Six Nations

[steds]

Explain the 40/20 rule to me then, oh League oracle...?

You cheated! Include the rest of the sentence!

And the 40/20 is a genuinely good and strongly beneficial positional kick. You get yawnion players hoofing it out for lineouts around the halfway line.

 

[BoyBrumby]

England XXII for France

More masterstrokes from our innovative genius of a coach. Our forwards deliver over two-thirds of the ball only for our backline to eff things up & what does AR-hole do? Bring back a 33 year old scrum half (which is arguably the right call & one I suggested would happen after the Wales game IIRC, but not exactly forward-thinking) & drops last year's saviour of English scrumaging ™ to the bench!

How bad do Tindall, Noon & Cohen have to be before they get dropped?!? Stuart Abbott must've ran AR's dog over or something...

England team: Josh Lewsey (Wasps); Mark Cueto (Sale), Jamie Noon (Newcastle), Mike Tindall (Gloucester), Ben Cohen (Northampton); Charlie Hodgson (Sale), Matt Dawson (Wasps); Matt Stevens (Bath), Steve Thompson (Northampton), Julian White (Leicester); Steve Borthwick (Bath), Danny Grewcock (Bath); Joe Worsley (Wasps), Lewis Moody (Leicester), Martin Corry (Leicester, capt).
Replacements: Lee Mears (Bath), Andrew Sheridan (Sale), Simon Shaw (Wasps), Lawrence Dallaglio (Wasps), Harry Ellis (Leicester), Andy Goode (Leicester), Tom Voyce (Wasps).

 

[steds]

No one cares any more, Brum. Superleague's started.

 

[Pothas]

No one cares any more, Brum. Superleague's started.

HA

 

[simmy]

More masterstrokes from our innovative genius of a coach. Our forwards deliver over two-thirds of the ball only for our backline to eff things up & what does AR-hole do? Bring back a 33 year old scrum half (which is arguably the right call & one I suggested would happen after the Wales game IIRC, but not exactly forward-thinking) & drops last year's saviour of English scrumaging ™ to the bench!

How bad do Tindall, Noon & Cohen have to be before they get dropped?!? Stuart Abbott must've ran AR's dog over or something...

England team: Josh Lewsey (Wasps); Mark Cueto (Sale), Jamie Noon (Newcastle), Mike Tindall (Gloucester), Ben Cohen (Northampton); Charlie Hodgson (Sale), Matt Dawson (Wasps); Matt Stevens (Bath), Steve Thompson (Northampton), Julian White (Leicester); Steve Borthwick (Bath), Danny Grewcock (Bath); Joe Worsley (Wasps), Lewis Moody (Leicester), Martin Corry (Leicester, capt).
Replacements: Lee Mears (Bath), Andrew Sheridan (Sale), Simon Shaw (Wasps), Lawrence Dallaglio (Wasps), Harry Ellis (Leicester), Andy Goode (Leicester), Tom Voyce (Wasps).

Good to see Dawson starting.

Noon is OK IMO.. Its Tindall I want replaced. Hopefully by Wilkinson one day soon.

 

[steds]

Wilkinson's England days are over. It's only a matter of time before his whole leg falls off.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Good to see Dawson starting.

Noon is OK IMO.. Its Tindall I want replaced. Hopefully by Wilkinson one day soon.

Noon's done ok, but they're both 13s & AR should play either/or if he must, not both. Personally I still think Ollie Smith is our long term 13, but Simpson-Daniel or Lewsey are other options. Abbott's a must for me at 12 just now tho, the form centre in the ZP.

 

[simmy]

He could yet play again.

I know its unlikely thats why I said "hopefully"

 

[simmy]

Englands performance will give us a big indicator to how well they are prepared for the WC.

Especially as the game is in France...

Have to say, I'm not exactly confident of a win.

 

[steds]

Englands performance will give us a big indicator to how well they are prepared for the WC.

Especially as the game is in France...

Have to say, I'm not exactly confident of a win.

If Scotland can beat France, England can.









...Then again, that works the other way around, too.

 

[Anna]

More masterstrokes from our innovative genius of a coach. Our forwards deliver over two-thirds of the ball only for our backline to eff things up & what does AR-hole do? Bring back a 33 year old scrum half (which is arguably the right call & one I suggested would happen after the Wales game IIRC, but not exactly forward-thinking) & drops last year's saviour of English scrumaging ™ to the bench!

How bad do Tindall, Noon & Cohen have to be before they get dropped?!? Stuart Abbott must've ran AR's dog over or something...

England team: Josh Lewsey (Wasps); Mark Cueto (Sale), Jamie Noon (Newcastle), Mike Tindall (Gloucester), Ben Cohen (Northampton); Charlie Hodgson (Sale), Matt Dawson (Wasps); Matt Stevens (Bath), Steve Thompson (Northampton), Julian White (Leicester); Steve Borthwick (Bath), Danny Grewcock (Bath); Joe Worsley (Wasps), Lewis Moody (Leicester), Martin Corry (Leicester, capt).
Replacements: Lee Mears (Bath), Andrew Sheridan (Sale), Simon Shaw (Wasps), Lawrence Dallaglio (Wasps), Harry Ellis (Leicester), Andy Goode (Leicester), Tom Voyce (Wasps).

He dropped Sheridan cos Stevens is the better player He's more a lot more mobile.

 

[BoyBrumby]

He dropped Sheridan cos Stevens is the better player He's more a lot more mobile.

I don't disagree with the call as such, rather the fact that Sheridan was being touted as the greatest Loosehead since sliced bread (& he was awesome! ) in the autumn & now suddenly he's polishing the oak again. Presumably 'cos AR's worried about his scrummaging; if he was only worried about mobility round the paddock old Jules White wouldn't be there as he's v much a specialist.

 

[simmy]

Wales / Ireland and England to win this weekend.

I fully expect England to bounce back. Tomorrow's game is massive!!

 

[BoyBrumby]

Wales, Ireland & France for me, sadly.

Be so pleased to be proved wrong tho!

 

[BoyBrumby]

Fair play to Italy. They've been really under the pump in the first half, but thanks to a late interception try turn round 15-all at the break!

Video ref swallowed it when he gave them their first try tho; no way did Galon ground the ball before he went over the dead ball line. Sympathy vote!

 

[PY]

Wilkinson's England days are over. It's only a matter of time before his whole leg falls off.

I'm not so sure about that.

Good article/interview about him in a magazine I was reading in the shop (dirty student that I am ) and since he got crippled last time, he's adopted a very different stance to rugby based on Matt Burke's attitude that there is more to life than rugby so he isn't flogging himself in training anymore, this could be his saviour in that he can take his time returning and not wire his body up so bad that's it's likely to pop again.

 

[PY]

Fair play to Italy. They've been really under the pump in the first half, but thanks to a late interception try turn round 15-all at the break!

Video ref swallowed it when he gave them their first try tho; no way did Galon ground the ball before he went over the dead ball line. Sympathy vote!

Yeah I thought the video ref copped it then and was flustered so went for the affirmative because the Italian 15 was an idiot and should have grounded it.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I thought he probably got it down in time looking at a long-distance camera view they showed at half-time. Would be funny as hell if Italy pull this off.

 

[Matteh]

The video referee had to decide whether he'd grounded it before he put his leg out of play....which he didn't...
but he DID get the ball down in time

 

[Scaly piscine]

The video referee had to decide whether he'd grounded it before he put his leg out of play....which he didn't...
but he DID get the ball down in time

The leg wasn't necessarily on the ground tho, it was touch and go what hit the deck first and I think anyone who says it was definitely one or other is lying.

Second half seems a bit like the opposite of the first so far.