heart_of_oak says...

Davoust / jcahill1 - don't understand your post. These are player ratings for the England SA match. If you want ratings for games other teams are involved in, why post on the England page ?

By the way, I might be English but I'm certainly not sick of Wales. They have some great players and will form the backbone of a formidable B & I Lions team soon.

Posted 14:16 18th June 2012

RugbyLeRoux says...

saintssteve BDP's try was def a try. All you need is downward pressure between waist and neck, that control bull went out the window a long time ago. Could argue the alberts try should've been disallowed, pretty poor reffing TBH

Posted 21:24 17th June 2012

saintssteve15 says...

I agree with the fact that the first half South Africa although the forwards were dominant they were gifted a try and the other try was no try as the player lost control and an England hand was underneath the ball how the TMO missed it.

Am i correct in saying when a player goes for the line a metre or so from it and is yanked backwards by the neck surely that is a penalty try only after five or so minuites later after Ben youngs managed to get the ball down was the try given by the TMO ?.

Having said all that England seem to be playing too flat with slow deliberate ball that is easy to defend. Can we see a run from deep and players backing up.

Droping Ben Foden to the wing is not the answer nor droping Chris Ashton as both never had any sort of quick ball in a bit of space to play with other than the Toby Flood try. To put Alex goode on and other untried players at this stage now would be pure folly as the the coaching seems to be at fault.

England have a lot of talant back home induered Tom Croft ,Courtney Lawes etc And James Haskell should have played which all bodes well for the future

Posted 10:12 17th June 2012

ben7 says...

crap ratings. most should be far higher.

Posted 01:20 17th June 2012