Rugby Union 2013-14

[taylorsworkrate]

Yeah. Looks like a golden age of English Fly Halfs. Especially with Burns and Cipriani finding form

Farrell, Ford, Burns and Cipriani are a great quintet to choose from

[PaulWinch again]

Burns' and Cipriani's job is to keep that level of performance now and put real pressure on.

[taylorsworkrate]

I think far too much was made of NZ's supposed "rustiness". Their players have been playing domestic rugby recently.

I think a lot of their errors can be attributed to the intensity of England's defence

[UK Redsox]

Cipriani had hardly any time, but he impressed me in the time he was on the pitch as well.

Showed good nerve in slotting over that penalty.

[peter w]

And Chris robshaw just gets better and better. Looking at the (very many) positives just how good is our strength in depth? Without a one-sided referee and a full squad we would have won here convincingly. After a nervy start Brown looked good and Tuilangi very dangerous. How many times did my break the gain line? A bit more luck and composure we'd have scored 3 or 4 tries.

[nordenvillain]

Burns' and Cipriani's job is to keep that level of performance now and put real pressure on.

As a person that believed Cipriani should have started, can I put my hands up and say that I thought Burns had a very good game. In addition, I thought that Youngs had a very good game that enabled Burns to have the game he did. Thought that the commentator made a telling comment regarding Wilson's ball handling - If you offered me a tight head that had good ball handling or one that anchored the scrum, give me the latter every time. When was the last time test props lasted the whole game ? As has been said, we have real competition in most positions now and I think this was the ideal place to tour this year and the same will go for the Southern Hemisphere teams this Autumn when they come to the Northern Hemisphere.

I hope that the AB's keep playing McCaw, Nonu and Mealamu - No way they should be playing at RWC 2015. I would go so far as to say that is the least effective game that I have seen McCaw have in an AB's jersey. If he had not been captain, they would have surely had to replace him but he appears to be an "Untouchable" in the eyes of whoever is the AB's coach.

[paul_e]

Yeah. Looks like a golden age of English Fly Halfs. Especially with Burns and Cipriani finding form

Farrell, Ford, Burns and Cipriani are a great quintet to choose from

You're missing the Form 10 in europe there as well, Myler has always been steady but this season he has rightly pushed himself right into the mix.  Add to that the fact the Henry Slade looks likely to develop into a world class 10 an Billy Burns looks every bit as good as his brother did at that age.  We're going to have massive selection decisions to make this time next year.  I genuinely think we could pick 2 squads for the world cup and the 2nd would be good enough to get out of the group.

[Jon Crofts]

Great game spoilt by a weak Welsh referee.

[aj2k77]

Didn't bother watching after the first 20 minutes, I assumed that we'd be reffed out of the game and posted as much and low and behold that is exactly what happened.

[PaulWinch again]

Didn't bother watching after the first 20 minutes, I assumed that we'd be reffed out of the game and posted as much and low and behold that is exactly what happened.

You should have watched, we were excellent.

[lovejoy]

Piss poor from Ben Youngs.

Fuck you Owens, you cheating Welsh prick.

How the fuck is that a yellow when the other one wasn't.

Nail, head.

[lovejoy]

David Humphreys appointed DoR at Glos. Great news, getting someone up encumbered with past failures is a great idea.

[aj2k77]

Didn't bother watching after the first 20 minutes, I assumed that we'd be reffed out of the game and posted as much and low and behold that is exactly what happened.

You should have watched, we were excellent.

I'l love to but I get too irate watching refs throw in biased decisions.

[paul_e]

Piss poor from Ben Youngs.

Fuck you Owens, you cheating Welsh prick.

How the fuck is that a yellow when the other one wasn't.

Nail, head.

I was rather angry with him at that point.

[Kevin Dawson]

How did Ben Morgan play? I'm not really a rugby fan, but he's my next door neighbour!