3rd QF England v Fiji - Stade de Marseille

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England: 15. Marcus Smith 14. Jonny May  13. Joe Marchant  12. Manu Tuilagi  11. Elliot Daly 10. Owen Farrell (c)9. Alex Mitchell 1. Ellis Genge 2. Jamie George 3. Dan Cole 4. Maro Itoje 5. Ollie Chessum 6. Courtney Lawes 7. Tom Curry 8. Ben Earl

Replacements: 16. Theo Dan  17. Joe Marler  18. Kyle Sinckler 19. George Martin  20. Billy Vunipola  21. Danny Care  22. George Ford  23. Ollie Lawrence  

Fiji: 1. Eroni Mawi 2. Tevita Ikanivere 3. Luke Tagi 4. Isoa Nasilasila 5. Albert Tuisue 6. Lekima Tagitagivalu 7. Levani Botia 8. Viliame Mata 9. Frank Lomani 10. Vilimoni Botitu 11. Semi Radradra 12. Josua Tuisova 13. Waisea Nayacalevu (c) 14. Vinaya Habosi 15. Ilaisa Droasese

Replacements: 16. Samuel Matavesi 17. Peni Ravai 18. Mesake Doge 19. Meli Derenalagi 20. Vilive Miramira 21. Simione Kuruvoli 22. Iosefo Masi 23. Sireli Maqala

Referee: Mathieu Raynal TMO: Ben Whitehouse

Assistant referees: Nic Berry (Australia) and Pierre Broussett (France)

Who besides Itoje whiffed on the weak tackle attempt on the Fiji try? That was pish pour.

Uh oh.....

This is going to be an exciting last 10 minutes

England's tacking has just dropped off in the last five minutes. Everything's dropped off. Including the lead.

This is like when Fiji stunned SA in 2007 with two quick tries.

And now we see why it's not so easy to plop a fly half at fullback. Marcus Smith had his positioning altogether wrong on that try...

England run out of steam. Fiji getting stronger.

Oh tuilagi. Needed to pass.

Nice drop. Should have been more.

No 7&1/2 wrote:Nice drop. Should have been more.

Should have gone for the try. I guess this is what you do if you have no ideas.

England not playing sensible rugby

But Fiji suffering from not having a good lineout

Think Fiji will be relieved to only concede three.

Now England mess up the restart.

carpet baboon wrote:But Fiji suffering from not having a good lineout

Itoje and Lawes have destroyed it.

England luck not to get pinged on that scrum

carpet baboon wrote:England luck not to get pinged on that scrum

I feel they've been lucky a few times at scrum time.

Lose from Fiji but brilliant from Earl

Farrell looks jacked these days. Did he bulk up to cover centre?

Well done from Farrell eat asych.time as possible

Fine margins. If that offload comes off, Fiji win.

Great win for Engerland

Those couple of easy kicks missed in the first half too.

I’m laughing at the ref who only tells the Fijian scrum half to put it in straight ‍�

Didn't that come off Itoje's back?

Farrells paw

Collapse2005 wrote:Farrells paw

Farrell=moron

Farrell cheating again. He knew exactly what he was doing

Morgan75 wrote:Farrell cheating again. He knew exactly what he was doing

should be yellow

doctor_grey wrote:

Morgan75 wrote:Farrell cheating again. He knew exactly what he was doing

should be yellow

Cynical = yellow

Super Courts. Dreadful second half though.

Morgan75 wrote:Farrell cheating again. He knew exactly what he was doing

Because no other player would do that innthag position would they??

Morgan75 wrote:

doctor_grey wrote:

Morgan75 wrote:Farrell cheating again. He knew exactly what he was doing

should be yellow

Cynical = yellow

Fiji shafted by refs right to the end. I really do wonder what Fiji has done to them.

Good win for England, in the semis now who knows.

And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

LeinsterFan4life wrote:

Morgan75 wrote:

doctor_grey wrote:

Morgan75 wrote:Farrell cheating again. He knew exactly what he was doing

should be yellow

Cynical = yellow

Fiji shafted by refs right to the end. I really do wonder what Fiji has done to them.

Shafted? Wouldn’t have made a difference.

Such a travesty for Fiji to be robbed by the ref!

Sgt_Pooly wrote:And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

Any need really.

Well this sh1t team just keep gonig don't they ...

Just about did enough to overcome Fiji, despite being outscored on the try count. Very messy game and the winner's prize is to get slapped about in the SF stage. Still, the RFU will clap themselves on the back and pretend all is well.

Collapse2005 wrote:Good win for England, in the semis now who knows.

Happy with win but realistically can't see them winning SF.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

You’re forgetting that it’s Wales’ fault that they had a difficult route to the KO stages.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

You mean hope to get a favourable draw, so instead of playing the All Blacks you get Fiji? Ireland are still way better than England.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

Class

Ref was poor all round - no worse for Fiji than England ...

Earl excellent as was Lawes. Farrell not too bad in fairness.

Geordie wrote:

Sgt_Pooly wrote:And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

Class

Yeah really classy

mountain man wrote:

Collapse2005 wrote:Good win for England, in the semis now who knows.

Happy with win but realistically can't see them winning SF.

You can never write them off. They know how to win knockout games.

mountain man wrote:

Collapse2005 wrote:Good win for England, in the semis now who knows.

Happy with win but realistically can't see them winning SF.

They'll not get out the group...they'll not beat Fiji...

Nothing to lose now ...they were expected to get to the SF really....they've achieved rhat. Anything else is a bonus.

Now for France to get pumped and it's a great weekend...

Duty281 wrote:

Sgt_Pooly wrote:And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

You mean hope to get a favourable draw, so instead of playing the All Blacks you get Fiji? Ireland are still way better than England.

Just not at tournament rugby.

It got very ugly at the end. From the crossing in the lineout penalty which led to Revai's try England fell to bits having played a largely smart game before that.

They had a couple of very poor restarts. Very poor exits from their own 22. The defence lost the good connectivity it had previously in the game. Frustrating.

I don't think there's a clear break on for the deliberate knock on as the ball is going to ground rather than the man outside. From there it can bounce anywhere. So I think that's the right call from Raynal. He reffed a very loose game though.

mikey_dragon wrote:

Sgt_Pooly wrote:And that my Irish friends, is how to win a quarter final

You’re forgetting that it’s Wales’ fault that they had a difficult route to the KO stages.

huh?