It's a shame Eddie did not give a detailed post match analysis of where he thought it went wrong. I can understand why he might not want to do this.
Before the final Eddie made a point about preparing for the referee, which suggests either he got it wrong or Garces was told to tighten up or...
Chaps, looking for some clarification when you talk about losing the game in 'the air', what is meant?
To me it might be the kicking and catching part of the game or the lineouts.
Before the tournament if I had been told England would reach the semi's after beating Australia and NZ I would probably have been happy with that. Especially as I thought we would lose to NZ.
I caught a fair bit of Wales against SA and then thought England would need to change their game plan...