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England v Italy was fun!!
Amazing tactics by Italy (kudos to Conor O'Shea and the coaching staff) to completely flummox England for far too long.
Seeing Hartley & Haskell asking the ref what the rules were was hilarious. I think it also showed how drilled the players are these days (not just England, I should add), and how incapable they are of thinking on the fly and changing the gameplan.
Eddie Jones' whinging and demanding law-changes was completely out of order, IMO. If they want to change the laws, start with refereeing the feeds into the scrums - there hasn't been a straight feed since before the last RWC.
That, and outlaw the choke-tackle - such a negative tactic. |
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