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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5235 on: Today at 02:51:43 PM »
Ermm... might stick to the curling.

If you can't beat Italy in Scottish weather conditions...

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5236 on: Today at 03:14:52 PM »
Italy have really progressed over the past 2-3seasons

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« Reply #5237 on: Today at 04:06:25 PM »
Italy have really progressed over the past 2-3seasons

It's built around the centres, Menoncello is the best centre in the world and Brex is a monster in defence next to him.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5238 on: Today at 04:07:17 PM »
Well done Italy. Time to go, Townsend.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5239 on: Today at 04:14:17 PM »
Better team won, Jocks played for 3 minutes.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5240 on: Today at 05:56:31 PM »
Why on earth are Wales wearing this awful Rugby League strip? No wonder they are getting stuffed!

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5241 on: Today at 06:00:26 PM »
Gwan Wales! The comeback is on.

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5242 on: Today at 06:37:43 PM »
It's weird that England's margin of victory feels underwhelming but Wales are atrocious.

Really would have liked England to have been ruthless and put 70+ points on them but they took their foot of the gas in the second half

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Re: International Rugby
« Reply #5243 on: Today at 06:49:28 PM »
Really would have liked England to have been ruthless and put 70+ points on them but they took their foot of the gas in the second half

Probably a sensible approach, given the condensed schedule this year.

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« Reply #5244 on: Today at 06:55:04 PM »
Really would have liked England to have been ruthless and put 70+ points on them but they took their foot of the gas in the second half

Probably a sensible approach, given the condensed schedule this year.

Probably correct.

It is not great seeing a Welsh team this embarrassingly poor though.

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« Reply #5245 on: Today at 06:59:12 PM »
England didn't play particularly well but easily got 48 points and probably left another try or 2 on the field, I was a bit disappointed that we lost our patterns of play when Spencer came on, we really need a better option as the backup 9. The pack were mostly very good, I do though still have problems with how often Earl seems to play for himself and I thought Curry was really dumb with his yellow card. Itoje was a little unlucky that he came on right when we were on a warning but he always plays on the edge of the rules so it's always a risk.

This Wales squad might be the worst 6N team ever and I just don't see how they get anything this year, just not good enough on any level. Wainwright and Williams are decent enough players that you can accept them being there and Rees-Zammit is exceptional but the rest of that team is players that wouldn't have made the training squad for them 10years ago, the drop in standards in Welsh rugby is alarming and is going to be very difficult for them to fix any time soon. I remember thinking similar about Scotland a while back and they came back a lot stronger but I don't think they were ever this bad.

I don't think any of the Welsh yellows were wrong either, Thomas, Lake and Plumtree were just really stupid and gave the ref no choice and the other is what happens when you give away 8 penalties in the first 12minutes, that stat alone shows how out of their depth they were.

 


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