USA v England - 19/07/25

[TRF_Olyy]

Alot of dropped balls today, is it the style of play or what?

It's hot and humid, and there's been a bit of rain but.....it looks more like we're playing headlessly than anything conditions based

 

[Ddanno]

Funny looking Trevor Davison

 

[Jimbo]

Lions level restart handling there.

 

[Protalus rampart]

I know it’s an inexperienced team and the weather isn’t great but the attack has been miles off the last couple weeks. I assume the kicking is SB instructed but against the US it’d be nice to see some flashes of creativity

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Loudest tackle I've heard in a while

 

[ChicagoKid]

just let us score dear lord.

And they wonder why we can’t sell 20k tickets. No one wants to watch us get crushed.

 

[Jimbo]

just let us score dear lord.

And they wonder why we can't sell 20k tickets. No one wants to watch us get crushed.

Would have thought with your superior athletes the odd score wouldn’t be too hard to come by.

 

[ChicagoKid]

Would have thought with your superior athletes the odd score wouldn't be too hard to come by.

Yea, our superior athletes are turning down millions to play for $40k. Good analysis.

 

[IT157]

How many times has the ball being knocked forward in the midfield

 

[Scotty]

How many times has the ball being knocked forward in the midfield

Must be the conditions that we can't see, it's crazy about of knock ons.

 

[IT157]

Honestly I wouldn't even begrudge the USA getting a score here.

 

[Ddanno]

Would have thought with your superior athletes the odd score wouldn't be too hard to come by.

Especially with so many breaks in play

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Honestly I wouldn't even begrudge the USA getting a score here.

This is all your fault

 

[IT157]

Good for them. Nice try

 

[ChicagoKid]

Last score wins. Haha!!

 

[Scotty]

Honestly I wouldn't even begrudge the USA getting a score here.

Good for them. Nice try

Man of your word i like it. Haha

 

[IT157]

This is all your fault

Cool.

I hate seeing teams getting nilled.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Ted Hill watch (stats from RugbyPass):

Carries: 0
Tackles: 0 (1 missed)
Lineouts: 0
Turnovers: 0


Edit: Stats updated, now 1 tackle (0 missed), so crisis averted

 

[IT157]

Last score wins. Haha!!

I've changed my mind....

 

[Ddanno]

Glad that's over.

Centres - good, we might be getting somewhere

Langdon + Ohgre - encouraging

Ford - should be in Aus and told not to ******* kick

Locks - fine

CCS - more of that please

The rest, ehhhh. Gameplan was shunt but who cares against oppo like that.

 

[ChicagoKid]

I've changed my mind....

 

[IT157]

I wonder who they will give MOTM. Please let it be Cunningham-South!

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I mean six tries, cool, but pretty disappointing performance

You can excuse it with the A games because they have literally days together, but this lot have been in camp/on tour for a month or more

 

[Jimbo]

Yea, our superior athletes are turning down millions to play for $40k. Good analysis.

Do you think this concept is somehow unique to the USA? Sure union in T1 nations for the most part offers a very nice living standard but it’s hardly comparable to football money or in the millions.

 

[IT157]

Hulk!

You've changed my mind again.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I wonder who they will give MOTM. Please let it be Cunningham-South!

Be surprised if it's not Ford, from the way the commentary are talking

 

[ChicagoKid]

Do you think this concept is somehow unique to the USA? Sure union in T1 nations for the most part offers a very nice living standard but it's hardly comparable to football money or in the millions.

If MLR paid Top 14 money, you would see a massive influx of talented athletes.

Anything less than $100,000 is poverty wages.

 

[ChicagoKid]

Hulk!

You've changed my mind again.

 

[Ddanno]

I don't think they announced one

 

[Jimbo]

Be surprised if it's not Ford, from the way the commentary are talking

And to me he wasn’t great at all, he has been fantastic in those tests against Argentina I just wanted to see him express his passing game and picking out the holes in the defensive line, we know he had an awesome array of kicks but they just weren’t needed to win.