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Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3225 on: March 13, 2021, 06:32:09 PM »
Step in the right direction - that French side is going places.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3226 on: March 13, 2021, 06:35:34 PM »
Big win but it does paper over the cracks a little. We were great when it was an open game but when they put some structure on the game (which killed their own attack) we went really flat. Last 10 we looked fitter and I do wonder if that was, in part, due to the impact of their Covid outbreak.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3227 on: March 13, 2021, 07:51:40 PM »
Best game of the 6N so far.
Ben Youngs wasn’t shit.
Wonders never cease.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3228 on: March 13, 2021, 08:07:08 PM »
Excellent game, but sweet baby Jesus you can't trust the French with anything (!). Now reduced to hoping that they can beat the Welsh and Scots handily to prevent the former from jamming their way to a 6N title.

Not sure what it is about the white 15 shirt that turns whoever it is to mediocre, but was not too impressed by Malins. Curry and Itoje stood out for me, don't really understand how Watson got MotM (he wasn't shit, but didn't think he was amazing).

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3229 on: March 13, 2021, 11:36:45 PM »
Very good 80 minute (Well apart from the first 80 seconds !) performance by England against the best team that they have played since the WC final. As a game, it was head and shoulders above any other game in this season's 6Nations. Yes, Youngs had his best game for ages and Dupont faded as did a number of the French players in the 2nd half. I think the only reason ITV gave Watson MOM was because it was his 50th cap - England Rugby gave it to Tom Curry and I'm sure that Itoje couldn't have been far behind. As regards a replacement for Youngs looking forward to the 2023 WC, I'm tipping Raffi Quirke of Sale to be not far off selection as long as De Klerk is not still there at Sale as the number 1 scrum half. I'm not sure if the Saffers will need to go back home for the year before the WC.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3230 on: March 14, 2021, 09:19:37 AM »
Very good 80 minute (Well apart from the first 80 seconds !) performance by England against the best team that they have played since the WC final. As a game, it was head and shoulders above any other game in this season's 6Nations. Yes, Youngs had his best game for ages and Dupont faded as did a number of the French players in the 2nd half. I think the only reason ITV gave Watson MOM was because it was his 50th cap - England Rugby gave it to Tom Curry and I'm sure that Itoje couldn't have been far behind. As regards a replacement for Youngs looking forward to the 2023 WC, I'm tipping Raffi Quirke of Sale to be not far off selection as long as De Klerk is not still there at Sale as the number 1 scrum half. I'm not sure if the Saffers will need to go back home for the year before the WC.

I like Quirke but Mitchell is ahead for me because of his raw pace, I like a 9 who can hold his own in a race with the wingers.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3231 on: March 14, 2021, 05:38:22 PM »
Best game of the 6N so far.
Ben Youngs wasn’t shit.
Wonders never cease.
My thoughts exactly, should get him another 30 caps of kicking & chasing

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3232 on: March 20, 2021, 05:28:46 PM »
Poor again from England so far, Farrell brings nothing in attack, good defender and decent kicker but horribly predictable with the ball in hand and is now targeted by teams and regularly runs exactly where they want. Jones really needs to go so someone new can come in and change things up, he did well for 4 years but since the world cup we've been going backwards pretty rapidly.

Daly has been fucking awful again, he's not good enough under high balls to be a fullback against a team like Ireland who build their game around it.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3233 on: March 20, 2021, 05:57:00 PM »
This is just the bi-annual England take a shoeing in Dublin in the St Patrick's day/weekend game. They're always fired up as hell, England always roll over.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3234 on: March 20, 2021, 05:57:59 PM »
How many points do we need Ireland to get to have that clown sacked?  Not corrected any of the discipline issues in 2/3 years & this continual kicking (very badly) game is beyond boring. 

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3235 on: March 20, 2021, 06:06:41 PM »
How many points do we need Ireland to get to have that clown sacked?  Not corrected any of the discipline issues in 2/3 years & this continual kicking (very badly) game is beyond boring. 

6/2 split on the bench with no alternative FH is fucking amateur as well.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3236 on: March 20, 2021, 06:52:12 PM »
Embarrassing defeat to end an abysmal 6N, all because Jones decided to stick with the team from the world cup despite half of them not playing any club rugby for 6 months and there being a huge number of players in the domestic game that are miles ahead of them. Simmonds, Smith, O'Connor, Odogwu, Randall and a few others should have a whip round and send him a retirement card because after ignoring them he doesn't deserve any more time with England.

If I never see Billy V, Youngs and Farrell wear an England shirt again I'd be ok with it, 3 senior players who should've been rallying the team and getting us going were all fucking shit and Farrell at 12 in particular is every bit as bad as Lancaster insisting on taking Burgess to the world cup, he's never been a good centre but he was defensively solid and good at kicking for the posts, this season his kicking has abandoned him and his tackling is a liability for the new laws, I'm amazed he's not seen red in this tournament.


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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3237 on: March 20, 2021, 06:52:25 PM »
I enjoyed that, went much better than expected.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3238 on: March 20, 2021, 06:55:02 PM »
Went exactly as I expected after seeing the sort of crap Eddie Jones was coming out with in the media this week.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #3239 on: March 20, 2021, 07:03:49 PM »
Went exactly as I expected after seeing the sort of crap Eddie Jones was coming out with in the media this week.

Yep, same here, as soon as I read the shit about him getting rid of the 'poison' about playing style from the players minds I knew we were going to play kick and chase and try to out muscle them up front and it just wouldn't work.

 


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