Curry's decision is in the harsh-but-fair category. It was daft as opposed up malicious. Daft because he had clear line of sight and had no chance of doing the ball: the best outcome was a standing tackle, within a melee. Fortunately it's been followed by a disciplined half by England, and a half time lead.
I think a yellow card would have been more appropriate than a red, but I don't think he should have any complaints. He shouldn't have made that tackle, in that way, at that time.
Let's hope at some stage we get a match where fifteen England players are still on the pitch at the end.
I haven’t watched live rugby in 5-6 years… I don’t remember clashes of heads being a yellow card, let alone red? That’s mad
No problem with trying to cut down on high tackles and especially to the head but the Argentinian was in the air and landed. Was Tom Curry expected to jump out the way. Pleased that our WC winners agree in the studio.
We have been so undercooked with injuries suspensions, and poor form going into this WC that the spirit and teamwork was excellent in the 1st half but hard to believe they won't improve.
There is a lot of inconsistency around head clashes right now. That Curry clash was an accident, you could probably justify a yellow as it was his head that made contact but a red? Be a tough 2nd half for England I’m sure, Argentina can’t play much worse.
i dont know anything about rugby... can anyone explain what it is about our game that we keep getting red cards? It's not that common right? 3 in a row?
Possibly the worst Argentinian performance I've seen.
Looking at today's other games, both Romania and Georgia offered more of a challenge, IMHO.
It's important to get the win, though...
It's difficult to understand how the Pumas were so inept as not only were they rated higher at 6th in the world ratings but with wins against NZ and at Twickenham a year ago usually travel well in recent times. Credit to England but with 14 men for near on the whole match the Argentinians should have put England away.
Ireland with the number 1 World rating as of 4/9/23 have to overcome history of never going past a QF(7 times) despite being in every WC since its inception in 1987.
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I think a yellow card would have been more appropriate than a red, but I don't think he should have any complaints. He shouldn't have made that tackle, in that way, at that time.
Let's hope at some stage we get a match where fifteen England players are still on the pitch at the end.
No problem with trying to cut down on high tackles and especially to the head but the Argentinian was in the air and landed. Was Tom Curry expected to jump out the way. Pleased that our WC winners agree in the studio.
We have been so undercooked with injuries suspensions, and poor form going into this WC that the spirit and teamwork was excellent in the 1st half but hard to believe they won't improve.
Argentina were absolutely awful, as bad as I worried England might be, but nice to see a decent performance from us to take advantage.
Ford did so well first half, grabbed the momentum that we never lost.
Nice that hopefully that makes the pool stage a lot less stressful.
9/11/23 England 27 v Argentina 10
Ford Aspire for life in the fast lane for resurgence England.
Looking at today's other games, both Romania and Georgia offered more of a challenge, IMHO.
It's important to get the win, though...
It felt like Korma for the wrongs of Beckham's red card against Argentina.
It's difficult to understand how the Pumas were so inept as not only were they rated higher at 6th in the world ratings but with wins against NZ and at Twickenham a year ago usually travel well in recent times. Credit to England but with 14 men for near on the whole match the Argentinians should have put England away.
Ireland with the number 1 World rating as of 4/9/23 have to overcome history of never going past a QF(7 times) despite being in every WC since its inception in 1987.