Eng U20s 2023

[Which Tyler]

Ire 40 - 22 Fiji
73 min.

Ireland 2 scores away from neutralising our 26 point advantage.
England 1 try away from making that actually relevant

[Which Tyler]

Ire 47 - 22 Fiji
79 min

[Which Tyler]

Ire 47 - 27 Fiji

80 min, but conversion to come

Any TBP win for England will do it.

[Which Tyler]

CSS' stupid yellow, remains yellow.

And now I gotta go to work - arse!

[FKAS]

CSS' stupid yellow, remains yellow.

And now I gotta go to work - arse!

I have no idea how that was just a yellow, clearly tucked his arm.

[fivepointer]

Utterly dreadful 2nd half. Brainless at times, taking wrong options for fun and committing dull errors. Really very disappointing after getting into a good position after the 3rd try.

[Puja]

Threw that away with silly penalties and inaccuracy in both general handling and lineouts. We had 3-4 opportunities for the fourth try where it was all on and then we fucked it by doing something average.

Some really good individual moments for us in that match, but as a team performance, we'll get minced by the French in the semis.

Puja

[Banquo]

Threw that away with silly penalties and inaccuracy in both general handling and lineouts. We had 3-4 opportunities for the fourth try where it was all on and then we fucked it by doing something average.

Some really good individual moments for us in that match, but as a team performance, we'll get minced by the French in the semis.

Puja

I blame the coaches #sameoldstoryfornationalteam

[Puja]

Threw that away with silly penalties and inaccuracy in both general handling and lineouts. We had 3-4 opportunities for the fourth try where it was all on and then we fucked it by doing something average.

Some really good individual moments for us in that match, but as a team performance, we'll get minced by the French in the semis.

Puja

I blame the coaches #sameoldstoryfornationalteam

Who else would you blame?

Puja

[fivepointer]

France in the SF. Cant wait.....

[Mr Mwenda]

CSS' stupid yellow, remains yellow.

And now I gotta go to work - arse!

I have no idea how that was just a yellow, clearly tucked his arm.

Agree. I gave up at that point to drink instead

[Banquo]

Threw that away with silly penalties and inaccuracy in both general handling and lineouts. We had 3-4 opportunities for the fourth try where it was all on and then we fucked it by doing something average.

Some really good individual moments for us in that match, but as a team performance, we'll get minced by the French in the semis.

Puja

I blame the coaches #sameoldstoryfornationalteam

Who else would you blame?

Puja

for silly penalties and inaccuracy, the players, obviously. Coaches are accountable of course....so all to blame if thats one's thing.

[Which Tyler]

I missed the afternoon games (NZ v Jap, Fra v Wal and SA v Arg) - which ones are worth finding on catch-up?

[Epaminondas Pules]

I missed the afternoon games (NZ v Jap, Fra v Wal and SA v Arg) - which ones are worth finding on catch-up?

France v Wales was a good match. Bit one sided, but good fun. NZ v Jap was very one sided. Japan had some cracking moments, but they were largely moments. SA v Arg was alright. Decent match. Quite a number of errors.

[fivepointer]

[Captainhaircut]

Why the hell have we thought this is a sensible game to make changes at 1 and 10. From what I remember, McArthur really struggled in the 6N.

[fivepointer]

Bringing in Johnson for the underwhelming Slevin makes sense to me. Think Jenkins at OC is a good change and having 2 actual wingers should help.
Whoever plays is going to have to raise their level if we're to have a chance of overturning the French.

[Mellsblue]

It doesn’t work until it works as Flatman would say.

[Mellsblue]

It doesn’t work as Flatman wouldn’t say.

[Which Tyler]

I thought the smart ballwas supposed to take care of those live, certainly without needing a TMO

[Mellsblue]

Great try. Didn’t need a smart ball for that.

[Which Tyler]

That's better.
This time, we create an overlap, then actually use it rather than taking contact

[Mellsblue]

Bringing in Johnson for the underwhelming Slevin makes sense to me.

Especially if he keeps playing and kicking like this.

[Which Tyler]

Thought he'd grounded that on the line until the reverse angle

[Mellsblue]

Thought he'd grounded that on the line until the reverse angle

As did I.