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Originally posted by Memnoch:
"...as Roff burst into the clear, he was ankle tapped in a desperate tackle and the cover arrived, the tacklers tried to wrap him up Dayglo-style but the support arrived, in the form of Vickerman and Waugh, and did an Ali at the back of the ruck, shredding the hands of anyone trying to do a Backy and opening up the back of the ruck quick-smart for Gregan to arrive and fire the ball out to his backs, thus launching another sweeping Australian backline move, with Rogers slicing through and putting Wendell away, through the brittle England defence, despite the advantage of the Luger edge ".
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Sorry mate - didn't anyone ever tell you it's the victors that get to write history!
Chariot turned steamroller
The sweet chariot of English rugby may have swung low last week to claim the scalp of the All Blacks but it looked more like a steamroller than a chariot as it crushed the Wallabies in Melbourne.
It was sweet indeed for the English supporters to watch their team finally teach the colonials a thing or two about the game which they invented.
The spirit of William Webb Ellis was very much alive as the English picked up the ball and ran with it and most importantly kept possession for long periods, shutting the Wallabies out of the game.
It was their first win on Australian soil.
More importantly it was enough to put the wind up the Australians who are hosting the World Cup in three months.
The question for the Wallabies must be “is that enough time?”
England has had consistency of selection, consistency of performance and must be rated ahead of Australia on any World Cup market.
Eddie Jones and his team have been saying for a long time that there is a lot of work to be done and England highlighted just how much is needed.
If the England performance wasn’t impressive enough, there was another game with ramifications for the Wallabies’ World Cup campaign
Written by one of your own! [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img]