a fun insight for anyone interested

the Georgians are some units

Wayne Barnes festooned in England gear. Great that he's reffing us in the 6N

Must be quite the realisation when it hits you that he's an RFU employee...

No, it actually makes lots of sense.

I think the Georgian scrum would beat any other pack in the world.

great workout for the lads.

I hope Wayne feels compelled to perform his civic duty for Queen and country when refereeing Ireland.

Do the Irish not employ any refs ?

Why would he change tack, now ?

That realisation hit me up the arse like a Mack truck doing 160km on an icy road 11 years ago

Quite. I do like Lacey. Good ref. Slightly strange accent though. I'd harbour a guess that he's from near the border?

Entirely different, no doubt.


Then again they are all so utterly shit that if they were trying to help a side they'd probably lose them the game.

Your scrum was bettered by Wales but...

It's called being even handed.

Suits me no end to see that.

Hopefully Cole and Vunipola realise how much work is needed, as do the other players.

Georg are a fantastic scrummaging unit. I hope the backs work they got helps them in the following games.

Looks like it was a useful exercise - and they seemed to be getting to grips with the Georgian scrum, eventually.

Wonder if we'll see any benefits against Scotland.

Your sausage was battered by Whales but....

fudge off

Where do you think John Paul "JP" Doyle is from?

no

Georgians are to props what Fijians are to wings. Just made for this shit.

Difficult to tell. Lots of Barnes whistling but little indication of why, apart from one pen to Eng

Rugby is the main sport in Georgia is it not? Will be interesting to see how they go against Italy later in the year.

The England scrum looked a lot stronger when Cole was packing down instead of Williams. There's a touch of Kieran Brookes about Williams - massive unit but a bit of a jelly spine.

More broadly, it can't be good for our boys' testosterone levels to be brutalised by a bunch of Georgian wrestlers three days after beating Wales. Shades of Johnno's wrestling camps before RWC'11.

Soccer football is but they’re supposedly trying to make rugby the main sport. A lot of investment being put in.

The British Isles, right?

Well, they shredded Georgia in the scrum towards the end.

Not good for the egos but training harder than you play is no bad thing.

We are just a mediocre scrummaging side at the moment.

Who gives a monkeys what geographical part of planet earth he is from, it’s irrelevant in the context of the conversation. What’s relevant is he’s from Ireland not England. Now how about developing your own refs.

We do. He lives in England and chose to work for an available employer. Tedious argument.

Good video, interesting to see which front 5 combinations struggled. While I worry about the level of work Eddie makes these guys do it seems pretty canny and must be good for Georgia too.

Seeing as this conversation started with Wayne Barnes that's a pretty weird route to take, especially when mentioning relevancy

Have a read above hh. Just setting the record straight.

Lactation

Bloody hell, even mog might hesitate before packing down in that order

The one scrum that England won, featured the Georgian first choice front row looking on from the sideline.

That’s worrying footage for England

Only penno he awarded was to Georgia

No it isn't. Almost impossible to tell anything from that

No shame in being battered by the Georgian scrum ..... but I would be worried about the fact that itoje can’t seem to push to save his life

For YOYO - without the selective quoting in your post - just to set the matter straight..................