Please don't stop the uploads post covid. Seeing players who inspired me to play Rugby and seeing players I consider seasoned vets in the same team is fantastic! 🏉
Christ I can remember being up early in the morning as an Aussie to watch this and blowing my stack when Chris Ashton scored that runaway, honestly that cackling face of his still wakes me up in my sleep. Christ on a bike. Shame for Ashton he didn't really fulfill his potential. Good game anyway
At least he attacked the line a bit back then, but he was still way too slow and there were just too many wayward passes for that level. Nothing's changed in almost 100 caps.
We do. Eddie is just not putting them into the squad. Richard wigglesworth has been a better player for years and now there are several to choose from.
@@adamclarke7029 I'd add Jack Maunder to that list too. Already has an England cap to his name, has age on his side and with Nic White going back to Australia, I can see him getting a lot more game time next season.
Dont recall this match first time round, just the highlights, thank you for uploading. Looking forward to watching the 2016 tour back to back if i can find them!
Who's that skinny bloke wearing number 4? I"m a Wallabies fan and very far from being an England fan, but maximum respect to him. Still a very, very good player 11 years later. Was one of the Lions best even this year
Ashton, the best finisher in the Northern Hemisphere if not World Rugby, his tries to game ratio surpass any one else. TopTry Scorer in the Top 14, Top Try Sorer in the ERC, Soon to be Top Try Scorer in the Premiership, no body can touch his stats, should still be playing International Rugby
O'Connor's poor kicking made the difference. If he had slotted them in the Wallabies would have been in the game all the way, would have been more motivated and would have played much better. England made few mistakes and the crowd was behind them. Two very good teams, one played better on the day.
@@Cr4igpeterson I'm surprised none of the commentators mentioned it. It was so painfully obvious. I assume they didn't want to hurt his feelings, it was only his first cap after all, poor baby. We live in such a feminized age.
First cap? The commentators said he already had 25! It certainly would have been a different last quarter with just a point in it! We really deserved it though I thought, we had so many stand out performers.
The England side 2001-03 were offloading machines, executing the basics brilliantly from prop to fullback. Check out the six Nations highlights from that time
The scrums were always so dangerous and you would rarely get one that lasted more than two seconds. I remember playing (about 11 or 12 at the times) after they'd changed the rules and thinking that it was just so much better.
In retrospect. The actual quality of this game was quite poor. The handling of england and the tackling ability of Australia was not of an almighty standard. Still test match level, but not warrenting the sudden explosion of hopeful excitement in english rugby that occured after this. So why did that happen? Well because it was after a relative quagmire of success and excitement. No 6N title for 7 years, world cup final but in warrior fashion, not quality fashion. And this game was the anouncement of real talent realising its potential. Youngs, Lawes, ashton, hartley. Suddenly these guys prove they can do it at test level against a really great australia team. These guys had caps already and played well for england before. But they'd finally clicked. I can feel the flame i felt when i saw this live. Some moments never leave you.
This was a good win but I really regret wasting four years under Johnson. The guy was a legendary player but he never should have been made head coach with zero experience.
