Good start by England

But can they sustain it. Amazing watching the Pom scrum putting one over Ireland, Cole and Genge….you can’t be serious!

... can't believe I'm cheering on the Poms...

Poms are hyped.

Irish try time….very similar to the Pom first try

And the Poms come back….perhaps the first compelling test since the WC.

Poms are are a good side. Underrated at the RWC.  

And England win on a Marcus Smith drop….they played with passion today. Great game.

I guess the Irish are still peaking at the wrong time For shame.

oops!

Ireland’s defense was quite poor today…a lot of straightforward missed tackles. Hard to see how they beat the Boks at home.

What a stupid kick from Murray with 90 seconds left!

Ireland’s defense was quite poor today…a lot of straightforward missed tackles. Hard to see how they beat the Boks at home.

What a stupid kick from Murray with 90 seconds left!

Gutted by the result but great game.

Good win  

Agreed Earl is the kind of ball carrier we have missed in the Dud era.

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Gutted by the result but great game."

It's lonely at the top...good to see Ireland can be beaten by the likes of the Poms...kinda put the Poms semi vs the Boks in a different perspective...Ireland’s tour to South Africa is going to be epic...

2 results in the 6N which went against the expectations...good thing for the competition. ...Frogs must be a little bit worried?

It's lonely at the top...good to see Ireland can be beaten by the likes of the Poms...kinda put the Poms semi vs the Boks in a different perspective

That was a very good performance by England yesterday, they showed nothing like that at the world cup.

Ireland’s tour to South Africa is going to be epic.

Yeah looking forward to it.

2 results in the 6N which went against the expectations...good t hing for the competition. ...Frogs must be a little bit worried?

Yeah great results for the 6 Nations. Frogs should beat Wales. Be interesting to see if England can maintain that performance against France away from home.

kinda put the Poms semi vs the Boks in a different perspective

About as much as Scotland beating the Poms or the Poms scraping through against Italy puts anything in perspective, Draad.

England were shit in the WC, Dave. Fiji nearly handed it to them.

Perhaps it puts the WC loss to Ireland in perspective.

Yeah but they came good against us in the semi

They were shit against us in the semi. What did they do that could be considered "good" ?

Point being, they are a good team who've been under performing for a while...they're still capable of winning the odd big match.

They had a good first half converting pressure in the points - they had a first half lead thanks to putting in their best performance in the last 12 months

They kicked on us, dominated the air and kept their error rate down. That was all they did that could be considered good. They had nothing else to offer, yet we kept kicking everything back to them, feeding their area of dominance. That's all that kept them in it, us playing to their strengths and not making even the least effort to change lanes. Thank the bomb squad and Pollard for getting us out of that mess.

They were able to exert pressure because we exerted none….remember Dud Toit apparently commented on that at half time. You do believe Dud don’t you Dave?

Well anyway, it was a good game on Saturday and we actually deserved to win. 

Let’s see what this Saturday brings. 

https://www.ruckersforum.com/forum/rugby/what-pieter-steph-du-toit-said-at-halftime-semi-final-to-save-the-springboks-rugby-world-cup/45822/

Listen to it again…..Pollard quoted Dud as saying’ we just have to wake up’. Please check your facts Dave I can’t always be around to set you straight.

So while they were scared they applied pressure….Pollard also said it was a mess. Two senior Boks basically said we were not competing. Which is true and easy to admit unless of course that means Eluckmiss didn’t have his team prepared.

Looking at my comments again on the live thread not much seemed to have changed in the second half. My frustration with the way were handing over possession remained, and in fact England had even more possession in the second half than in the first. So not sure if anything PSDT said made much of a difference - sounds like more media pablum. The bomb squad arrived to give us scrum parity and some momentum in the last 20 minutes. That saved the game, along with that incredible Pollard penalty.

pablum

Agree with you, Sharkbok. 

The game was England’s ….Stewart fielded a high kick just inside the half. Incredibly stupidly he launched a high kick which went nowhere. A deep kick would have probably won the game for England, it was minute 77.

But he kicked short. England conceded a scrum and Ox won the predictable penalty. And Pollard unerringly nailed the kick from the halfway line.  

That’s how the game was won…genius huh?