The Rugby Union Thread

lloyd

AB laying on the floor, kicking the ball in a ruck-no sanction.

JD2 gets up out of a ruck arms in the air, ball passed over him easily-advantage fucking AB's nice one.

lloyd

Fingers crossed Cruden is ok.

lloyd

Finally blown one for blocking the catcher.

First one in 2 tests.

lloyd

Pointless looking for the lineout with one as poor as ours, pushed out on setting the mail-similar to England v us in WC-no confidence in middle/back ball.

lloyd

JD2 makes up for his poor half, great break in the initial phase then a great long miss pass to AWJ for te try.

lloyd

Gritty performance from Wales.

Basic errors in lineout costing us field position-not competing for theirs and they disrupt ours, even if they don't win it. This needs sorting but not sure how-AWJ hasn't got the skills, but he's miles ahead of anyone else.

AB's not had too much of the ball, but that they do they generally look better than us-quicker rucks, better passing, offloads, support and decision making but they're better than everyone at that.

Overall very pleased. It's not been played as last weeks, certainly weve made a lot less tackles so hopefully we can put in a better fist of the second half than we did last week too.

Can't do any worse than last weeks second half to be fair.

lloyd

Patchell at 15 with his ability going forwards has made a huge difference to our attack.

Lovely to see players passing into space in front of runners.

lloyd

Poor lineout costs us 40 metres.....

lloyd

Williams taken out in the air, during an advantage-needs to be penalised.

lloyd

Yep, given. Good refereeing but could have been a yellow.

digitalscream

Yeesh, some of the commentary on the BBC site leaves a little to be desired.

Rob Ackerman: "If you're in front going into the last 20 it gives you a bit more to get over the line"

...you mean like they were last week?

lloyd

Pissing about at lineout AGAIN gonna cost is possession or field position.

lloyd

What an intercept by Warbuton, games opened up-canny make it stick in Faletaus hands.

Lineout to us, which we lose.

It's that which will cost us this match.

lloyd

Yep, try off the turned over lineout.

lloyd

Well that's fucked it.

lloyd

This last 20 is gonna be grim.

kjdowd

Barrett is class, though.

lloyd

5m attacking lineout fucked up. Can't hope to pressure a game without one.

lloyd

And they score from the turnover.

lloyd

We're knackered, lazy runners in defence but our bench is shit so what can you do?