England v Fiji Highlights Rugby Union

COMMENTATOR: England see off South Africa.

It is ten from ten now for Eddie Jones.

At Twickenham last weekend England inflicted defeat on South Africa

for the first time in ten years, with a 37-21 victory.

That was a tenth victory for this Eddie Jones side

but it is expected to be a different proposition against Fiji.

Fiji are Olympic medallists when it comes to the seven aside game,

but they have been blighted by financial issues at this level

When it comes to England, what more is there to say?

They remain unbeaten and it was of course started off

with a great Grand Slam at the beginning of the year.

The first in 13 years, sealed with victory in France in March,

and they carried the momentum with them down under.

Eddie Jones enjoyed inflicting a first 3-0 series

victory for a touring side in over 30 years.

Fiji are today's opponents today at Twickenham,

with Argentina next week and then Australia in two weeks.

Despite beating South Africa, Eddie Jones insists the target

of his team is quite simply to play better rugby.

England have never been defeated by Fiji, but it is more

than just the scoreline that matters.

Eddie Jones is demanding a strong performance,

which was lacking the last time they met at the Rugby

Can England make it 11 victories from 11 matches this year?

And maintain their coach's 100% strike rate?

COMMENTATOR: Opportunity knocks for a number of England players

looking to prove they should be Test match regulars.

Fiji might be the Olympics sevens champions but after being thumped

by the Barbarians last week, this team has plenty to prove.

Eddie Jones making five changes to the starting 15,

and most of the tinkering comes in the back with Alex Goode

starting at full-back because Mike Brown is rested.

Jonathan Joseph starts at 13 with Elliot Daly moving to the wing.

Northampton's Teimana Harrison starts on the openside flank.

John McKee make seven changes for Fiji after defeat

Ospreys' Matavesi gets the nod at fly-half.

Ratuniyarawa made such an impact at the World Cup last year

As for the bench, Ewels will be hoping to make his debut

Fiji maintain they are confident in the riches they have

in the back line, but they know that the forward battle

It is now time for the traditional Fijian pre-match ritual.

His assistants are from New Zealand and Scotland.

They last met on the opening day of the Rugby World Cup.

England were victorious, but unconvincing.

Now ranked number two in the world, can they impress this time out?

George Ford gets us under way, the ball flies high into the air.

The big man mountain that is Nadolo takes it for the Fijians.

It comes in, first chance for us to see Alex Goode.

Nerves showing perhaps from the Saracens full-back.

Elliot Daly, he is on the wing today, and he kicks

Daly showing you don't need to be huge to bring down these big men.

Early mistake from Fiji and that means we will have our first scrum.

Yes, this will be an important part of the game as usual.

Fiji's scrummage has improved a lot over the years.

If England can get to the right-hand side and push the Fijian

back row to the blindside, they will have one,

maybe two extra men. Encouragement for England to use it,

He has Fijian heritage but he is wearing the England shirt,

He gets England on the scoreboard early doors at Twickenham.

It came from the line break from Vunipola.

One of the strengths of the Fijians, they tackle low and hard,

but if they don't get it quite right, and they didn't twice

on Vunipola, that means the ball carriers are through the gap

and that was the case, and once they were put on the back

foot, Fiji, right on their line, it was a question of numbers

and patience for England and that was a well finished try.

It goes clear and it goes strong, the flags are flying.

He is second in the all-time England scoring list behind

Koto on his 50th cap, getting the ball in cleanly.

Robshaw was the man who took this in.

Fiji want to take it quickly and they have

Waqaniburotu means business as he takes the ball in the contact.

Big calls coming from the Italian referee.

Robshaw may be trying to make up there for the penalty.

The bounce of a rugby ball goes the way of England.

Daly still goes and he gets his first try for England.

He might habitually play at centre but you can see that Elliot Daly

It would have been easy for him to release the ball.

Make the defenders' minds up for them, but he didn't,

he drew them and in the end it was a mix up for Fiji.

Owen Farrell gets 501 on the clock and he is now closing

in on Jonny Wilkinson's record of 1179.

Already two tries for England, could there be more?

Playing against the country of his birth.

He has just scored his first try for England.

England are showing what they can do when they are fluent

and when they get good ball, on the front foot.

The timing of the ball, the timing of the passing is good.

Fiji need to get a grip of themselves because they are,

Harrison, spinning in and out of the tackles.

Elliot Daly thinks he is there, still trying to work his body

and wriggle around, but he will be stopped short.

The referee will go back for the England penalty.

It was a long advantage played by the referee.

Appealing for a penalty for obstruction, but I don't think

Elliot Daly thought he could get through, but the Fijian,

if he catches you, I don't think you have got too much of a chance.

He went for the corner, which is ideal for them,

because the line-out has been good for them so far.

If they get the drive established, it will be difficult for Fiji

to stop them or not give away another penalty, so there

We have seen a try so far for the backs.

It is still going, and there could be a ball at the bottom.

Teimana Harrison, winning only his third cap, so much written

about him after the Australian tour where Eddie Jones

There he is, touching down and scoring his first try.

Everyone is scoring their first try today.

They need to keep it away from anyone who swims around

Robshaw with a busy afternoon already.

He is well wrapped up, Owen Farrell, and Fiji are a metre

Look how he is contorting his body to get round those tackles.

Robshaw plays scrum-half, anyone can play anywhere

Cole running around his own player, spotted straightaway by the referee.

That was a pity, because it was tremendous sleight

I don't think my arms are long enough to do that.

England winning the breakdown hands down, and that is giving

them everything in terms of front foot ball.

Another mistake from the scrum-half and the pressure will be on him.

He still plays his rugby in Fiji, the only one, and he is

a firefighter when he is at home. He might have to do a bit of fire

His replacement is a very capable player as we know from the Aviva

Just signed a contract down at Exeter, the man

Maybe we will get a glimpse of him later.

That is a penalty straightaway from the referee.

I don't know why you would collapse a scrum when going forward.

The referee says it is on the far side, on the Fiji loosehead side

You are not likely to dive forward when your opposite

Expect those forward legs to start pumping.

Fiji have been warned about bringing down the maul a few

times now by the referee and they will have to be careful.

Fiji in a bit of bother when it comes to the maul.

Patience is key, England have showed that.

You have got to protect and get the blockers in front of the ball.

Goes through the same ritual every time he takes his kicks.

Missed the last two, can he stop the rot?

England's biggest victory over Fiji was in 2012 here at Twickenham

Just a little mistake from England from the restart.

This will be the best platform Fiji have had in the match.

Important from them that, to keep it anything like close,

that they do something from this, to get something,

because it is very difficult, even if you are a professional

player, if you are on the end of a hiding, for your

They are very close to that point, I think.

If ever there was a time for a Fiji scrum to start functioning,

I would be surprised if they go for another scrum.

I think they will go for the line-out and put

Is this Fiji's chance to play themselves back?

It is, whether or not they will repeat what England

They have threats outside, possibly more potent.

Nadolo can hover around outside of the fly half Matavesi.

He's not looking to do so, though.

There was a big hand in the shape of Courtney Lawes.

That was a bit of a mess, but Courtney Lawes did well to mess

Fiji did well, however, to prevent England clearing

the ball and winning themselves a five yard scrum.

It was England who took it over their own line.

Nadolo ran straight into Ford, that was a mismatch.

It could have happened one phase earlier, but the result is the same.

Dan Cole is one of the defenders.

I felt they might have slowed the ball down enough,

but an inevitable end from that distance.

When you are trying to tackle Nadolo, it is like trying

to bring down a brick wall, not much you can do about it.

Very clean, Fiji, to make sure the ball did not go into touch,

And that did go forward and it was picked up.

They are capable of playing in that fashion, but England

The shouts go up this time, that is England, that is

going, that is moving, and that is the penalty.

If it had been played a bit longer England might

have been in on the left side, the blindside.

In any other international match we would expect them

That has not gone down well with the crowd.

In this position, you don't necessarily get this,

the ideal opportunity, 15 yards out, both sides

of the pitch available, play the ball.

Very pragmatic decision from England.

Owen Farrell, the European and domestic champion for Saracens,

he makes his way back for the restart.

We have been here before in this first half and it went quite well

Robshaw causing a real nuisance of himself.

This isn't clean for Fiji, they are going backwards.

Nadolo will line up again, targeting the fly half every time.

Yato with the basketball pass over the back.

There we go, a bit of Fiji sevens tricks.

If they had taken it in they probably would

Sevens, basketball, whatever, you were right to call it.

The upshot, Fiji, line-out, the last play of the half.

The captain flies round, still going.

Last few minutes of this first half have all been about Fiji.

They need to move that one wide left.

They think they can do this in the forwards.

Nakarawa fancies himself going over and he does.

He already has an Olympic gold medal at sevens and now he is scoring

He was a star of the Rugby World Cup last year.

England were on the back foot, they anticipated a drive

The back row went in from the back of the line-out and instead

of retaining it the ball was flipped out around the back.

From that point it was a series of goal-line drives.

The half-time whistle and after what was a bright start

for England, Fiji have found a little bit of form and fluency

One change for Fiji as they come out for the second half.

John McKee brings on Matawalu, who is a familiar name to anyone

He has played for Bath, Glasgow and is now down in Exeter.

Were England read the riot act at half-time?

That is the question, after they seemed to go to sleep

at the end of the second half after building a commanding lead.

Masilevu, quickly shoved over the whitewash.

Although Fiji have the possibility of opening the ball wide

into the openside, the chasers close that off and crowd

them down the blindside. The assistant referee said

that came off England and so Fiji get the line-out.

All the Fijians are happy to run at George Ford this afternoon.

Nakarawa, putting his body on the line.

Tikoirotuma was trying to run around England there.

He has had a long afternoon already after he came on very early doors

in the first half after Ma'afu had to go.

Vulivuli is in trouble, but that is a penalty, England not

They are doing what they couldn't do in the first half.

They are keeping the ball and going through the phases,

Instead of trying to go for the magic off-load.

And in doing so they get their first attacking platform in

Long debate from Fiji about the decision they would make there.

Eventually they decided to go for touch on the near side,

and considering their tries have come from similar positions

in the first half, probably a good decision.

That was a big push there, shoving Owen Farrell out of the way.

Talebula still going, and Fiji have their third try.

England's defence is looking very leaky.

Once you make the amount of ground over the gain line that Fiji did,

But that run line was one which should have attracted a tackle.

This is the break and the important thing is the ball comes out

England should have coped with that, but nevertheless that was a great

All made possible by the fact that the ball carrier got over

the gain line quickly and the ball came back from the

England taking the score board back in the direction they would like.

Patience is key again, making sure the drive is controlled.

The rate at which the driven maul goes forward doesn't matter,

The referee looking for obstruction, a reason it can't be given.

Dylan Hartley did bump into him as he was going forward and Vunipola

is essentially dragging him towards him.

If you see there, the hand comes off.

Apart from in the scrum, it should be

Hughes is down on his knees but the referee says play

on and what a running line here from Rokoduguni.

Comes back out to Billy Vunipola, brute force from Vunipola.

Youngs flings out the ball, goes out wide.

Daly to the far side and Goode scores for England

Very efficient by England, really good line from

If you want to be hypercritical, he has to look where he's made this

Fantastic pace and work but there is a man outside,

not looking at all, but England recovering the situation.

Recognising where the weakness was, which is out wide

Good line by both those players to keep the defenders in and not

nice to see a loosehead putting in the basic skills

Nice and clean from Owen Farrell as England will start looking

at the scoreboard now and thinking about a half-century of their own.

It was loose and Robshaw is all over that.

Big hit going on Danny Care but he got the ball away.

Intercept by Jonathan Joseph, he read it beautifully,

he goes over, it was loose as a goose and Jonathan Joseph

Joseph, correct anticipation but to be fair in such a long

wind-up you didn't need to be a genius to know it was coming.

The only question was whether it could get over Joseph

Blink and you might have missed that conversion by George Ford.

England just two points away from a 50.

Masilevu is off for Fiji and Murimurivalu is on.

The referee has given it for now, comes back to Joseph,

Virtually no space to work with and very nearly made it.

When you look at his overall make-up when he has the pace as well

and the prodigious boot, very useful option

So much talk in the week about whether Billy Vunipola

would be fit for this after he suffered from what England

That's incredible by the Harlequins prop,

He just reached up like he was plucking a flower.

Do you think he would have beaten Daly on a foot race?

He needs to work on his scrummaging and he has got better.

His strength has been being mobile and carrying the ball.

England don't get the quick ball they need from this break down

and took it one too close round the corner.

The time to go wide was one earlier than they did.

Macawara was at the bottom of that to bring it down,

the referee is happy it has come down legally.

Danny Care gets quick ball away again.

Can score against the posts but not on this occasion.

Flies out to the far side and Rokoduguni will go over once

They do this time what they should have done on the previous occasion,

George Ford standing flat and letting the outside Fijian

defence get in and then floating the ball out wide

Impossible when you're defending out wide and an overlap against you,

Billy Vunipola who already in this match has been told has racked up

over 250 tackles for England but no need to tackle here, still going.

Daly manages to prop it up for Rokoduguni.

Enviable fluency from England continuing.

The forward momentum as Danny Care looks up and gets it

Ford again, popped up ball to Goode, Jamie George is waiting as Fiji

Back down, switching direction, can they get the numbers out there?

Ben Meehan and England couldn't quite get on the end of Daly's run.

right down the middle, running at everything that's

Comes out to Robshaw, he's still going.

Slade looks up, this will be casually run

If I was there I would stand up and applaud that.

Bearing in mind the number of different players England have

introduced as well which could have disrupted the fluency,

that was a tremendously well constructed try with players

understanding where they were on the field in relation

That's a good ball, good line from Vunipola

The fact it does look simple means they've done it correctly. Crowd

is going wild with people showing lights, it's not a rock

One person who would appreciate it is George Ford, he's

Was George Ford put off by the lights?

This will be some marketing man's idea.

Safe to say Brian Moore hasn't bought his Christmas cards yet.

Wants to take this one quickly,

Great run by the replacement, over the halfway line.

Matawalu manages to waste some time as support comes.

Talebula plays scrum-half, having a little swipe around the ruck.

England think they've turned this over.

Again in any other match you'd think they'd go for goal

but with the scoreline as it is, it will be straight into the corner.

Bit of pressure for England to suck up here.

When the England management are looking to review

the performance, they'll be looking at the defensive area just as much

And they are throwing bodies at this.

Been stuck up the jumper, still flying and going but

Tikoirotuma was trying to twist his way round but it's been held.

Confirmation that it's a packed house at

Never quite understood giving yourself applause

The ball gets kicked on and in the end Fiji

do the sensible thing, take it out of play calmly.

The decision had to be made, taking the ball back over.

George Ford just dancing aside, full of confidence at the moment.

Good line by Slade, maybe a bit early from George.

Watching that line from Talebula, he didn't have any choice

This has been a one-sided affair mainly but you still have to score

the points and England have done that in a variety of ways,

so I think overall Jones will be pleased with

A couple of areas he will want to pick up which are defensive ones.

By and large it's been a good afternoon for England.

England have the ball and Henry Slade kicks it out

It wasn't always pretty but it's still an England victory.

Win number 11 under Eddie Jones whose record remains immaculate.

Next up it's the World Cup semifinalists Argentina next week.

We started the game very well, huge work out for us off

Good to see improvement but I think we dropped off

Fiji got the score in the first half and scored straightaway

in the second half, was that a concern?

They are a talented and proud side and we had discipline up

Our kick off what has to be tidied up but they are a good side.

Just letting them into our half is probably our biggest work.

Credit to England, their attacking was really good, really found a lot

of holes in our defence and we weren't good

I thought the set play was quite good early in the game and attend

I thought the set play was quite good early in the game and in

It was important that we showed we wanted to be a great team today.

We would have liked to have been tighter in defence,

In terms of a match like this, when you're not quite toe

to toe with the team, when the victory looked

like it was going to be there after 20 minutes,

what can you realistically learn from that.

Test rugby is about intensity and ability to put pressure

on the opposition and for 80 minutes we did that well, just got to find

20 minutes and then we'll be the perfect team and then

Couple of great tries from you but any mixed emotion this

week heading into this match because you're so proud

of your Fiji roots but you are wearing

To come out here and play against the best Fiji team

is a special thing for me and I'm honoured.

I'm blessed to come here and play against some of the great names out

there Nodolu and Matawalu and to play against

We give everything out there even though we weren't

England came out, they wanted to prove a point that they are

the best team in the world and we didn't challenge them enough

We came back fighting at the end of the first half but we've got

a lot of positives and we go to Japan next week.

The ultimate goal is to win the World Cup and we need at least

three players in each position that can play with consistency and skill

and the intensity we want and today gave us an opportunity to put some

Have you got more players going forward in the autumn

Probably not new players. We will pick our best 23

It will be sleepless nights selection wise.

Impressive score for England, Simon Shaw, delighted

to have you with us, what about that England performance,

it seemed Dylan Hartley said they lacked intensity

It was strange, you could see the disappointment in Dylan's face

as he came off the pitch maybe because he was being substituted

but it is a measure of where this England team

but it is a measure of where this England team are and they are

somewhat disappointed with the overall performance.

For 80 minutes that was a very good clinical stint,

but there was a bit of a problem in defence, either side of the half.

Proving that it's never too late to cut your grass.

In terms of the performance, what stood out for you,

what were the positives England will take away and head

They took every chance, they scored on pretty much every

chance they got to score, so that's fantastic, it shows

Aside from that I think Eddie stated before the game that they're

going to muscle up front and show that with a couple of pushover tries

from the line-out, so that was good as well.

Overall, just the handling was fantastic from the backline.

Particularly Rokoduguni and Elliott Daly stood out for me.

Insult to injury for Fiji, Rokoduguni.

Going over twice but of course he has Fijian roots,

as does Nathan Hughes, both born in Fiji and pulling

There's been so much hype over the financial situation in 15 aside,

what do you make of that heading in to this match?

I think so because it's a tragedy that Fiji's best players

I don't want to get into the political side of it

but there are two Fijians also playing for France

It's not like they're short of wingers but having the best

players in their side for the national side is crucial

for the overall world game, to tee seething in semifinals

of World Cups is where we want them if not competing at the top.

The players on the field for England tonight,

a lot of different guys from the South African match.

The strength and depth that England have is incredible.

Eddie Jones takes a lot of credit and rightly so for a lot of English

rugby but it can't just happen in his 11 month tenure,

so who takes the credit for the strength and depth?

Stuart Lancaster should get a bit of credit for it, he blooded a lot

of these players we're seeing now, not usually different side

Just generally from age-group level we seem to be pulling these guys

through more and more which is fantastic for the national game.

Earlier today England's women took New Zealand just down the road

at the Twickenham Stoop but sadly for them it didn't go

The winning run came to an end against the world's number one team.

The Black Ferns secured a 25-20 victory.

Two tries in five minutes and a pair of late penalties condemned

the reigning world champions to defeat.

England's Clarke became the world's most capped female player

as she made her 160th appearance and it wasn't enough to prevent

a ninth consecutive win for New Zealand and fifth win

England women play Canada at Twickenham after the men's match

against Argentina and free entry for anybody who's interested

Next Saturday we have a feast of rugby fun for you if you stay

From seeing England, how do you think they'll fare against them?

It's going to be a tougher game, quite clearly from today,

but the thing I'm most interested to see is selection.

Eddie Jones stated he will pick his best side, so I'm

waiting in anticipation because there are so many players

that put their hand up, the strength and depth is amazing.

That's what I'm looking forward to most.

Eddie says he's got to have sleepless nights because so many

players in the last two tests have put their hands up.

Absolutely and a lot of players will have sleepless nights

themselves worrying about their spot or getting their first

in a side that he stated is his best side.

Argentina are always a bit of an unknown quantity,

do they have the capacity to cause any shocks to the England team

Incredibly tough side, they always have been incredibly

but they have more skill than I've ever seen from them in the past.

Always used to be a heavy battle up front but now they seem to have

discovered players who are prepared to run the ball and

The last time England had a clean sweep of autumn internationals

was 2002 but we're talking much bigger than that, with

Huge deal considering where we were standing 12 months ago

and it was doom and gloom and 12 months on we're talking

about getting disappointed with scored lines like that

They've come a huge way and it looks like it's

Does it all come down to Eddie Jones?

Ultimately it comes down to the players on the pitch,

Eddie Jones is clearly pressing the right buttons.

Next up is Argentina, we'll see you then.