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5. Freddie Steward

edit to add the obvious: 10. Zinzan Brooke

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Jim Hamilton made an interesting and perhaps controversial point in the last pod pod pod cast. You see, even a broken clock and all that... He said it can be harder for some players to get down as quickly into a proper tackling position than others. He cited Lawes and Curry as being examples of tho...

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Jim Hamilton made an interesting and perhaps controversial point in the last pod pod pod cast. You see, even a broken clock and all that... He said it can be harder for some players to get down as quickly into a proper tackling position than others. He cited Lawes and Curry as being examples of thos...

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The cost of getting rid of coaches is not the big issue some are thinking it is. Yes, exiting a 5yr contract will be pricey but let’s assume they can bin them for a cool million (it may be multiples of that - I don’t know). Every game where they fail to sell just 10,000 tickets costs them £1-1.5mn l...

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I've never seen Genge as passive and disinterested as he has been under Scabnose. A barometer of a side that don't believe in their coaching team or their style of play. I honestly think the best England fans can hope for is a mutiny. But apparently we’re picking the wrong cattle? According to the ...

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The Eddie Jones curse continues, everything he touches turns to shit and remains shit after. It would have helped if his successor hadn't continued selecting the same players based on their reputation. What you seem to fail to realise - on this thread and the English thread that you also love to po...

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:56 pm Was amazed marler wasn't dispatched at the time. Looked dreadful.

That’s our only coach who has been any good. The citing panel selection coach.

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Yep. How many Fiji players are considered for England selection, 1 or 2? Even when we are crap we put 50 on island sides. Ford - utter gash, kicking attacking ball away what, 10 times in their 22? Ben Earl - best player 2 weeks ago, absolutely dreadful today. Any comment on how the Quins players pl...

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danny_fitz wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:43 pm On the plus side Englad finished with 15 players

That’s why we looked ineffective in the final 10.

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ChipSpike wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:40 pm
pjm1 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:39 pm
DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:33 pm Anyway:

Any suggestions for a caretaker coach?
Argus Filtch would be an improvement
albus Dumbledore is available

Would be an upgrade on Itoje, for sure.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:33 pm Anyway:

Any suggestions for a caretaker coach?

Argus Filtch would be an improvement

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ChipSpike wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:28 pm When he was appointed I said that Borthwick is brown nosed yes man. He just not a forceful enough personality to be an England coach. We'd be better off leaving him behind in the bus.

I’d rather see him in front of the bus…

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Why TF are the England players allowed to loiter around on the pitch after that performance? They should be straight into the dressing room for a full on shellacking.

No discipline and no fecks given.

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The only well constructed thing I’ve seen from an Englishman there is the advert about urine leakage. Nice solid underpants.

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:07 pm Can't wait for Borthwick stuttering his way through the post match interview.
Smith as an extra 3/4 with no full back... such amazing ingenuity.

I’m actually looking forward to his excuses. Although I have to turn off the sound and just read the subtitles otherwise I fall asleep.

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Quins89 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:01 pm Will be our worst ever result.

“So, Courtney… how did you enjoy your 100th cap?”

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Beautiful. Happiest I’ve been watching England for a couple of years.

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Danny Doesn’t Care

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TheFrog wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 4:46 pm Fitness should start to count now. We'll see which side is readier.

The Welsh must be kacking their pants.

Why? They’d have beaten us twice if we’d kept 15 on the pitch.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:14 pm
Quins89 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 11:31 am Seeing posts on other forums that Sinckler is out of the World Cup now too?
Ripped a pec benching I heard the other day

Hey Joe was called up.

Bloody hell. Sinckler must feel a right tit.

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We could have that entire SA team playing for us and we’d still lose to a full strength Wales

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Sobering article from Robert Kitson this morning: Steve Borthwick’s England masterplan in a blur as World Cup rivals sense upset . This was a barely believable except: None of this greatly suggests a team about to compete strongly at a World Cup. One well-sourced rumour doing the rounds is that whe...

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Genuinely wonder if it's the persistent league influence within the coaching staff over years/decades? Our forwards are becoming more like backs: prioritising handling, speed etc. rather than being meatheads and hitting stuff hard. Our backs are becoming more like forwards, prioritising being able t...

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I wouldn't be so confident. Just wait until later and Borthwick will name him as our number 8 after Earl is injured in the captain's run.

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As an England fan this has been ok. Rusty Ireland only managing two tries this half, which might only mean 5-6 by full time. I’d take 42-3 and 35-3 feels like we’ve robbed them. England’s game plan is awful. Holy shit. Our game plan is non existent. Players are told to kick it off first phase. Ford...

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As an England fan this has been ok. Rusty Ireland only managing two tries this half, which might only mean 5-6 by full time.

I’d take 42-3 and 35-3 feels like we’ve robbed them.

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Agreed on George. One of the players we absolutely cannot afford to lose. There aren't many but thinking: Genge - LH quality after him is weak (rather like TH including our first choice) George - only competent hooker we have Itoje - he's not the superstar player he was, but the drop-off after him i...

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Wife and I have both really struggled to get into Yellowstone. Just not really engaging.

Quite enjoying Rabbit Hole though - good to have Jack Bauer back on screen.

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Best bits of the match have been when Amazon prime has been buffering.

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Pretty much the first team and this is what the coaches manage with it? Absolute bluffers. its what happens when you over promote inexperienced coaches (wigglesworth,sinfield etc) or make someone who is best as a forwards coach(borthwick) the head man. i actually think england have been worse under...

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I like the team but there's no way on earth we'll see the best of them. Not until after the RWC is well over, at best. Lots of brand new combos in there. Those prop, lock, centre, wing and flanker pairs have never started for England together. Bit late for a roll of the dice like this to expect the...

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I don't hate that team, need some turnaround in tactics though. Yup. It's one of the best he could have come up with after literally ripping out his own hamstrings with effing awful prior selection decisions and not taking some superior players in the squad. If they play like shit, then it is eithe...

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Are we going to use this thread for the next one as well? If so, here's the Wales C team to play: 5. Liam Williams (Kubota Spears – 84 caps) 14. Josh Adams (Cardiff Rugby / Caerdydd – 49 caps) 13. Joe Roberts (Scarlets – uncapped / heb gap) 12. Nick Tompkins (Saracens / Saraseniaid – 27 caps) 11. T...

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There's a gameplan?!

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Will be interesting to see how many of the front and back row it takes to lift Martin in the lineout.

Rumour has it the number is 6.

Looking forward to seeing Marchant and the Smith/Care combo. The rest not so much. Hard to get properly revved up for this.

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So until this is proven, my superconducting fleshlight will have to be dipped in liquid nitrogen before I can use it?

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Armando Iannucci nailed it back in 2005...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LuvCommando/co ... g_the_huw/

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themaddog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:31 pm
Frodder wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:24 pm
themaddog wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 9:19 pm

Bono is a cúnt but The Edge is cool.
The Welsh lad is pretty cool tbf
I thought it was the Welsh lad who had the heat on him.

It was the lad who had the Welsh heat in him, I think.

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with farrell named as world cup captain its safe to assume world cup backline will be- youngs,ford,may,farrell,tuilagi,watson,steward. most of those played their best international stuff and form about 4-5 years ago. its some sort of retro selection apart from steward,and some of us are unsure of h...

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If he's lucky, it's a groundfloor one. He was tragically killed when he accidentally fell out of his ground floor window 147 times in quick succession. This.Isn't.Tw@tter. Neither is it Insturdgram, DickTok or Faecesbook. Or the comments section of PooTube, some to that. That being so, can we pleas...

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