England v South Africa

[brusselsbarbarian]

Congrats to Italy.

What depth does England still have left on the bench?

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

Willem Alberts on

Why the long face? He's an amazing player!

edit: Sorry, I thought it was LordHope haha

 

[brusselsbarbarian]

I thought we'd seen the end of arial ping pong, apparently not.

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

And that is the third try for Alberts as a sub!!! Now hoping the TMO is showing nothing wrong!!!!

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

And it's given!!!! When will Alberts get a place in the starting 15???

Sorry for being so hysterical but I just love it when a plan comes together. Willem Alberts is a hero! He was in the Currie Cup and now in the EOYT. I guess Stegmann can say goodbye to his place in the starting line-up

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

For some reason this match reminds me of the match 2 years ago (the 6-42 match). England, just like 2 years ago, is attacking very well up to the 5 metre line but from there on they get stuck and cannot get through

 

[brusselsbarbarian]

Incredibly enough, this might be the first match of this autumn that SA actually deserve to win.

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

And a second Shark-try!!! Lwazi Mvovo...

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Shaw comes on, first think he does is miss a tackle to let SA get a try
What a donkey. Lawes has been brilliant in defence all day, then they replace him with Shaw. *facepalm*

 

[ckell]

What's the score fellas?

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

6-21 after a try by Lwazi Mvovo. A second Sharks-try in this test. Amazing! I am tearing up inside a bit of joy

 

[brusselsbarbarian]

ANd there's likely to be a switch of situations, peter de villiers scalp is safe and Jonno's will be in danger. This team has nothing of the team against NZ and AUS. Only consistant england player has been Courtney Lawes.

Congrats also go to Scotland.

 

[brusselsbarbarian]

Well deserved try for Foden, a silver lining to the match (as far as england are concerned)

 

[cardassian]

Congrats SA

 

[Duckdee]

Gragh. Well played SA.

 

[brusselsbarbarian]

Game over Eng 11-21 SA.

Can't understand why england ditched the effective running rugby tactics in order to go back to the old game plan of kicking possession at every chance.

Won't mention the odd injuries in the first half to key england players.

Congrats for 80 mins of entertaining rugby South Africa!

 

[TRF_Ezequiel]

What happened with England's conversion? My stream froze at that moment.... Thanks for the congratulations... I am so happy now and I guess I was right: Nobody plays that bad twice in a row

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Disappointing display by England,
SA looking more like their old selves, and definately deserved the win today

Shaw should be put out of his misery, I said when the EPS was announced months ago he was past it, and he just proved it today. Dire 20minutes from him,
Hape had a decent game, Lawes had a brilliant game in defence, and solid carrying, but noone looks good in the lineout when up against Matfield
Fourie impressed me again, think he's a much better 7 than Moody, and really, Moody's only there because he's the captain
Hodgson played much better than Flood, who was very much off form today (same with Youngs) - Terrible kicking from hand from Flood today, looked the England of the last few years, just kicked it down the middle of the pitch to the SA FB



The conversion, Tindall ran up and tried to dropgoal it and hoofed it wide

 

[brusselsbarbarian]

it could be fair to say SA was a game too far for a tired england team.

 

[Blackie252]

Why oh why oh why, when 2 meters tops from the line, instead of smashing forwards we decide to pass back 6-8 meters to the backs and lose ground.... Alll i have seen tonight is an undisciplined, non confident side....... After two weeks ago when we were all proud and happy in how we were progressing. Now it's back to the same old status quo! Show promise then give away too many penalties and live off scraps. confidence is key and we lack it in the buckets!