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I’ve always thought this. Especially a two on one situation. Guaranteed TD It’s known in football that a hook-and-ladder play (forward pass to receiver, then lateral, or as we would call it, pop-pass to on-rushing other receiver) is almost automatically high-yardage when executed. https://youtu.be/...

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If I were Southgate, I’d start (assuming fitness): Pickford Walker - Stones - Gomez - Shaw Rice - Bellingham (box to box role) Saka - Maddison - Foden - Rashford (if in form, ‘so more likely Grealish) Kane Only issue if Rashford is not on form, which speedster is piling on past pivot-Kane (a la Son)...

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Pretty sure England made their fans more happy in the last two games than the previous dour 18. Rugby is a game that deserves to be played positively. Under the current laws. Define "positive" throwing it about endlessly like Super Pacific Rugby, which doesn't seem to be faring that well with crowd...

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While we're comparing the sports, it's always intrigued me why the lateral pass is not used more in NFL. Videos of last-action plays, usually from college football, are highly entertaining. Is it as simple as the risk of dropping a ball being passed is too high? As far as I've understood, it's a pl...

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While we're comparing the sports, it's always intrigued me why the lateral pass is not used more in NFL. Videos of last-action plays, usually from college football, are highly entertaining. Is it as simple as the risk of dropping a ball being passed is too high?

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While I agree generally with Baxter that the laws are changed far too often, scrums are a blight, for the professional game at least. Getting rid of the hit should get rid of time wasted setting and resetting scrums while keeping it as a scrummaging contest. Just have the front rows engage first, w...

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While I agree generally with Baxter that the laws are changed far too often, scrums are a blight, for the professional game at least. Getting rid of the hit should get rid of time wasted setting and resetting scrums while keeping it as a scrummaging contest. Just have the front rows engage first, wi...

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2018 - Southgate got the most he could out of a mediocre squad by the standards of good teams, with goals largely made from set-piece. Remember the love train? Southgate (imo) did that by making them enjoy and be proud to play for England, a contrast to previous cohorts. Still let Croatia into the ...

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triplebogey wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:02 pm
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:59 pm This movie is wild in IMAX. The sound is incredible.

That scene where they’re under the spice harvester whilst being shot at, the Feyd’s into scene - wow. Up there.
The first person view of riding the sandworm was like nothing I've ever seen basically.

You’ve never had that pov? Not lived.

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Top right? The top right of your standard risk matrix is the outcome from something with severe consequences that is almost certain to happen. https://safetyculture.com/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp-website.safetyculture.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2023%2F12%2F5x5-Risk-Matrix.png&w...

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My mistake, just remembering Kane’s miss on his second of the night. It was terrible. Watching the highlights reminded me that England did not get the run of the whistle that game. General points still stand. I’d take Southgate over any of Taylor, Hoddle, Keegan, McLaren, Eriksen, Capello, Big Sam, ...

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Lol. Guscott 30 tries in 65, Manu 18 in 60. For a lot of his career guscott was scoring 3 in 5. His record stands up against pretty much any centre in any era. Manu not so much. From my memory him and Carling were kind of underutilized playing outsid e Rob Andrew who wasn't the most creative fly ha...

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2018 - Southgate got the most he could out of a mediocre squad by the standards of good teams, with goals largely made from set-piece. Remember the love train? Southgate (imo) did that by making them enjoy and be proud to play for England, a contrast to previous cohorts. Still let Croatia into the g...

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2018 - Southgate got the most he could out of a mediocre squad by the standards of good teams, with goals largely made from set-piece. Remember the love train? Southgate (imo) did that by making them enjoy and be proud to play for England, a contrast to previous cohorts. Still let Croatia into the g...

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Porter Sheehan Fagerson Itoje McCarthy / Martin Curry vdF / Welsh kid Earl White Russell vdM Aki Jones Graham Keenan Assuming fitnes… Its going to look nothing like this. You are scottish i presume. Id be amazed if Fagerson,Curry,VDF, White, Aki, Jones, Graham were there in a years time. Doris has ...

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Porter
Sheehan
Fagerson
Itoje
McCarthy / Martin
Curry
vdF / Welsh kid
Earl
White
Russell
vdM
Aki
Jones
Graham
Keenan

Assuming fitnes…

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Owen Yes, I remembered him last night. In his prime maybe the bet of the lot?? That's a pretty decent list of strikers though in fairness to England. Never had a 20+ league season so not in the conversation as their best Heskey. More seriously, depends if you mean English or England. If you mean th...

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Puma’s anecdotes do not suggest a rise in injuries. And if you can get rid of the hit, that would help speed up the formation stage at top levels (with all the extra weight/forces) especially. I like the idea of the front rows binding on each other first with second and then back rows to bind in aft...

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And I’d add Michalak to the list. Was there any non-Frog who was not pleased that their back row could run through him? Whereas he encapsulated everything about wonderful French elan, and did if from 10 rather than 9, which they are used to and I still don’t understand.

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Will Greenwood. Trevor Woodman. Joe Launchbury. I’d agree with Dempsey, and add DOC, Neil Jenkins and several Scottish backrows from the past decade. But as I’m neither Irish, Welsh nor Scottish, perhaps this is self-defeating. Greenwood, no way - superb, cerebreal player Woodman, maybe - but only ...

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Will Greenwood. Trevor Woodman. Joe Launchbury.

I’d agree with Dempsey, and add DOC, Neil Jenkins and several Scottish backrows from the past decade. But as I’m neither Irish, Welsh nor Scottish, perhaps this is self-defeating.

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Not a War film fan then? I wouldn’t say that. I’ve seen loads but only the great escape and damn busters from pre 70s times. Goodness! So you’ve not seen any of the great WWII submarine films? Run Silent, Run Deep? Or The Enemy Below? I’m sure that there must be the greater part of the best war fil...

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Short Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:45 pm Woodman was a loosehead.

edit: while doing some research, I discovered that the Beeb also know f-all about rugby front rowers, even great England players: https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/66896371

Sorry, quite right. I meant Vickery.

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Name an all-time great English tighthead prop. Or better still name five. Woodman, White, Leonard, Cole, 2019 Sinkler. Jeff Probyn remains the best scrummaging tighthead England have ever had. Maybe not so much in the loose, but he'd mangle anyone in the scrums, even today. I was trying to make the...

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Why are you making that point though? What is the point of your point? That a historical England strength has seemingly suddenly become a weakness. What's your point? Name an all-time great English tighthead prop. Or better still name five. Woodman, White, Leonard, Cole, 2019 Sinkler.

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Left wing? Nominally , but he showed his best form on the Right Though many thought him a bit of a flanker? F’ing narcissistic hypocritical shallow piece of shite. Made for being head of the RFU rather than a player. He would also claim to have been a hardcore fan who can remember watching from beh...

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danny_fitz wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:05 pm Jerry Collins

Seconded. For wearing Barnstaple 2nds socks, if nothing else.

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Who are some players that are always selected but you're not sure exactly what they bring? They appear mediocre or anonymous, but they must be contributing something to keep getting picked....? England has a few, but this is Charlie Ewels to a tee. Also Will Stuart from the current squad. Youngs No...

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Top 4
City
Liverpool
Toon
Arsenal

Relegated
Wolves
Luton
Sheff Utd

Top scorer
Haaland

Flop
Nkunku

Sack race
Incoming Wolves manager

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as do Miguel Angel and Rafael Nadal.

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Not quite father/son, being uncle/nephew, but as they each won a World Cup in their respective sports, George and Ben Cohen deserve a mention.

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Question; the longer the delay goes on for, does that make it more and more unlikely the team chasing wins, and begins to favour the draw or bowling team result more? On balance, the team bowling. Less time means that the batting team don't need to worry so much about seeing the day out to reserve ...

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 1:11 pm
Dobbin wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 12:46 pm Wait until they've actually gone under before cherry picking the spoils, lads.
They are deader than disco.

you mean, like Staying Alive?

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St Patrick - not born in Ireland.

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The common vole managed to migrate from continental Europe to the Orkneys without stopping off in Britain.

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Almost all barcodes in the world have three sets of bars (a double line) that extend down further than the rest: one at the start, one in the middle and one at the end. The various sets of bars are specific to and denote a certain number. The double-line bar set is for the number 6. Revelations 13: ...

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Salmon skeleton is made up of bones (like ours), sharks skeleton are made up of cartilage. Showing the the common ancestor for human and salmon was more recent.. Does that mean most fish are closer to humans than sharks? Actually I remembering hearing it mentioned that in terms of categorising crea...

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Similarly, I believe that sea levels on the east of a body of water are usually slightly lower than on the western side, due to the earth rotating and natural inertia in the water.

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Brian Berletic is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas/videos No he is not, he just spouts anti Western shyte. Just like people who get into a frenzy with Mercouris and Ritter, ignoring the fact nothing they say is true and none of what the comment on ever actually happens The last Mer...

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Btw, I’m annoyed everyone - England fans particularly - have ignored my Hoof-bait; Hoof himself even more particularly.

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