[dawsey]

Well this weekends matches are finished and as an England supporter I am gutted. Italy v Wales yesterday was the expected rout with Wales winning easily against a very poor Italian side.The last Italian performance was good but they are back to there bad old ways of too many handling errors.Wales are looking good and won 38-8. Scotland v Ireland started very well for the Scots and they were 8-0 up after 15mins and Ireland were rattled slowly though they got back into the game and didn't miss their injured centres.Ireland ran out easy winners against what is again a poor Scotland side 40-13.
Now the England v France match has just finished and I am so disappointed in the second half performance. France scored 12 unanswered points and England missed a total of 6 penalties.To be well ahead at half time 17-6 and let a really poor French side back in is just too much.How we miss J Wilkinson and some of the injured players was never more clear. In world rankings England can no longer consider themselves even in the top 5 If we played the All Blacks or Aussies now we would be hammered. BTW final score was England 17 France 18.
I'm looking forward to the final round of matches when Wales play Ireland for what must be the championship.My money is still on Ireland as Wales have to go to France and Ireland have France at home. England will be lucky to get wins against the Scots at the moment.