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GAME 1 - ENGLAND Vs IRELAND,

8th February 2000
 
Ben Cohen and Mike Tindall debues to the England team almost stole the show at Twickenham on Saturday. Man of the match Mike Catt and Austin Healey were also on great form to matched them every step of the way to lead England to a record score over Ireland. Six tries were scored throughout the eighty minutes, Cohen and Healey scored twice each with Tindall and Neil Back both scoring one, also the consistant boot of Wilkinson produced twenty points over a spirited Irish side. The defence of the english side was superb and effective but the resilient Irish still broke threw the defence to score two tries scored by Maggs and Galwey.

FINAL SCORE; England 50 Ireland 18

 

GAME 2 - ENGLAND Vs FRANCE,

19th February 2000

In this close run match with no tries scored by the England team England eventually won 15 - 9, Wilkinson kicked five penelties to give england their first evr win in the French Stadium. France had a try disallowed in the first half due to a forward pass. Again as they did against Ireland the English defence was tremendous. Man of the match was Jonny Wilkinson who put in some huge tackles.

FINAL SCORE; England 15 France 9

 

GAME 3 - ENGLAND Vs WALES,

4th March 2000

Another huge performance from Englands back row enabled Back, Dallaglio and Hill to run in tries with man of the match Phil Greening opening the try-scoring. The only back to score a try was Ben Cohen. Jonny Wilkinson contributed another 16 points with his trusty left foot with Neil Jenkins scoring all Wales' 12 points.

FINAL SCORE; England 46 Wales 12

 

GAME 4 - ENGLAND Vs ITALY,

20th March 2000

Wilkinson got England of to a quick start with two penilties but was quickly followed by a try from Italy who then seemed to have the better of the match in the opening stages, England managed to survive the fierce tackling from the Italian side to score a penelty try. Soon after this crowds were shocked when Back scored a drop goal. Captain Matt Dawson scored a try with a penelty scored by Wilkinson to settle the fans nerves. Man of the Match Austin Healy got off to a cracking start in the second half by scoring a hat-trick of tries in just fifteen minutes. Ben Cohen nearly matched him with another two tries. This left just enough time for Clive Woodward to bring on all his replacements and for storming Dawson to score another try.

FINAL SCORE; England 59 Italy 12

 

GAME 5 -ENGLAND Vs SCOTLAND,

4th April 2000

In the dreadful and ever deteriorating weather conditions Scotland proved that on home soil they can still put on a powerful if not heated performance to prevent England winning the Grand Slam this gave them their first win over England for the last nine years. Englands initial points came from a penalty by Wilkinson but was soon replied by a penalty from Scotland taken by Duncan Hodge to level out the score. Constant pressure form the English side on the scots 22 eventually lead to a scrum at 5 yd from which Dallaglio scored and Wilkinson then converted. From this moment on England lost their grip on the game and were steadily run down by a firce Scottish team. Another penalty was scored by Hodge and in the second half as weather conditions continued to deteriorate, and with this being used to the scots advantage another penalty was scored again by Hodge. The final straw was a try and conversion by Hodge, England managed to scrape another penalty which Wilkinson landed from close range but it was too little too late to give the scots a memerable victory.

FINAL SCORE; England 13 Scotland 19