The Awful Truth About England...

"Entertainment level high"

"Quality rugby from both sides"

"England anything but boring"

"England playing at a hectic pace"

I've been watching the June game and these were comments from the Australian
commentators as England put together attack after attack, hardly kicking at
all.  We can dismiss the "boring England brigade" because they have
obviously not watched England play their "hurry up offense" and their
ill-informed comments, though irritating, serve only to illustrate their own
lack of knowledge.  Certainly, anyone watching the "look no hands" try that
England scored in the fist half would be hard pushed to find a side that
could do that as well.

I expect a similarly open game providing the weather holds, in which case
the question is "can the Aussie forwards put in two colossal eforts back to
back?  England's forwards are in a different class to New Zealand - even
playing like shite and with two men off the field they matched the ABs - and
I just wonder if Australia's pack are good enough or whether they just
haven't showed us what they have yet.

I hope it will be good weather so that England can stamp their authority on
the game early with a couple of tries and go on from there.  If it is good
weather, then I think the Aussies are staring down the barrel of a big
defeat.  They are good but they are not as good as England by some way and
if they do win it will be one of the biggest upsets in world cup history.
England have got progressively better against Australia and this time it's
for real.  The bonus is that those ignorant enough to brand England as
boring simply because they have never watched England play outside of the
RWC or against their own teams will have at least one game to remember us
by.

Pray for the rain to hold off guys.  Jeez, we know they can't beat us if it
rains, but we can slaughter the sods if it doesn't...

Cheers

UD