I was apprehensive this morning, as I was looking for a performance. Winning wasn’t important at all, I wanted a performance, and the boys gave us a performance. I wanted more linespeed in the second half to slow the English momentum down and make an impression in the first 10-15 minutes. Wainwright and Morgan were excellent, but our scrums were a bit messy so we need to work on that. Sam Costelow grew into the game, and you can’t coach Test experience, so he had some of that today.
Full credit to the boys it was a great game, it was good after the training weeks to get that result and performance. The camps have been tough, but we worked hard and we’re pleased to get the results.
We went in at half-time knowing we had more in the second half, we dug and came out firing. It’s been an honour to captain the side, but there’s a lot of leaders in the side and we’ll go again next week.
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Wales win the game very comfortably after England fell away badly from 50 mins onwards. Not much to recommend the Borthwick revolution in 2023 so far, whereas Wales have something resembling Warrenball v4.675 being released into the world, in a good way.
The England coach will certainly have plenty of red pen on whatever squad list he had prior to the match.
A neat and tidy blindside move from Wales off their scrum near halfway has Dan Biggar and Tomos Williams prominent in finding Rees-Zammit on the right touchline. The winger chips-and-chases the ball into the in-goal; it initially looks too deep but he eats up the ground like a bullet train to get there and ground it!
Incredibly, he reached it before it went dead, but the TMO rules there was some slight separation between hand and ball as he grounded.
It did not look clear enough to disallow it, for me, but the score remains 20-9.
Rees-Zammit is absolutely fuming when he sees the decision and boots a touch flag in temper.
Steve Borthwick’s men have made 16 handling errors, their lineout is not going well and the scrum is struggling. The decent periods of first half history very much feel like the proverbial other country right now.
England have a tidy exit from their own 22 via a Van Poortvliet kick, and Steward comfortably claims the kick that Dan Biggar blooters back deep into England territory.
Wales will be delighted to play the game like this for the remaining time.
England are in the Wales half and Marchant again cuts a lovely angle to receive and inside ball from Smith to get in behind the red defence, but the next phase has Smith dropping the ball. Watch Rugby World Cup live That’s approximately 2,435 handling errors for the visitors so far.
Kyle Sinckler, Theo Dan and Tom Willis are on for Will Stuart, Jamie Blamire and Lewis Ludlam.
Dan Biggar and Tomos Williams replace Sam Costelow and tryscorer Gareth Davies
