snowychap Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Worried about the England game today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 A nice distraction from the Villa. Unfortunately if we're on the end of a battering it's double the pain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I see Sonny Bill Williams is back for NZ. Monster of man. Ireland without BOD. Interesting times. I expect a battering. Springboks are consistently brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Someone's taught Johnny May to run straight! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Wales v Australia is a bit bonkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 England could have won that game. Need to take their chances. Not sure about Cruden's 'try' either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 England are a strange old team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 England have been soooo flat and lifeless today. It's like we've taken a massive step backwards after the progress under Lancaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 They still look like a team trying to figure themselves out, which is quite worrying a year out from a WC. Biggest problems are that the back line isn't balanced, and Farrell isn't a commanding or creative enough 10. When they play the old game of battering teams through the middle, they are still very effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 I agree and disagree. They do look somewhat confused and Farrell seems, to put it bluntly, to have gone to shit. Get Ford in there from now on. I couldn't disagree more about the old stereotype a lot of other home nation supporters seem trot out about us 'battering teams up the middle'. Our greatest successes under Lancaster have been achieved playing in quite the opposite way. I felt for Lancaster in his interview on Sky just now... He was put under pressure and seemed genuinely rattled and struggled to answer certain questions. However, it ended very interestingly when he said that the last couple of games have shown him a lot about certain players being unable to compete at the highest level (or words to that effect). Would be very interested to know who he's referring to... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Well they're not going to win the world cup are they. Was that ever really on the cards? Making the semis would be a fantastic achievement. I'd say they are still a team very much in transition and it's not easy to predict when that transition will come to fruition, if ever. Of course the cynic could suggest they have been in transition for a decade, I'd say they just weren't very good for many of those years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 It was a really good game against the Boks today.That England didn't make their possession count in the first half was crucial. The number of times they fumbled and knocked on was unacceptable at this level.England are half a step away from being a very good side - unfortunately, they've been half a step away for the last year or so and they don't seen to be reducing that gap.I like Lancaster and I think he's got the goods to get over that line - there's something stopping him, though. I hope it isn't Farrell and Farrell jnr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 I know it's only an Autumn international, not an actual competition but should the IRB really allow an Irishman to referee an Ireland game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Georgia defend like New Zealand but actually get punished for their infringements. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Decent result for Wasps today in their last home league game before the move to Cov. Landlords faring rather better than the tenants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I've got a feeling Wales might get a result today... I can't explain why and I hope I'm wrong but I just do . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 suspect ireland are in for a bit of a buggering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packoman Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 (edited) Great stuff. Paul O'Connell is a god. Edited November 22, 2014 by packoman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Fair play Ireland. Taking absolutely nothing away from them but you have to be disappointed if you don't beat Australia these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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