England v Australia

sparky

Deary me, this is dull, turgid stuff for a neutral.

akan004

@akan004 said in England v Australia:

Ridiculous call. The 2nd penalty should supersede the 1st one surely.

With foul play it does, and I believe tackling a player in the air is foul play, so it should have been a pen to Aus IMO

That is my understanding too.

sparky

Harsh obstruction call. Englishman fell into Nic White there.

NTA

That's a fucking rubbish call on White from the TMO. That should be reviewed and dismissed

Bones

@sparky said in England v Australia:

Harsh obstruction call. Englishman fell into Nic White there.

More obscene officiating. I'm with @mariner4life the game is fucked.

He was nowhere near the action and the English player ran into him.

sparky

England 25 Oz 15. 8 to play.

Tordah

Fuck, Beale has been rubbish. Made one very good defensive play when the Pom winger was almost in, but other than that, loads of shite

sparky

Nearly over. England have little spark or creative about them. Australia have not enough power and make too mistakes to trouble seriously an organised outfit like England. Not a riveting watch.

MiketheSnow

Cripple fight

sparky

Australia chance their arm at the end. Get turned over. England run it back and score. England 32 Australia 15. All over. Dull as dishwater that.

sparky

England 8th win in a row. I suspect the next RWC Final will be between two 6 Nations sides.

Bovidae

@nta said in England v Australia:

That's a fucking rubbish call on White from the TMO. That should be reviewed and dismissed

Another game dominated by the TMO. What the fuck has happened to rugby?

antipodean

@sparky said in England v Australia:

Harsh obstruction call. Englishman fell into Nic White there.

Possibly, but as Drew pointed out in commentary; players know the refereeing team is harsh on players that change their lines and he did so solely to impede the English defender.

Two dumb YCs didn't help the Wallabies either.

MN5

@sparky said in England v Australia:

England 8th win in a row. I suspect the next RWC Final will be between two 6 Nations sides.

Posts like this often age poorly

sparky

@mn5 Times shifting though.

MN5

@sparky said in England v Australia:

@mn5 Times shifting though.

There’s always Italy and Scotland to keep it real, Wales too.

MN5

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nzzp

@bovidae said in England v Australia:

@nta said in England v Australia:

That's a fucking rubbish call on White from the TMO. That should be reviewed and dismissed

Another game dominated by the TMO. What the fuck has happened to rugby?

I watched 15 minutes of the ABs, and then turned off with the YC. Been coming for a while.

Also cancelled my sky subscription - partially because cricket season is coming, but mostly because rugby is just a complete lottery these days. The TMO seem to exemplify virtue signalling; if they look at an incident, it'll be a card, but so much else gets let go. It's the inconsistency that has robbed the joy for me.

So, just not enjoying it like I used to. It's really sad, lockdown probably has some effect for me, but frankly the officiating has finally turned me off the sport.

Hopefully a good break will help; i'll still go live and see the Blues, but can't be bothered investing too much more in it right now

Tordah

@nzzp said in England v Australia:

but mostly because rugby is just a complete lottery these days. The TMO seem to exemplify virtue signalling; if they look at an incident, it'll be a card, but so much else gets let go. It's the inconsistency that has robbed the joy for me.

Yeah, the extreme inconsistency of when or whether the TMO intervenes is very annoying, there's probably dozens of rucks every game where you could find a card for reckless play with players copping shoulders to faces/heads all the time. It's a blight and there's no solution in sight

NTA

We deserved that. Discipline and handling terrible.

Need our younger flyhalves to come along next season as JOC isn't doing it at Test level.

The Silver Fern

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