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I reckon you'll find the change either happened slowly over time, or came about with professionalism. Wilko taking kicks was expected. NZ had Merhtens then Carter. Aussies clung on to the older ways because Larkham was not good off the tee but they had multiple alternatives elsewhere. SA had good ki...

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:21 am It's a big ask for England

Saw Gazotti play for the first time the other week. He looks some player

Sounds like a poach, sad to see France can't develop its own players, etc etc

Aye, if his loss meant a chance for Roebuck or Murley or whoever then we would be excited to see what happens. Anyway have to agree that performance and intent matters the most here. It's a tricky one but I do believe our traditional kicking game will just invite France to throw massive mutants at u...

Someone said there's 190 T14 + ProD2 caps in that team before Tuilagi was added (and he has 3 appearances for the national side already!) Mad stuff To be clear, I think that's an excellent stat. I raise my eyebrows a bit about guys with senior caps playing u20 but the number of club appearances spea...

It's great innit

The kicking off the tee was really quite poor. I was expecting that to come back and bite us. What's Furbank like off the tee, I wonder? We should go back to 15s kicking for goal. Slade is the obvious alternative as he's kicked several pressure kicks for Exeter this season. Yep, he's already taking...

Seems very likely that the officials missed Freeman being in touch and a potential clear out that clipped Furlong high. Very unfortunate for Ireland. It doesn't show up in the highlights but I thought during the game that Slade was tackled and then placed the ball, he then regathered it and popped ...

Beating the world number 1 team (and outplaying them) ought to cause some self-reflection given the absolute panning this side and their systems have got, even during this game on here. Anyway, time for bed here, going to log off and just enjoy this one, first real ‘fuck yeah’ game in years for Eng...

Seems very likely that the officials missed Freeman being in touch and a potential clear out that clipped Furlong high. Very unfortunate for Ireland.

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:07 pm Ex Leinster players need to be locked out of the media in the week leading up to matches.

All in favour, say aye.

And ban Off The Ball?

Loved everything about that, superb game and a great win. Maybe some humble pie from some of Borthwick’s critics? Nah, England did exactly what everyone had been begging for and threw the game plan England have used for 18 matches under Borthwick away. Full credit to him for coaching them to play l...

Are we pretending Ford didn't have a big hand in how well our attacking game went? Agree on the others, even though Slade also had his best attacking game in ages We need to be ruthless and move on. If Marcus Smith is available he should be starting. MSmith is 25 so will be in his prime over the ne...

I think it was despite, not because of Ford, he just booted the ball after the first 15 mins, reverted to type The first time England started going a little more defensive was on 35 minutes. Don't be stupid. Disagree, it was 20 mins tops Yeah well you're wrong, sorry. And it's not like he wasn't pr...

BOD with the classic "this was good for the competition" coping strategy. We've all been there.

100% Are we pretending Ford didn't have a big hand in how well our attacking game went? Agree on the others, even though Slade also had his best attacking game in ages I think it was despite, not because of Ford, he just booted the ball after the first 15 mins, reverted to type The first time Engla...

Loved everything about that, superb game and a great win. Maybe some humble pie from some of Borthwick’s critics? Nah, England did exactly what everyone had been begging for and threw the game plan England have used for 18 matches under Borthwick away. Full credit to him for coaching them to play l...

petej wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:36 pm
ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:35 pm Great win but if anything that game proves why Ford,
Care, Slade and Daly should never see and England shirt again.
100%

Are we pretending Ford didn't have a big hand in how well our attacking game went?

Agree on the others, even though Slade also had his best attacking game in ages

I fucking sat on the remote as that pass came out and didn't see the DG

Thank fuck I didn't have to sit through a very difficult penalty kick!!!! Well done Marcus, and well done England, a fabulous win

Care has been a real step down, sadly.

That's what, five or six errors in a row by England to hand Ireland that opportunity? Daly's awful kick, Care's poor box kick, Martin utterly failing to catch the ball, Furbank just running into trouble and getting turned over...

petej wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:17 pm
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:15 pm Slade shitting the bed in defence again...
Shift Freeman inside and select another winger or get marchant back.

Or we could put Daly there, apparently

Slade shitting the bed in defence again...

Well deserved try for Earl, who really suits this new approach. Good to see Irish cynicism punished fully

No reason not to give Slade the kicking duties at this point.

Great try. Really pleased with the desperation to get the ball out and keep it alive.

Again, any defence that relies on Henry Slade making good decisions is going to concede try after try

Stranger wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:38 pm He didn't need to catch it was going straight out

But very likely going out inside the 22.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:35 pm Played well. Didn’t take advantage. Ref seems to have favoured Ireland at the breakdown. Missed 5 kickable points. It’s the hope isn’t it

Yeah. For the first time in ages we're going to lose a game but genuinely see how this could be a team with a future.

Yeah I dunno how bad that was by Furbank, was a brutal kick to take and would've been a 50/22.

The blitz defence has coughed up a lot of seemingly soft offsides.

Very odd that D'Arcy is talking sense. England have gone into their shells again, after their best thirty minutes of rugby in years

Funny game to watch. Have to say, I don't watch Scottish rugby all that much, but I'm surprised to see so many names on the teamsheet that seem to have been there for years. Jones, Russell, Fagerson, Gilchrist, Turner - all playing some way below their levels of a few years back, and you wonder why...

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:07 pm No commentary but that seems a very very harsh call

It was. He was the back foot himself.

Aki has copped a couple of big hits already, great contest

The difference it makes when a team's first instinct is to get quick ball and attack through playmakers... Everyone else takes it for granted but it's manna from heaven for England fans

Lovely. Ford did great to make that overlap work.

I think it says a lot about how poor England truly are that Italy looked streets ahead of anything we've produced this tournament even when they were under the cosh in the first half. This should by rights be carnage

Funny game to watch. Have to say, I don't watch Scottish rugby all that much, but I'm surprised to see so many names on the teamsheet that seem to have been there for years. Jones, Russell, Fagerson, Gilchrist, Turner - all playing some way below their levels of a few years back, and you wonder why ...

Wales are going to fuck them up.

Makes sense. They all have experience in turning around huge point deficits

Slick wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:56 pm It was a slow burner to be fair

Fair play

I'm not going to carry on, but I do wonder where you drag my thoughts from, I bloody loved Genge as a player (and a bloke), but he has undoubtedly lost his edge that made him so good. I drag them from, well, your posts on this board. Here are your first mentions of him 2020: Is Genge just one of th...

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