[2025 Six Nations] England vs Italy - 9/3/25

[Pieter Steph du Teague]

Italy providing mid-game prostate exams

 

[AlRums]

Usual English ref whinging

 

[McTallshort]

Seeing some good stuff from Italy

 

[TommiG88]

Was that really a knock-on?

Didn't feel he was on side lying across the ruck. But Brace knows the rules

 

[BrokenWing]

Was that really a knock-on?

Probably as much as the Italian one that was ignored earlier.

 

[BPM]

L

It's just not stopping is it.

Time and time again the officials are demonstrating extreme bias.

Again this is absolutely no excuse for how crap England are.

I think it's sheer incompetence rather than bias. England not helping themselves by being woeful though.

 

[curtbob7]

Usual English ref whinging

You watching?

 

[Which Tyler]

Was that really a knock-on?

Yes, but it needed the reverse angle to show it for us

@BrokenWing Probably as much as the Italian one that was ignored earlier.

Do you mean the Gallagher one? Clearly towards his own line - or am I forgetting a different one?

 

[BrokenWing]

Usual English ref whinging

Unlike the gracious jocks two weeks ago

 

[TommiG88]

You watching?

Oh he's anti English

 

[Grizwald]

Giving Italy plenty of entries and procession of the back of ill discipline here. Italy playing with confidence.

 

[AlRums]

That was quite a dance at the lineout

 

[Reiser99]

L

I think it's sheer incompetence rather than bias. England not helping themselves by being woeful though.

Yeah Brace isn't biased, he's just **** and England are notoriously awful at adapting to ref interpretations. Having said that, hard to adapt to a ref who makes it up as he goes.

 

[curtbob7]

Another performance like this against Wales and surely it's time for Borthwick and his team to go?

 

[Jimbo]

Unlike the gracious jocks two weeks ago

Remember the maul try that they never scored to beat France, it was the wrest of the world that was complaining not them, because of course they never complain about anything…..

 

[Crash Hamster]

Usual English ref whinging

"And it's Fin kicking a conversion from the corner" as no-one said in the Scotland game.

Pull your skirt down, your anti-English bias is showing

 

[ntun82]

ENG complaining about the referee in a game against ITA
I have seen it all

 

[AlRums]

Oh he's anti English

I compliment England when they do something well, it's just very rare.

 

[Booboobang]

Typical england, really, every game is a dice roll, feels like an edict that every game must stay within 5 points one way or the other.

 

[West Country Wail]

Italy not so much getting the rub of the green than a paint pot full of it