England v Australia

BennyP · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:15 pm Post subject: England v Australia

Anyone else watching this. England 9-5 up at the mo and playing pretty well. Aus showing a couple of moments, but England are on top! Wilko making some great tackles, one on Chisholm and one on Giteau.
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Checkov · Moderator Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 7187

That ball clearly went out on the full for the Aussie try, looked like there was nothing wrong with Croft's try either but Sky didn't show any replays.

BennyP · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject:

The ball looked like it went out on the full, but there wasn't a slow mo replay to see it. Banahan didn't look happy about the decision.

I think there was a knock on by Moody for our 'try', but as you said, there was no replay. Pretty happy with the display so far though!
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gandalf55 · Wizard Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 1548 Location: London

Poor show 2nd half
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Checkov · Moderator Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 7187

The aussies are very clever at getting into offside positions which slows our game down, getting warned not to play the ball and retreating thus not getting penalised.

BennyP · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:23 pm Post subject:

OK, the Aussies played smartly in the 2nd half and got away with it. The thing that showed me our true colours was at the very end.

We need 10 points in 2 mins and we get a pen. Do we go for the kick that we need? No, we go for the corner. OK, still a bit of time. We epically fail at that, but get another pen.

WE HAVE TO GO FOR THE POSTS AT THIS POINT AS THERE IS ONLY 45 SECONDS LEFT!

But no, we kick for the corner leaving no time for the re-start even if we do score a converted try. At what point does naive just become stupidity?
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