England vs Tonga match thread

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England

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Tonga

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ENG

15Elliot Daly, FB
14Anthony Watson, W
13Manu Tuilagi, C
12Owen Farrell, C
11Jonny May, W
10George Ford, FH
9Ben Youngs, SH
1Joe Marler, P
2Jamie George, H
3Kyle Sinckler, P
4Courtney Lawes, L
5Maro Itoje, L
6Tom Curry, FL
7Sam Underhill, FL
8Billy Vunipola, N8
REPLACEMENTS
16Luke Cowan-Dickie, R
17Ellis Genge, R
18Dan Cole, R
19George Kruis, R
20Lewis Ludlam, R
21Willi Heinz, R
22Henry Slade, R
23Jonathan Joseph, R


TONGA

15David Halaifonua, FB
14Atieli Pakalani, W
13Siale Piutau, C
12Cooper Vuna, C
11Viliami Lolohea, W
10Kurt Morath, FH
9Sonatane Takulua, SH
1Siegfried Fisi'ihoi, P
2Sosefo Sakalia, H
3Ben Tameifuna, P
4Sam Lousi, L
5Leva Fifita, L
6Sione Kalamafoni, FL
7Zane Kapeli, FL
8Maama Vaipulu, N8
REPLACEMENTS
16Siua Maile, R
17Latu Talakai, R
18Ma'afu Fia, R
19Daniel Faleafa, R
20Nasi Manu, R
21Leon Fukofuka, R
22James Faiva, R
23Nafi Tuitavake, R

[maestegmafia]

Tonga have a 985kg Scrum

[WELL-PAST-IT]

A lot of it in the front row and it wobbles

[maestegmafia]

Penalty england

All a bit hesitant this opening 10mins

But England definitely probing, going for tries...

[maestegmafia]

A lot of it in the front row and it wobbles

Yes, the red dot you may see slowly moving around your TV set is not a glitch but a Tongan tighthead prop

[mikey_dragon]

Tonga look too physical for you

[maestegmafia]

Vunipola knocked flat on his back by the Tongan openside.

[LondonTiger]

Superb collision in Ugo's words, but completely illegal

[Heaf]

Did he use his arms?

[maestegmafia]

Tonga look too physical for you

For me?

Definitely. I wouldn’t last five minutes

Pen to Tonga to equalise ?

[kingelderfield]

Keep cool. Keep changing the point of attack.
Non predictable attack options.
Its good eere in a game.

[maestegmafia]

Ministry of silly walks technique is a success and it’s all even

[Heaf]

Maybe the refs are ignoring shoulder barges as well as offside ...

[WELL-PAST-IT]

no, lead shoulder hit in the cheat outside arm didn't get close

[WELL-PAST-IT]

was that 12 supporting his own weight

[WELL-PAST-IT]

NO

[Heaf]

let's hope the standard of the officiating improves during the tournament too ...

[maestegmafia]

What is amazing about the Tongan tighthead, Ben Tameifuna, is that he is 1.84m tall.

Which I think makes him 1.54m wide

[maestegmafia]

England are giving away a lot of needless penalties

[LondonTiger]

Forward passes being ignored I see

[Heaf]

true - but the ref has also failed to award 2 clear pens against Tonga

[Heaf]

now the ref is blocking passes too

[LondonTiger]

Tonga blowing already

[mikey_dragon]

Tonga blowing already

Yeah that's quite noticeable. If they're as unfit as last year they'll concede 70 points.

[WELL-PAST-IT]

what about the head role?

[maestegmafia]

Forward passes being ignored I see

The list is growing

Things to be ignored by referees RWC 2019


1. Scrum feeds

2. Five seconds to play the ball at rucks, mauls and scrums

3. Illegal tackles

4. The TMO and Touch Judges

5. Offside

6. Common Sense

7. The player having the ball when he crosses the try line

8. Forward Passes

[mikey_dragon]

Going by other comments;

8. Ireland pulling down the scrum.

[Heaf]

Poor all round from the officials so far ...

[maestegmafia]

Going by other comments;

8. Ireland pulling down the scrum.

Not just Ireland

[Guest]

Try, really?

[maestegmafia]

9. Grounding the ball.

[WELL-PAST-IT]

that looked a bit iffy to me

[maestegmafia]

Try, really?

Apparently if you have a Tongan leg under the ball it doesn’t matter. It’s in the same appendix as the new rule about you not needing to have the ball when you cross the try line as we saw in the last match

[Guest]

Eddie, lol

[No 7&1/2]

Yeah grounding the ball over the try line results in try. Harsh I know.

[kingelderfield]

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No Personal Attacks

[Guest]

We all know you have glaucoma 7.5 so unfortunately we can’t take your opinion seriously

[maestegmafia]

Yeah grounding the ball over the try line results in try. Harsh I know.

You miss understand, what we are saying is that we all thought when you clearly have an opposition player under the ball as you cross the try line that the try should NOT be awarded.

Clearly this is another amendment to the rules pe-RWC.

[No 7&1/2]

As happened with underhill Maes.
Ebop back to simply bad wumming then.

No personal attacks as mentioned to a poster above

[maestegmafia]

As happened with underhill Maes.
Ebop back to simply bad wumming then.

Great try there where Tuilagi crossed line without a defender under the ball.

The previous try the ball was not grounded, it was another bad refereeing decision.

[No 7&1/2]

Stop wumming maes.

No personal attacks as mentioned to a poster above

[No 7&1/2]

Not personal. Simply asking you to stop.thpugh I've noticed you removed a pop at welsh posters but left up ebops comment.

[maestegmafia]

7.5

We have a difference of opinion. You think a try should be allowed

Myself and a number of other people disagree with you.


We are not doing this to wind you up. We don’t care whether you are wound up or not. We care about rugby being a great game that is fair and just with its laws applied correctly and accurately.

[maestegmafia]

Late and high no arm hit on Watson there

[Guest]

7.5, I’m insulted that you think I’m wumming just because you are as blind as a bat, shame on you, get a grip of yourself

[No 7&1/2]

You lot need to read the laws and come back. Its embarrassing.

[englishborn]

Since the ref has a much better look at the ball on the ground, should we not trust his on field decision?

[kingelderfield]

This could be really tough on the Tongan player.
Was it malicious? No way. Play on.

[WELL-PAST-IT]

good decision

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