England v Scotland

[Galfon]

Step up the Saviour..
3 - 8 after 34 mins.

[WaspInWales]

Daly's tackling was awful

Yep.

Farrell has been brushed off a couple of times too

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[Freddo]

BTW, Farrell was poor under the high ball and then failed to make any kind of tackle on DVDM. He's just not very good at many things, tbh.

He just passed the ball through his legs! What more do you want?

[Stom]

BTW, Farrell was poor under the high ball and then failed to make any kind of tackle on DVDM. He's just not very good at many things, tbh.

He just passed the ball through his legs! What more do you want?

tbf, he's obviously worked on his kicking from hand (well, he's had plenty of practice), which has improved. Not at the same level as Ford, but at a good level.

But this last period has shown that Scotland just aren't that good. If you can keep the ball, they're in trouble.

Stupid from Russell there. Lucky for us.

[WaspInWales]

BTW, Farrell was poor under the high ball and then failed to make any kind of tackle on DVDM. He's just not very good at many things, tbh.

He just passed the ball through his legs! What more do you want?

It was his best l-r pass ever! [emoji23]

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[Galfon]

6 - 8, 38 mins.
Pen Faz
Russell taking 10 for a bad twitch.

[WaspInWales]

How many lineouts have we fucked up now?

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[Scrumhead]

God that was poor ... to be only 2pts down is actually pretty good in the circumstances.

[Stom]

How many lineouts have we fucked up now?

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We're calling badly. It's obvious what we're doing...

[Galfon]

HT 6 - 8
Eng lucky - set-piece, discipline, creativity of low standard

[16th man]

George, Billy and Itoje really look like players who haven't been in a pressurised game for a while.

Hope the plan was always to switch hookers early.

[JellyHead]

God that was poor ... to be only 2pts down is actually pretty good in the circumstances.

I was just about to post 'I'll take that given that start'.

The pressure put on the Scottish 9 in defence and on 10 in attack has been great and all completely undone by stupid obvious penalties ( bar the tackler in at the side one against curry)

[WaspInWales]

So this is England's bold new attacking style? Have to admit, it has been worth the wait

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[Danno]

Feels very much like 2018 again

[Galfon]

Sco should have been 15 points up on that dominance
They threw the sink at it though, so depends on their fitness now & Eng changes. Sco pack mobility up there.

[fivepointer]

It can only get better......can't it??

[Mr Mwenda]

Desperately need to keep the ball and run through a few phases. slavish adherence to the kicking game plan is embarrassing at this point.

Not sure i agree. Some decent kicks put in. It's the fuckwittery elsewhere that kills.

A lot harder to give away silly pens when you have the ball.

Very easy to give away pens running from deep.

[Stom]

George, Billy and Itoje really look like players who haven't been in a pressurised game for a while.

Hope the plan was always to switch hookers early.

I think Itoje looks generally good. And George, too. Billy looks a little off it mentally and Farrell is...limited.

I'd like to see us make early changes. Especially in the half backs and at 8 (which isn't something I often say, Billy is so important to how we play usually, but he's just off it completely).

Also I agree on changing hookers early, too. More importantly, we need to keep the ball more, as the ref favours the attacking team. We can't just always kick, especially when the ref's decisions go against us so consistently, except during the part of the half we keep the ball...

Hmmm...I wonder what that means?

We'll probably start kicking away even more, if that's even possible.

[Oakboy]

We gave the wrong 12 to the haggis men. They have showed the value of an 8 with pace.

If Jones has brain and balls he will take both Farrell and Lawrence off.

[Mr Mwenda]

I'd have Earls on as the first change.

[jngf]

Some Saracens forwards look like their carrying some excess timber (including Itoje?)

[Stom]

We gave the wrong 12 to the haggis men. They have showed the value of an 8 with pace.

If Jones has brain and balls he will take both Farrell and Lawrence off.

What's Lawrence done wrong? He's made his tackles and hasn't had any ball!

[Which Tyler]

God that was poor ... to be only 2pts down is actually pretty good in the circumstances.

Not so sure. I think I'd rather Scotland had made the most of their superiority. As it is, were within a penalty kick, so no need to change things up.

[loudnconfident]

Does every scrum need a lecture?

[WaspInWales]

How much time wasted on that scrum?

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