England U20 v New Zealand U20

First topic message reminder :

Game about to start. Just showing a highlight reel from 2011. Closest we've come to them before and it was a good team. Included:

Farell, Joseph, Kvesic, Launchbury, H Thomas, M Vunipola, Wade and Yarde. All with caps. Hopefully at least 5 will be in the EPS.

Anyway on to today. Can't bothered to write up teams as I'm on the iPad

http://www.rfu.com/news/2013/june/news-articles/170613_eng_u20_team_nz

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:CJ He let go and got to his feet and picked it up again.

I've haven't seen so much Scrappy play since the latest Scooby Doo episodes.

In which case, in the rules it is automatically a knock-on

HammerofThunor wrote:

Shifty wrote:Right cmon England lets have an all Northern Hemisphere final!
Oh and that means Wales have a chance of winning!

You're the only team to beat the Baby Blacks, right?

I think South Africa beat you as well.
they beat New Zealand in last years final.

We have not lost yet

Our scrum looks average without Awoyemi (sp?)

Not looking for a grounding commentator

what is the score?

Curiosity getting better of me boys, how is Moriartys boy playing for England?  Is it birth from when his old man was up North?

21-28

Concentrate England!

21-30 England

now 21-30

bedfordwelsh wrote:Curiosity getting better of me boys, how is Moriartys boy playing for England?  Is it birth from when his old man was up North?

Yeah. Born in St Helens

How long to go?

apparently your allowed to enter a ruck at the side...

Cheers Hammer.

card?

that spill is the game

ChequeredJersey wrote:card?

i thought england would of got one by now.

majesticimperialman wrote:How long to go?

2.5 mins. Lineout to kiwis in England's half

nathan wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:card?

i thought england would of got one by now.

Me too

Sound like a good game i am missing.

majesticimperialman wrote:Sound like a good game i am missing.

better than the lions game lol both teams have shown more skill!

Lineout to England in kiwi 22. 1 min left, 9 points clear

all over...cant win from there. well done England...would have been a robbery if we'd won this. We turned up for 10 minutes in the second half. The rest was like watching our guys knee deep in mud they were so lacklustre. England too good...

Nice one England. Did the damage in the first half and scored at the right times in the second half. NZ came back well in the second half but didn't do enough in the first half. Entertaining game even though it was full of errors.

Taylorman wrote:all over...cant win from there. well done England...would have been a robbery if we'd won this. We turned up for 10 minutes in the second half. The rest was like watching our guys knee deep in mud they were so lacklustre. England too good...

can i save this quote and make out you said it about the main england/nz team? lol

bedfordwelsh wrote:Curiosity getting better of me boys, how is Moriartys boy playing for England?  Is it birth from when his old man was up North?

Yeah he was born to Welsh parents when his dad was playing for St Helens, but he grew up and went to Primary and secondary school in Wales (Glyncollen Primary School and Morriston Comprehensive).  He was in the Ospreys academy as a full back, but left the Ospreys to go study in Gloucester, and he joined Gloucester RFC while there, where they converted him to flanker.  

Wales U20 don't pick players based outside Wales, at junior level so he had to play for England if he wanted to play international rugby at this level.

Well done England!

That was a comprehensive display by England, English supporters should be very proud of what your boys did out there today. well done.

Massive result for an England team I don't think has any real superstars. Need to improve the line-out about 200%

Cool. NH final. Wales' first final so I think they should let us win as we've had 3 without a win

Well done England, see you in the final. Looking forward to it! Should be a cracker.

Auckland - classy response, classier than my whingeing about the ref. Nice one.

Yeah knew who the parents were just thought he would have been older than that given when his old man went North, isn't he coaching somewhere in England as well at the moment?

Griff wrote:Well done England, see you in the final. Looking forward to it! Should be a cracker.

time for a bit of revenge for them stopping our Under 20s GS

Hood83 wrote:Auckland - classy response, classier than my whingeing about the ref. Nice one.

and mine, but i think the forums expect it of me!

bedfordwelsh wrote:Yeah knew who the parents were just thought he would have been older than that given when his old man went North, isn't he coaching somewhere in England as well at the moment?

Gloucester I think. That's why he moved to the Gloucester academy.

Hood83 wrote:Auckland - classy response, classier than my whingeing about the ref. Nice one.

In fairness Hoody, both teams will be scratching their heads with some of those ref calls, he was equally confusing to both sides.

aucklandlaurie wrote:

Hood83 wrote:Auckland - classy response, classier than my whingeing about the ref. Nice one.

 In fairness Hoody, both teams will be scratching their heads with some of those ref calls, he was equally confusing to both sides.

He missed some really obvious forward passes from us. And I'm not sure which gate he was actually talking about

bedfordwelsh wrote:Yeah knew who the parents were just thought he would have been older than that given when his old man went North, isn't he coaching somewhere in England as well at the moment?

I think he's a coach at NewCastle.

Well done England bit annoying with a Swansea lad playing so well.

Cracking game that, quality

Shifty wrote:

bedfordwelsh wrote:Yeah knew who the parents were just thought he would have been older than that given when his old man went North, isn't he coaching somewhere in England as well at the moment?

I think he's a coach at NewCastle.

He's at Gloucester now.

That makes sense Hammer what with Davies there as they were both at Scarlets for a while.

glamorganalun wrote:Well done England bit annoying with a Swansea lad playing so well.

Cheeky bugger. Think of him as a swap for Gloucester born and bred Cuthbert

Hood83 wrote:Massive result for an England team I don't think has any real superstars. Need to improve the line-out about 200%

Clifford looks the business.

Eng Wal final. Good grief! 

profitius wrote:

Hood83 wrote:Massive result for an England team I don't think has any real superstars. Need to improve the line-out about 200%

Clifford looks the business.

Next on the England captain backrow assembly line from Quins

Can someone do an England team rating as I missed the game?

I would rate the England team performance as being somewhere in the vicinity of excellant.