England V Tonga

[retrocop]

Any one watching on ITV ?

[Spicerack]

No. How's it going?

[jno]

Tonga lost to NZ recently by 85 points so I wouldn't expect them to give England too much trouble. NZ were down to 14 men at the end - voluntarily.

[THECORBYLOON]

18-3 to England

[Spicerack]

Bet half the NZ team were Tongans.

[Old_Geezer]

Of course.
Going well.

[Spicerack]

That reminds me, jno, of the true story about Scotland v NZ.
The NZ team went to the pub and left Jonah Lomu to play them on his own.
When Jonah joined them in the pub, his teammates asked the final score.
'87-3' said Jonah
'How did they score 3, Jonah?' asked his surprised teammates
'I got sent off with 15 minutes to go' Jonah said apologetically.

[dannyk13]

A good win 35/3 but lost too many chances to score more.

[retrocop]

Handling wasn't the best was it?

[dannyk13]

The only thing up to scratch was the defence.As you say the handling was a bit rubbishy.

[emmie]

i did, they weren't 100percent, but i guess the results the thing

[ToraToraTora]

too many handling errors, won't get away with that against the French.

[Sqad]

Spicerack 13.24........LOL...LOL.

England need to improve to have a chance to reach the semi-finals on that display.

[dannyk13]

Retro, can't be bothered to try and work out inane name substitutions.

[jno]

Spicerack, there are two Tongan-born players in the NZ squad - and 18 NZ-born players in the Tongan squad.

http://www.americasrugbynews.com/2019/09/09/foreign-born-raised-players-at-rwc-2019/?fbclid=IwAR3KBu026kE782s-yizDuTtwwPRVwraMJJphN0zUjb1dLinnOWGmnG0Oydg

That's even more than the 15 NZ-born Samoans. Rugby players (and coaches) are a major NZ export, even England has a couple.

[Jordyboy9]

Spicerack,if I didn’t think that was funny 13.24
I would say it was sadly very true

[Spicerack]

I'm sorry, jordy, but I suspect, as we post, jno is googling furiously to prove it didn't happen.