[RWC2023 SF2] England vs South Africa (21/10/2023)

[TW27BA]

Gutted.
For once the better side lost.
Congrats to SA.

 

[Reiser99]

I hate complaining about the ref, but O'Keefe bottled that at the end. Some truly shocking calls there.

Well played England. Far better than I ever hoped.

 

[TommiG88]

Give over, he was very much on England's side for much of the game

Of course mcsalty

 

[dirty harry]

Oh **** off

I mean hes not wrong. England did well but that was anti rugby!

 

[curtbob7]

Give over, he was very much on England's side for much of the game

Up there with the worst comment I've seen in years.

 

[BiggusLaddus]

Soon as Martin and Cole went off it went to sh*t

Martin was badly missed in the scrums. The last call was ******** though.

 

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Not having that. He took Martin off who was amazing. And had Billy on the bench

Martin was gassed. Sinckler was the sub that really changed the game but if we've only got one tighthead who can hold his own then we've only got one tighthead who can hold his own; what else is there to do?

 

[Ospervat]

An ugly win - but still a win.
Feel for England played with so much heart and determination.

 

[Atmavictu]

Last scrum was not a penalty for South Africa, last England attack was a clear penalty for England

This ref should not be allowed to decide all the games he is in charge

 

[Scotty]

Frankly Genge and Sinckler are ******* useless scrummagers, let that crap SA team win… wow

Useless? Or not as good as the opposition, there is a difference. Aga9nst aby other team in the world i doubt they would be destroyed.

Its a SA strength and they played to it.

Im gutted dont get me wrong

 

[TRF_stormer2010]

Fok my. Dankie, Ox. If you'd have won, it would have been deserved, England. Respect.

 

[Geordie]

Well gutted.

Last scrum was NEVER a bok scrum. Koch was going in.

England subs not good enough.

Borthwick is turning this team around...I've said it from long back.

New squad a few new faces...new attack Coach...and the 6n is going to be fascinating.

I'm wearing my Kiwi shirt next week.

 

[BPM]

Frankly Genge and Sinckler are ******* useless scrummagers, let that crap SA team win… wow

They are clearly not a 'crap SA team'. Genge and Sinckler aren't brilliant scrummagers, but they were up against two very good technical props.

 

[Which Tyler]

once again a combination of big decisions and non decisions once again favouring SA is the difference.

Nah
It's heartbreaking, but we had it in our own hands to win that, but the Bristol Props and a knackered George we're never going match up to the Saffer bench props, and Billy simply isn't international quality any more.

 

[Scotty]

Thank goodness that boring game is over - and the right team won

Boring...not the game, you

 

[TopTen2003]

Good to see we at least proved our 14 man comfortable win over Argentina wasn't a fluke and that on balance, a close SF wasn't ridiculous.

 

[Zac_ETNZ]

Oh **** off

Oh go cry into your warm beer under a bridge somewhere

 

[jordiev]

Still, that's better than we've played in 4 years,

Hopefully they can somehow channel that energy/passion more regularly moving forwards

Hard agree. Still lots to work on but the breakdown has been class. Showed fight. Defense looked good for most of the game. If we can get a functional attack outside the kicking game I feel more optimistic than I have in a while.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

...new attack Coach

We don't haven't one of those, Wigglesworth is permanent attack coach - Jones is a general assistant, been working in analysis and defence the last four years

 

[General Melchett]

So France and England unite in thinking O'Keefe is a knob.