Ita v. Eng - Match Thread

Stom · Post by **Stom** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:40 pm

Banquo wrote:Dire. Too much kicking, no urgency.

Understatement...

No-one comes out of that half of rugby with any credit.

Oakboy · Post by **Oakboy** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:42 pm

Banquo wrote:Dire. Too much kicking, no urgency.

Why won't Farrell play some rugby instead of just kicking it up in the air? It must be the coach's requirement presumably.

badback · Post by **badback** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:44 pm

They look half asleep

jngf · Post by **jngf** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:44 pm

Jones has a similar countenance (and colour and brainpower) to the Halloween pumpkins I saw on sale at Asda this morning

jngf · Post by **jngf** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:46 pm

Also some players; Slade & especially Watson looking rather porky - May not brilliant either. Tom Curry manfully subbed in the second row but we should have had more specialist backup and shows that‘s the risk of fielding a backrow with no specialist jumpers (in fact only Curry offers some sort of jumping option at all in Curry Underhill Billy trio)

16th man · Post by **16th man** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:46 pm

Do we think Youngs and Farrell forgot we needed to win with 4 tries, and by a lot of points, against one of the worst Italian sides we've seen?

The box-kicking is just soul sapping.

Imagine the feeling when we no longer have to watch Ben Youngs be our scrum half.

Raggs · Post by **Raggs** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:50 pm

Robson and Umaga at 50 minutes please.

Galfon · Post by **Galfon** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:51 pm

16th man wrote:Do we think Youngs and Farrell forgot we needed to win with 4 tries, and by a lot of points, against one of the worst Italian sides we've seen?

That was the main goal going into this - a scrappy resilient win will be another fail.
Lawrence should get a run, but may not see much ball.

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:53 pm

16th man · Post by **16th man** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:53 pm

Bit of a flashback to early Youngs there, when we were naive and believed he may be a force for good.

Galfon · Post by **Galfon** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:54 pm

Youngs does a Phil Bennett impression!
5 - 17, 43 mins.

Which Tyler · Post by **Which Tyler** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 5:55 pm

Raggs wrote:Robson and Umaga at 50 minutes please.

Is 45 minutes too much to ask for?

Mikey Brown · Post by **Mikey Brown** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:00 pm

In terms of player safety and culpability when making a dangerous tackle, it's hard to say why smashing someone's nose with your head is much different to catching them with a stray arm.

May also got lucky when he tackled that Italian player in the air.

Mikey Brown · Post by **Mikey Brown** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:01 pm

Haha. Just garbage from Farrell. Lucky the ref didn't notice we had about 6 players wander offside by the time he finally kicked that.

16th man · Post by **16th man** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:04 pm

If George had cocked that up, he should have walked off and retired from international rugby.

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:05 pm

Even the ref has switched off. Don't blame him

16th man · Post by **16th man** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:06 pm

We look clueless in midfield without the "chuck it to the big lad" option. No idea how to use Joseph in attack.

Galfon · Post by **Galfon** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:07 pm

5 - 24 try George, despite ref. looking at wrong line. 53 mins.
Thorley on.

jngf · Post by **jngf** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:07 pm

Watson really has piled on the pounds!

FKAS · Post by **FKAS** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:08 pm

Which Tyler wrote:
Raggs wrote:Robson and Umaga at 50 minutes please.
Is 45 minutes too much to ask for?

Youngs has moving plenty of ball to the backs. Farrell is doing absolutely nothing with it and often standing too flat and stationary. Actually one of Youngs better performances.

I don't think Umaga is in the squad it's Lawrence and Thorley on the bench?

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:10 pm

I think Farrell has kicked as much, or more than he has passed.

Surprised at the amount of niggle from the Italians. They're not usually this riled.

Which Tyler · Post by **Which Tyler** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:13 pm

FKAS wrote:
Which Tyler wrote:
Raggs wrote:Robson and Umaga at 50 minutes please.
Is 45 minutes too much to ask for?
Youngs has moving plenty of ball to the backs. Farrell is doing absolutely nothing with it and often standing too flat and stationary. Actually one of Youngs better performances.

I don't think Umaga is in the squad it's Lawrence and Thorley on the bench?

Agreed on Young's actually, he's having his annual good game; but I do want to see To son get more than 3 minutes.
Farrell needs to go off though, prime suspect for the bad kicking, and the captain who's job is to change things up as mecessary. I'd managed to forget we don't have a replacement for him though

let's go for Slade to 10, with Lawrence at IC then - ASAP

jngf · Post by **jngf** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:14 pm

Sausage man on at loosehead

Stom · Post by **Stom** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:15 pm

This is abysmal

Mikey Brown · Post by **Mikey Brown** » Sat Oct 31, 2020 6:15 pm

jngf wrote:Watson really has piled on the pounds!

Has someone fiddled with the aspect ratio on your TV?

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