RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1)

[Victor Meldrew]

Never, ever, looked to be in that game.

Fairly typical of what we've seen often in the last few years - flaky under pressure, players played out of position, poor execution and dumb discipline.

Need a serious re-think at the top table.

[sparky]

Remember how much this bloody hurt.

[Donsteppa]

Complacency; Hansen and Foster should have been sent packing after the Lions and Chicago fiascoes.

[Disgusted of TW]

Comiserations to all you kiwis, your team let you down, but in fairness they never gave up. But that performance from England would have beaten anyone. Relentless.

[SammyC]

@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

No concerns with that loss. We were outplayed and Eddie Jones did his thing.

Never got the criticism of Itoje because he’s played like this before. Well done that man.

Look forward to seeing the ABs one more time against the Boks.

The criticism of Itoje is NZ rugby fan arrogance at its best.

[NTA]

@Tordah said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

@NTA said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

That's dumb. No way it was ever out

Stupid Waratahs!

The cosmic ballet goes on

[Godder]

Some of the ABs have cuts on their faces - is that likely to be dodgy play in the rucks or just bad luck?

[Rapido]

Totally outplayed.

Lucky to get 7, lucky to only concede 16.

England fantastic. Us some parts not allowed to play, other parts a bit crap or naive.

[Tim]

@MiketheSnow Bullshit, he dropped ball, he beat no one, he threw a stupid offload in his 22. I'm right and I have been for three years.

[jegga]

@sparky said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

Remember how much this bloody hurt.

It doesn't really , it wasn't France being freaks or a ref being out of his depth. We just watched a great side beat us

[reprobate]

Good fucking job. That was fucking pathetic: strategically, tactically, effort and execution. Horrible to watch.

[Victor Meldrew]

Just imagine if SA win tomorrow and Wales beat us in the 3/4 play-off...

[Tim]

@SammyC Absolutely. Pathetic comments during the week about him.

[Paekakboyz]

Well played England. Shut us down and just kept up the pressure. Shithouse result but they didn't let us fire a shot. How about our line out aye? Fuck...

[chimoaus]

Might be getting easier as I get older but I’m not that unhappy, looking forward to tomorrow’s game and watching the final as a neutral.

[Mokey]

@Victor-Meldrew Not ruling it out!

[kev]

You have to win the contact. Not picking Cane was a huge mistake.

We kept trying to spread it without going forward.

Our kicking game is an issue. The attacking kicking just hand the ball over.

BBBR was not ready. Scott Barrett has been great all Cup should have started.

[rotated]

@Anonymous said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

Steve Hansen goes down as one of the shitter All Blacks coaches?

He is going to have a complicated legacy; but the cycle post 2015 has our first two losses to Ireland, blown Lions series and SF exit. Not good enough.

[Machpants]

Can't blame Shaggy for that. England played awesome, we were slightly off after Ireland. England will struggle in the final, they won't be able to get up. Not saying they won't win tho

[Will_G]

@MiketheSnow said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

Curry MOTM two games in a row

Itoje