England XV vs Barbarians (19/06/2022)

[TommiG88]

What’s going to be Jones’ excuse?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Omfg

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Eddie Jones brilliant coach, also loses to a 14 man ba bas team

 

[Reiser99]

Out scored by 14 men

 

[Crash Hamster]

Nowell running through treacle vs a guy with 74 mins of running in his legs

Exactly this. Looked slow and uncommitted.

 

[Quel Carreleur]

It's like watching Bath play - which is about the harshest criticism I can think of.

 

[Reiser99]

Jones out.

Honestly we probably won't win the world cup with a new coach, but we definitely won't win with Jones.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Hahahaha
You've gotta laugh

 

[Jimbo]

Out scored by 14 men

Outscored, outsmarted and outclassed in just about every way. Kruis has better kicking percentages than Smith.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

getting out hustled by the barbarians is the most embarrassing part

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Did Jones have his squad running broncos before the game? They look exhausted

 

[JG-21]

Making it look like 7s. total disgrace

 

[TRF_Olyy]

George Kruis
3 from 3

Reckon they had to quickly knock that graphic up?

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Eddie really does love Kruis

 

[Crash Hamster]

Jones looks even more like a bulldog chrewing a wasp than usual.

He must be very proud.

 

[Rinkadink]

This has actually been a brilliant performance from the barbarians. Hard, tight doing basics well and putting all the effort in then cutting loose with world class skills and vision when its right. "Simple" and effective.

No excuse for Jones though, quite the opposite. It shows what good coaching and culture can do.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Good job we didn't stack the side with starters and got a proper look at the fringe guys, ay

 

[higgik]

What’s going to be Jones’ excuse?

1) Limited selection with no Sarries or Tigers
2) lack of preparation time
3) injuries to key players

Ones we wont hear.
1) i cant coach basic skills (sic Chris Boyd)
2) i want my players to play with more freedom.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

England getting booed down the tunnel hahahaha

 

[Rinkadink]

England booed off pitch by Twickenham.

Surely that's the end of Jones?

 

[Scotty]

George Kruis
3 from 3

Reckon they had to quickly knock that graphic up?

Smith 2 from 7 hmmm

 

[Geordie]

England are awful.

That's pretty much as embarrassing as you can get. Down to 14 men for 50 mins....and look like the team down to 14 men.

Just clueless rugby.

So many of those players Ewells to stsrt with should never ay for England again.

 

[higgik]

This has actually been a brilliant performance from the barbarians. Hard, tight doing basics well and putting all the effort in then cutting loose with world class skills and vision when its right. "Simple" and effective.

No excuse for Jones though, quite the opposite. It shows what good coaching and culture can do.

Exactly, heard Chris Boyd say as such on podcast.
Wirk on basic skills until they are automatic, then trust the players to adapt to match situations.

 

[higgik]

England are awful.

That's pretty much as embarrassing as you can get. Down to 14 men for 50 mins....and look like the team down to 14 men.

Just clueless rugby.

So many of those players Ewells to stsrt with should never ay for England again.

Well after both matches this weekend, there is not a lot who should.

 

[Jimbo]

England (regardless of selection) have regressed so much post 2019 final that they probably can’t play any worse EJ must have burnt any credit he had in the bank and clearly can’t be expected to make England competitive in the next let alone win the thing, he has to go, not sure how it can get much worse.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

I imagine he’ll say something about “not wanting to show australia what we’ve been implementing” even though the simple fact is you had better players and you didn’t need to be fancy to win the game.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Habana, rightly, shooting down that Joe C was anything special out there
Those 11/14/23 choices were a pointless waste
One, maybe two, of them then sure - not all three

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Crap. I’ve only just seen what the actual score was.

It was a meaningless game and we were without players from our best 2 clubs, but even so that’s humiliating.

It’s been apparent for way too long that Jones judgement has been way off beam and there are just too many players he doesn’t get through to. Getting walloped down under and regime change may be the step back we need to take to go forward.

 

[higgik]

EJ says that they were trying to do some new things this week and they didnt quite come off.
Any suggestions as to what those things were?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

EJ singling out May as a highlight of today
Also describing Walker as a youngster coming through despite being older than half the squad