Relief for England as Tuilagi is cleared

As I understand it Tizzano was not required to undergo an HIA at the end of the game, so what does that tell you? He was also also into the ruck at the side so the first tech pen was on him.

None of us can really say whether Jac Morgan made contact with Tizzano’s shoulder or neck first, and I can show you 20 instances in every game where similar instances occur without pen.

It will be unfortunate if we cannot call them a truly great side because they never had to dig deep enough, often enough.

Aussie same as always recently - good performances marred by inability to finish. Remember the Eddie game where Aussie got to 17-3 up in Dunedin but lost 23-20? Similar to that.

Easy solution is to give the line to the defensive team, as in only something needs to be on or behind (rather than everything). That will fix the whole area of bashing in low to get across time after time.

That just changes the target area not the methods used to attack/defend it JW, no?

It won’t encourage ppl to enter the profession if they think they will be accused of being biased/incompetent etc and that will become the norm.

JAS at 12 is no better. It will expose his lack of contact skills even more - he had one pen against in Melbourne when he ran all the way around the side of a ruck to clean out a bloke who hadn’t even entered it!

For now, just let him use the skill-set he has in the back three, in space.

Don’t agree about the Genge calls. Robbo was going up and down like a yoyo, haven’t seen so many collapses since dear old Al Baxter!

Interesting fact is that Carlo was not apparently required to have an an HIA after the game, so presumably is available for the third Test. Presumably the hit was within acceptable parameters?

The selection stuff I just don’t understand. Why Bell on the bench, and why pair a 6’4 prop with one of 5’10? Why not Kerevi or Paisami at 12 to give young Tom an insurance poilicy? Why let Skelton tell everyone he’s fit and then not pick him? Etc etc.

Australia always used to find a way to win these tight games, now they do the opposite!

The French have some unique roles for their 10s, I could have seen potential for these two to a good cog in a working team. Similar to Lynagh’s style of the Wallabies (if you have watched) and some NZ talent.