One other compliment regarding the game, the standard of place kicking was exceptional today. 9 conversions made out of 10 attempts, most were closed to the edge of the pitch. Crazy standard that is often taken for granted.
D-S
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A question for those that know these things, how come in the Autumn Series it seems that the away sides sometimes play in their traditional colours and the home sides change into ‘away’ kit?
SA were wearing theirs yesterday and Ireland played in white - today Argentina are in traditional blue and white and England are in black.
SA were wearing theirs yesterday and Ireland played in white - today Argentina are in traditional blue and white and England are in black.
Arthur Wedge
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GB72
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It is also a marketing thing. Not going to sell those away shirts for Xmas if they never wear them.
Also with England there is no clash in the 6 nations or against most of the southern hemisphere teams. Argentina is the only time they really need to wear them.
Also with England there is no clash in the 6 nations or against most of the southern hemisphere teams. Argentina is the only time they really need to wear them.
Arthur Wedge
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Not been a great performance from England and they have got away with one
Been a lot of a poor executions at the key times.
Been a lot of a poor executions at the key times.
Bunkermagnet
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You overlook the forward passes that were ignored by the ref.
spongebob59
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He only spotted the one by us that weren't.
Currys tackle was fine, made to look worse by looking at slow motion replays
Bunkermagnet
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Very sad to see Abby Dow retireing.
She will be a big loss to England.
She will be a big loss to England.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Yup. He was committed to the tackle. How they expect you to bail out when you have started the process is beyond me. Slow mo makes it look like Carreras was going to need an air ambulance.
Rugby officiating has gone mad. Too much emphasis on player safety and the TMO chiming in every 2 minutes is a joke.
It is a physical and dangerous sport and we need to embrace that rather than mitigate it.
The eye gouge yesterday in the Welsh game 
. What the heck goes through the mind of someone to do that?
. What the heck goes through the mind of someone to do that?
Bunkermagnet
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A throwback to what they used to get away with. As a player, he is immense but I suspect EE will be serving a long, and rightly deserved, ban.The eye gouge yesterday in the Welsh game
irip
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That is an old trick normally reserved for the front row of the scrum.The eye gouge yesterday in the Welsh game
How they think they will ever get away with that in today’s game is beyond me.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Needs a good long ban for that bit of idiocy.
Bit of a nothing game though wasn’t it? We were always too powerful for them and it turned into a bit of a training run.
Feel for the Welsh. Everything is stacking up against them at the moment and a 6 Nations wooden spoon is definitely on the cards again.
Bit of a nothing game though wasn’t it? We were always too powerful for them and it turned into a bit of a training run.
Feel for the Welsh. Everything is stacking up against them at the moment and a 6 Nations wooden spoon is definitely on the cards again.
No idea why they planned the game, unless it was simply money. They knew their best players would be absent and even if it was the same for S Africa, the depth there meant it would still be one sided.
The Welsh players were steam rollered, fans utterly deflated. Only negatives for the Welsh, after a mixed autumn where some positives could be found. Bad decision.
Bunkermagnet
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I heard it said just before the game that is was a game that had been put back from COVID times. I suspect contractual reasons were why it was played now, out of the autumn international window.
Bunkermagnet
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A 12 week ban for EE is just way too short for the eye gouge. There has to be serious penalties for such things.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
I agree. I thought about 6 months would be about right.
He is such a brilliant player but that was bang out of order.
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