better, and if Australia want to play a set piece game, that will really make England happy and Australia will lose very easily.
Also I do agree that England can have bad days like any other team, but in this WC cycle, they have not had any bad days the 6 times they have met the Aussies.
Five things we learned from the Wallabies' win over Georgia
Lol Fionn, that is such a one sided comment. The only player in the ones you mentioned better than his opposite man and will surely get in the England team is Pocock. The rest is a big no
The key proof is we have 6 games and 3 plus years of England playing Australia and none of the Aussies players you mentioned have outplayed their opposite man. I love the optimism of aussies, even though over the w/c cycle and especially in the last year your record against the top 4/5 of rugby nations is poor. England beat you by almost 20 points in the autumn and have beaten you 6 times in a row, One odd victory aside, NZ have spanked you home and away for 4 years, well longer than that really, Ireland won a test series on your home soil, Wales have won 2 in a row against you and beat you at this wc, SA beat you by almost 20 in the RC.
Can Australia beat England? Of course, you beat NZ who at the moment are better than England and in a one off game, anyone can beat anyone, but going into the game, England are rightly favourites, not only because they have been better than you for this entire WC cycle, but because they have beaten you 6 straight times. The only way Australia wins that game is if England don’t play well and Australia play their best game since the NZ victory. Any other performance will be an England win
Scoreboard flatters Wallabies in 27-8 win over Georgia
And yet the not so great England team has not lost to Australia since 2015 and beaten Australia every time in the last 3 years by an average score of 20 points, and that includes 37-18 last autumn, 30-6 in 2017, and 37-21 in 2016.
Oh and add in the white wash in Australia and last time I checked, of the last 6 games against Australia, Tuilagi has played a grand total of 12 minutes and England has still won by an average of 20 points per game and Folau actually scored a lot of the tries England have given away to Australia
Scoreboard flatters Wallabies in 27-8 win over Georgia
I mean we have played SA 4 times in the last 18 months, including in November, so I doubt any 80 minutes of hell is coming anywhere.
SA have played the same way for decades as it works for them and because it is a final, they have a chance to win, but SA have done nothing in the competition to suggest they are as good as England, so of course England are rightly favourites.
Also is Eddie Jones not supposed to as England coach have a game plan to exploit SA weaknesses, just like Rassie will do for England, but then i forgot that according to SA fans, you guys don’t have any weakness and your massive forwards will just run all over our tiny forwards
Eddie hatches plan to unravel the Boks