Six Nations 2018

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,119
    Great start to the day's action. Gutted for Italy but it still looks like England could finish 5th behind a whole bunch of sh!tty small countries.

    So now for the '6 Nations Decider' as the English media were billing it before the tournament started right up until last week.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Bloody Scottish. Hate them but not as much as the whole world hates the English.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,683
    Disappointed but not surprised.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Disappointed at the result, surprised that we didn’t get marmalised.

    Now we really need the Irish to marmalise the English.

    Come on Ireland to be sure, to be sure.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    England 0-14 Ireland after 25 minutes

    England have been awful so far!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,936
    “In a snow storm”. Mwahahahaha.
    Well that 6 Nations didn’t go to plan.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,119
    Ireland take the Grand Slam by being well organised rather than spectacular. England were terrible and struggling to work out how they scored 3 tries, Ireland have conceded quite a few in winning.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Perfect end to the day I suppose.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,683
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Well that 6 Nations didn’t go to plan.
    Being half English and half Italian I’d say that could have gone better.
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  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 721
    Wales France is a good game so far..
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    Glad I didn't place any bets on the tipping skills of bike radar board members!
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Eddie Jones has stated that some players won’t represent England again

    I’ll guess at...

    Dan Cole
    Chris Robshaw
    Dylan Hartley
    George Kruis *
    Richard Wigglesworth
    Mike Brown *

    Those with an asterisk may survive a cull but will have to improve significantly

    Maro Itoje, Mako Vunipola and Jonathan Joseph need to be given the summer off as they are completely knackered and it shows in their performances.

    I think an attack coach is required as there’s been precious little of it on display for quite a while now!!

    But anyway, congratulations Ireland! A deserved Grand Slam
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,119
    crispybug2 wrote:
    Eddie Jones has stated that some players won’t represent England again

    I’ll guess at...

    Dan Cole
    Chris Robshaw
    Dylan Hartley
    George Kruis *
    Richard Wigglesworth
    Mike Brown *

    Those with an asterisk may survive a cull but will have to improve significantly

    Maro Itoje, Mako Vunipola and Jonathan Joseph need to be given the summer off as they are completely knackered and it shows in their performances.

    I think an attack coach is required as there’s been precious little of it on display for quite a while now!!

    But anyway, congratulations Ireland! A deserved Grand Slam

    I'd go with that other than Kruis. Hartley, Wigglesworth and Robshaw should have gone ages ago. I'd add in Haskell too.

    I'm guessing Trinh-Duc has played his last game for France as well.

    Well done Ireland. At least England were second of the non-sh!tty little countries.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,188
    ABE! :mrgreen:
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    orraloon wrote:
    ABE! :mrgreen:


    This times seven billion
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • narbs
    narbs Posts: 593
    Ireland - good value for the GS without ever looking that special.

    The rest - varying degrees of awful.

    The second half of Wales v France was absolutely dire. Quite what Steff Evans had done do be dropped is a mystery and if Gatland is genuine in his pronouncements about playing wider then Biggar needs to step down.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,119
    narbs wrote:
    Ireland - good value for the GS without ever looking that special.

    The rest - varying degrees of awful.

    The second half of Wales v France was absolutely dire. Quite what Steff Evans had done do be dropped is a mystery and if Gatland is genuine in his pronouncements about playing wider then Biggar needs to step down.

    Gatland always seems to select on past reputation ahead of form. Look how long he stuck with Priestland and Cuthbert. Steff Evans came in due to injury and didn't put a foot wrong so dropping him for Liam Williams who doesn't look at his best and has been a bit of a disciplinary disaster was a poor decision. Shingler was another unlucky to be dropped. I'm not sure what the answer is at 10 though, Patchell looked good against Scotland but not against England and Anscombe is too erratic. I like Biggar from a defensive point of view but if your primary consideration in a 10 is defence then you're unlikely to be playing exciting rugby.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,495
    I went to Twickenham on Saturday - bloody freezing!

    Ireland deserved winners of the Grand slam - easily the best team in the tournament and some very happy fans around Twickenham on Saturday night.

    As for England, they were pretty awful for big parts of all of the games they played in and don't seem able to rely on fitness and power in the last 20 minutes to get them over the line. The Ford/Farrell axis was lauded against Wales and slated in the others to the point that Ford was dropped . . . did he become that poor that quickly? Some players are obviously tired and I'm sure that the league systems in which many of the Irish team play means that they are physically in better shape at the start of the 6N

    Depite what others have said above, I thought Haskell was one of a few that had a decent run out on Saturday.

    Sadly, a little bit of rugby died for me with the carding of Liam WIlliams and Anthony Watson in this years Six Nations
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