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Oh, hang on. The oddly spelt version is tomorrow at Murrayfield.
Cracker of a game this afternoon. Some excellent open running rugby, some good defence, two stonking performances by the two numbers eights. I thoroughly enjoyed a hard-fought, well-played game. Shame the best that can be said about England is that they had a good first three minutes.
On today's performances, Ireland and Wales would both have ripped Johnson's boys to shreds. The only reason that Italy lost so badly was the idiocy of trying out Bergamasco as a scrum half. The young lad who's only played 15 minutes of test rugby before did a much better job in the second half, but by then it was too late for them. Shame, as I really rate Bergamasco when he's playing in the right position and this can't have done his confidence any good.
England made the most of the Italian mistakes, but were generally poor. The passing didn't click (and just watch back some of the French and Irish moves to see how it should), the kicking was mediocre, the discipline was appalling. No Italian pressure to speak of in the first half and they gave up 10 penalties and a sin-binning. Their game has to improve massively if they're not to finish fifth this year.
Cracker of a game this afternoon. Some excellent open running rugby, some good defence, two stonking performances by the two numbers eights. I thoroughly enjoyed a hard-fought, well-played game. Shame the best that can be said about England is that they had a good first three minutes.
On today's performances, Ireland and Wales would both have ripped Johnson's boys to shreds. The only reason that Italy lost so badly was the idiocy of trying out Bergamasco as a scrum half. The young lad who's only played 15 minutes of test rugby before did a much better job in the second half, but by then it was too late for them. Shame, as I really rate Bergamasco when he's playing in the right position and this can't have done his confidence any good.
England made the most of the Italian mistakes, but were generally poor. The passing didn't click (and just watch back some of the French and Irish moves to see how it should), the kicking was mediocre, the discipline was appalling. No Italian pressure to speak of in the first half and they gave up 10 penalties and a sin-binning. Their game has to improve massively if they're not to finish fifth this year.
