The Official English Rugby Thread

[Slick]

Itoje is so irritating in both his play and demeanour.

Can’t wait for the Lions so he is on my team

[ASMO]

Deserved try there

[Hal Jordan]

Daly is having a very poor game, yet they take Joseph off.

I don't care how many times he's selected there, Daly is not a Test class full back. Did he manage to catch a single high ball this match?

Stockdale at it again, Burns managed more in one kick than his predecessor managed in 70 minutes.

[Insane_Homer]

Out of the blue, nicely executed and well taken try.

[Hal Jordan]

Christ Almighty, we have no idea what to do in attack.

[ASMO]

Daley gash, Farrell, gash, Youngs gash.

[PCPhil]

Daley gash, Farrell, gash, Youngs gash.

They are all being played out of position. Daley not a full back, farrell not a 10, Youngs ........

[Paddington Bear]

It is February 2019 and England arrive in Dublin to be told to get used to Ireland being superior

[Kawazaki]

Robson not looked much of an upgrade on Youngs.

[Torquemada 1420]

Freak genius score by May makes scoreline look better than it was.

[PCPhil]

A win against Ireland (World Cups excepted) should feel good. Not this one.

[Hal Jordan]

Billy V is done. He was nigh on invisible in that match.

[ASMO]

Robson not looked much of an upgrade on Youngs.

You can tell a lot from a 10 minute cameo....not

[Torquemada 1420]

Billy V is done. He was nigh on invisible in that match.

Probably. Game has move on and sides have worked out how to defend the only thing he does,

[ASMO]

Billy V is done. He was nigh on invisible in that match.

Agree, he needs to be dropped and hopefully it will be the kick up the arse he needs

[Paddington Bear]

Result never in doubt, barely needed to get out of second gear to win that. Need a bit more to beat the SH/France, but we should never take wins over the Home Nations for granted.

[ASMO]

Shocking stats, proves there is zero attacking threat in this team, occasional individual brilliance is about all there is.

[JM2K6]

Freak genius score by May makes scoreline look better than it was.

Not really? We were better than them by a mile. Our pack fucked them into next week. Youngs and Farrell were a complete handbrake on us, though.

difficult to overstate just how much Farrell hurts us at times. Stupid penalties, no idea when to kick, poor execution of the kick most of the time, indecisivie with ball in hand, no personal running threat, etc etc. Coupled with Youngs' passing and kicking and it's amazing we ever score points.

[FalconJock]

They turned it around big time, the opening quarter didn't look all that promising.

Probably more to do with not really being up to the pace of the Premiership and having nearly 8 months of ring rust to shake out the bodie.

Small shoots of progress coming through though, it looks like they worked it out on the pitch rather than being overwhelmed and some big players (for us) to come back from injury.

[Line6 HXFX]

Do commentators and pundits get paid every time they say the word "dominant"?

Wales will keep it tight as fuck next week.

[Un Pilier]

Freak genius score by May makes scoreline look better than it was.

Not really? We were better than them by a mile. Our pack fucked them into next week. Youngs and Farrell were a complete handbrake on us, though.

difficult to overstate just how much Farrell hurts us at times. Stupid penalties, no idea when to kick, poor execution of the kick most of the time, indecisivie with ball in hand, no personal running threat, etc etc. Coupled with Youngs' passing and kicking and it's amazing we ever score points.

Yes, pretty much this, though I think you are ignoring some very good kicking from both Farrell and Youngs on occasions. And they are clearly following Eddie’s game plan. On the plus side, defensive effort was excellent today and some relatively inexperienced players are gaining useful game time. Eddie is clearly using this series to develop stuff (whilst winning).

[Un Pilier]

Tigers second in the table with highest points scored. Stop the Count now

[Torquemada 1420]

Freak genius score by May makes scoreline look better than it was.

Not really? We were better than them by a mile. Our pack fucked them into next week. Youngs and Farrell were a complete handbrake on us, though.

difficult to overstate just how much Farrell hurts us at times. Stupid penalties, no idea when to kick, poor execution of the kick most of the time, indecisivie with ball in hand, no personal running threat, etc etc. Coupled with Youngs' passing and kicking and it's amazing we ever score points.

But despite that, Eng created little by way of scoring chances. They just ensured Ire had none (no mean feat).

Was musing during the game what would happen if you mated the Eng pack with Fra's 9-15.

I think we are agreeing somewhere in there.

[JM2K6]

Basically I'm saying the scoreline flattered Ireland, not that it was closer than it appeared.

[Yeeb]

It was so obvious when Young’s was going to kick - eng looked better when Ford is at ten and Farrell at 12.
I think Daly and billy V (who was good in defence today) need a break from playing in white. Young’s is clearly there for the duration under Eddie.
May & underhill my men of match candidates, but after 5 mins in there was no doubt they were going to give it to itoje because clearly he is a ‘better’ player than genge it Sinckler or vunipolas or Joseph ... the pro bias for itoje from the commentators is funny at times with their superlatives.(someone else mentioned that the word dominant was used a lot)
Launchberry did more such as doing the tackle for the underhill non try, but was scarcely mentioned , I suggest he gets a sunbed & some cornrows.

England pack with French halfbacks would be lethal. This competition looks like it will be an England France final, for me France will edge it but hard to read a lot into a few weather & covid break affected games.

Ireland were shit today.

[Paddington Bear]

Ireland’s decline as a side is quite something, and I’m not going to pretend it isn’t funny given the big ‘un they were giving it 18 months ago.
That said, our defence was immense and they weren’t given a chance to play.
Looks like bar a thumping we’ll be in the final, will be very interested how we go against France or Scotland.

[Choc]

May & underhill my men of match candidates, but after 5 mins in there was no doubt they were going to give it to itoje because clearly he is a ‘better’ player than genge it Sinckler or vunipolas or Joseph ... the pro bias for itoje from the commentators is funny at times with their superlatives.(someone else mentioned that the word dominant was used a lot)
Launchberry did more such as doing the tackle for the underhill non try, but was scarcely mentioned , I suggest he gets a sunbed & some cornrows.

Launchbury did have a good game. Itoje made more tackles than him whilst missing less, won more line outs, made more turnovers and more metres so take your race shtick to another thread you dribbling fucktard.

[Yeeb]

May & underhill my men of match candidates, but after 5 mins in there was no doubt they were going to give it to itoje because clearly he is a ‘better’ player than genge it Sinckler or vunipolas or Joseph ... the pro bias for itoje from the commentators is funny at times with their superlatives.(someone else mentioned that the word dominant was used a lot)
Launchberry did more such as doing the tackle for the underhill non try, but was scarcely mentioned , I suggest he gets a sunbed & some cornrows.

Launchbury did have a good game. Itoje made more tackles than him whilst missing less, won more line outs, made more turnovers and more metres so take your race shtick to another thread you dribbling fucktard.

Go fuck yourself, prick
I didn’t say itoje had a bad game, my comment is that it was laughingly obvious a few mins in that the presenters and cameras have been told to praise him and follow him on the camera more, because he’s Itoje. He is a prick , and seemingly has prick fans if you are the norm. Racism works both ways.

[Choc]

I’m on the Sam Simmons bandwagon and if it were me I’d have him at 8 I’d not quite put Billy out to pasture just yet.

In a game which was clearly won by England’s defence he made 25 tackles in 60 minutest. 5 more than anyone else. He’s clearly not as an effective ball carrier as he was in 2016/17, perhaps because of defences wising up to him, but he’s doing more than his share of the dog work.

[Choc]

May & underhill my men of match candidates, but after 5 mins in there was no doubt they were going to give it to itoje because clearly he is a ‘better’ player than genge it Sinckler or vunipolas or Joseph ... the pro bias for itoje from the commentators is funny at times with their superlatives.(someone else mentioned that the word dominant was used a lot)
Launchberry did more such as doing the tackle for the underhill non try, but was scarcely mentioned , I suggest he gets a sunbed & some cornrows.

Launchbury did have a good game. Itoje made more tackles than him whilst missing less, won more line outs, made more turnovers and more metres so take your race shtick to another thread you dribbling fucktard.

Go fuck yourself, prick
I didn’t say itoje had a bad game, my comment is that it was laughingly obvious a few mins in that the presenters and cameras have been told to praise him and follow him on the camera more, because he’s Itoje. He is a prick , and seemingly has prick fans if you are the norm. Racism works both ways.

Your lack of self awareness is astounding. You said Launchbury did “much more” than Itoje and suggested he this wasnt recognised because he wasn’t black. He didn’t do much “more though” though, Itoje did, so if the commentator recognised that, it’s because it was true.

Racisim doesn’t work both ways in this instance. It’s just tired nonsense. He wasn’t recognised because he wasn’t as good

The commentators / analysts did a feature on underhills tackling though. Quite literally took highlights of his display and praised them and May had plaudits from everyone. His name was mentioned in the man of the match discussion - but in a game that was won by the forwards, it went to a forward.

[SaintK]

May & underhill my men of match candidates, but after 5 mins in there was no doubt they were going to give it to itoje because clearly he is a ‘better’ player than genge it Sinckler or vunipolas or Joseph ... the pro bias for itoje from the commentators is funny at times with their superlatives.(someone else mentioned that the word dominant was used a lot)
Launchberry did more such as doing the tackle for the underhill non try, but was scarcely mentioned , I suggest he gets a sunbed & some cornrows.

Launchbury did have a good game. Itoje made more tackles than him whilst missing less, won more line outs, made more turnovers and more metres so take your race shtick to another thread you dribbling fucktard.

Go fuck yourself, prick
I didn’t say itoje had a bad game, my comment is that it was laughingly obvious a few mins in that the presenters and cameras have been told to praise him and follow him on the camera more, because he’s Itoje. He is a prick , and seemingly has prick fans if you are the norm. Racism works both ways.

Racist or not you really a try-hard twat at times!

[Yeeb]

Launchbury did have a good game. Itoje made more tackles than him whilst missing less, won more line outs, made more turnovers and more metres so take your race shtick to another thread you dribbling fucktard.

Go fuck yourself, prick
I didn’t say itoje had a bad game, my comment is that it was laughingly obvious a few mins in that the presenters and cameras have been told to praise him and follow him on the camera more, because he’s Itoje. He is a prick , and seemingly has prick fans if you are the norm. Racism works both ways.

Your lack of self awareness is astounding. You said Launchbury did “much more” than Itoje and suggested he this wasnt recognised because he wasn’t black. He didn’t do much “more though” though, Itoje did, so if the commentator recognised that, it’s because it was true.

Racisim doesn’t work both ways in this instance. It’s just tired nonsense. He wasn’t recognised because he wasn’t as good.

Hey prick
If you take those stats and pro rata them for the 68mins Luanch was on, he did do more than itoje - I will take back the word ‘more’ if that makes your racist hide feel better.

But yes, he is recognised and mentioned more because of what he is, not how good he’s playing. Even when he’s not having a good game (which is rare) the superlatives like ‘dominant ‘ are hurled at him.
He’s also a sarries cheat so should really be serving a ban, but seeing as England played Callum Clarke who should have had a perma ban, that won’t happen.

[Yeeb]

Launchbury did have a good game. Itoje made more tackles than him whilst missing less, won more line outs, made more turnovers and more metres so take your race shtick to another thread you dribbling fucktard.

Go fuck yourself, prick
I didn’t say itoje had a bad game, my comment is that it was laughingly obvious a few mins in that the presenters and cameras have been told to praise him and follow him on the camera more, because he’s Itoje. He is a prick , and seemingly has prick fans if you are the norm. Racism works both ways.

Racist or not you really a try-hard twat at times!

You joining the prick bus then today ? Fair enough

[Choc]

Go fuck yourself, prick
I didn’t say itoje had a bad game, my comment is that it was laughingly obvious a few mins in that the presenters and cameras have been told to praise him and follow him on the camera more, because he’s Itoje. He is a prick , and seemingly has prick fans if you are the norm. Racism works both ways.

Your lack of self awareness is astounding. You said Launchbury did “much more” than Itoje and suggested he this wasnt recognised because he wasn’t black. He didn’t do much “more though” though, Itoje did, so if the commentator recognised that, it’s because it was true.

Racisim doesn’t work both ways in this instance. It’s just tired nonsense. He wasn’t recognised because he wasn’t as good.

Hey prick
If you take those stats and pro rata them for the 68mins Luanch was on, he did do more than itoje - I will take back the word ‘more’ if that makes your racist hide feel better.

But yes, he is recognised and mentioned more because of what he is, not how good he’s playing. Even when he’s not having a good game (which is rare) the superlatives like ‘dominant ‘ are hurled at him.
He’s also a sarries cheat so should really be serving a ban, but seeing as England played Callum Clarke who should have had a perma ban, that won’t happen.

You’re performing some smashing mental gymnastics here.

Why should Itoje be serving a ban from playing for England because his club broke the salary cap?

[Yeeb]

Just to be very clear, I would have banned all saracens players from England setup for at least a year, in no way am i singling out itoje on this. The reason for the ban, was knowingly and consistently cheating to get an unfair advantage, there is no way on earth the players didn’t know they were breaking the rules with all these dodgy investment companies and image rights payments etc

Sarries and their players got off lightly. I would much rather England or my club lose, than win by breaking rules.

[Choc]

Just to be very clear, I would have banned all saracens players from England setup for at least a year, in no way am i singling out itoje on this. The reason for the ban, was knowingly and consistently cheating to get an unfair advantage, there is no way on earth the players didn’t know they were breaking the rules with all these dodgy investment companies and image rights payments etc

Sarries and their players got off lightly. I would much rather England or my club lose, than win by breaking rules.

I’m a Quins, I really don’t like defending Saracens but “ There is no suggestion or evidence that any player was complicit in any of the club's actions” is from the official report.

[Yeeb]

Just to be very clear, I would have banned all saracens players from England setup for at least a year, in no way am i singling out itoje on this. The reason for the ban, was knowingly and consistently cheating to get an unfair advantage, there is no way on earth the players didn’t know they were breaking the rules with all these dodgy investment companies and image rights payments etc

Sarries and their players got off lightly. I would much rather England or my club lose, than win by breaking rules.

I’m a Quins, I really don’t like defending Saracens but “ There is no suggestion or evidence that any player was complicit in any of the club's actions” is from the official report.

I know. I choose to not beleive the official report , as would have meant perhaps players getting sanctions and not being available for England - anyone getting a few k appearance fee for events they don’t actually have to rock up to, should be suspicious.
Spivs gonna spiv.

[sockwithaticket]

Ireland’s decline as a side is quite something, and I’m not going to pretend it isn’t funny given the big ‘un they were giving it 18 months ago.
That said, our defence was immense and they weren’t given a chance to play.
Looks like bar a thumping we’ll be in the final, will be very interested how we go against France or Scotland.

It will likely be France, but by then, if I understand ther FFR/LNR agreeement, their best 23 will have used up all their sanctioned appearances for this Autumn window and they'dwould have to play a completely different collection of players. Wouldn't be quite the test we might have hoped to force England into trying a bit harder.

[sockwithaticket]

Just to be very clear, I would have banned all saracens players from England setup for at least a year, in no way am i singling out itoje on this. The reason for the ban, was knowingly and consistently cheating to get an unfair advantage, there is no way on earth the players didn’t know they were breaking the rules with all these dodgy investment companies and image rights payments etc

Sarries and their players got off lightly. I would much rather England or my club lose, than win by breaking rules.

I’m a Quins, I really don’t like defending Saracens but “ There is no suggestion or evidence that any player was complicit in any of the club's actions” is from the official report.

While the report says that, I suspect it's one of those instances where there was some, but insufficient, evidence of something more and so the author just didn't go there.

IIRC McCall was also left out of things which has to be bollocks. There's not a club in the land where the DoR isn't heavily involved in player deals and remuneration packages.

[Choc]

Just to be very clear, I would have banned all saracens players from England setup for at least a year, in no way am i singling out itoje on this. The reason for the ban, was knowingly and consistently cheating to get an unfair advantage, there is no way on earth the players didn’t know they were breaking the rules with all these dodgy investment companies and image rights payments etc

Sarries and their players got off lightly. I would much rather England or my club lose, than win by breaking rules.

I’m a Quins, I really don’t like defending Saracens but “ There is no suggestion or evidence that any player was complicit in any of the club's actions” is from the official report.

I know. I choose to not beleive the official report , as would have meant perhaps players getting sanctions and not being available for England - anyone getting a few k appearance fee for events they don’t actually have to rock up to, should be suspicious.
Spivs gonna spiv.

You’ve spent all morning creating bullshit narratives to defend your increasingly risible positions. I didn’t expect anything as trivial as official court documentation to change that.