England vs Wales

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England vs Wales

Date: Saturday 10th February 2024
Twickenham, London
Kick-off: 4:45pm
Referee: James Doleman (New Zealand)

TV Coverage: Live on ITV and S4C (UK) and RTÉ (ROI)

Teams

England

15-Steward, 14-Freeman, 13-Slade, 12-Dingwall, 11-Daly, 10-Ford, 9-Mitchell; 1-Stuart, 2-Marler, 3-George (capt), 4-Itoje, 5-Chessum, 6-Roots, 7-Underhill, 8-Earl
Replacements: 16-Dan, 17-Genge, 18-Cole, 19-Coles, 20-Cunningham-South, 21-Care, 22-Smith, 23-Feyi-Waboso

Wales

Winnett; Dyer, North, Tompkins, Adams; Lloyd, Williams; G Thomas, Dee, Assiratti, Jenkins (capt), Beard, Mann, Reffell, Wainwright.

Replacements: Elias, Domachowski, Griffin, Rowlands, Basham, Hardy, Evans, Grady.

Good first 5.

lostinwales wrote:On the bright side we were down to 13 and we scored the try

Managed that very well. Wales struggling to play a bit, I think England might have enough to put them away in the second half.

FFS. Same mistakes over and over.

Nobody learns. No pride, no passion, nobody seems to care.

Guess we're not worried about coming in from the side at rucks then

Wales' bench will cost them, I fear. Good half, but I still can't see a Welsh win.

mikey_dragon wrote:

lostinwales wrote:On the bright side we were down to 13 and we scored the try

Managed that very well. Wales struggling to play a bit, I think England might have enough to put them away in the second half.

I don't unfortunately ... too sloppy and not taking chances ...

mikey_dragon wrote:

lostinwales wrote:On the bright side we were down to 13 and we scored the try

Managed that very well. Wales struggling to play a bit, I think England might have enough to put them away in the second half.

Why?Feyi-Waboso presumably?!

We are so poor.

No question Wales better team so far. England need to improve. A lot.

So they showed the law which just says 'approach" - where the definition saying any move in any direction?

approach = come near or nearer to (someone or something) in distance or time.

Stepping sideways and standing still is not an approach for me ...

England are still rubbish anyway ...

IFW won't make a difference unless he's given the ball in some space. Freeman hasn't had any passes that I can recall. Daly has done OK with what he's had.

Energy really dropped after that epic defensive set

Heaf wrote:So they showed the law which just says 'approach" - where the definition saying any move in any direction?

approach = come near or nearer to (someone or something) in distance or time.

Stepping sideways and standing still is not an approach for me ...

Will look later but I looked it up a few years ago and honestly what I said was correct.

Come back to that Daly chance and just think he's not a winger really did anyone think yup it's finished...whereas if a Radwan had that you'd think perhaps otherwise?

Will never know. I think Wales had enough defence

These cross field kicks are really good by Wales.

No 7&1/2 wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:

lostinwales wrote:On the bright side we were down to 13 and we scored the try

Managed that very well. Wales struggling to play a bit, I think England might have enough to put them away in the second half.

Why?Feyi-Waboso presumably?!

Yes, he could be a game-changer but our bench isn’t amazing either.

I don’t think Assirati as decent a player as he is, is suitable for this level. We could do with changing our TH at least now that England have a fresh front row.

Think the crowd are getting at the ref....which is good for Borthwick.

Our lineout is much better than I’ve seen it in a while. I suppose it will get steadily worse with Elias on.

Jesus.

FFS missing tackles!

Daly off IFW on. Now.

That should be an England pen.

This is turgid

Feels a weird game. England have created sod all really but there's less than a converted try.

Borthwick needs to make changes asap. Daly has been poor again unfortunately.

So now picking the ball up in an offside position isn't a pen either? Can we sub the ref?

In fairness good by Daly there

Nice by Daly. Good by Dingwall as that ball was targeted rather well.

Ford's missed/not taken conversions now the difference.

Come on the subs. Sneak us this please.

Just don't see either winger as sure fire finishers out wide.

So Wales are all off their feet and the ball comes back on their side and its all OK?

70 minutes gone this attack is awful. If Borthwick stays he needs to axe Wigglesworth ASAP.

Mitchell has really come into the game in this half.

Back to the old tactic of kicking to Steward then…

mikey_dragon wrote:Back to the old tactic of kicking to Steward then…

Kept Borthwick in a job. You're playing the long game.

That's a YC

That should surely mean we win.

Has to be the end of Grady’s international career for a while. That was stupid.

Ahead for the first time. 72 minutes.

Jesus.

No 7&1/2 wrote:Ahead for the first time. 72 minutes.

All that matters is being ahead at 80

lostinwales wrote:

No 7&1/2 wrote:Ahead for the first time. 72 minutes.

All that matters is being ahead at 80

Really? Can sometimes be pure luck. Could be a bounce of a ball. This performance is dog doo.

That said Steward with two towering interventions could have won this for us.

What was that scrum pen for?

Heaf wrote:What was that scrum pen for?

Free kick. Early engage.

Thought he's signalled a full pen

Lucky there. Dalt making a tackle off his feet.