Rugby Union (was 2014-15, now an ongoing thread)

[Proposition Joe]

The way it's going, England will be 3rd.

[PaulWinch again]

It's going to be very tough for us to beat France by any sort of margin. Scotland and Italy have been woeful.

[PaulWinch again]

Short of a dramatic improvement from Scotland I think the chhampionship is gone.

[Dante Lavelli]

It's going to be very tough for us to beat France by any sort of margin. Scotland and Italy have been woeful.

How much of Scotland's performance is the fact that even in losing they get to put one over England?  Italy hardly turned up too.
Will France be equally unmotivated?  And could England play as well as Ireland and Wales have.  Despite average opposition they've put away their chances.

[PaulWinch again]

We've got not chance.

[Proposition Joe]

Scoatlun were pish.  Italy?  Que cazzo!

I just hope England win.  Any win over France is good.  Forget the championship.

[Proposition Joe]

The way the rest of the day has gone, football included, I'm not optimistic about this one.

[Proposition Joe]

Idiots.

[paul_e]

Wrong decision to kick the 47m penalty as that's right on the edge of Ford's range, by doing it we gave them a route back into the game.

Since then we've gifted away 8 points by being pathetic at the breakdown.  I don't like to go on but having a 7 who won't play on the floor and not picking a 6 (in Wood) who's willing to help him out is killing us.

I don't get how they've given that 2nd french try, looked like he'd dropped it to me.

[Proposition Joe]

Idiots.

F**king idiots I should have said.  Against this French shower as well.

[Proposition Joe]

Dreadful stuff from England.  SCW saying beforehand we would ramp up the expectations in important games to see who could handle the pressure.  I'd have to say very few of this lot would pass the test.

They're making France look like world-beaters.

[Dante Lavelli]

Is there a tactic I'm not aware of with regards to kicking an up-and-under way too long i.e. so it is not contested? 

[paul_e]

Dreadful stuff from England.  SCW saying beforehand we would ramp up the expectations in important games to see who could handle the pressure.  I'd have to say very few of this lot would pass the test.

They're making France look like world-beaters.

Mentality and approach is the problem rather than individual performances (to an extent).

Joseph has pulled us out of the fire there, 9 point lead, lets try to pile on the pressure and get another score before half time, a double figure lead after this first half would be huge.

[Dante Lavelli]

That passage of play shows why rugby is awesome.  From the break-away try through to the lecture by the ref.
All of it was awesome.

[paul_e]

That passage of play shows why rugby is awesome.  From the break-away try through to the lecture by the ref.
All of it was awesome.

Like.

It also shows why England are a much better side when we don't just kick the fucking thing away all the time.  If you kick the ball outside you're 22 you need to either be trying to get it out on the first bounce or it needs to be in behind the defenders and getting them turned so they have no time to do anything but kick it clear.  All the hanging kicks are pathetic, that's not our game.  With the outside backs we have we should be playing a wide expansive game, picking ball carriers and then never giving them the ball is just stupid Watson and Joseph in particular could run any side in europe into the ground (in fact only NZ and SA have the quality to keep with them) but only if we get them loads of ball with space to attack.