The penalties certainly did us in. We were still in with a chance at the start of the second half, but they smothered our play really. The best team on the day won.

They did well to get out of the Wales game, so it was a hard fought route to the final. You've got to be in it to win it as they say. Congratulations to SA.

There's definitely a good argument that overly policing games via VAR and the like interrupts the flow and makes it all a bit too clinical. It's a difficult balancing act no doubt.

they seem to find something when they need to, generally speaking South Africa are better at rugby than England, bit like Italy with the footy, out muscled us and found our weaknesses so that we cud not build any momentum, remember the British teams would be nowhere near as competitive without southern hemisphere coaches, we're competitive but ultimately beating all three tri-nations was too big an ask