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Our early composure not ideal.

Not a great start. Itoje is being a pain in the arse.

Cuthbert failing to pass there feels like a missed opportunity.

Yellow card. Not the start we wanted.

This is dangerous. And Francis off for a HIA when he was getting the better of Genge.

Two scrum penalties won which is decent and we have held up against a very dominant percentage of English possession. If we can keep frustrating them to the end of the half it will start to rattle them.

Far too many mistakes. Lost lineouts and poor breakdown technique. When we keep ball in hand we are actually creating some space but we are giving the English back the ball far too easily.

At least Cuthbert asking a few questions but he needs to look for support runners.

If we’re nine nil down at HT it won’t be the disaster I first thought.

normanski wrote:If we’re nine nil down at HT it won’t be the disaster I first thought.

I knew as soon as I posted it would tempt fate.

When England get some fluidity they look dangerous but our defence had held.

When we get quick ball we have looked challenging, although haven’t spent much time in the red zone.

England have had so much more possession, going in 12-0 down feels like a let off.

Crucial we start the second half well and put pressure on . Some English mistakes and you do sense that if we put them under pressure they will make more.

High hopes we can turn it round. A little more composure at the breakdown and Moriarty to roll quicker.

We can forget getting a penalty. Ever.

We need two tries, let's face it three or four, from no posession, in 40 minutes.

Call me pessimistic but I think we might just lose this one.

Our lineout is just a horror to watch.

We are getting nothing here. The breakdown is not pretty

That’s more like it!!!!!

Oh well. It got exciting for a while but it feels like England are going to make this safe

Sandydragon wrote:Oh well. It got exciting for a while but it feels like England are going to make this safe

It was exciting until the end.

Well that was an exciting last few minutes. We left ourselves with far too much to do.

Second half was a much better performance aside from that sloppy gift of a try.

Imagine if Wales played for 80 minutes, hell 40 would have done it today....

Coulda shoulda woulda...

oh well.

Considering we were due to be stuffed by a rampant England we shut a few people up. Great effort to fight back from 17-0 down

Ah well, hope we get a ref who gives us penalties next time, it's pretty hard without that.

We need a functioning lineout most of all.

Son of Mathonwy wrote:Ah well, hope we get a ref who gives us penalties next time, it's pretty hard without that.

This. By the time we got a holding pen in the 76th minute, I'd adjusted so thoroughly that I genuinely wondered what it was for.