These are your rugby headlines on the morning of Sunday, October 22.
Farrell exhibits his true colors
Owen Farrell delivered a strong post-match interview following England’s defeat to South Africa in Paris. England had led the semi-final encounter till the 77th minute of the match however the Boks sneaked the end result proper on the dying.
Farrell was on the coronary heart of the whole lot good and unhealthy for England, taking part in along with his coronary heart on his sleeve with the event threatening to overawe him at one stage, with ITV pundit Ben Kay telling Farrell’s team-mates to “seize maintain of him”.
But post-match the England fly-half performed an aesthetic .interview by which he confirmed his true colors.
“We can sit right here and choose at something,” he advised ITV after the sport when requested the place it was gained and misplaced.
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“We can undergo the entire recreation, the entire second half and pick any second, my overriding feeling now shouldn’t be an excessive amount of in regards to the recreation, it is about how proud I’m of our group, how proud I’m of the work they’ve finished over the past 5 months collectively.
“It’s not all gone our method. The struggle that we have proven immediately and the trouble that is been put in and simply the sheer will at instances immediately, I believed was excellent. I hope we made everybody again home proud as nicely.”
“That’s all the time the case, is not it?” Farrell replied when requested about whether or not this was the tip for a few of England’s gamers on the worldwide stage.
“This is certainly the final World Cup for a few of them. Who is aware of what comes subsequent however what I do know is that this crew has obtained a vivid future.
“We’ve form of been by way of all of it, from the warm-up video games. Cards thrown at us, left, proper and centre. Everything, actually. It’s been an actual rollercoaster however to point out the satisfaction and to point out the eagerness that we did immediately, I’m unbelievably proud and I stated, I hope everybody again home is.”
Dallaglio factors finger at ref
England legend and ITV pundit Lawrence Dallaglio has pointed the finger at semi-final referee Ben O’Keefe, saying the official shall be “the speaking level” as he “gained South Africa the sport”.
O’Keefe awarded the Springboks a penalty with three minutes left on the clock in Paris, pinging Ellis Genge for taking place on one knee within the scrum.
The name would show decisive, with Handre Pollard hanging the ensuing penalty over to win the sport for the Springboks. Dallaglio says England deserve immense credit score for his or her efficiency however say the penalty name was “questionable”.
“Credit to their (South Africa’s) teaching employees for recognising that perhaps their choice within the first place was not the appropriate choice, they did not waste any time, they have been brutal with their substitution, they introduced their higher gamers on early within the recreation In the second half,” he advised ITV Sport.
“And I believed England have been magnificent. It’s heartbreaking to be on the tip of the end result like that I simply assume within the closing evaluation we could not build scoreboard stress. We had a few alternatives within the 22, one scrum and one lineout that went lacking and the bomb squad got here on. Four penalties given away within the final 10 minutes
“I’ve obtained to say, not as a sore loser however independently that is a questionable penalty that wins the sport. Ellis Genge goes down on one knee. I imply, Ben O’Keefe goes to be the speaking level as he is the gained them the sport, relatively than South Africa. I feel England can really feel heartbroken, however South Africa deserved it simply because a bit like France, the standard and depth on their bench was sufficient to get them over the road.”
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Jordan: It’s an honour
New Zealand star Will Jordan says it is an honour to be in the identical firm as Jonah Lomu, Bryan Habana and Julian Savea after notching up eight tries on the Rugby World Cup.
A hat-trick within the All Blacks’ semi-final demolition of Argentina has put Jordan firmly heading in the right direction to be the competitors’s prime attempt scorer, with the ultimate match nonetheless to be performed towards the Boks subsequent weekend.
The scores towards the Pumas put him in illustrious firm. “It is fairly humbling to be sincere,” he stated. “When you consider these guys, they have been all large legends of the sport and, significantly within the position I play, actually trail-blazed the way in which to play the sport as a winger. So that’s fairly cool.
“It definitely wasn’t anything I set out to do or anything like that, but it’s nice to be able to do that in amongst the team going so well.”
He may have had a fourth attempt towards the South Americans however the probability was butchered by team-mate Richie Mo’unga. Did Jordan have a phrase with him post-match? “Ha, no, Richie has put me over for that many tries over the course of my career, so no issues there,” he joked. “I’m just really proud of Richie and the way he is playing, the way he has stood up as a leader and steered us around the park. He was great again last night. He is going good and I’m happy for him to keep backing himself.”
Flanagan ‘gutted’
Dai Flanagan says he is “gutted” after his Dragons aspect threw away a commanding result in lose to Edinburgh at home. In the season curtain-raiser within the URC, the home aspect held a 14-point lead at one stage, solely to go down 22-17 in Newport.
But the guests slowly labored their method into the arm wrestle and Flanagan’s prices lacked that killer intuition to place the Scots to the sword. Although disillusioned, Flanagan says now shouldn’t be the time to over-react, with derby week arising subsequent for the Men of Gwent.
“I am gutted, the second quarter was when we lost it,” stated Flanagan. “We misplaced momentum and misplaced the ref with our selections and ill-discipline. We misplaced the momentum and he was refereeing one crew then, and rightly so as a result of we didn’t pull it again.
“We gave away 20 penalties – you would win at any level, let alone URC with that, especially with a kicker like Ben Healy in the opposition. We can’t concede so many penalties off a maul or scrum, giving them easy outs. Sometimes you have to be whiter than white and take your medicine so that they kick the ball and you can go back at them. We didn’t do that.”
“We can’t overreact,” added Flanagan. “We know that it’s our greatest work-on, we spoke about all of it summer time and we have been happy in pre-season after we managed to win the video games on the dying (towards the Ospreys and Scarlets).
“This is another step up, this actually counts and that’s the disappointing thing. Sometimes you’d rather turn up and get hammered and have loads to work on instead of fine-tuning. It’s derby week now and we need to look hard at ourselves because we can’t repeat this.”
