Talk about writing for your home market...
northshoreguynz
until deep into the second half."
Not denying the first sentence, the second is a load of bollocks. At
no time were England EVER going to win this one. But the Torygraph
must be seen to be supporting the home troops I guess.
Cheers
Stephen
ruggeryoda
> "England made New Zealand work for this. They were in a Test match
> until deep into the second half."
>
>
> Not denying the first sentence, the second is a load of bollocks. At
> no time were England EVER going to win this one. But the Torygraph
> must be seen to be supporting the home troops I guess.
Are you perhaps related to a certain fella called Maxx?
Well, I recall Croft getting taken down a couple of meters before the
NZ line with enough time left for the drop-kick wunderkind to seal
it.
-R
Andrew Dunford
"northshoreguynz" <northsh...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I don't see the problem.
Firstly, the writer never said England were going to win. Secondly, he
makes it perfectly clear that he is appraising England's performance mostly
as an improvement on their appalling form of the week before. Finally,
being within seven points of the opposition is an intercept try away from
victory: England were within seven points until deep in the second half.
Andrew
Peter Ashford
> "England made New Zealand work for this. They were in a Test match
> until deep into the second half."
>
>
> Not denying the first sentence, the second is a load of bollocks. At
> no time were England EVER going to win this one. But the Torygraph
> must be seen to be supporting the home troops I guess.
>
> Cheers
> Stephen
The first half was very good from England. They were very physical
and combative. It looks like their forwards just lacked the fitness
to carry that through to the second half. It that had happened, they
could have won.