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Credit where it’s due, they handled that situation pretty much perfectly. Thought Earl was excellent as well as the others mentioned above. Big Q is going to be what they do with Farrell if George keeps playing like this. They'll stick him at 12 and ditch Marchant... Is probably the correct answer!

Credit where it’s due, they handled that situation pretty much perfectly.

Thought Earl was excellent as well as the others mentioned above. Big Q is going to be what they do with Farrell if George keeps playing like this.

Ymx wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:19 am Foster is free after the RWC

Sounds like Steve Hansen will go anywhere for a few quid too

I reckon John Mitchell might come in - already with the England women’s team, has been an England coach twice before, has a good record of failing as a head coach - everything the RFU blazers could want!

In-terms of what might have been re England coaching regimes - in a way England messed up by reaching the final in 2007, which meant that the RFU felt it had to keep Ashton (who was just hired on a temp basis for the RWC after Robbo f!cked it) rather than hiring Warren Gatland, who seemed all set to...

Would be very happy for France or Ireland to win their first RWC, but I’m generally one to root for the underdog and have a small degree of Scots heritage, so who better to have as my second team than a team who are likely to get even less far than England, but will at least make an entertaining fis...

Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:03 pm
Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:53 pm "supplied by WRU" is a bold accusation.
They're not a body that screams we have the money to pay for stuff

and why would they be supplying it to Webb at this point, who has effectively retired from international rugby and is playing in the French second division?!

Are we worse than the '05 -'11 sides yet? By a country mile. They could defend and try and grind out a win at least and you never saw those teams lose (comfortably as well) to one of the PI nations. Make no mistake, this is the most humiliating defeat in England rugby history and we can add it to t...

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:40 pm Or Semesa Rokoduguni?

Roko was hardly big or lumbering and had decent hands, he had some deficiencies (not the smartest defender, no boot to speak of) but deserved the international caps he got and actually looked like an international wing when he played (unlike Banners or Fiji Joe).

Not that it’s any bad thing in the round but the Italy 6N game only sold out because they gave out tickets to school parties, and there were tickets to be had at face value in the week for both the Scotland and France games, all of which is unprecedented in the recent past. The voting with feet has...

Also that married doc who was probably borking her... :wtf Doctors fuck hot nurses all the time. Crazy women are great in bed. Does she qualify on the first bit? Can imagine a few awkward conversations at home. He (and the other hospital stuff who appeared as witnesses) managed to get anonymity ord...

Seriously doubt she’s going to be anywhere near the general prison population any time soon! From the terrorgraph: Letby will be kept in the hospital wing of the prison – to assess her mental and physical health, as well as her safety from other prisoners – before being moved to a cell on her own. “...

Really been finding it difficult to wrap my head around this case; what kind of mind is capable of repeatedly attacking newborn babies, especially ones so helpless as prem babies. Was reading that one of the lines of questioning/theories the prosecution had was that she was doing it because it got h...

Word Rugby appealing the Farrell decision, according to a number of journos on Twitter. Think it says something that I’ve not seen a single England fan disagree with the red (on here, social media or newspaper comments sections, not that I’ve really been looking out mind), only people I’ve seen defe...

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:58 pm If you’re ever in trouble, instruct that KC.

Quite! Expect he also got Farrell knighted in the new years honours list and Basham will have to pay to have his face mark washed out of Farrell’s shirt

Yes, will be interested to hear the logic behind that one!

Farrell apparently cleared and has his red rescinded!!

There's a big question mark for me as to what we're gaining from these games beyond TV money and some gate receipts, I suppose I've just answered my own question. No one really seems to be trying anything new beyond combinations and people are just getting injured/banned. Might work in our favour i...

Did you hear about the flasher who was about to retire?

He’s decided to stick it out for another year

https://www.rugbyrama.fr/2023/08/14/coupe-du-monde-2023-romain-ntamack-forfait-pour-le-mondial-11395255.php The risks inherent in these warm up games. It's FH chaos out there with Sexton and Farrell trying to rule themselves out through their own actions. Not 10s, but sadly a couple of the Welsh la...

charltom wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:01 pm
Slick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:58 pm Sutherland looks like his ribs have cracked
Did rather. Whiplash more likely?

Maybe just got the wind knocked out of him being hit in the back like that.

Great game and some lovely fluent play from both sides - made up for that utter heap of sh!te from earlier!

English rugby hasn’t seen such a dirge of talent since the 70’s. Don’t think things are as bad as the Robbo/Ashton/Johnno eras talent-wise - in theory we have a good number of top-class players and exciting young players, but almost no-one seems to be playing at their best or being effectively used...

What’s striking is how almost all of the players from 2019 haven’t progressed (most have gone backwards) when you’d have backed a good number of that side to become the best in their positions (or thereabouts) in the world. Pretty much all of the team from the final are in the squad and should be at...

:sad: Ugh, could make a decent side out of that squad on paper if everyone was on-form and we had some sort of cohesive game plan - let’s see but not looking promising so far (as basic a skill as holding onto the ball would’ve been a start at the weekend!). Is Dan really the third best hooker we hav...

Enzedder wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 6:31 pm who's Freddie Burns?

A latter-day Ben Gollings, without the pace

I think the accusation was that it was a big shiny toy to him a la Abramovich & Chelsea - just an ego trip for a guy with a ridiculous amount of money and a desire to leverage that money to his chosen toy's advantage. I think he’s a genuine Bath fan and a rugby man, there have certainly been so...

Presumably yes, although Bath rugby will no doubt have a very long lease! It makes a load more sense - I couldn't see how they'd get around the charity thing, and that would explain it. I hadn't entertained the thought that Bruce would pony up for a new stadium he'd not own outright, but expect the...

Presumably yes, although Bath rugby will no doubt have a very long lease!

Well deserved for Lawrence and finally looked the part for England as well this year, nice for to score the try that clinched 8th against Sarries too. Re the stadium, the court action over the last few years has been about a set of restrictive covenants that were in the 1922 conveyance, which preve...

Well deserved for Lawrence and finally looked the part for England as well this year, nice for to score the try that clinched 8th against Sarries too. Re the stadium, the court action over the last few years has been about a set of restrictive covenants that were in the 1922 conveyance, which preven...

Didn’t catch it during the game, how bad was it? Marler has done some daft stuff in his time, but thought he got a bit hard done by on the AWJ thing, which looked like an appreciative fondling rather than anything nasty (recall Gareth Thomas said in the studio that, if that was the way the game is g...

Stephen Myler is retiring from rugby at the end of the season. I'm slightly biased, but he's been one of the better league converts I reckon. Nothing flashy, but also never anything less than 7/10. I've lost count of the number of games he won at the end for Saints with his kicking. That he was sti...

They also need to get this tournament right as a spectacle for the European time zone market, given a lot of games will be on prime time terrestrial tv. Wouldn’t have been such an issue to have a slew of reds with games being played in Japan, Oz or NZ, but in France it would be.

Moral victories are so glorious. It helps offset my shock that so many fellow posters could get it wrong. Do we need a "Congrats England" thread or will this suffice? We're far too modest for that, but as a compromise I think we can all agree that if he has any decency Sexton will hand ba...

Would have been a much more sensible decision at the time. Ah well, hopefully none of the RWC knock-out games are ruined by a red card.

What breed of cockerels lay eggs?

Himalayan

I believe the legal eagles have a saying; "Hard cases make for bad Laws !" This card was a hard case, so to use it as the basis for changing the Laws is at best foolish ! Lets not forget that there are several legal actions happening, which allege that the Unions knew of the consequences ...

Will be interesting to see what the outcome is from the hearing, suspect they will back Peiper as it’s not a completely egregious decision when you run through the protocol in the cold light of day (I had a very different opinion on Saturday - thought it was a yellow at worst). For me you could make...

Shambolic and yet entirely believable and in-character from the RFU! Recall that Lancaster was offered a senior development role with the RFU but turned it down, no wonder when you hear of how his exit was handled and how likely are the likes of Farrell, Edwards or other top-drawer coaches to take u...

As we’re talking NI politics, any sensible views on the possibility of a united Ireland in our lifetimes?

If it could be achieved legitimately without any return of sectarian violence (even now, surely quite a big ‘if’!), I imagine the UK Govt wouldn’t try to stand in the way.

Getting the balance right between indiscipline and aggression has also been a regular issue for England packs for a good while. Smashing into rucks and putting big hits on ball carriers is also a lot more risky nowadays with the red card protocols, the game is moving more towards dynamism at the bre...

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