[November Tests 2017 EOYT] England vs. Samoa (25/11/2017)

[Reiser99]

Ewels not taking his chance, that try all came from him missing a simple catch.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Charlie Ewels costing us a try

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Ford exposed well there defensively, made good ground through him on quick pass to get one on one with him and managed to get him acting as a pillar which is useless that close in for a man his size.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

How did we end up with Ford as the guard at a ruck 2m out hahahaha

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Slade making a wrong call defensively

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Bit of an aside but why do we never play tonga? I know samoa need these big games but so do tonga, half the population of samoa, above samoa in the world rankings and we've only played them twice.

 

[Reiser99]

England being too casual at the breakdown. Got to secure the ball before you can keep going.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

England being too casual at the breakdown. Got to secure the ball before you can keep going.

Yep, it's one area of concern I still have going forward, that some of our forwards don't seem able to read the breakdown competition well enough.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

England being too casual at the breakdown.

Putting it lightly.
We're doing well at the setpiece but the pack look pretty poor away from there.
Samoa look 10 times as up for it as our bunch do.

 

[Reiser99]

Is Woodward watching the same game? England have been sloppy.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Brown should have passed straight to Care

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Classic Dan Cole

 

[Reiser99]

Lol when was the last time May was third on the line out wins list.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Classic Dan Cole

Contributing nothing but ruck penalties?

Got bored half an hour in so turned back to the Scotland game, Will go back to the England game when this is over with

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Referee didn't call maul and Loz seemed to be on the floor...don't like that officiating.

this the sort of **** england will dish up now that we can't kick through the ruck anymore ?

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Ok this referee is actually ******* terrible

 

[Reiser99]

He does blow quickly at the ruck, on the other hand, England should have reacted by now.

Edit: I think England are slow to present the ball, other teams I see get the ball back far quicker.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

He does blow quickly at the ruck, on the other hand, England should have reacted by now.

Also he's allowing players to leave their feet, but yeah you're spot on, we have ourselves to blame.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Good try in the end but browns inefficiencies throughout the game have cost us. I generally trust EJ but really I don't get why he's still our 15.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Some really bullshit allowed by the referee at the breakdown, really hope he's not anywhere near the next World Cup team, but fair play to Samoa for keeping their structure as the legs tired and for winning the contact area in defence. Ultimately that score flattered England.