Rugby World Cup: Owen Farrell standing up from John Quill tackle was England's main success

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The stand-out success of England's win over the USA may be that Owen Farrell stood up from a hit that on a crueller night could have ended very differently, writes Tom Fordyce.

The same contact could have led to concussion or a broken jaw. Chokingly humid under the closed roof, a moment of brain-freeze and red mist.Farrell snarled it off afterwards, once the subsequent barney had blown itself out, but the reverberations will be felt across this tournament.

The game of rugby is changing faster than the attitude of its players, which means a comfortable win for England is for now much more of a great escape than Eddie Jones may have imagined.The plan was always to get through these two easier group games with his team tested but never exposed. Get everyone game-time but keep enough in reserve for what may follow, for if England are to win this World Cup they must now win five increasingly difficult matches in the space of five weeks.

This win over the Eagles was built on raw power as much as soaring high. Jones was beaten in a World Cup final by an England team with a remorseless set-piece and the memory has formed the basis of his designs for his own version 12 years on.The US could not cope with England's scrum and they could not cope with the driving mauls that followed scrum penalties kicked to the corners. When the front row had splintered them in the tight they then clattered them in the loose.

Mark Wilson, coming off the bench for his first minutes at a World Cup and reminding everyone that a little old-fashioned wood-chopping in the back row can do a lot of damage; Lewis Ludlam, not even a regular starter at Northampton a year ago, rejected by the Saints academy aged 14, charging around on the biggest stage like a man expecting it all his life.

 

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Shocking tackle that could of resulted in serious injury but Farrell does that every other England game.

Shows the difference between men and footballers

He's a northerner, he's had harder shits!

A taste of his own medicine!

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