Eng -v- Aus, match stream

Swiwi.

England: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Joel Tomkins, 12 Billy Twelvetrees, 11 Marland Yarde, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Lee Dickson, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Chris Robshaw (c), 6 Tom Wood, 5 Courtney Lawes, 4 Joe Launchbury, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Mako Vunipola.
Replacements: 16 Dylan Hartley, 17 Joe Marler, 18 David Wilson, 19 Dave Attwood, 20 Ben Morgan, 21 Ben Youngs, 22 Toby Flood, 23 Ben Foden.

Australia: 15 Israel Folau, 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Matt Toomua, 11 Nick Cummins, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Ben Mowen (c), 7 Michael Hooper, 6 Scott Fardy, 5 James Horwill, 4 Sitaleki Timani, 3 Ben Alexander, 2 Stephen Moore, 1 James Slipper.
Replacements: 16 Saia Faingaa, 17 Benn Robinson, 18 Sepoke Kepu, 19 Kane Douglas, 20 Ben McCalman, 21 Nic White, 22 Christian Lealiifano, 23 Bernard Foley.

Date: Saturday, November 2
Venue: Twickenham
Kick-off: 14:30 GMT
Referee: George Clancy (Ireland)
Assistant Referees: Romain Poite (France), Dudley Phillips (Ireland)
TMO: Marshall Kilgore (Ireland)

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Looking forward to this, have the Wallabies backed so will be cheering for them

Should be interesting to see how the English backline goes, I don't think it's great.

Kiwi_knock

Should be a good match. Australia have improved but their good performances have come in free flowing games which today will not be. Have doubts that Australia will be able to cope with the physical battle. I think it could come down to a kicking game.

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Corbs being out will be the difference between the teams IMO. Mako is a poor scrummager and Cole is very hit and miss. Could deny England the edge

Dickson really is a very limited player at this level as he has show before

Swiwi.

My cards on the table, hoping for Aussie win. But Farrell kicking Eng to victory off the back of scrum penalties wouldn't surprise me.

Swiwi.

Hopefully Clancy surprises and has a good game.

Grandpa Hassan

Exciting time to be an English rugby fan. So many talented new faces. A real fresh start. If they gel, this side could be seriously good. If they don't, it'll be mistakes galore and painful to watch

Swiwi.

Terrible from Folau there. The end result a gimme penalty for Eng.

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Falou picked that ball up so well but it was so incredibly selfish not to pass it to Cummins who had acres of space on the wing

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Yarde is all over the place too

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Has Dickson been on serious form in the premiership or something? The guy can't pass the ball

Swiwi.

England will struggle to score a try if they just use one-off runners.

Swiwi.

Farrell :eek:

Plan B needed :P

ongarite

Another hook to the left of the posts.

thomond2006

That flick from Cooper!

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Swiwi. wrote: »

Farrell :eek:

Plan B needed :P

Better outhalf sitting on the bench!

Davei141

Some awful passing from Genia so far

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Genia not exactly playing well. Few very bad passes

razorblunt

You forget how awful sky are for England games and then ... Bang ... Every November there's the wake up call.

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lol Barnes: "Genias passing is very slick" moments after Genia puts in three awful passes in a row

Davei141

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

lol Barnes: "Genias passing is very slick" moments after Genia puts in three awful passes in a row

I had to wind sky back to see if I was going crazy!

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Australia are putting an amount of pressure on Mako

Tox56

Jaysus I know I'm hardly the first person to say this but wtf is up with Australian props complete inability to scrummage, just in that last scrum the Aus tighthead had really obviously poor technique even to someone like me

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Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

Australia are putting an amount of pressure on Mako

Much better from Vunipola there!

Jesus it must be so depressing being that Australian frontrow

Swiwi.

Clacy is doing a Poite and has premeditated his scrum decisions.

Davei141

Tox56 wrote: »

Jaysus I know I'm hardly the first person to say this but wtf is up with Australian props complete inability to scrummage, just in that last scrum the Aus tighthead had really obviously poor technique

I think they are getting pinged unfairly tbh

Tox56

Davei141 wrote: »

I think they are getting pinged unfairly tbh

Look at the technique of the Aus 3 in that last scrum, he went high and looked to have no power coming through whatsoever

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Genia having a mare

Tox56

Genia has really dropped from the Lions series. He had a winger coming in ready to take advantage of a gap and instead of popping he runs straight into the English number 8.

matthew8

Clancy is absolutely killing Australia here.

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Jesus, Australian scrum getting annihilated by a TH not renowned for his scrummaging and a loosehead who got destroyed by a Connacht front row a few weeks ago

i've said this on nearly every match thread featuring Australia over the last two years, but surely there's a better loosehead and TH in the country? Could they really do any worse

ewj1978

Aussie scrum is appalling, If they keep giving away pens mr, Clancy will be yellow carding people..

Swiwi.

I have seen nothing from Eng to worry me so far. NZ scrum is better than Australia's, so they'll need to find something else to throw at us.

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matthew8 wrote: »

Clancy is absolutely killing Australia here.

Australia are killing themselves with their ill discipline

Davei141

Tox56 wrote: »

Look at the technique of the Aus 3 in that last scrum, he went high and looked to have no power coming through whatsoever

I was thinking back to the second scrum peno, vunipola just drove in on him and got the peno. After that england made a complete mess of the scrum and got another put in. Farrell just missed again hes now 1/4

ewj1978

One of the best usernames I have ever seen Ugo..

totally agree.. Australia need to up their game

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Yellow card next time

what's amazing is how Australia feel the need to give away so many penalties to a pretty pedestrian English attack

Swiwi.

I wish there was neutral commentary...

matthew8

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Australia are killing themselves with their ill discipline

Some of the scrum calls are very harsh. Vunipola is doing his driving across trick all the time.

thomond2006

Clear block from that restart!

Swiwi.

Nice to see Folau sporting a "Madigan".

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Swiwi. wrote: »

I wish there was neutral commentary...

"keep your head down and there's noway he can give a penalty"

Barnes making up his own rules

ewj1978

there is.. just turn off the sound qand listen to the voices in your head..

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Boom

matthew8

Great try. Toomua is so strong. Australia playing all the rugby.

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Ashton once again showing his massive limitations

Schoolboy defending from 36 too

ewj1978

nice play aussie.. could be a try here

Davei141

Solid scrum and a very good try! Twelvetrees got smashed.

ewj1978

yep.. good play that,, awful defence from England.

thomond2006

Awful miss by Twelvetrees.

Kiwi_knock

Great from Cooper, some nice strength there from Toomua