Congrats England. Outplayed us after the first 15-20 minutes. I was never confident going into this match, and I woke up this morning to see my Saffa mate was messaging me, he only does that when the ABs lose, so while I ignored the messages I was fully prepped for the loss.
Why do the ABs even bother to kick up and unders, we’re the worst team at contesting them.
How do you stuff up two penalty clearances BB? @booboo Are you claiming Roigard kicked one of them? I don’t want to do a rewatch, so hopefully someone else can confirm.
Does anyone else get annoyed that halfbacks drag a ball back through a ruck with their hands and it's seemingly fine?
Another week where Jordan’s basic passing skills are shown up. How is he so good at the rest of the game. Was he always sick when they did up and down the field passing drills at school?
The AB’s inability to bring down Lawerance in the first half directly led to the try in the second, which is not to absolve QT of a bloody poor defensive read. In fact our out wide defence from 13-15 looked shaky all night. LF was coming in during the first half like he was DWZ at the Warriors.
Funniest thing was Justin Marshall saying how a team of the ABs stature can recover a deficit in 5 minutes. Yeah, not this AB team Justin.
I think the biggest issues I have is with our passiveness in both attack and defence. In attack we just seem to form up to hit the defenders and set the ruck, we’re not looking to punch through. In defence we seem to wait for attackers to come to us and it means that they’re always going over the advantage line which opens up more space on the next attack.
I like Pollack’s energy. He was great during the haka. His energy is like Itoje except likeable. 
And in yet another episode of World Rugby hates rugby. How do you give a yellow card for a 50/50 call nowhere near in the attacking zone. The issue with it is that so many other small incidents happen in the game that could draw penalties/cards and don’t. In this game alone players were playing the ball on the ground, tackling on the ground, not using the arms in tackles, where was the TMO then?
And no, Earl rightfully getting carded for pulling down a maul doesn’t have any relevance to the Taylor card.
Also, pointing out inconsistent and problematic card decisions is not bitterness. Commenting and criticising on all aspects of a match is the lifeblood of this forum and the majority of it is directed at our players and coaches - any poster who thinks otherwise is not paying attention. Suggesting we reserve our criticism of contentious reffing decisions because our team lost is fucking stupid.
