The Twickenham crowd were roaring their side on as England went wide at pace, only for Ashton to spill the ball. When Farrell stroked over his first penalty for a lead after 25 minutes it was entirely deserved.
Carter missed a second straightforward penalty, a mistake symptomatic of an error-strewn All Blacks half-hour. Farrell made it from distance when Israel Dagg was snagged by skipper Chris Robshaw and it took a grasping tackle from Carter to haul down Tuilagi as he looked to escape down the left touchline. New Zealand were barely recognisable from the team who have steamrollered all-comers since their World Cup win a year ago.
Farrell extended the lead with a neat drop-goal, and took it to at half-time with his third penalty after another All Black infringement. England, beaten by South Africa and by Australia in recent weeks, were remorseless as the second period began.
Ben Morgan made a mess of the Kiwi catch at the restart; the subsequent scrum producing an England penalty. To deafening cheers from the crowd, Farrell slid home the kick from out wide for The All Blacks hit back hard. Forward pressure created space for Dagg to put winger Savea in at the corner, and Carter's touchline conversion closed the gap to eight points.
Moments later Alex Goode gathered Ma'a Nonu's kick-through, only for Farrell to miss touch with his clearing kick and set up another rampaging series of New Zealand attacks. Conrad Smith found space out wide, wriggled from a tackle and found Cory Jane - and this time it was number eight Read who powered over. Carter's conversion made it , and all of England's fine work seemed in danger. Barritt had other ideas. His centre partnership with Tuilagi has been criticised for its lack of creativity, but fast feet and quick hands opened out vast space on the left.
An interchange of passes gave Barritt the hole to smash over, with Farrell's conversion bouncing off the crossbar. Quick ball off the top of the line-out from the impressive Geoff Parling allowed Ben Youngs to find Tuilagi at pace, and the centre thundered through two feeble arms, drew the full-back and sent a celebrating Ashton away for Twickenham had barely finished celebrating when Tuilagi struck again, intercepting Read's poor pass to Carter and strolling across the line in an atmosphere of disbelief.
Farrell nailed the conversion, and when he was replaced by debutant Freddie Burns, the Gloucester youngster popped over a penalty for Replacement Mako Vunipola was yellow-carded with six minutes left, creating a numerical supremacy that Savea took advantage of for his second try. But Burns added his second penalty and a famous scalp was in the bag. Sin Bin: Vunipola Att: 82, These comments are now closed.
Comments Join the conversation. To use comments you will need to have JavaScript enabled. Comment posted by xpat73, at 1 Dec xpat So England have gone from loser nitwits to sublime masters of the rugby universe in one week according to the press and pundits. I am an England fan - but I subscribe to the view that you aren't as bad as everyone says after a loss, and not as good as everyone says after a win.
England deserved their victory today. Comment posted by mcfwinn, at 1 Dec mcfwinn. Dear critics What said:. BUT Beale should be dropped, the first one - also sends a message to all about performance for whatever reason.
BPC Phil Hardcastle The lack of fitness of the Tahs forwards is showing and is a liability. I would bite the bullet and replace some of them. You can't do anything much with conditioning in one week and while players are recovering from the last match.
While losing Pocock is a worry, the far bigger concern is losing Kepu. Not because of his play on the weekend, but because it opens the door for Alexander. The only prop to play looser than Higginbotham. Beale should go to the bench IMHO, not just the mistakes but the lack of zip, his irritation at Sharpe getting the try rather than giving the ball to him and his apparent lack of remorse after the match.
Moore toss of the coin between Moore and TPN but fitness is the decider 3. Slipper I would keep Kepu if not injured, can cover both sides, not a great scrumagger but better than Alexander 4. Sharpe our best lineout tactician but he still gets isolated too often and has a real talent for falling the wrong way in the tackle and losing the ball 5. Douglas we need a TH lock and he is better than Timani, told to play tight and try to be first or second to the breakdown to clear out for Hooper 6.
Dennis also told to play tight and try to be first or second to the breakdown to clear out for Hooper 7. Hooper 8. Higginbotham needs to be told to play tighter in the first couple of phases and then head wider once there is some momentum 9.
Genia told to pass it quickly unless there is absolutely nobody there, the other players have to up the tempo rather than Genia slow down the tempo for their benefit Cooper prone to go into his shell but our best option with his long passing game and lack of passing game in the centres Ioane Faingaa but only until McCabe is back Ashley-Cooper not really a winger and Horne needs more experience at lower levels Mitchell if he's fit, start him, if not then club rugby, when in form he is as devastating as Ioane in a different way Barnes reasonably solid defender and would do better with his tactical game with more time at the back, question marks about the high ball as he doesn't seem to have much of a leap?
Polota-Nau Robinson Timani Samo Gill make sure he gets a decent amount of game time Phipps come back Burgo! Harris A Cooper prone to go into his shell would be quite a well balanced fly-half. I don't think we should drop players for one bad game. I don't think kneejerk reactions to a poor performance in any sport have been successful. You have to pick the players you think will do the best job and go with them. Players should only be replaced after they have consistently struggled for form.
Dropping someone to 'send a message to all about performance' suggests that players play badly because they don't try hard enough or don't care.
I don't think that is the case at all. TOCC Guest. Joined Apr 22, Messages 1. That's because there were barely any copies Game didn't even have enough to fill all the pre-orders! It looks sharp and it has a full career mode with a non restricted transfer system.
I dream of a day when i can play as the Saints, sort their training, players haev form and young ones get better and old ones get worse, unfitter, take longer to recover from games ect and play as england BUT loose my internationls for those games, make transfers. Every rugby game so far has done this completely half arsed! If only BZHopenside Academy Player. One of the things I didn't like about Rugby Challenge was how you could basically make a perfect player in character creation.
You don't have to customize the player for his position. Also, the general discrepancy between the All-Blacks, who look basically spot-on, and the NH players, who look like a random assortment of features. BZHopenside said:. No no no, i want to be able to create a perfect player as thats my choice! Also just in general all rugby games have been rushed and lazy. It makes me think that the people who make them are generally not intersted in rugby, have never played fifa or a decent sports game or are jsut plain stupid.
No player form? No player condition? A carrier mode where you only buy players at the end of the season who still stay in the opposition team? Any strong play can scrum? Rugby challenge went backwards in many ways from RUgby 08 and Rugby World cup was rushed and boring. I just want to have a decent rugby game!!!! I like Rugby Challenge - think it was a good first attempt and I do play it still. But there are plenty that annoy me - 1.
Biggest Issue - Licencing. Having a half decent player editor doesn't change this - playing against South Africa is cringe worthy. Future games need to have all international teams as licenced, at least the top Also, if I want a player in the French League to play for Fiji, I don't expect licencing restrictions to prevent me from changing.
This game is still buggy like hell and no one seems to fix it. I play in SR in campaign mode - say with the Crusaders - and if I select Kahn Fotoalii as a replacement for Andy Ellis - it may mean I end up with 2 Kahn's on my screen, or two other players one without a name or just miss out on a halfback with DC playing there.
It's mental. Players seem to duplicate especially for some reason if they also are in a PI squad, Mo Schwalger, Fotoalii, Joe Tuineui all seem to duplicate and the problem never goes away no matter if I delete my saves records etc.
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