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

[BrokenWing]

Well played England.

 

[McTallshort]

Ah well never mind

 

[Lé Ddanno]

Billy Vunipola just lost us a world cup semi final

Sinckler gets an honourable mention

 

[Groundhog]

Well. Weirdly I'm up for NZ in the final

 

[TobesHodges]

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

 

[Jimbo]

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

 

[jordiev]

Well that is heartbreaking. Dire game of rugby and always playing with fire if you are going to play the kicking game.

Some positives from the wc though breakdown work has been stellar. Will be interesting to see who moves out of the squad now.

 

[dirty harry]

All credit to England, they managed to match SA physicality and ran them close...

But Ben O Keefe again seems to have decided who was going to win.

Hes mismanaged those scrums badly and hes been done like a kipper by the SA front row!

 

[mdaclarke]

How did South Africa steal that?

 

[Zac_ETNZ]

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

 

[TommiG88]

****. Proud of the boys regardless. Put in a hell of a shift when no one gave them a chance. Don't take back a single thing I've said this thread; fair play to Borthwick, it was nearly a masterclass. Yeah. ****. Don't know what else to say.

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

 

[Grizwald]

Really proud of that performance. Small margins, couple of errors by England.

 

[AlRums]

We knew this ref was bad but today he was embarrassing

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

 

[TopTen2003]

Great effort from England- shame about the unsavoury scenes as usual from the the Boks. They remind me of NFL behaviour we see in the USA.

Stolen a win from a dogged England.

They best be better next week.

 

[curtbob7]

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

 

[BiggusLaddus]

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

Oh **** off

 

[dirty harry]

That whole mark called by Le Roux but he was outside of the 22 when he actually called it was a poor call from the ref

He took it in the 22, but he must remain there, or at least make the call while inside the 22. Once he steps out it's open play. Awful decision from BOK

 

[BPM]

Sinckler gets an honourable mention

Not really. I think being beaten by a better scrummager is very different to being poor in every facet.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

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

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

 

[Stade Rochelais]

Best match.