England v Japan - Autumn International

[Catogrande]

@MiketheSnow said in England v Japan - Autumn International:

Great opportunity for England to say a big FU to Eddie

Did that in the summer. This is unlikely to be quite so emphatic I feel.

[Duluth]

15 Takuro Matsunaga, 14 Tomoki Osada, 13 Dylan Riley, 12 Siosaia Fifita, 11 Jone Naikabula, 10 Nicholas McCurran, 9 Naoto Saito, 8 Faulua Makisi, 7 Kazuki Himeno, 6 Kanji Shimokawa, 5 Epineri Uluiviti, 4 Sanaila Waqa, 3 Shuhei Takeuchi, 2 Mamoru Harada, 1 Takato Okabe

Reserves: 16 Seunghyuk Lee, 17 Yukio Morikawa, 18 Keijiro Tamefusa, 19 Daichi Akiyama, 20 Tevita Tatafu, 21 Ben Gunter, 22 Shinobu Fujiwara, 23 Yusuke Kajimura

[Bones]

Lawes is a waste of space at the moment, still too close to this England team.

[Bones]

Intrigued at the thought process that puts a team in red jerseys instead of white, due to a clash with white and red.

[sparky]

As windy as a game at Athletic Park.

[Bones]

Wales score first.

[Dodge]

Lovely hands from Smith, nice line from Lawrence. About time

[sparky]

Ben Earl scores after good work from Marcus Smith.

England 7 Japan 0.

[sparky]

Deliberate offside by Japan that denied a try-scoring opportunity. Should have been a YC.

[Dodge]

Fascinated how a two man overlap getting cut out by a guy 3 yards offside on his own fry line isn’t a try scoring opportunity. How have they not looked at that?!

[sparky]

Underhill in.

[sparky]

England 14-0 already. This will be an easy win for them.

Japan have gone backwards since the Joseph/Brown coaching era.

[sparky]

Tommy Freeman looking very sharp.

[sparky]

Marcus Smith doing very well behind a dominant pack.

[sparky]

Jamie George scores England's third off a 5m lineout drive.

[sparky]

Can England avoid taking their foot off the gas?

[sparky]

Tommy Freeman scores England's 4th try.

[sparky]

TMO checking it even though the conversion's been taken and missed.

[sparky]

Benefit of the doubt should be given there surely?

[sparky]

No try, absurd call.

This sport is not helping itself.