Match Thread England vs Wales 10th Feb 16:45 TV3/ITV

Stheno

England: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Anthony Watson, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Owen Farrell, 11 Jonny May, 10 George Ford, 9 Danny Care; 1 Make Vunipola, 2 Dylan Hartley, 3 Dan Cole, 4 Joe Launchbury, 5 Maro Itoje, 6 Courtney Lawes, 7 Chris Robshaw, 8 Sam Simmonds.

Replacements: 16 Jamie George, 17 Alec Hepburn, 18 Harry Williams, 19 George Kruis, 20 Sam Underhill, 21 Richard Wigglesworth, 22 Ben Te'o, 23 Jack Nowell.

Wales: 15 Liam Williams?, 14 Josh Adams, 13 Scott Williams, 12 Hadleigh Parkes, 11 Steff Evans, 10 Rhys Patchell, 9 Gareth Davies; 1 Rob Evans, 2 Ken Owens, 3 Samson Lee, 4 Cory Hill, 5 Alun Wyn Jones (c), 6 Aaron Shingler, 7 Josh Navidi, 8 Ross Moriarty.

Replacements: 16 Elliot Dee, 17 Wyn Jones, 18 Tomas Francis, 19 Bradley Davies, 20 Justin Tipuric, 21 Aled Davies, 22 Gareth Anscombe, 23 George North.


England are in Twickenham where they have won their last 18 games. In the last meeting of Eng vs Wales England won 21-16.

After last weeks trouncing of Scotland, this looks likely to be a close match with not more than a score in it.

The last minute withdrawal of Leigh Halpenny means kicking duties for Wales will pass to Rhys Patchell.

Prediction: England by 3

Zzippy

TL: DR

:P

NollagShona

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dublinman1990

NollagShona wrote: »

https://twitter.com/cheekyruck/status/962013794883874822

I would lol if this game was a draw later on just to see their faces.

Subpopulus

Land of our Fathers sounds like a middle-ranking christmas carol. Silent Night it is not.

joseywhales

Ah I don't know why gatland gets so much flack, he's reasonable enough.

Jones is just a wind up artist.

razorblunt

Dylan Hartley tackling with his face there.
"More of that please", says you.


The HIA will confirm, in fact, he has no brain.

dublinman1990

Hartley is off already with a HIA. Talk about fast.

Stheno

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Hartley is off already with a HIA. Talk about fast.

He looked quite dopey

F34

That feed to the scrum was a disgrace

razorblunt

THAT is why May gets picked. Rockets in his boots.

eigrod

Wow. What a kick though

Burkie1203

Awful from wales

CurryFlavoured

Super clinical from England.

pickarooney

Lucky or perfectly weighted, that kick was sublime.

That is absolutely brilliant. Terrific decision to kick through, fantastic.

dublinman1990

Farrell missed his kick. Playing in the rain would not be easy for this match.

mangobob

Ruthless from England.

kuang1

Terrible error from Wales.

Not as terrible as realising that Conor macnaFookinmara is tv3's commentator tho.

Fook it.

Professor Moriarty

Exactly what Wales didn't need. England could cut loose if Wales lose focus.

kuang1

Jesus h fookin christ...Shane Byrne is almost as bad as MacNamara...
"It's been all England so far...Wales haven't got a look in"....
Did he watch the first 2 minutes of the game?
Horrendous punditry.

razorblunt

Can anyone confirm if AWJ and Itoje were roommates on the Lions Tour?


Itoje was miles offside in the line speed there.

CurryFlavoured

Damn, this is a real exceptional England side. The main difference between us and England is the creativity they have running ball in hand.

eigrod

England are going to get a bonus point here

pickarooney

Was that Patchell's brother in the stands?

CurryFlavoured

Hmm, hit his knee, but was there downward pressure from red? Tough one.

bloodless_coup

Bull****!!

A-Train

Ah that’s very harsh on Wales.

Hurrache

Looked a try to me.

Burkie1203

Thats a terrible call

Harsh on Wales there

chupacabra

So Clancy tells him what happened and he ignores him?

PhlegmyMoses

Wow, totally disagree with that one

BigCon

Why was that not a try?

crisco10

It was more sideways pressure than downward pressure....sort of squirted out.

ScrubsfanChris

Don't think that was as clear cut a try as Shane Williams thinks.

LuckyGent88

Not sure that was enough control on the downward pressure but seen them given

Hurrache

"Not been clearly grounded", what was that TMO looking at.

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Not sure that was enough control on the downward pressure but seen them given

Don't need control on the downward pressure, that's a rugby league thing.

Neil3030

chupacabra wrote: »

So Clancy tells him what happened and he ignores him?

Sounds about right!

mangobob

Wales were absolutely robbed there.

letowski

No way did Anscombe get pressure there, he flapped at it, right call.

Professor Moriarty

Npt clearly grounded seems a fair call.

baas baa

Anyone hear the TMO come in to tell Garces the penalty count.

sydthebeat

Owen farrell has turned into the almost complete 12

ednwireland

Looked like he slapped it away definitely no control

Dick phelan

Terrible call is the TMO blind England did not get there first.

Minderbinder

If that was Italy they’d have given the try. As it is, it seems like the right decision.

CurryFlavoured

mangobob wrote: »

Wales were absolutely robbed there.

Not robbed, let's be fair here. Seen them given but really he flopped a hand at it.

Berserker

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Npt clearly grounded seems a fair call.

Yep agree with you.

Losty Dublin

BigCon wrote: »

Why was that not a try?

When grounding a loose ball the player has to press down on the ball. While he did try it wasn't a press down in this case.

Neil3030

England chipping the ball a lot against Wales's rush defense - I wonder if they'll do similar against us.