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Missed the first 5 minutes, what's the Youngs Fuckup counter up to now?

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Lads, on second thought you can keep Tompkins

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France did that every other ruck in the first week, good to see it pinged first time.

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If we got rid of both of these two we could have a home and away 4 nations.

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Is he trying to get the more versatile backs onto the park so he can have a 6/2 bench? Any question marks on Manu's fitness having an influence? JJ as 13 cover, presumably Slade cover 12 and 15. If so, why a lock at 6 and a 7 at 8? Not sure why so much lock cover if there already 3 on the pitch. I ...

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Hells Bells wrote:Lawes at 6 has never worked, why does EJ keep trying it?

I can’t see how putting Earl at 8, Curry at 6 and Thorley on the wing is worse.

Under EJ, England have 43% win rate when Lawes starts at flanker.

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Daly for Furbank is hardly a downgrade. Sure, he can be ropey under the high ball, but it's likely that Furbank would have been heavily tested there, so no real change. JJ on the wing seems a bit more odd, though, No other fit wingers in the squad? Furbank is still largely unknown at 15 but at leas...

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Not sure what the point of having Launch and Ewels on the bench is! Well who else is going to cover no. 8 and fullback hmmm?? Oh f u ck, we're going to end up with Slade at fullback aren't we? 2 injuries in the backs and this is going to be car crash stuff. If May gets injured it's going to be a ba...

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Joost wrote:Not sure what the point of having Launch and Ewels on the bench is!

Well who else is going to cover no. 8 and fullback hmmm??

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DragsterDriver wrote:Is it an entire squad of locks and centres? I can’t look at it again.

It's a team with 2 proper flankers, 2 proper centres and 2 proper wingers, looks fine if you just jumble them round to wear the right numbers.

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This thread is going great lads, but you might want to pick up the pace if we're we to make time for flags, Londonderry, and The British Isles all before Sunday.

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Prem rugby releasing a little more in the way of Opta stats than they usually do this week https://media-cdn.incrowdsports.com/3780c8c7-adf1-4c76-bf6a-7001976c4a4c.pdf No per 80 stats, so always going to be dominated by non internationals. Some interesting stuff in there all the same though 18 offl...

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I propose a rapid and effective form of eugenics where we forcibly compost everyone stupid enough to still believe in the comprehensively debunked early-1900s Nazi-driven pseudoscience of racial intelligence, thereby improving the world overnight. Yes, I think we all know that strand of thinking is...

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I propose a rapid and effective form of eugenics where we forcibly compost everyone stupid enough to still believe in the comprehensively debunked early-1900s Nazi-driven pseudoscience of racial intelligence, thereby improving the world overnight.

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Lavanini gets his 5744th career card.

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MaccTaff wrote:Cometh the hour, cometh the ice cream.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51268605

Not a smart move, he's not going to make much money betting on Wasps losing every week.

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It's not uncommon for a player to drop off when they arrange to move clubs. There can be less incentive for them to be working hard every week, care less about maintaining your spot in the club squad etc. I can't think of that many examples in club rugby. Daly, Hughes, Te'o? Just from the last year.

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It's not uncommon for a player to drop off when they arrange to move clubs. There can be less incentive for them to be working hard every week, care less about maintaining your spot in the club squad etc.

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Ok Youngs’ media free pass - the pundits love someone who does things outside the core skills, and Youngs can, or at least could, break a game up with ball in hand. See also any prop with hands who is piss weak up front, or those reams of hookers who can’t throw in A guy like Matt Dawson certainly ...

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That pack's looking a lot better than last week's. Quite aside from an actual tri of back rowers, Kruis over Ewels is a huge upgrade. Bench, I'm less sanguine about. Is LCD injured? Fail to see how Dunn ahead of him is a good idea otherwise. Never a fan of a 5 -2 split, particularly if you don't ha...

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2014 Premiership final, Saints Vs Sarries. Last minute of extra time, 50-odd phases and Waller just about scores one of the ugliest game winning tries I've ever seen. https://youtu.be/OnyDLpd-gsI I was sat right behind the Comms so when the TMO says it's a try you can hear me shout 'yes' on the vide...

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le chat wrote:This is what winds me up about women's sport, funding stuff there is no call for.

I can understand people not wanting to contribute, but I can't understand you taking the time and effort to be a cunt about it.

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Marler to Genge was night and day. Thought Genge was the pick of the forwards actually, even if he only had to do it for 20 rather than 60. I think he needs to start for his carrying if we're going to persist without a no. 8.

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Don't think Lawes had a bad individual performance. The team did suffer for having 3 locks on the field though. Well, 2 and a half counting Ewels properly.

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Feels like we've reached that point in the coaching cycle where we just have to wait for Jones to quit before things can move on. And it's one game since the world cup.

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Eddie lost us that with his shite selection. 15 Furbank 14 May 13 Daly 12 Devoto (maybe). Anyone but Farrell. 11 Thorley 10 Ford 9 Heinz 1 Genge 2 LCD 3 Sinckler 4 Itoje 5 Kruis 6 Curry 7 Underhill 8 Dombrandt If we're allowed to pick people from outside of the squad I wouldn't be sticking with Heinz

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With a head that large you at least ought to be able to tell the f**king time

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Dupont

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Yeah, play a flanker at 8, there's no specialist skill to the position

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Time's run out.

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How is Heinz so f**king slow when he's been on the pitch for 5 minutes.

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Daly

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England have had a lot of possession, France must be at least a little tired.

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Ben Youngs looks like he was selected by the make a wish foundation

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RodneyRegis wrote:
Double wrote:Put Daly on the shit list
When was he ever off it?

He was on the 'bad' list, he's been promoted.

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The Man Without Fear wrote:Slow handclap for Daly. He severely needs some time away from the Test scene to get his mojo back.

Send him to rediscover his form against Ampthill

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Put Daly on the shit list

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At least we won't get nilled

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May the only decent England player on the pitch, does it all himself.

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ScarfaceClaw wrote:That was late surely?

Not remotely. Makes contact the moment the ball is kicked.

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