Match Preview & Thread: ENG vs NZ, Twickenham, Sat 1 Dec, 2:30pm

Swiwi

Game over! Well done to England, my hat is off. Let Swing Low Sweet Chariot flow over me.

liammur

An absolute rout.

Blackheath

Higher wrote: »

Tuilagi is having a fantastic game. Shoe in for Lions 13 in my opinion.

He looks so powerfull

goreyguy

32 - 14 to england

Teferi

liammur wrote: »

An absolute rout.

It's never over against the All Blacks, this will go down to the whistle.

Swiwi

liammur wrote: »

An absolute rout.

No, that would be 60-0, liammur. But a heavy defeat, I agree.

Funkstard

Jesus christ. Fair play to them I suppose!

Blackheath

What the F**k is going on here???

steve9859

Not over yet. But NZ are shaken up badly....

Swiwi

steve9859 wrote: »

Not over yet. But NZ are shaken up badly....

It's over. Would take a Leinster-like comeback to win this one.

goreyguy

NZ missing takles, huge gaps everywhere.. what is going on

if NZ lose today, you can almost guarantee its going to fuel them ridiculously

Zuffer

Tuilagi had some outstanding plays there. Brought england back into the game.

steve9859

It's over now

Quint2010

Wow. Just wow. Fair play England.

Swiwi

goreyguy wrote: »

NZ missing takles, huge gaps everywhere.. what is going on

Giving McCaw the send-off he doesn't deserve. I'll cop it on the chin, and move on. There is 1 redeeming factor - it's not a RWC 1/4 final

jamiedav2011

Lots of Sarries playing for England, good or bad thing for Munster for next week?

liammur

steve9859 wrote: »

It's over now

It's 1 reason I like England, they don't roll over the way we do V NZ

CatFromHue

Fair play to England. It's been a long time since NZ conceded 32 points.

They conceded 32 against SA in Sep 2009, 34 against Oz in July 2008, and 37 against Wales in RWC03

Tox56

Reminds me of the Aussie-England game in 2010

shuffol

Fair play to England, not the most talented side but they've a confidence bordering on arrogance as a rugby nation that makes them capable of performances like this that we could only dream of.

liammur

They should try and hit them for 50, good shot in the arm for NH rugby.

dtpc191991

Think Sexton's facing serious competition for that Lions jersey now.

Tox56

dtpc191991 wrote: »

Think Sexton's facing serious competition for that Lions jersey now.

It's all in the 6N. Farrell will have to start first.

grohlisagod

All Blacks defence was atrocious for those tries. Well done England though.

JustinDee

Fair dues to Poms. They're doing it with tries, as opposed to increments of three points.
I wonder how Chris Rattue is taking all this?

spiralism

With Wales leading Australia, do these results as they stand affect world cup seeding?

steve9859

grohlisagod wrote: »

All Blacks defence was atrocious for those tries. Well done England though.

Their heads are down and seems like they've given up. Just going through the motions now. Don't often see that in an AB side

Swiwi

JustinDee wrote: »

Fair dues to Poms. They're doing it with tries, as opposed to increments of three points.
I wonder how Chris Rattue is taking all this?

In his stride. He as much anti-NZ as pro-NZ at times.

liammur

Total humiliation for the ABs. Who'd have predicted it ?

shuffol

Anybody remember a single NZ turnover won not from a maul.

Swiwi

NZ needs to look at their pack going forward...

thomond2006

Clancy blowing New Zealand off the park.

Swiwi

liammur wrote: »

Total humiliation for the ABs. Who'd have predicted it ?

The French?

Scioch

A line I remember for the Will Greenwood article yesterday when talking about the All Blacks team.

"If SBW was playing this would be the greatest team that I ever seen"

Considering how England played and Frances form, we are in trouble come 6 Nations.

Swiwi

Never a match v Eng without a dropgoal LOL

Tomtom364

Not to take anything from Englands preformance, it has been immense.

But to be fair to the AB's, 30 out of 32 of your players down with a vomiting bug mid week, that is bound to take effect on any team, including the mighty ABs.


Great to see the result! But England couldnt have gotten luckier with the situation of the ABs Squad.

CatFromHue

spiralism wrote: »

With Wales leading Australia, do these results as they stand affect world cup seeding?

Not hugely.

Wales will stay in the top 8 and Oz will drop to fourth with France going to fifth.

Oh and Deans will lose his job.

Swiwi

Tomtom364 wrote: »

Not to take anything from Englands preformance, it has been immense.

But to be fair to the AB's, 30 out of 32 of your players down with a vomiting bug mid week, that is bound to take effect on any team, including the mighty ABs.


Great to see the result! But England couldnt have gotten luckier with the situation of the ABs Squad.

I won't make excuses, Eng were better, vomiting bug or not. There is a re-run of this match next November.

Scioch

NZ trying making tough work out of scraping a consolation try.

Tox56

I have never seen the ABs make so many handling errors, the comms putting it down to the defence (and did that play a part) but New Zealand have faced defences as good as this and not made this many mistakes.

pickarooney

Three botched tries at the end. NZ played for about 8 minutes.

liammur

Swiwi wrote: »

The French?

Indeed, the french also front up and were robbed out of a WCup.

JustinDee

Scioch wrote: »

Considering how England played and Frances form, we are in trouble come 6 Nations.

Bit different playing away from home though. Hopefully we won't have those in receipt of ticket allocations flogging off to highest bidder across the ditch like in 2003.

Swiwi

liammur wrote: »

Indeed, the french also front up and were robbed out of a WCup.

Oh, another Irish stand-up comedian.

thomond2006

New Zealand looked sensational for 5-10 minutes, but the middle 20 minutes of the second half was equally sensational for England. Great performance.

Turtwig

How many missed tackles and mistakes did Carter make today?
Mind Boggling.

Fair play England, but NZ barely played in this match. Shocking defence.

Klunk_NZ

Tomtom364 wrote: »

Not to take anything from Englands preformance, it has been immense.

But to be fair to the AB's, 30 out of 32 of your players down with a vomiting bug mid week, that is bound to take effect on any team, including the mighty ABs.


Great to see the result! But England couldnt have gotten luckier with the situation of the ABs Squad.

Thank you for posting this. I was thinking it but it would look like sour grapes if I said it. I can live with dropping a match to England every 10 years.

Swiwi

At least Wales have choked again. Complete & utter inability to see out a game v SH opposition.

pickarooney

CatFromHue wrote: »

Not hugely.

Wales will stay in the top 8 and Oz will drop to fourth with France going to fifth.

Oh and Deans will lose his job.

Not any more they won't...

liammur

Pity they didn't smash the 50 barrier, but that puts NH rugby right bang up there.