Both sides looked good last week but Ireland put up nothing against the Poms so it's hard to say how good they are. It should be a terrific battle up front and this is probably where the game will be won and lost. SA twice beat NZ and I think NZ would go in as favourite against England. I'll be surprised if England get on top in the forwards and for this reason I'm tipping Junior boks to win.
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Both sides looked good last week but Ireland put up nothing against the Poms so it's hard to say how good they are. It should be a terrific battle up front and this is probably where the game will be won and lost. SA twice beat NZ and I think NZ would go in as favourite against England. I'll be surprised if England get on top in the forwards and for this reason I'm tipping Junior boks to win.
I have a big play on England to win, Boks are overrated, their backline is rubbish bar Pollards kicking, everyone is using NZ as some sort of benchmark when they were horrible, they had no set piece and most of the team was just out of high school. Aus schools beat NZ schools 2 out of the past 3 years, along with watching Aussie play(clearly more physical and well drilled than NZ) I believe Aus are a better team than NZ and England dispatched them with relative ease. I think the Boks conceding so many points to a crappy baby blacks team is a bigger factor than the fact they beat them twice.
If you've watched NZ's games you will have seen they got dominated up front by Samoa and Ireland. England has a far better pack and their backs are just as lethal as NZ, Earle is on par with Tevita Li if not better.
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I have a big play on England to win, Boks are overrated, their backline is rubbish bar Pollards kicking, everyone is using NZ as some sort of benchmark when they were horrible, they had no set piece and most of the team was just out of high school. Aus schools beat NZ schools 2 out of the past 3 years, along with watching Aussie play(clearly more physical and well drilled than NZ) I believe Aus are a better team than NZ and England dispatched them with relative ease. I think the Boks conceding so many points to a crappy baby blacks team is a bigger factor than the fact they beat them twice.
If you've watched NZ's games you will have seen they got dominated up front by Samoa and Ireland. England has a far better pack and their backs are just as lethal as NZ, Earle is on par with Tevita Li if not better.
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