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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #975 on: March 19, 2016, 09:45:32 PM »
Fucking hell.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #976 on: March 19, 2016, 09:47:20 PM »
Nasty injury for Hartley.

performance wise both 9s have shown why they're not good enough, Brown has made 3-4 fundamental errors and Farrell, penalties aside, has been fucking awful.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #977 on: March 19, 2016, 09:50:04 PM »
That said, I think Ford has had an excellent game given some of the shit that's been thrown to him.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #978 on: March 19, 2016, 09:54:56 PM »
probably the easiest yellow card decision owens has ever had to make, what was the guy doing?

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #979 on: March 19, 2016, 09:55:37 PM »
man of the match, for me, is a coin toss between Kruis and Itoje, once again they've both been exceptional.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #980 on: March 19, 2016, 09:57:19 PM »
Grand slam get in! Poor precision today but we've done it.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #981 on: March 19, 2016, 09:59:38 PM »
man of the match, for me, is a coin toss between Kruis and Itoje, once again they've both been exceptional.

I totally agree, took the French line out apart and were all over the field.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #982 on: March 19, 2016, 10:02:39 PM »
Very happy with the grand slam, the main thing its done is show just how poor Lancaster was for us to not get out of the group.

I think there's still some big work to do but it's nice to know that my belief that we have the best set of players in Europe has been shown to be correct.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #983 on: March 19, 2016, 10:09:40 PM »
Billy is the player of the tournament for me.  Watson has stepped up a level and still has more to come, I'd have him and North as my wingers.  Hartley has shown to be a great choice for captain and is comfortably the best hooker we have.  Finally Itoje is the brightest light in world rugby right now and he can really be whatever he wants to be, brilliant athlete with excellent technical skills.  Kruis was the form 2nd row in England and has translated that to international rugby with ease.

Those 5 need to be at the heart of the squad going forward.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #984 on: March 19, 2016, 10:32:14 PM »
man of the match, for me, is a coin toss between Kruis and Itoje, once again they've both been exceptional.

Have to agree - Kruis peerless at the set piece and Itoje slightly better in open play.     

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #985 on: March 19, 2016, 10:38:59 PM »
Next on Jones' agenda: Select either Ford or farrell.  Picking both makes our backs dysfunctional.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #986 on: March 19, 2016, 10:46:50 PM »
Delighted with Grand Slam. Getting a team who clearly have so much potential for growth to win all their games at this stage of their development is excellent. Billy, Kruis, Itoje and Watson have all shown themselves to be world class this tournament.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #987 on: March 19, 2016, 10:48:24 PM »
Excellent from Kruis and Itodje but good shifts from Robshaw, Haskell, and Nowell too. Thought Watson looked lively whenever he had a sniff of the ball. As poor;y as we did play you have to give a lot of credit to France. At home they were never going to roll over and let us rock up and take a Grand slam without working for it. You also have to bear in mind that none of this team has won anything internationally (I only count Grand Slams as winning anything not winning the 6 Nations without it). Anyway, nice to win it even nicer to do it away.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #988 on: March 19, 2016, 11:32:34 PM »
Excellent from Kruis and Itodje but good shifts from Robshaw, Haskell, and Nowell too. Thought Watson looked lively whenever he had a sniff of the ball. As poor;y as we did play you have to give a lot of credit to France. At home they were never going to roll over and let us rock up and take a Grand slam without working for it. You also have to bear in mind that none of this team has won anything internationally (I only count Grand Slams as winning anything not winning the 6 Nations without it). Anyway, nice to win it even nicer to do it away.

I thought Robshaw and Haskell were poor in the first half but they got better.

Nowell had a frustrating game for me, he was good in defence but in attack he was getting lots of ball by coming off his wing but he was running predictable lines and getting hit back a little too much for me.  I rate him highly but today was his worst game.

to be truly negative I know I slate Brown a lot and you're probably all bored of it but today was him at his braindead worst, he just makes so many bad decisions in a game, yes he's good under the high ball and yes he carries it back well but that largely gets negated by the fact that he either misses obvious passes that he should make or he runs into trouble and gets turned over, the failure to set Watson in in the first half was unforgivable, all he had to do was straighten and pin the full back and then pop a pass and it's a simple 7 pointer, we need to replace him soon if we want to build towards challenging for the next world cup.

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Re: Six Nations 2016
« Reply #989 on: March 19, 2016, 11:39:49 PM »
It's easy to be negative and criticise England, especially as we aren't the finished article yet, but also remiss of anyone to forget that there was another team out there trying to stop us. We may not have played at our best, it happens, we may not have played silky flowing ruby, that happens too, but I think it's a hallmark of a good team, and a good set of players, that when not hitting their straps they are still winning big important games.

I disagree with you a lot on Brown, but only because I don't understand the nuances of his, and the game, but like what I see of him. Today, I did think he was poor and made the wrong decisions when he was (seldomly) involved in the game. In the first half I think we were too slow at the breakdown which leas to too many penalties. But that was team wide.

One other thing Billy V has been great but for me my man of the tournament for England has been Kruis.

 


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