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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nek" data-source="post: 682604" data-attributes="member: 3987">Watched the game.  To my untrained eyes, what won the game for England was:-  Great defense by the English, esp. when Oz got near the try line.-  Timely and accurate kicking by England (Oz clearly won the possession game, but England did much better with quickly gaining chunks of territory).-  Handling mistakes by Australia that cost them possession.As for the scrums, the only thing I could see was that the playing pitch sucked, and that penalty at the end that got England their last 3 points.  At that point, however, the game was sealed anyways.  So I'm not really sure how significant the scrum was in impacting the result of the match.  Thoughts?</blockquote>