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Originally Posted by 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.
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If Jonny wilkinson had of being playing england would have run out easy winners, France were really poor, But its always a good sign when your playing that badly and still winning, You can not write the french off even though they have to come to lreland.
I was really impressed with how well Ireland came back after that first 15mins without our two star players, Considering how bad our record is against scotland in there back yard, Before yesterdays result out of 10games we played against scotland away, We only won once and lost the other 9.
There's still a long way to go though although I think england are out of it, They still could have a big say in who will be the eventually winners, Even though Ireland are strong favourites to beat them here, We do not always live up to the hype as favourites, Lets hope we can overcome that in 2wks, I really cant wait
