Yep, if only we produced more centre's like Fofana (no idea how to spell it). Then again we'd probably shift him to the wing. Thankfully England have Easmond waiting in the wings. I reckon he'll be partnering Tuilangi in the centres for the 6 nations. Brad Barritt's persistant selection to me illistrates everything that's wrong with RU in the NH.

Eastmond is an interesting one. No doubt there are several international sides licking their lips at the prospect of being able to send big fellas running at him in midfield.

Unlike half back in rugby league, outside centre in Union really gives you nowhere to hide defensively.

But, at the same time I doubt many centres in RU whom have come up against any body with his footwork and acceleration. Eastmond has also shown a passing game that most centres in RU simply don't posses.

It's game over now.

Wallabies bottle it in the big game yet again, gotta love it

i wonder if the good folk of the press, tv, radio, punters and people on here who slated gatland's selection will now be big enough to apologise for all the vitriol and negativity in the lead up to the game - somehow i doubt it

always open your mouths after the event not before it

I used to play front row when I played, and the biggest problem was that the referee would vary the speed of the difference between the pause and engage calls, so you'd be second guessing trying to get an advantage.

At international level there's such a long pause between the crouch and the actual engage calls that packs are unbalanced at engage so the scrum's always going down.

Decent game this morning, although I'm not sure about Halfpenny being man of the series, sure he's kicked his goals, but in the first two games he literally just caught and kicked the ball, there was no other contribution.

The Lions did very well and pulled off a comprehensive victory which I didn’t expect as I thought the Aussies had the momentum after game 2. What was particularly impressive was the fact that their lead was pegged back and they could have crumbled but came back and literally blew the Wallabies away

Nothing more to say than well done and congratulations on the series win

It's nice to win games, but it takes the edge off for me if you can't score tries in the process.
Often the opposition score more tries.

It was great this time to score 4 tries to one including three cracking second-half tries.
Memorable.
Rare.

At this level, winning is pretty much everything......same in soccer and many other sports in that Finals rarely deliver classics and the 3rd Lions test was a "final".

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24454330 In code; 'we're sh*t, let's copy how you're MEANT to do it'

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/24454330 In code; 'we're sh*t, let's copy how you're MEANT to do it'

Well done England, and well done the coach for bringing Care off when the game was critically balanced and we were leading by just five points.
Loser!

they deserved to lose, absolute dismal passing, Twelvetrees kicking when he had a 3 man overlap was priceless..top internationsals my , I've seen better from kids playing league in the park.

You're right, they still don't know where to stand and how and just when to give the pass to create the gaps.
I thought with Andy Farrell on board that they would have sorted this out along the lines of attacking in rugby league with a proper delta wing shape.
They truly are useless and Lancaster sits there like Sven used to do for England football and does nothing as things go wrong.
We have had one great result against NZ and that's it. We are going backwards!
Just why aren't England the strongest six nations side?

Farrell throws a dummy & goes through the gap. 14 other players in the team & not one within 20m of him. If Shaun Edwards had been in the stands he could have got changed, ran on the pitch & been in support before any of the England team new what was happening. Amateur.

I remember shouting at the telly the same thing.
You're right.

And yet they're paid like professionals.
They have the game they deserve, we have the leftovers.

Ive seen much worse defending in pretty much every super league game I have watched this season

Regards

King James

Any genuine fans on this thread or it is still an outlet for slagging off the game?

Been an interesting start to the domestic season with some real eye-catching results. Not sure that they mean much at this stage of the season but there looks to be much more competition for the Top 4 places than in other seasons, particularly from Bath and Wasps.

Gloucester have been very disappointing after a big off-season, and are fully deserving of their criticism in the press after some very negative tactical decisions, not least at home against Exeter when they chose to kick a penalty at 12-25 down.

That said it's been an enjoyable start, there are normally some very entertaining games at this point in the season before the weather and the pitches turn and stifle the attacking intent.

Same as usual from what I've seen , some great games and some truly wretched. Bath are playing some decent stuff by all accounts.

Kyle Eastmond is on fire

Regards

King James

For the first time in a long time I sat through a full 80 minutes of Rugby Union today. One of my good friends plays for Sale (Mike Haley, fullback) so I tuned into the Sale/Munster game to see how he went on.

It was a very entertaining game which involved some good attacking rugby. It went down to the wire and unfortunately Munster won it on the last play with a drop goal. However, it made me think how glad I am that we don't have contested scrums anymore in RL. One scrummage went on for about 2 minutes, it collapsed 4 times until the referee gave a penalty. If they eliminated that area of the game then I'd gladly watch more of the club game, was pleasantly surprised by it today.

You chose a good one to watch Bluenose, best game of the weekend for mine. And most Union fans would agree on the farcical state of the scrum. It can 'ruin' an otherwise good game.

Well done England ... keep on box kicking the ball to NZ ... fooking brain dead.

Better!
Beating Wales at Cardiff.
Dominated, but still wasteful however.
Didn't like the ref disallowing one of our tries for obstruction ... harsh!