Where were the England substitutes? It was a nation’s refrain as Gareth Southgate took 66 minutes to make his first substitution, 84 minutes to make his second and 94 to make his third. Ivan Toney, as Southgate admitted, was “disgusted” to be brought on so late.
The Dutch produced one of the more impressive peformances of the tournament so far
If you had been in the forests of East Otago last November, somewhere in the hills between Waikouaiti and Shag Valley Station, you might have bumped into a particularly disgruntled, hibernating beast. All 6ft 3in and 135kg of a prime All Blacks front-row forward.