Well played to the England rugby team.

Written off by everyone, including myself, they put in an excellent performance and very nearly sent the much heralded South Africa team out of the tournament.

Some of the players I thought should be dropped, like Owen Farrell, were superb. England was on top for sixty minutes and the panicked faces on the SA bench told a story of a team that thought it was heading home.

Ultimately, the quality of the Boks substitutes is what turned a nine point deficit into a one point win. Congrats to South Africa for making the final and they are a good team. Also congrats to Borthwick and the England boys for putting in a game like that.

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TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

They knocked SA completely off their game but a bit more enterprise might have seen a different result.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@TheSirfurryanimalWales That is the problem we don't have any creativity. You saw that especially when we were a point down.

AdaXI · 41-45, T

@TheSirfurryanimalWales @Burnley123 Yeah sure we don't have a creative squad we rely on teams making mistakes and kicking for points but I think we did well with what we had and just like France in the quarter finals we got worn down by RSA and we were making a lot of mistakes by the end. I also think RSA had a stronger bench so their changes made more impact.

But we made a game of it though, nobody on the planet would have predicted we could of run South Africa as close as we did.
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@AdaXI Exactly