International Rugby

[nigel]

Red for Adams?

[nigel]

Lucky boy

[paul_e]

Yellow was the right call for me but it was fucking stupid.

This is the battering it threatened to be in the first half now. Welsh defence is a mess.

[paul_e]

I might be proven wrong but it looks like a team that is designed to kick for the corners and win it with rolling mauls and scrums inside their 22.

It'll be like watching Lydney v Berry Hill in the 1980s

I think the prediction is looking safe so far.

[Flamingo Lane]

I might be proven wrong but it looks like a team that is designed to kick for the corners and win it with rolling mauls and scrums inside their 22.

It'll be like watching Lydney v Berry Hill in the 1980s

I actually preferred watching rugby when it was like that.  I enjoyed a 6-3 score.  In those days the skilful and gifted players would stand out as truly special.  Rugby these days is more like American football, typified by the ridiculous spectacle of players being hoisted into the air at line-ins, or whatever they are called now.

[nigel]

Come on England
Good try
We’ll played Youngs, and especially, Marcus Smith

[nigel]

You effin twat LCD!!

[Steve67]

You effin twat LCD!!

Stupid decision, likely to cost us the game when we were so comfortable.

[paul_e]

Frustrating thing is that he was the best player on the pitch until then.

Youngs has cost us massively though, absolutely no pace to our play with him constantly slowing it down to kick, means they've always had time to spread the defence. Kicking so much is particularly stupid when Hogg and VDM are so good at running it back.

Fucking pathetic game plan from Jones.

[paul_e]

Fucking shit performance, almost every time we got to 3rd phase we kicked the fucking thing away, gameplan was utter bollocks, selection in the backs was shite and made it fucking obvious what we were going to do.

[Brazilian Villain]

Brilliant, well done Scotland! Been a great start to this year's 6N.

[luke:lamf]

Pleased Wales got humped. They've always struck me as being not-that-good, but somehow managing to win. About time they were actually crap (compared to the others that aren't Italy). Ireland looked plenty strong - next week's match against France should go a long way to deciding the tournament winner.

Scotland - I don't actually mind losing to Scotland in rugby (same as I don't mind losing to Wales in football, but the opposites are unthinkable). Love the blue-and-purple colour scheme, Murrayfield, acapella Flower of Scotland. Plus they've been awful for years so it's only fair they get their turn in the sun. England were boring, and predictably so, as Paul pointed out above.

Perhaps someone more qualified can explain - why was LCD's vollyball slap illegal ? It wasn't a pass, so why can't he just slap the ball into touch ?

[UK Redsox]

Perhaps someone more qualified can explain - why was LCD's vollyball slap illegal ? It wasn't a pass, so why can't he just slap the ball into touch ?

Deliberate knock on. Penalty in normal circumstances. Yellow card and penalty try if a try would likely have been scored.

Also…..a player must not ” Intentionally knock, place, push or throw the ball with arm or hand from the playing area.”

LCD managed to do both things. Therefore, this was a clear yellow and penalty try

[Gareth]

Was it just me head butting the table when the coach replaced Smith with Ford to reunite his chuckle brothers tribute act of Young & Ford at half back?  Kick it away….kick it away….kick it away…any chance of keeping the ball a bit?  Sooner Jones is sacked the better hence being quite happy that Scotland won

[luke:lamf]

Perhaps someone more qualified can explain - why was LCD's vollyball slap illegal ? It wasn't a pass, so why can't he just slap the ball into touch ?

Deliberate knock on. Penalty in normal circumstances. Yellow card and penalty try if a try would likely have been scored.

Also…..a player must not ” Intentionally knock, place, push or throw the ball with arm or hand from the playing area.”

LCD managed to do both things. Therefore, this was a clear yellow and penalty try

Thanks. Didn't realise deliberate knock-on applied to all actions, thought it was only for intercepting passes, and didn't know about the second stipulation at all.