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Telegraph… whose exclusives are always bang on… have leaked bits of the lions team. No Pollock but he apparently was very very close to making it. No Farrell, Marcus Smith makes it to the bench. Backrow is: Chessum Curry Conan My telegraph says beirne, curry, conan? With Chessum on the bench When I...

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Whoops - forgot about Carpenter.. yep him to start at 15. Steward to get a rest.

Sorry just forgot about him.

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No offense to USA fans but I'm hoping for a fair bit of rotation. If Atkinson plays 10 he needs experience around him. USA losing at home to Spain for them is a bad result considering historically they'd win that easily. Something like this? 1. Rodd 2. Langdon 3. AOF 4. Coles 5. CCS 6. Underhill 7. ...

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Honestly, how much worse would the pipeline actually be? Two reejuns should produce 3-4 WQ players per position. We'd need to be smart about how many NWQs we allow per position, as the Irish are - but that's hardly an insurmountable problem. We could also drop the stupid rule about playing in Engla...

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We have no money (even our TV money), no players coming through, our reejuns are falling apart and nobody wants to coach us :thumbup: It's just a barrel of laughs. I've been banging the two-reejun drum for far too long on here, despite having no horse in the race. At this point, anyone who doesn't ...

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BREAKING: First poll including new Corbyn party released:

REF: 34%
CON: 17%
LAB: 15%
Corbyn/Sultana party: 15%
LDM: 9%
GRE: 5%

^^ If that is true. Reform win around 500 seats I believe.

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If we cap Atkinson at 10, we need experience in the backrow and 9. Atkinson at 12 also makes sense.

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holbob wrote: ↑Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:57 pm McKinney is a former u19 captain and England a tourist last winter. Had 3 fc centuries at age of 20 at strike rate of 72. Bats like trescothick. Perfect baz Stokes pick.

Fair enough Holbob, you expect him and the likes of Rew to breakthrough quickly?

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Bethel at 8? Yes, he's a part time spinner too we can rotate with Root. The top order is fixed, and he just extends our batting tail massively. Putting him in at 8 next to Smith means he can learn on the job in test cricket whilst not being put under too much pressure. He's 20/21 remember. His pote...

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My team for Old Trafford:

Crawley (really not sure we should persist but I doubt we'll change prior to the ashes now)
Duckett
Pope (see Crawley)
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith
Bethell
Atkinson
Carse
Archer

Bat them into eternity!

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India 2-1 up it seems.

Crawley and Pope are wasted spots in the team.

And the less said about our below average bowling line up the better.

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Little shout out to a few players who did themselves no harm. Seb Atkinson - Must admit, I'm dubious sometimes about Gloucester picks because there's usually a glaring weakness in their game somewhere. But he's been excellent twice now and a real option going forward for the 12 jersey. Roebuck/Muir ...

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I just don't understand the mentality of kicking the ball away at all costs from England in that second half when they looked so good with the ball in hand. It's like Borethick just shut down the backs coaches because they were making his normal gameplay look as stupid as it is. I thought it worked...

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Swiatek putting herself into the GOATs bracket shortly. 11th all time in titles with 6 grand slams at only just 24. And only really the goats in her sport ahead of her...

If she wins 1 more she's 8th.

We're watching one of the greats.

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maverickmak wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 5:04 pm Double bagel incoming...

Brutal.

Iga's bakery open for business again.

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Wendigo7 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:21 pm Swiatek to win. Not sure on score.

That was brutal for Anisimova.

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Swiatek to win. Not sure on score.

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Just wonder if that's the last we will see of Djokovic.

He looked like this is it. My final rodeo at having a chance to win wimbledon..

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Sinner vs Djokovic
Alcaraz vs Fritz

Sinner in 5.
Alcaraz in 5.

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eldanielfire wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:59 pm
Salix wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:31 pm
Quins89 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:17 pm Wales 1-1 France
Welsh defending and keeper were horrendous!
A shame, they got to the Euros by being defensively solid, well drilled and hard to beat. I think the occasion got to them.

Also playing one of the 3 or 4 best teams means the defence is tested in a way it isn't in qualifying.

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Shame it's a ranking game. Would have liked to have seen some rotation. I mean Roebuck and Muir are very new wingers. Atkinson and Northmore are brand new centres... Baxter and Hayes are getting important minutes. Coles is getting games for England now. AOF, Pepper and Murley are new players too in...

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Astounding Performance.

Swiatek 6-2 6-0 Bencic

Wow. World class performance. Jazda Iga!

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This is a mauling. Swiatek has never looked so good on grass. If she wins this, it's 6 majors at 23 years old. 1 grass, 1 hard, 4 clay. And the only player on tour who'd have won on all surfaces. At 23.

Swiatek the favourite in the final for me.

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Swiatek looks fantastic. Dominant first set and quick break in the second.

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Anisimova wins it.

Wow I thought she was going to choke it! Well done what a match that was.

Slugfest for 2 and a half hours.

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This is engrossing to watch.

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She doesn’t convince me at all. Misses so many lay ups. I think Swiatek or Andreeva beats her Anisimova 1 set up on Sabalenka. Just hitting harder and with more accuracy right now. Yeah exactly, I just don’t see a genuine number 1 at the minute. She may well win and breeze the final set, but I can’...

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1 set all in the first womens semi final.

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Sabalenka beats Siegemund in 3 sets to be in the womens semi final. Not quite sure how she managed to win that, but world no 1 and all that. She doesn’t convince me at all. Misses so many lay ups. I think Swiatek or Andreeva beats her Anisimova 1 set up on Sabalenka. Just hitting harder and with mo...

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Erik Van Haren: "Max's has come out and said I didn't ask for Horner to be fired, so that rumour needs to be stopped. We also need to stop the rumour that just because Horner is gone, I'm guaranteed to be staying."

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Igas done it. Her first Wimbledon semi final.

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Swiatek looks likely to make the Wimbledon semis for the first time.

She might win it you know.

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Looks like WOL are recycling the "you can have two teams in an Anglo-Welsh league" RFU offer rumours. Obviously we know that the governing body who have been unable to hire a national coach for four months won't act quickly (if ever) on this. My take is that it's shite, but it might be the best off...

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Looks like WOL are recycling the "you can have two teams in an Anglo-Welsh league" RFU offer rumours. Obviously we know that the governing body who have been unable to hire a national coach for four months won't act quickly (if ever) on this. My take is that it's shite, but it might be the best off...

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Rumoured that 2 Welsh teams will join the Premiership.

It's being pushed by the RFU and the PRL. So if 2 welsh clubs get cut, they will join the premiership apparently.

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Sabalenka beats Siegemund in 3 sets to be in the womens semi final. Not quite sure how she managed to win that, but world no 1 and all that.

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IRB World Rankings: (as of 07/07/2025) 1. South Africa 92.78 2. New Zealand 90.98 3. Ireland 89.83 4. France 88.90 5. England 86.72 6. Argentina 82.98 7. Scotland 82.36 8. Australia 82.08 9. Fiji 79.52 10. Italy 77.77 11. Georgia 74.69 12. Japan 73.70 13. Samoa 72.68 14. Wales 72.65 15. USA 70.02 1...

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Remaining fixtures:

(A) Argentina - July 12th
(A) USA - July 19th

(H) Australia - Nov. 1st
(H) Fiji - Nov. 8th
(H) New Zealand - Nov. 15th
(H) Argentina - Nov. 23rd

^^ nicked from further up. We need to win, or should be looking to win every single game.

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Jarry got a bit salty with Norrie at the end there. And clearly realised he looked a prick so apologised twice after. Wonder what his issue was He thought Norrie took the piss taking his time on Second Serves. I didn't see it but I don't know... but I don't know how Jarry would have dealt with Nada...

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