England A vs All Blacks XV, 8 November at the Rec

[FKAS]

Has Hall played this season? Seems quite a swift promotion, though he is obviously a talented lad.

Pack looks pretty solid, not sure about the half backs and i'm no fan of Hodge at FB.

Should be interesting but alas is on Premier sports.

Yep. Played against Oxford Uni, then off the bench in Prem then for Ampthill just to get minutes in him. Had a niggly ankle injury that kept him out of the U20 World Cup and missed bits of pre-season with it.

Is definitely a swift promotion, because of what he could be, rather than what he is now.

Borthwick loves a utility option as well doesn't he. 13/wing/15 Hall could be a very useful option in the squad.

[charlesdeboeuf]

Has Hall played this season? Seems quite a swift promotion, though he is obviously a talented lad.

Pack looks pretty solid, not sure about the half backs and i'm no fan of Hodge at FB.

Should be interesting but alas is on Premier sports.

Yep. Played against Oxford Uni, then off the bench in Prem then for Ampthill just to get minutes in him. Had a niggly ankle injury that kept him out of the U20 World Cup and missed bits of pre-season with it.

Is definitely a swift promotion, because of what he could be, rather than what he is now.

Borthwick loves a utility option as well doesn't he. 13/wing/15 Hall could be a very useful option in the squad.

He’s the new Tobias Elliott!

[Epaminondas Pules]

Has Hall played this season? Seems quite a swift promotion, though he is obviously a talented lad.

Pack looks pretty solid, not sure about the half backs and i'm no fan of Hodge at FB.

Should be interesting but alas is on Premier sports.

Yep. Played against Oxford Uni, then off the bench in Prem then for Ampthill just to get minutes in him. Had a niggly ankle injury that kept him out of the U20 World Cup and missed bits of pre-season with it.

Is definitely a swift promotion, because of what he could be, rather than what he is now.

Borthwick loves a utility option as well doesn't he. 13/wing/15 Hall could be a very useful option in the squad.

Can play 12 too

[FKAS]

Yep. Played against Oxford Uni, then off the bench in Prem then for Ampthill just to get minutes in him. Had a niggly ankle injury that kept him out of the U20 World Cup and missed bits of pre-season with it.

Is definitely a swift promotion, because of what he could be, rather than what he is now.

Borthwick loves a utility option as well doesn't he. 13/wing/15 Hall could be a very useful option in the squad.

Can play 12 too

Good performance at the weekend and he'll get nicknamed "Luke" cause he's the New Hope

[Epaminondas Pules]

Borthwick loves a utility option as well doesn't he. 13/wing/15 Hall could be a very useful option in the squad.

Can play 12 too

Good performance at the weekend and he'll get nicknamed "Luke" cause he's the New Hope

One thing you’d hope is that backline won’t die wondering!

[charlesdeboeuf]

Caluori’s aerial game is absolutely incredible.

[Oakboy]

After 25 minutes NZ have kicked to touch nearly every time from deep.

[Captainhaircut]

Backline has been a mess.

[Which Tyler]

Any working streams?
Took me 25 minutes to find one that only works on the tablet - and dropped out shortly before half time

[Oakboy]

Something of a hammering now. We were incohesive unsurprisingly. Few players really impressed though several, OHC for instance were useful.

The biggest issue for me was the over-use of box-kicking as usual. Speculative kicking is not the way to play NZ. Give them easy possession and they make good use of it. It's not rocket science to recognise that.

[FKAS]

Backline has been a mess.

I mean Mark Mapletoft is in charge, not really a surprise.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Just finished watch the first half. Blamire has had an utter mare. Ojomoh with a couple of really nice touches and a couple of really poor ones. Pack doing ok.

Both wings have done well.

The attack looks very scrappy. It’s not the backline as such as it’s as much forwards fucking up as backs.

[fivepointer]

Disappointing result.

limited highlights here.

[Stom]

Yeah, looking at those highlights, that was crap.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Just finished watch the first half. Blamire has had an utter mare. Ojomoh with a couple of really nice touches and a couple of really poor ones. Pack doing ok.

Both wings have done well.

The attack looks very scrappy. It’s not the backline as such as it’s as much forwards fucking up as backs.

Second half….well it’s all about mistakes really! So may knock ons! Just kept gifting the ABs set piece after set piece. Great defending, turn over, knock on give the ball back to them!

Sub front row all made an impact.

Overall backrow were outclassed and a far more experienced side that could actually hold onto the ball had the upper hand by a bit of a distance.

OHC our best player.

Pleased for Caluoru and Hall who both had some good bigs and of course some errors. Neither wilted of shied away.