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Summer Nations Series (World Cup warm-ups) - Final weekend discussion thread

Summer Nations Series Fixtures - Autumn Nations Series

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Summer Nations Series Fixtures - Autumn Nations Series

Last weekend. And it's the game that no player wants. All teams looking ready as they can be at this stage, and SA pumping the All blacks last night!

Home	BST	Away
England	15:15	Fiji
Italy	17:30	Japan
Scotland	17:30	Georgia
Ireland	19:45	Samoa
Spain	19:45	Argentina

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Zerimski

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Yup, agree on England and Fiji. It's a stronger England side than you'd usually see starting against Fiji, hopefully both sides put up a fight.

Olap

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Any thoughts post match?

TagMeInSkipIGotThis

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Don't sack your coach 9 months out from a World Cup I reckon.

As a kiwi, with the benefit of that hindsight I reckon most of the country will be pretty relieved - even with that tough result yesterday.

Zerimski

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Congrats to Fiji, they deserved the win.

Started OK but the sudden bout of weather seemed to put the brakes on any attack we had. And then it all fell apart. Asleep defensively and we seem to have forgotten how to deal with a wet ball, which is odd given the summer we've had. Fiji played well but we gave them the game. Can't even blame the ref, Peyper was fair.

Smith injected a bit of energy when he came on. Will give him that much.

I just don't know what's going wrong. Players that have been playing together for years suddenly have no chemistry, and look clueless. When we did have possession, the attack was completely one dimensional (after the weather) with Smith being the only person to attempt anything beyond passing it down the line.

Argentina and Japan are rubbing their hands together.

TagMeInSkipIGotThis

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I haven't watched the game or even the highlights so this is more of a question... But when the ABs struggle at the moment its because we are losing the gainline battle (on attack and defense). On attack it means we get poor service to the halfback, and on defense it means we struggle to set our D and then end up giving away silly penalties.

Is a similar thing happening for England - because if so then the ABs are evidence its fixable. But if they're winning the gainline and still losing, then that might suggest a deeper malaise that is harder to fix.