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Sleightholme is the Saints player I'm most excited about. He's got the higlights reel, but the most impressive thing about him is how he always makes the right decision and puts himself in the right place, he's so consistent . You don't get that with many young players.

Spitting, honestly. England would probably have won that with a bit to spare if those two tries hadn't been given, despite playing like the usual group of brickheaded morons up front. Instead, no win, but another reason to cover up the coaching failings.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 9:23 am Decided to spice things up for tomorrow

And the week you post this Youngs decides to have his one good game of the year

England hamstrung by the fact that Youngs and Farrell won't (can't?) play more than two phases at a time. Before this match I wasn't sure what kind of player Lawrence is. It's 55 minutes in and I've still no clue.

Same old really. No coherent strategy beyond chucking the ball around as fast as possible for the opening twenty, then flappy-armed peaheart defence for the rest of the match.

Was that Dimes we could hear screaming at the referee from the stands?

Eh, Ealing. Another London club. Spreading the game.

We could make it back down to 12 teams if we just forced a couple of them to combine. Let's have the Ealing Saracens, and get rid of one of the West country clubs (Bath would be the obvious candidate because I don't like them very much). Job done.

You can literally see his knee on the ground...

How long do we think Jones has left? I reckon he is getting to the "taken them as far as he can" stage. And then, who do we replace him with? Is Jake White available? Time's up with Eddie when we start losing more matches and the performances are no longer there either, I wouldn't touch J...

Nige has fucked this right up.

'Tempo' is surely the most ironic nickname in the world for a referee with absolutely zero feel for the pace of the game.

Should probably be a pen try for that awful challenge from Phipps though.

Ludlam has no future as a winger. What was that?

Alex Mitchell has all the skills but he so consistently makes the wrong decision. Needs to become a better game manager if he's going to become an international.

Sopoaga is lucky he doesn't get paid by the minute played.

Looks like he hits him on the shoulder and rides up? Clutching at straws because I don't want to see a red...

Dunno if that's high but definitely needs a second look.

Wasps & Saints teams for their game: https://scontent.flhr1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p526x296/117632135_10157223158920957_4244946923926511887_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=TgqWDW_FPHMAX-m9YjV&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr1-1.fna&_nc_tp=6&oh=21c060dd9fa4627d37320eba94d04a29...

It basically means the opposite of what most media outlets are presenting it as, i.e. it's more likely to be good news. Lots of people evidently have immunity to the disease, there's been no cases of anyone being infected twice despite massive testing prevalence, so that means that immunity isn't d...

Says who? Gotta link to this? From what I've read (which is only really New Scientist tbf) the science on this is still very unclear and may actually depend on the severity of the case and subsequent immune response I.e. asymptomatic cases may not have the same immune memory as cases illiciting a l...

Surely Eddie's learned his lesson by now, after some of the players we've been conned into taking by the kiwis. Brad Shields in particular was a great practical joke.

Times says Genge, Ford, Tuilagi, Bateman and Eastmond are the holdouts. That would be a hammer blow.

Is there going to be any rugby left at the end of this?