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Wendigo7

England by 12. Borthers will exploit NZ in a kicking game, target a territory battle and make sure to minimise NZ's chances for entries and coming away with points. If England win the air battle and the kicking game they will win. imo tho, Robertson's doing a great job of sustaining wins from a weak...

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England 23: 15 Steward 14 Roebuck 13 Lawrence 12 Dingwall 11 Feyi-Waboso 10 Ford 9 Mitchell 1 Baxter 2 George 3 Heyes 4 Itoje 5 Coles 6 Pepper 7 Underhill 8 Earl Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Genge, Stuart, Cunningham-South, T Curry, Pollock, Spencer, M Smith There are some names there that I'm unfam...

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Lando 24 points clear in the title race now. It's looking very hard for him to lose it with 3 races to go.

Vegas (a Merc speciality)
Qatar (a McLaren/Merc track)
Abu Dhabi (McLaren/Ferrari track)

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Daly apparently in contention for 15 against NZ.

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Lawrence good as expected ccs good the smiths Dingwall- just not an international Arundell looked like he was on fast forward- dunno if he can defend yet? Mitchell doesn't suit englands plan like spencer. Thought Blackett had it all wrong first half. England are *trying* I think to mesh Borthwick's...

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France just don't know how to win, even against 14 men. Weak. Maybe sending B teams on tour to get pumped 3 nil isn't actually good prep to winning critical test matches after all. Utterly humiliating result for them. To play against any team for 50 mins, and not win is a damning result. And this w...

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Jeff Wilson and Mils Muliaina are suggesting that Scotland's lack of patience cost them the game and their chance of making history. There were times that Scotland shelled the ball when they were hot on attack that let the ABs off the hook. That’s a bad take. What actually cost them were basic unfo...

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 6:22 pm 3 yellow cards is terrible.

Have to improve a lot to win next week...

High balls still an issue... and BB looked to be playing in slow motion today.. still concussed?

He's clearly carrying an injury as well. Not just concussion, he's injured or at least very edgy.

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Last Line wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 5:04 pm The record will remain intact. Scotland couldn't score in a brothel.

Hasn't helped that Kinghorn and White have been awful.

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Glaston wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 2:40 pm
Wendigo7 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 2:32 pm Why do we persist with Blamire?

He's not good enough at the basics.
is it 4 knock on's by him?

4 knocks and 3 line out steals, a try beckoning and throwing a forward pass.

I do not understand why we continue to rate him so highly.

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Why do we persist with Blamire?

He's not good enough at the basics.

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I just noticed Mapletoft is now the manager for england in this match.

We will lose then. I do not know why we are persisting with him.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 12:10 pm fSmith ojomoh and lawrence next up.

Freeman back to wing? So you are going on pairings?

I presume Freeman to wing, Roebuck to 15?

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 12:04 pm Dingwall isn't upto it- and ford is done, move on.

F Smith and Ojomoh?

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World Rugby rankings updated 1. South Africa 92.20 2. New Zealand 91.00 (+0.98) 3. Ireland 88.85 (-0.98) 4. (↑1) England 88.04 (+0.40) 5. (↓1) France 87.82 6. Argentina 83.82 7. Australia 82.90 (-0.40) 8. Scotland 81.57 9. Fiji 81.16 10. Italy 77.77 11. Georgia 74.69 12. Wales 74.05 13. Japan 73.25...

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fSmith is covering centre, Bothwick really fancies him at 12. I don't really hate the team, but I will enjoy it it if Australia don't play like Spazs and manage to keep turning Steward around. There was a recent interview with Fin where he says he'd like to have been a 12, but he doesn't have the p...

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Starting XV: 1. Baxter 2. George 3. Heyes 4. Itoje (capt) 5. Chessum 6. Pepper 7. Underhill 8. Earl 9. Mitchell 10. Ford 11. Feyi-Waboso 12. Dingwall 13. Freeman 14. Roebuck 15. Steward Replacements: 16. Cowan-Dickie 17. Genge 18. Stuart 19. Coles 20. T Curry 21. Pollock 22. Spencer 24. F Smith Tea...

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Telegraph saying Summer Tours is being valued heavily over all other considerations.

Pepper starts.
Pollock or Earl for 8.
Heyes and Baxter a strong possibility to start.

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Telegraph reckons Ford will be at 10 with Dingwall and Freeman in the centres. Steward at FB and no mention of Lawrence??? George Ford looks set to retain the fly-half position for England against Australia at Twickenham on Saturday with Fin Smith to be named on the bench. England are also giving s...

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Rodgers resigns and his chairman has absolutely thrown him under the bus.

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I am blown away how fast AI is coming along in software engineering (and not just coding). Just used Claude Sonnet 4.5 to design a new bioinformatics app that's completely novel, and needed algorithms designed that were specific to the use case. As this is data science, the code has to not only wor...

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I'm going to piss off the not allowed to say anything bad about league brigade on here, but by god that was a dud match. It's not even the one sidedness as the Samoa v Tonga game was great. Disappointing first game for those of us who remember the early 90s Ashes tours. England's attack was at gran...

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Gloucester teenager winger yesterday looked a bit good didn't he? Was he english and not welsh?

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Stacey Waaka off to the Warriors next year. TBH I’m not surprised. This was probably her last World Cup. Unconfirmed online chatter that Sylvia Brunt might be heading over too — this I’ll be very surprised at because NZR would be throwing the big tier1 dosh at Brunt. That’ll essentially take Waaka ...

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yep, coaching issue. everyone knew Australia were going to walk this one in. I'd have thought it was a player quality issue rather than a coaching issue? Kevin Walters is not a great coach. How many of the Poms would make a combined team? Farnworth... and how close Dom Young might be but that's it?

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Walsh and Cleary for Australia. Mikey Lewis and Herbie Farnworth for England.

10 mins away. Can't wait.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:58 am McCall on tv saying they've been talking to him for 5 months- basically straight after the 6n he started in- then he still takes the EPS money in August?

He sounds a bit of a plum tbh.

Bordeaux were talking to him for 5 months?

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Really good first game. Lutui, Calladine and Morrall looked prospects for england in a couple of years time. Pena was standout tho, her, Wythe and Fleming were really good for Quins. Loughborough looked really well coached with a lot of youngsters, a slick pattern in the backline but lost the forwar...

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Sarries have signed Olivia Apps as injury cover for Ella Wyrwas - she's had surgery on both(!) of her knees and should be back in the new year. Also, Jess Breach extended and McKinley Hunt has retired. I think that Canadian pack will get phased out over the next 3 or 4 years, or certainly a few may...

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Big calendar changes next year. https://i.ibb.co/DPQZkmm4/IMG-6550.jpg Pros - Aupiki has been moved to the mid-June-August window. It means the potential participation of BF7s players in the season and later on in WXV1 tests before returning to the SVNS circuit. It’ll also mean those players going ...

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Saints 23 for Sarries on Friday night - Hendy is back fit, and Pollock makes his first start of the season relegating Chick to the bench. Tom James is back in training, but it sounds like Furbank and Sleighholme could be out till Christmas or later. 15 George Hendy 14 Tommy Freeman 13 Rory Hutchins...

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I've also noticed no ads at all on the forum...

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I did nothing.. honest guv... What did you do to get the forum working again? I can only put it down to Liverpool winning. When they lose... things slow... when they win.. we win... Looks like the English and Irish official threads went and the forum improved. So I've got a thought, how about after...

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Season kicks off tomorrow lets go!!!

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Thu Oct 23, 2025 8:34 am I did nothing.. honest guv...

What did you do to get the forum working again?

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Slot will work through the issues. Liverpool are still a huge force and will challenge for the title in my opinion. I don't think we can swing back and fore based on a few results. Just 3 weeks ago, the pundits were saying they will run away with it. Both arguments are nonsense IMHO. In Europe, the...

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So are we all in agreement, if we're as good as we think we are... 4 from 4 is the goal and a realistic one now? i'm genuinely not sure how to call it? Australia are looking very good in my opinion. Fiji...... Lots of vintage New Zealand side, but- clearly enough to trouble us. Argentina? I do find...

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So are we all in agreement, if we're as good as we think we are... 4 from 4 is the goal and a realistic one now?

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Fwiw btw, that Noah Caluori kid... he looks like the sorta young talent England might want to mould into a 15. Great in the air, brilliant feet, good hands, knows where the tryline is. Could be our Israel Folau and he could get better and better with game time at 1 on 1 tackling, but to me it just l...

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