The Rugby Thread

[sycophantia]

ITV to being showing in game commercials in this years six nations via a split screen.

Ugh.

 

[Wolftone]

Ireland not quite the same force when missing one or two southern hemisphere bods.

 

[sycophantia]

France look excellent tbf, Ireland are a rabble atm.

 

[sycophantia]

Haha, that changed quick France have gone to shit.

 

[Wolftone]

Haha, that changed quick France have gone to shit.

Yep. Game of two halves

 

[Wolftone]

Seeing the best and worst of French...
and worst and best of Irish in a nutshell

 

[1986]

Ireland not quite the same force when missing one or two southern hemisphere bods.

That's not true . It's just miles on the clock for this year as they head down the far side of the hill . Happens all top sides eventually .
No Porter , Furlong , Henshaw or Keenan last night - all injured , all born and bred Irish .

 

[Wolftone]

That's not true . It's just miles on the clock for this year as they head down the far side of the hill . Happens all top sides eventually .
No Porter , Furlong , Henshaw or Keenan last night - all injured , all born and bred Irish .

No Hansen, Lowe or Aki either

 

[1986]

No Hansen, Lowe or Aki either

Lowe was available - but wasn't picked in the squad ( he wasn't injured ) . Aki is near retirement now ( was suspended anyway , but is no longer first choice ) . Hansen is injured , but his mother was born and raised over here in Cork , before her family emigrated to Australia . He therefore is not one of these ' project ' players , as they are called .
You have to be 5 years in a new country now I nearly certain ( rather than 3 ) , before you can play for that new country . That will knock it on the head for a lot of players .
We're in transition , it will take time . We had some really strong u 20 sides over the last 6/7 years . They are starting to come through now , but even then it can take 2 years for them to really settle in .

 

[Wolftone]

England giving Wales a pasting. To be expected but it takes the edge off the football disappointment.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

After a winter supporting Wolves and England's cricket team the rugby today was a blessed relief even if Wales were dreadful.

 

[Tredman]

It’s a bit sad to see Wales this poor.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Wakes up. Sees Wolves and Wales results. Instantly regrets having given up drinking.

 

[jd1981]

Wales are just nowhere near the standard required to compete at the moment.
Scotland again mentally weak, no doubt they’ll look 10x better next Saturday though.

 

[jd1981]

As my above post Scotland defining their sporting culture by beating England

 

[sycophantia]

Braindead errors by England. Scotland started brightly but Englands game management has been terrible.

 

[jd1981]

Henry Arundell has effectively lost us the game single handed however the first one was a bit harsh

 

[sycophantia]

Henry Arundell has effectively lost us the game single handed however the first one was a bit harsh

The officials have been quite iffy imo but our response hasn't been smart enough.

 

[Tredman]

Both were harsh. Ref clearing is anyone but England.

 

[Tredman]

Moron Ford. Get him off.