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Def worth remembering as well the injuries/absences from the England pack. To miss Genge, George, Williams, Obano, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Jack Willis, Joe Launchbury etc through injury, Kruis through early retirement (choosing to play abroad), and Mako apparently being in France and therefore couldn't answer the urgent call when requested (lots of speculation this is him off to play in France and therefore end of his England career now) that is a serious amount of players missing who would otherwise be expected to start and gives at least some explanation for the pack's performance against the Boks in the second half...
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Agree with all of that ^^^. Slade was fantastic, as was Steward. Really exciting to see England backs properly firing despite the carnage upfront. The Boks definitely threw it away but were pretty limited in game plan (see England of recent years), however effective it is.