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nardol wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:30 am 20 sec penalty for Alonso.

To do that in the racing line right before a corner is notngood

Naughty boy. Brake testing is shitty practice. Didn't like it when Hamilton/Vettel and Max/Lewis did it, and I don't like it here.

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https://imgur.com/a/zHbgoHO

Is that a brake test?

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Eld I shouldn't but...

It deserves it because it was infront of the posts and I don't care if you are amateur, you make that kick. No matter how little time it's mostly just kick straight.

To then kick it off the pitch.

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Wales have had an absolute meltdown from the conversion onwards.

Wales 18-20 Scotland

Big big upset that.

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George

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Wales 13-20 Scotland 74 mins

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Well that was brilliant. Emma Orr.

Wales 6-17 Scotland

Another crazy good conversion from Nelson.

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Wales 6-10 Scotland HT

Should really be out of sight scotland and that's a poor return for a very good 40 mins.

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Well played Irish women. :thumbup: A 3 try deficit was a massive turnaround and deserved on the afternoon. Fre lineout and scrum did improve but handling and attacking combinations behind 9 were unimaginative. Queyroi solid (unlike newbie Tuy) but lacks Drouin's ability to animate attacking play. B...

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France 38-17 Ireland

Decent game. Ireland will be happy with that. Their highest score equalled against France.

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Btw - Irish 12, who just scored has been excellent. Ball in hand, decision making, tackling, fight in the tackle. She's a good one.

France 38-17 Ireland

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They didnt lose EVERY game by 30 and rarely lost to england and france by 50. It did happen but it was the exception as opposed to the set standard The tournament is in its infancy. I'm sure your average brute of an Irish bloke didn't even know they had women rugby players 3 seasons ago. An infant ...

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Great try 31-10. Need to do more ball in hand to gain more territory but this is pretty good.

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Suppose its one of the things with national coaching but Irelands defence with this much pressure has been very good (poor 15 though).

The problem is they dont know what to do with the ball at all.

It's all just rear guard action

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TopNacker wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:54 pm England A needs to look at Hathaway if he can play FB and FH also.

Cannot believe Tigers beasted Cole for 80 mins. Heyes must be really shit.

Heyes was on second half. Made a brilliant catch to stop a knock on late in the second half.

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Seb Blake looks a decent hooker too. Lovely offload for Varney and the winning try. He’s been outstanding. Got thrown in at the deep end last season when we had Singleton, Socino and McGuigan all injured and hasn’t looked out of place at all. He’s technically very good as well as quick round the pa...

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Seb Blake looks a decent hooker too.

Lovely offload for Varney and the winning try.

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Leicester Gloucester was a great game.

Hathaway looks about a year away from being a really good player, and hes rapid too. Mercer looked great.

JVP off the bench

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Well played Wales - a comfortable and professional 4-1 win. Poland in Cardiff in 5 days. Winner heads to Germany for the Euros. It would be some thing to get to our 3rd Euros, particularly our first attempt in the post Bale era. Having said that, Poland are a better team, even with our home advanta...

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Earl.
Menoncello

The other 2 options.

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/ ... h-rugby-on

Good read on what happened post scotland

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Remember that Barbeary is likely to come into the conversation post 6Ns as well.

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:22 am Jeff. Looking at your scores, you are definitely mellowing with age

Yeah I'd have gone 2s and 1s across the park, bar Grady who looks handy in contact.

Costellow a -1/10

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We need to build some depth in quite a few positions though. The drop off from, say, Lawrence, is huge - even losing a rookie like Wabosi was hurtful. And the bench needs to have bigger impact. It'll be tough to bring in fresh faces with the schedule we have for the rest of this year - but needs to...

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Aled Walter’s deserves a lot of credit, we look very different physically. Genge and Maro in particular look significantly bigger than under Jones and still seem to be very fit. Genge is playing much better without all the machismo. Imo yesterday was his best game for England. Wasn't he good yester...

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AND-y wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:06 pm At least Arwel and Gav always had the potential to do something madly entertaining.

Gav was a world class centre who was a good ish kicker.

Costellow....

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Poland 3-22 Belgium HT

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Either way the backrow isn't our issues. It's getting the front 5, and the sub front row up to be as good as frances is. That's borthwicks next task.

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Who would you drop for the currys?

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Loose Head Prop: Genge, Baxter, Haffar Hookers: George, Dan, Langdon Tight Head Prop: Cole, Opoku-Fourjour, Fasogabon Locks: Itoje, Martin, Coles, Kpoku Backrow: Underhill, Chessum, CCS, Earls, Dombrandt Scrum Half: Mitchell, Spencer, Randall Fly Half: Ford, M Smith, F Smith Centre: Lawrence, Slade,...

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I think the pleasing thing is, we can play this way consistently now. They backed it up Ireland last week and france this week.

The 2 toughest teams and it was 23-22 and 31-33. And we have a lot to progress with.

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:01 pm I'd love an explanation for that first half gameplan.

France played very well. That can happen, we can't mitigate everything.

I'd like us to be better in the first halfs in general though. We've been behind every game this six nations at half time.

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TheFrog wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:59 pm At least England are back. No longer the rabble of last year.

Next year 6N will be wide open. Apart for wooden spoon...

You think Wales will still be bottom?

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More encouragement here. We know personnel needs changing but it seems as though it's moving the right way. Probably deserved to win, especially with Angus making some very poor decisions to keep us under pressure. One disappointing last was the amount we kicked the ball off and let France reset. W...

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Humphries at the moment is in a different gear to anyone else. Won playing poorly against Aspinall in the final last night but, he's relentless and it's effortless. 99/100 he always has a 100+ average, usually between 103 and 108 and it's breaking world class players. Short form format maybe he can ...

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We've now got solid confirmation that Ben Orange is a bit of a tw@t. Long suspected but never till now fully plain. If he didn't fall out with Holland... why does he not want to be selected? I see Bellingham declined a call up as well a couple of years ago. Not sure what his excuse was? He refuses ...

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piquant wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:45 am
TheFrog wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:42 pm

Ramos has an eye and a nice side step to deal with rushing forwards.
Is this a comment on his attacking or defensive game?

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Isn't Barbeary a bit of a unit? Yep - pretty mobile though - started as a centre, then Hooker now Backrow. 24 tries in 35 senior appearances !! Bad injury profile! Rumours of Daly and Ford starting, Tuilagi to bench. Tbh as expected. He's keeping continuity. Do I actually rate Muir or Roebuck, in r...

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Another statto I'm nabbing from the RugbyPod on analysis today, tackles made after 4 games by each of the teams: 1. Italy 754 tackles (Av of. 188.5 per game) 2. Wales 626 tackles (Av of. 156.5 per game) 3. Scotland 559 tackles (Av of. 139.75 per game) 4. Ireland 543 tackles (Av of. 135.75 per game) ...

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