Hello Moz. Not sure I'll watch all of this one. Depends on if they put on a show.
Hello Moz. Not sure I'll watch all of this one. Depends on if they put on a show.
Delicious stab through by Smith. England in the corner. Great start.
No conversion, 5-0.
Or was it Slade who put the little kick through? No matter.
The Wallabies have been as weak as I've ever seen them but let's see if the League convert makes a difference . . .
Great tackling Aus, turnover possession.
Penalty Aus, 5-3
The Wunderkind looks a little small….Aussies looking porous. Morning chaps.
Great break by Smith, England on the line.
They have a penalty 5 out.
Quick tap and Cunningham-South gets his second.
12-3
Both teams willing to have a go, certainly.
15-3
Curry run over twice, stays down the second time.
"The Wunderkind looks a little small"
Curry off.
Tom Curry off with concussion. Ben Earls moves to flank and the beast Alex Dombrandt comes on at #8.
Wunderkind!
Wright over for the Aussies off the Swaliwalili magic pass.
Suaali gives a great offload to Tom Wright to score.
So far the "small" wunderkind has looked pretty good.
Aussies have some proper physical players. There is hope.
And now a knock from wunderkind inside their own 22. Pass and angle didn't line up. England scrum.
Penalty England, should be 18-10 if they go for poles. Indeed so.
Dumb Aus prop picks the ball up in the ruck instead of getting quick possession to the scrumhalf and England counter rucks a turnover.
Camera can't stay off Swalliwallili.
Wallabies are back in this as Harry Wilson scores.
Convicts!
Aus score. Two decisive incisions by McDermott freshly on.
"Camera can't stay off Swalliwallili."
Wonder if the blood bin dude is coming back if Mcdermott keeps that up.
Rob Valetini has been very good for Aus.
Aus rumbling nicely now. Penalty, 20-18 Aus.
Well that's actually been a fine half of rugby, much better than last night's game.
Hope Aus can pull this through. Bit of belief and maybe things can slowly turn around for them. They don't have a bad batch of players together now.
Interesting 2nd half coming up. A bandaged Jake Gordon has replaced Tate McDermott. Not sure the Wallabies didn't look sharper with McDermott on.
Hi guys. Safe to say the Wallabies are back. Pulled themselves up by their socks in this one.
Tom Wright is having a good game . . .
Well done Smith getting back for that ball…Wallabies backs finding space
Hello Denny.
Smith manhandled and dispossessed in a triple tackle and Aussie counter. Smith himself back to clean up.
Another great touch from the guy playing his first professional game of Rugby Union . . .
Small man showing some touches….brillianr
Aus certainly playing like they want it, just not able to hold on to possession when it matters.
Some more camera time for Swalliwallili.
And now Aus botch the lineout.
Very well worked Aussie try…in touch though!
Short throw shenanigans Aus. Made them a few meters. Still rumbling.
Try Aus? Could have been a foot in touch . . .
And Williams over in the corner. The boys are bringing it.
Yeah that might be foot in touch.
Close!
Sure TMO, start with the angle from where you can see fuck all.
Man that's a tough call. And a big one.
Looks like it will be chalked off . . . no, nothing conclusive. Try stands . . . but it looked out to me.
Is this compelling evidence to over rule?
Nope try stands.
From the rear angle it looks out, from the front maybe just barely okay.
England going but but but Cueto 2007 
Meantime Aus is over the tryline again, but held up and penalty.
What a super break by Wright from inside the 22 to get Aus there so by the way.
28-18. Smack them Ozzies.
England now has a penalty coming. Should be 3, but will they take it.
Game lighting up now
Nah, corner.
Smith with some brilliance!
It's been lit for a while Pres.
Good try England. Sleightholme over after a clever grubber from Smith. Game on.
Superb touch by Smith and Sleightholm is in. Bit too easy perhaps.
Marcus Smith the main man…now I suppose Ford comes on.
Smith has to be the most anti England 10 ever.
They need to build their team around this boy.
23-28, Smith's boot not so good today.
Some passing from the Aussies.. penalty though
...and then he wins a penalty when Oz try to hit back with a quick score.
Great break Ikitau. Falls apart for Aus though.
England with another strong counter ruck turns it over.
Commentators freaking out because they thought Smith was being subbed
Ref definitely got in the way there as the Aus pass goes astray.
Uh-oh . . . George Ford comes on . . . but this time it's for Furbank. Smith to fullback.
You can see Ford is already calculating how he can make things worse for England.
This should be a yellow for Salakaia-Loto . . .
Well moving Smith to 15 is as good as subbing him.
That was some stupid ass shit from Aus 19.
No, he gets away with an off the ball shoulder charge . . .
Australia trying their best to lose the game…a shovel pass in front of the posts!
England are in. Sleightholme again. Scores tied with the conversion to come . . .
Smith with another break providing the momentum for another England try.
Smith again making something from nothing.
There was still work to do when his involvement ended but he sparked it.
Had he stayed on last week they have beaten the ABs.
Aus deffos caught napping on that quick throw in. 30-28 England.
Great conversion by Smith. England lead 30-28 with 12 to go.
Aus again getting counter rucked, manages to hold on to it this time.
Smith making 10m past two defenders again. You have to worry about the mind that subbed him last week.
Oh damn, RooiBalls is here.
I had better make sure i speak clearly so as not to confuse the poor dear.
Smith just keeps bringing it to the Aussies. Gotta love the guy.
I hope Owen is watching ;)
Kellaway in slow motion gets home…haha…so slow
Kellaway scores to give the Wallabies the lead . . . but was there a knock on? No the try is good. Donaldson converts and it's 35-30 to the Wallabies.
Hahahaha Ozzie!
Is this score gonna be allowed.
Ref checking...
I don't see anything wrong...
Oz in the lead.
Terrible game management from England. Has to be said.
England set up a beautiful set move, drops a pass, Kellaway picks up, try Oz.
Terrible positional play by Wallaby fullback
Smith with another good grubber through forces the carry over from Oz. 5m scum.
England score. Itoje. Smith with the conversion to potentially win it.
England score. Damn and blast.
It squeaks over. Think England have won it. Much better game than last night's scrappy affair.
Lol and now England score!!!
That score came from a brilliant Smith touch that gifted England a 5m scrum.
Come on George Ford, do something stupid, quick.
Smith won it for England. A direct or indirect hand in every one of their last three tries.
OMG...
What a game!
Unlucky England.
Amazing! Wallabies win it at the death through Jorgenson.
How many times did the lead change hands in that second half? What a game. Well done Wallabies.
Brilliant best finish ever!
Lol, Aus takes it!
Brilliant stuff!!!
A Southern Hemisphere clean sweep is still on!
Afraid this time it was Smith who got suckered on defense. So it goes.
That was a proper game of rugby, worth it.
Mike is about to join the thread and tell us how badly Eaterhuizen played
Tom Wright is my pick for MotM.
Good game, wallabies always looking to score, a bit scrappy around the lineout but made their own luck. Played with self belief now to grow confidence. Ref was good.
Small guy gets the MOM…..Schmidt’s wife hugging the players, says a lot about the atmosphere in the camp. Well done the coach, he inherited a disaster.
Mike is about to join the thread and tell us how badly Eaterhuizen played
twice lost the ball that caused tries for the opposition and missed 7 tackles out of 2 attempted
I'd be tempted with Smith for MOM despite England losing. It's mostly his injections that kept them in with a shout at all.
Australia shows ball in hand rugby still works….that’s a gift to the game vs box kicks, mauls and defense.
Yep without Smith England are ordinary.
Becs, hang in there.................. your cloud might have a silver lining next week.
Thanks blob…….it was my birthday yesterday so I was having a lovely day until that disaster 
As for next week…….just limiting the score to under 50 will be progress !!
The jinx works again…it’s uncanny:
Nov 09, 2024, 18:02
It squeaks over. Think England have won it. Much better game than last night's scrappy affair.
"A Southern Hemisphere clean sweep is still on!"
This is more worrying...hope he didn’t jinx the Bokke...
The Sadim touch...
You can breathe easy. The SH sweep isn't on. I forgot that Fiji lost to Scotland last week.
I can remember a while ago posters were claiming Australien Rugby is over….
But it never was, it just had a dip and now on the up.
OZ played a magnificent ball in hand game, that quite a few teams can only dream of.
What impressed me is how smooth the forwards linked with the backs. Joe Schmidt is making a hell of a impact. Congrats OZ.
England is struggling to close out games. But Marcus smith is surely playing in the right direction.
Congrats to Oz and the Southern Hemisphere rugby! Great game to watch!!
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This is an interesting contest. The Poms should put the Wallabies away, but they have struggled closing the deal. A loss to Oz could call for a massive response the following week against the Boks. A win may be enough for a bit of complacency.