Despite the narrow defeat in France, there is evidence of a serious pack and speed, strength and skill in the three-quarters
Tommy Freeman celebrates scoring a late try that looked like earning England another dramatic Six Nations victory in Lyon.Tommy Freeman celebrates scoring a late try that looked like earning England another dramatic Six Nations victory in Lyon.
It was that sort of match. It swung wildly in the night-time breeze, one way then the other. England were 13 points down in one moment, and eight points up again in the very next. It was sloppy and exuberant and exhausted, like a game played in the hallways on the last day of term.in Dublin earlier in the afternoon.
If only they could have played that way for all 80 minutes, or even an hour of them. But they didn’t have it in them, this week. Their lineout, which had been a finely calibrated machine against the Irish, stopped and stuttered, their maul went nowhere at all, and there were, again, a few too many handling errors when they were on the ball, and a few too many holes in their defensive line when one or another of them came rushing up like a bull after the toreador.
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