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Worst officiating by far last night.. Taofifenua should have seen red. That and a host of other joke shop pro French calls was astounding. Maybe watch the Wales Fiji match again - Carley in that second half was the worst ref performance so far by a good stretch. Carley was poor he ignored Fiji seal...

Borthwick could have Antoin Dupont and 2005 vintage Dan Carter as his halfbacks and it would make zero difference to how he coached England to play.

Yup, I bored everyone silly banging on about this point for years. Eddie never rated English rugby at all and largely defined us by the weird stereotypes he'd built up in his head. It showed in every utterance, every weird selection, every stupid fucking press conference, every dumb shit attempt to...

Yeah, the Prem compares pretty favourably to the URC over the last few seasons in terms of knock out representation. Even more so if you take Leinster out of the equation. There's no shame in losing in the knockouts to the big French clubs and the collection of top players their millions of extra s...

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:01 pm Replacements?

Rob Baxter?

He'd be terrible.

We already look far better with Mitchell and Ford we do with Youngs and Farrell, who'd have thunk it. And then England looked shite again. Oh sorry, I'm sure you were just about to post this. :roll: It then started pissing it down which may have had something to do with it, but after the first 15 m...

Oxbow wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:26 pm We already look far better with Mitchell and Ford we do with Youngs and Farrell, who'd have thunk it.

And then England looked shite again.

Oh sorry, I'm sure you were just about to post this.

FFS, the whining about Farrell by the usual wets is just galling. He's been banned for 4 fucking weeks - stop bellyaching. You mean he has rightly been banned for 4 weeks, or are you saying his head shot deserved no ban? A rightful ban would have been 6 weeks with time then being tacked on for aggr...

I also recall you being fairly annoyed by the laxity of Adam Coleman's ban when he got his second red in the span of a year. People thinking 4 weeks isn't enough for a 4 time offender (two recent offences in the span of a year) seems like it should be in line with your thinking on the issue. Except...

FFS, the whining about Farrell by the usual wets is just galling. He's been banned for 4 fucking weeks - stop bellyaching.

Joe Heyes called up[ as cover for Sinckler who has a "chest injury"!!! Holy hell, we're collapsing like flies. I was vaguely hoping we might be able to scratch through to the semis, given our good fortune in pools, but right now I don't think we'll even make that. Sinckler chest injury - ...

I got a ticket for this game for the privilege of being a local resident, for the princely sum of 10 quid. I will be hoping for an evening of many head injuries. All to Steve Borthwick. How will you tell The voice is a usually a dead giveaway. Speech sounds laboured, drawn out, monotone and it ofte...

If you want a laugh then listen to Danny Care on their latest BBC Rugby pod explaining that England played a "smart" game against Wales.

Jesus fucking wept.

Shared with me from a usually reliable source...lets call him Jake....the squad as will be announced tomrorow No Tom Willis No Dombrandt No Henry Slade Forwards E Genge, J Marler, B Rodd, J George, J Walker, T Dan, K Sinckler, D Cole, W Stuart, M Itoje, O Chessum, G Martin, D Ribbans, C Lawes, L Lu...

A substitute making his debut for the last 20 minutes joining a team playing like dogshit - all the debutants deserve some sympathy for that goat fuck

Is this a joke? Willis trucked it up a bit and lost the ball, Dombrandt actually broke the line and offloaded/passed. I like Willis a lot but if that was the first time you'd seen him play you'd wonder what he was there for. Dreadful performance by England. A few players who are stealing a living a...

Marcus Smith playing outside Danny Care and Alex Dombrandt with Joe Marchant at centre.

How will you blame Owen Farrell for this one?

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:32 pm One of the worst games of rugby I’ve ever seen, lost by a pathetic excuse for a team. Thankfully I am getting married this September rather than going to the comp

Signing your life away is more fun than watching England play rugby.

(Congratulations and good luck!)

Tom Willis looks good when he carries - he's good in traffic.

#scraps

The top-3 sides in the Premiership would beat this England team quite comfortably.

Sinckler just steals a living playing rugby.

Borthwick has certainly created a side in his own image.

The modern pro forward takes the absolute piss getting ready before the set-piece. Annoys the fuck out of me - they just stand there doing fuck all and have to be cajoled into the game.

Pearson isn't a 7.

JCok turns slower than milk.

I hear basketball players can make for potentially world class blindsides... If they also look like massive centres then yes they can be. Lawes is a pumped up skinny bloke. He'll weigh less than 100kgs within a few years of retirement from rugby. I think he's naturally bigger than that but yes, he ...

Lawes is a superb player but he's basically a taller version of Tom Croft with less pace.

He plays very much like a South African blindside. Relentless tackler and big hitter, lots of cleanout work, decent over the ball at the breakdown, heavy carrier. Excellent lineout option. More mobile than a big lock. Less mobile than an openside. South African blindsides look like massive centres....

This ^ And, he hasn't really played Lock for years. Which doesn't obviate he doesn't really play as a loose forward. He plays like a lock at 6. You might want that, it's popular with many coaches around the world so hardly just fans, equally it's not hard to see why it's not what some would seek He...

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 7:51 am Someone has edited out the Owen Farrell back catalogue of horror passes. And actually for someone who could pass the Will Greenwood special from 2003 is also missing, one might observe he had his mind elsewhere

Playing outside Ben Youngs at test level must be an absolute nightmare.

Wordle 768 3/6*

Crazy back row options for them next season. It's going to be some backrow that Saracens can put out every week. Theo McFarland was the best player in the league before he got injured, Ben Earl seems to play rugby with cheat modes activated, BillyV is the dump truck and now Saracens have added the ...

Wordle 767 4/6*

Crazy back row options for them next season. It's going to be some backrow that Saracens can put out every week. Theo McFarland was the best player in the league before he got injured, Ben Earl seems to play rugby with cheat modes activated, BillyV is the dump truck and now Saracens have added the ...

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I'm getting the distinct impression that Borthwick is an utterly shite selector.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Wordle 764 5/6*

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Never close really.

Wordle 762 5/6*

I periodically have sessions where I go;

Keep
Sell
Chuck

Chuck could be charity shop or bin.

Unfortunately I'm still not anything like as ruthless as I need to be so I'd have to describe myself as Hoarder Biased.

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