England v Italy 6 Nations

[sparky]

England heading to their first win under Borthwick but it's been a patchy performance. 31-14 after 72 minutes.

[Jailbreak7]

England back to being boring farts

[Bones]

Is that our friend on the far touch judge duties? Absolute shocker of a call. The fucking ball clearly bounced out after Italy kicked it ahead.

[Jailbreak7]

@Bones Yes I thought that too.

[Bones]

And a shocker from Doleman. England 12 clearly almost horizontal 🤣

[Jailbreak7]

@Bones Replay clearly showed him on his knees not supporting own bodyweight.

[MajorRage]

English 12, Lawrence has had a really good match.

And halfway through me typing this gets MOTM.

England Wales should be ….. interesting.

[sparky]

@Bones Ollie Lawrence has had a decent game.

[Bones]

@MajorRage said in England v Italy 6 Nations:

English 12, Lawrence has had a really good match.

And halfway through me typing this gets MOTM.

England Wales should be ….. interesting.

Wouldn't wanna be invited to meet mum and dad I imagine.

[Bones]

@sparky said in England v Italy 6 Nations:

@Bones Ollie Lawrence has had a decent game

So has Chessum.

[Jailbreak7]

@MajorRage England will win that. It will be a cakewalk. Wales are dire.

[KiwiMurph]

@MajorRage said in England v Italy 6 Nations:

Nice little try that one.

Think Farrell has been bang average and Smith would have been better today.

Should have been Farrell last week, Smith this.

Smith has been awful since he had come on. Grubbered a kick into italian legs leading to 30 metres lost territory and a turnover, 2 missed tackles and a knock on.

[sparky]

Solid win for England. Kept calm and did enough.

[Bones]

Italy halfback does an absolute bollocks kick to no one with time basically up. I wouldn't pick him the rest of the year.

[sparky]

All over. 31-14.

[Jailbreak7]

Death knell for the Smith/Ferrall axis then. Lawrence was everything Ferrall wasn't at 12.

[Victor Meldrew]

@Bones said in England v Italy 6 Nations:

@sparky said in England v Italy 6 Nations:

@Bones Ollie Lawrence has had a decent game

So has Chessum.

Itoje pretty anonymous. Can't work out if he was engine-room mode or just, well, anonymous.

[cgrant]

English attack pretty toothless. Italy's scrum hard done by the referee during the first half : two dubious penalties against their tighthead prop while it looked like Sinckler was in serious trouble on the other side. These penalties kept Italy under pressure. Penalty try very harsh too. The refereeing of the rucks was one-sided as well. What about that Lawrence's turnover when he had his knee on the ground ?
NZ refereeing is a problem IMO. Ben O'Keefe and Williams are OK but the others are poor.

[Bones]

@cgrant yeah Doleman had a pretty shit game and only seemed to be looking at one side it looked like.

Maybe trying to interpret french accents rolling in on the earpiece all the time could throw you off your game a bit?

[MajorRage]

@KiwiMurph said in England v Italy 6 Nations:

@MajorRage said in England v Italy 6 Nations:

Nice little try that one.

Think Farrell has been bang average and Smith would have been better today.

Should have been Farrell last week, Smith this.

Smith has been awful since he had come on. Grubbered a kick into italian legs leading to 30 metres lost territory and a turnover, 2 missed tackles and a knock on.

Correct. As right as I was about Lawrence (MOTM as I was typing), I was equally as wrong about Smith (who came on as I was typing and was shit).