Originally Posted by
Lord Worcester
Just been reading your earlier post about missed tackles and conceding tries. It has been bothering me as well but as lame as this is going to sound I think there are mitigating circumstances in each. Against Georgia we were 20 up after 20 minutes. We relaxed and 'let' their big pack build a head of steam and rumble over for a couple. First half v aussies we were superb. 2nd half they threw caution to the wind and I believe that there is no better team in world rugby than them when they release the handbreak and play natural rugby. We did well and defended well to keep it down to the 3. Against Fiji we did defend poorly. But they are freakish and we do have mental scarring from them. Bit like we did with the samoans until we beat them in pool in 2011. But agree we must be better than the Fiji game. There all my excuses made! Think the quarters will go back to being a bit more tight and tactical especially between 2 European 'giants'
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