Most of the Union plonkers blame Lancaster for Eng RU's loss against Wales not Burgess.

Again, for the second time I have never suggested union fans aren't 'real' or 'proper'. Those are your words and you're trying to put those words in my mouth just so you have something to troll at. You're having to invent stuff so you can troll, which makes you very sad.
Don't bother replying to this because I'm done with you. You're clearly not interested in an adult discussion.

As you know you can imply something without actually saying it. Saying that someone is inventing something, being sad, not being interested in an adult discussion ('Him' and 'loonie81' used that one too) or a troll is just the standard kop-out for being short of facts.

As for being 'done with me',

I know it's very childish, but f*** it...

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees go you Aussies!!!!

Thank God Farrell got yellow carded because otherwise all we would have had was Burgess being yellow carded .

So their plan to host the final group game in Manchester on Grand Final night with the expectation of England sealing their qualification to the knockout stages has now become a stop off on the road of the inquiry of the state of England RU.

They need to win or they have to qualify for Japan 2019

Don't think the southern complimentaries will be turning up for the dead rubber, bet there is a load of hotel cancellations.

Made up for the Aussie's, well played. Better in all areas than England.

One point tho. How many passes went astray or dropped?! The skill level is so far behind league.

Let the inquest begin. Tee hee.

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Complementaries?

Burgess should have walked for that.

They hand out yellow cards like confetti to be fair, the fact that the lead runner was obstructing in the first instance led to Farrell making contact, sure 'without' arms but a yellow for Burgess, that'd be bollox. Guys having their heads being tugged at the ruck and maul in headlocks and not a murmer. Far worse & plentiful around the shoulder/neck tackles gone unpunished but union has gone properly soft. Their TMO system is making the game even worse than it is already with regard to minor infractions.
Classic one earlier in which the ref was happy with the tackle but the TMO just couldn't help himself and was insisting that one of the most respected referees was wrong and he needed to have a look at it. Game came to a standstill for 2-3 minutes and still the TMO was telling the ref to give the tackler a yellow for a non event.

They probably won't have to win as Fiji should beat Uruguay before England face them.

Whether you agree with it or not they are the rules.

It would have been a penalty in RL and was a capital offence in RU

Swing low in next weeks dead game # ballyhoo

Glorifying this union england bandwagon for a bloody month of tv saturation all ended ......teeheeee tatty bye .Manchester was supposed to be the piece de resistance,unions pi55 take the consumate "league!!what's that?oh yeah that little parochial game played up north ".ITS BACFIRED MARVELLOUS well done Australia .Look forward to witnessing England unions funeral dirge in the backdrop to Leagues showpiece event.Fate hws a nice side sometimes for league.

Yellow card for those tackles?
What a bunch of f^cking fairies.

Will be interesting to see what happens with Burgess now. Scapegoats will have to be found and Sam will be an easy target although, i have to say, it would be really unfair. He did well against fiji as an impact sub.Did all was asked of him against Wales,under huge pressure, and England were ahead when he was subbed.And tonight, They were pretty much toast when he came on for the last 15 minutes.

It'll show just how bad the England RU set up is if they make Sam the scapegoat for this debacle.

Matt Dawson probably spuffed in his pants at the thought of deriding Sam in the rags come Sunday/Monday, no wait it's that world class centre Gordon D'arcy whom lambasted Burgess a failure and "embarrassed those around him" in the Wales games..

Oh dear.....you really should re-read the article with both eyes open and the chip off your shoulder. D'Arcy blamed to selectors not burgess and henwas spot on...even professional RL players a green with him....... Burgess was picked too soon.

That piece by that D'Arcy was a disgrace. His motivation? He's trying to earn a crust as a journalist. It relies on him creating an aura of superior knowledge from having been good enough to play as an international Rugby Union centre for years on end. That credibility is diminished in his eyes if a guy who was a forward in another sport can walk into a top international RU side at centre without ever having seen much of the game of Rugby Union, never mind played it.
All D'Arcy has done is made himself look stupid at best. He started with his required conclusion that Sam Burgess isn't good enough. Then takes four days in a darkened room dissecting his recording of the England v Wales match trying and failing to come up with an "analysis" to support his case. Quite laughable.

Are you still paying good money to watch Union on BT sport?

Nearly 100 pages on this thread alone and as I type, 4 of the top 5 topics on a RL forum are all about Union. I suppose when you haven't got an International game of your own to watch you have to watch other more successful sports to see what it's like