Match thread

MajorStokes

Are England trying to lose?

Even Austin Healy is making sense.

SA are inviting England to win this game with their mistakes and they keep on screwing it up.

Bones

Itoje you mong. Fair though, knock on by Steward.

sparky

England getting fucked at the breakdown.

Victor Meldrew

Itoje is a fucking embarrassment.

MajorStokes

Itoje player rating cannot be above zero.

Bones

Very good players trying to do it on their own outside the gameplan

game_film

Just don’t think England have the cattle. Dan Cole in 2024. Henry Slade in 2024. Not got the dudes.

MiketheSnow

Itoje has cost England this match

junior

The English halfbacks making Finlay Christie look like the redheaded lovechild of Trapper and Joost VdV here.

Victor Meldrew

@Bones said in England vs Springboks:

Very good players trying to do it on their own outside the gameplan

Yep, individually they are fine, as a team poor..

England should have won this

junior

@game_film said in England vs Springboks:

Just don’t think England have the cattle. Dan Cole in 2024. Henry Slade in 2024. Not got the dudes.

You can carry those guys and ask them to do a job so long as the coaching is good and the other 13 players on the pitch engage their brains.

sparky

Time running out for England.

sparky

PSDT has been outstanding. Again. What a player!

@sparky said in England vs Springboks:

Time running out for England.

As soon as the last try it was all over, England don't have the composure and bok defence to good for them to score ten in ten

MajorStokes

Smartest team in intl rugby vs dumbest.

sparky

All over. England 20 South Africa 29.

MiketheSnow

@W32 said in England vs Springboks:

@MiketheSnow said in England vs Springboks:

@W32 said in England vs Springboks:

@Victor-Meldrew said in England vs Springboks:

@Bones said in England vs Springboks:

Very good players trying to do it on their own outside the gameplan

Yep, individually they are fine, as a team poor..

England should have won this

Based on what?

Itoje cost them 2 tries

Woulda coulda shoulda

2 neck rolls which nullified two try scoring opportunities

Bones

@junior said in England vs Springboks:

@game_film said in England vs Springboks:

Just don’t think England have the cattle. Dan Cole in 2024. Henry Slade in 2024. Not got the dudes.

You can carry those guys and ask them to do a job so long as the coaching is good and the other 13 players on the pitch engage their brains.

They are! They're trying to figure out what to do to get some shape because their coaching is terrible.

MiketheSnow

@MajorRage said in England vs Springboks:

Smartest team in intl rugby vs dumbest.

Wales says hold my beer

Victor Meldrew

@MiketheSnow said in England vs Springboks:

@W32 said in England vs Springboks:

@MiketheSnow said in England vs Springboks:

@W32 said in England vs Springboks:

@Victor-Meldrew said in England vs Springboks:

@Bones said in England vs Springboks:

Very good players trying to do it on their own outside the gameplan

Yep, individually they are fine, as a team poor..

England should have won this

Based on what?

Itoje cost them 2 tries

Woulda coulda shoulda

2 neck rolls which nullified two try scoring opportunities

Not to mention two incredibly soft Bok tries

junior

@Bones said in England vs Springboks:

@junior said in England vs Springboks:

@game_film said in England vs Springboks:

Just don’t think England have the cattle. Dan Cole in 2024. Henry Slade in 2024. Not got the dudes.

You can carry those guys and ask them to do a job so long as the coaching is good and the other 13 players on the pitch engage their brains.

They are! They're trying to figure out what to do to get some shape because their coaching is terrible.

If that's them engaging their brains, it doesn't say much about the English "public" school system.

W32

Worst performance of the game: Austin Healey.. Gahh

sparky

@W32 Nah, Maro Itoje.

Bones

@junior said in England vs Springboks:

@Bones said in England vs Springboks:

@junior said in England vs Springboks:

@game_film said in England vs Springboks:

Just don’t think England have the cattle. Dan Cole in 2024. Henry Slade in 2024. Not got the dudes.

You can carry those guys and ask them to do a job so long as the coaching is good and the other 13 players on the pitch engage their brains.

They are! They're trying to figure out what to do to get some shape because their coaching is terrible.

If that's them engaging their brains, it doesn't say much about the English "public" school system.

Maybe shuffle Borthwick into a selector position, he's got that almost spot on. Then get some coaches, fuck any coaches. They can't be worse.

sparky

Scoreline flattered England in the end. Even though they went down to 14 men that was fairly comfortable for South Africa in the end.

Tordah

Saffers never looked like losing that, they are a very good team, dare I say the current best team in the world. England looked like they always tried to find new ways of fucking it up

Bones

Holy shit this is awkward between Monye and Lawes 🤣

junior

@Machpants said in England vs Springboks:

@sparky said in England vs Springboks:

@W32 Nah, Maro Itoje.

He'll get rated 8 in the English press

"Itoje stood alone, a gladiator in the arena, valiantly - and single-handedly - fighting the hordes of south africa's lions..." - Stephen Jones, tomorrow, in whatever shitty rag he writes for these days.

W32

@Victor-Meldrew said in England vs Springboks:

@W32 said in England vs Springboks:

@Victor-Meldrew said in England vs Springboks:

@Bones said in England vs Springboks:

Very good players trying to do it on their own outside the gameplan

Yep, individually they are fine, as a team poor..

England should have won this

Based on what?

Actually watching the game.

SA played poorly. Not accurate and discipline let them down. England in with a real chance there