England v Fiji Autumn International
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Something of a so-so game from an England viewpoint. Fiji were very good. Physical (no surprise there), skilful (well whaddya know) but cohesive and well conditioned. They are handful for anyone. England had little in the way of cohesion with their ball in hand attack, although the box kick and aerial chase game was working well. But where is that a tracking intent we saw in Argentina?
Many were patting us on the back for beating Aus last week but their result yesterday rightly takes some of the gloss off that. It just feels to em that we're a pretty good team looking for ways not to be at the moment.
On the officiating, two talking points - the non try for Fiji and the no red card following the taking out of Feyi-Waboso. On the first one, tough for the Fjian guy but just about the right call. On the second? Looked like a red to me all day long. I guess the landing made the difference but my understanding is that that should not be taken into account? Happy to be educated otherwise.
So. Happy with the win but not really with the performance. I think we will need to up our game considerably to beat NZ next week and the Argies are a banana skin too.
