England to whitewash Australia

[Disgusted of TW]

Why is Skelton so ineffective going forward? Every time I see him play (not often, granted), he seems to punch less than his not inconsiderable weight.

[Tordah]

<p>McMahon having a pretty good game so far</p>

[NTA]

Reckon we might see Coleman on after the break. Simmons actually ran the ball with effect but he will be needed for TRC.<br><br>
Wallabies getting a bit lateral. Should start tightening it up in the forwards because they're getting some mileage out of that.

[NTA]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Disgusted of TW" data-cid="591679" data-time="1466852662"><p>Why is Skelton so ineffective going forward? Every time I see him play (not often, granted), he seems to punch less than his not inconsiderable weight.</p></blockquote>
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Two English forwards are lining him up every time, and some of the passes he's getting have been less than ideal. If he can't run into it with momentum he won't do anything.<br><br><br>
Should start using him as a dummy runner or let him short ball inside to Hooper or McMahon

[NTA]

There's Coleman

[hurricane]

Interesting tidbit from the commentators that he is the 3rd Tasmanian ever.

[NTA]

Stupid grubber

[mariner4life]

<p>Great kick again by England</p>

[Disgusted of TW]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="NTA" data-cid="591637" data-time="1466850962"><p>Knock on must be hand or arm I think</p></blockquote>
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Law 12 definition from World Rugby laws:<br>
"A knock-on occurs when a player loses possession of the ball and it goes forward, or when a player hits the ball forward with the hand or arm, or when the ball hits the hand or arm and goes forward, and the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it.<br>
‘Forward’ means towards the opposing team’s dead ball line.<br>
If a player in tackling an opponent makes contact with the ball and the ball goes forward from the ball carrier’s hands, that is a knock-on.<br>
If a player rips the ball or deliberately knocks the ball from an opponent's hands and the ball goes forward from the ball carrier's hands, that is not a knock-on."<br><br>
So as you said Nick, just with more words.<br><br>
I think I had something at the back of my mind where off the knee was a knock on, not a kick. Then again, our Welsh brethren will remember Mark Ring who occasionally used to chip over the defensive line off his knee and gather the other side (hard to read from the defender's pov). Paul Turner used to do it too, I think. Great trick. I think maybe that was ruled "a throw forward on to the knee", and therefore a knock-on. However, back to the present day. Game on.

[mariner4life]

<p>body height!</p>

[NTA]

Fuck's sake lineout throwing!

[NTA]

Itoje did well interfering across the line of touch

[NTA]

Awful from Hooper. Should never have gone 8 men there

[mariner4life]

<p>Soft as fuck. Wallaby flankers are putting everything in the scrum this week, and they are slow off every time.</p>

[Tordah]

<p>oof, not much Hoopah could do there to stop Vunipola I reckon, but he was way too slow</p>

[NTA]

7 point lead coming up

[hurricane]

Skelton has given away three penalties now. And in all three cases there seemed to be a slight lack of understanding of the laws.<br><br>And Farrell makes another kick. Best Kicker in the world atm.

[NTA]

Naïve from Skelton

[NTA]

COLEMAN!

[hurricane]

The Tasmanian on the loose.