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henry wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:59 am Looks like the fans are taking their cues from the players.

Dreadful individuals.

Agreed. Just let them play snooker. They need some downtime between matches.

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I think the semis line up shows how messed up the pools were.

No pool c: obviously a shit, weak pool.
Two from pool d: obviously a pool of death. It's just a shame both qualifiers will be knackered from slugging it out in such a manner to make it to the final.

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I think it's pretty straightforward. We could play SA 10 times and I reckon we'd be lucky to win 1 of them.

So, the answer is to be lucky. Job done.

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Literally everyone is choosing the joke options who shouldn’t be there

Including us English.

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It’s like we’re living in some parallel universe where being shit at rugby gets you further. If you’re England.

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Cabbage wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:07 pm Had Fiji shown more composure every pool winner would be out. Lesson going forward? Throw a game and ensure you finish 2nd, then feast on the exhausted bodies that put everything into topping their pool. What a joke.

Cabbage by name, Cabbage by mental faculty.

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Tehui wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:02 pm England is the only unbeaten team at RWC 2023. They will be deserved favourites to win it from here.

This whole RWC is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen. Totally f@cked up.

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Shrekles wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:00 pm Did all the semi-finalists lose a pool match?

No. England are 5-0 so far

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Every England player, without any exceptions, is playing much worse for England than they do for their club sides. Everything is worse, their basic skills, power, pace, evasion, fitness but mostly rugby IQ is massively below all of what these players are capable of. Which is for two reasons: (1) th...

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Is the differentiation really important? Military strategy is there to achieve political objectives - plus nations are known to use terrorism as a tool. Depends on the context. To the family and friends of the dead, whether the killers are troops or terrorists isn't likely to be a major concern. Or...

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That may not have been the role. Btw. I remember samoa going 10-0 up in 2003... with Jonny missing a sitter in front of the posts. It means nothing apart from samoa playing a good game and putting pressure on. I was at that 2003 game. Wilko and England did have relatively good form in the ten or so...

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Marchant on the wing makes no sense. Fine, he's a good player, but we have tons of actual wingers (one scored 5 tries in the last game in fact), and Marchant is our best 13. What the actual fück? There's no need. It's all about crowbarring in manu and Faz, next they drop Marchant for Daly. We could...

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Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:47 pm
RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:36 pm
Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:34 pm
Tuilagi?
the entire back line is unmitigated gash.
It's Samoa. England could pick Ben Youngs at 10 and probably still win comfortably.

That’s not a bad shout. With our game plan at least we’d be saved from his passing.

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20 players sounds like a halfway house disaster. For me 20 may well be better. With 35 or so you end up with an EPS type situation where you get wedded to those players. With 20 you still have some sort of central contract for that core, whilst still having plenty of flexibility on the fringes. Cle...

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Jensrsa wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 3:01 pm
DeDoc wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 10:03 am That is seriously impressive. 422m in one second.
From a standing start

Sitting.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/66902829 Who the heck is Mike Henson ? Could he be anymore patronizing and condescending ? Google* says he was a gay porn star who died in 2002 of an accidental heroin overdose. * That’s my story and I am sticking with it. That would be a better contribution ...

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 4:20 pm He won’t change anyone from the Arg game

He will, Farrell is back.

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Ford saying the ball in the Japan game was like a bar of soap. Wilkinson said during the game that playing in summer in the South of France is a nightmare because of the humidity and the ball getting slippery. Let’s hope we see them do a move without dropping it this weekend!!! Funny that France on...

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Andy Goode was actually a tighthead playing at 10.

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There is also the possibility that all three fly-halves will appear together at some point – a prospect that Wigglesworth confirmed was under consideration following England’s victory over Japan which took them to the verge of the quarter-finals. “It’s not unthinkable but it is about what else is a...

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That team has brought a little bit of sick into my mouth.

Can see Farrell playing his way into a starting berth, Arundell getting injured (or red carded) and that joke of a pack doing f*ck all.

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A growing part of me wants us to lose in the QFs anyway. We are playing turgid rugby and will not, and will never win this thing, playing this way. We are so far away from the top teams, it's an unfunny joke. So, we're going to get knocked out and - most likely - get knocked out by a team playing hi...

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Something I've often thought about the way the game is officiated now is that the team attacking are too often penalised. Was it Genge who said the reason they kick so much is because they go 4 phases and end up giving a penalty away. I think the laws should be scaled back a bit to give the team at...

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The last sentence is the one I agree with most. I think it's just plain wrong to keep pointing to a lack of creativity at 15 as a problem that needs solving. You're seeing a symptom of the lack of attacking shape and structure, and wilfully ignoring that the gameplan is the problem rather than the ...

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Forwards were generally good , but I was disappointed we couldn't put them under more pressure at scrums. Lawes was good as always, Itoje played better today, Earl was good apart from chucking the ball at Georges head from 2 ft. Ludlum was humdrum ok. Cheesum was average. Genge the pick of the prop...

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Very disappointing from Japan. They’re clearly at the sunset of their golden generation but the execution was really poor. They put themselves in some good positions but fluffed them up as well as basic errors at the back field. England have gotta be happy with that. Both of the ranking teams in th...

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If we're really scraping the barrel for positives, there are some:
* could be worse: we could be Australia
* the state of the turf is even worse still
* we're not quite as bad as we were, but we're being damned by faint praise in terms of the quality of the opposition

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If I'd paid the amount the tickets were originally on sale for, and spent 2 hours of my life watching that shite, I'd be booing to. Even as an England fan. As it happens, it was Sunday evening, raining and I'd just had a nice curry. It was 2 hours I'll never get back, but there were worse things to ...

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Forwards were generally good , but I was disappointed we couldn't put them under more pressure at scrums. Lawes was good as always, Itoje played better today, Earl was good apart from chucking the ball at Georges head from 2 ft. Ludlum was humdrum ok. Cheesum was average. Genge the pick of the prop...

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Well those late points added some undeserved gloss onto that scoreline. Just listened to Ford's interview and he says building pressure is more important than playing rugby. There's a balance but we certainly don't have it right. We have no pace in the backs, the only defenders beaten were by Ford ...

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 10:10 pm Yeah George, you know what wins rest matches. No other team in the world has played one out pick and go in the 22 for a decade, but you know what wins test matches.

Tbf England have been playing rest matches ever since borthwick took over…

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freddie111 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:56 pm Johnny May should be HIA

His baseline is so low he’s never going to fail one.

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MungoMan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 10:36 am On behalf of all decent and reasonable rugby folk, I call on Portugal to fill the starting team with razor-wielding amphetamine abusers.

You know it makes sense.

But this Wales team aren’t as hairy as the ones of old?!

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A few surprises in the Japan team. 1 朣楢琴执执 2 瑩浻牡楧硰执 3 执獧浻牡楧 4 敬瑦瀰絸朣杢 5 执獧扻捡杫 6 潲湵潣潬 7 昣昸昸慢正 9 敷止瑩札慲楤 10 湥楬敮牡氬晥 11 瑦戠瑯潴牦 12 浯潴捥捥浩条 13 洭穯氭湩慥牧 14 摡敩瑮琨灯捥 15 捥捥慢正 16 牧畯摮椭慭敧 17 獭氭湩慥牧摡 18 敩瑮琨灯 19 捥捥捥慢正 20 牧畯摮椭慭 21 敧楬敮牡札散散汩 22 整牰杯瀻 23 獯瑩潩敲慬 Especially given that's Mandarin Chinese. Thought he’d got i...

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 3:46 pm
message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:51 pm I haven't seen the team. Smith?
In any case, it's Japan, so like Argentina, they will be good enough to win if we aren't spot on.
Marler starts, Sinckler starts, Ludlam at 8, Earl at 7, Billy V and Youngs on bench

Those are the changes

Those bench changes

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Why hasn’t Jack been given a chance yet, is he dealing with something? I find it very strange, potentially one of our best players. You find it strange that the guy who thought jonny may was worthy of a call up isn't selecting our best players? Borthwick’s best selections have been as a result of i...

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It’ll be a very interesting test… Japan are supposed to be very fast and fit. We showed a bit of that last game and you’re right, Arg were terrible. How we stack up against them playing a potentially similar way will show where we’re at. Our set piece should be a lot stronger, as well as our catchin...

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Mog The Almighty wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:11 pm Dunno what is wrong with you guys. It's a lovely touch.

Not really supposed to say that about kids these days...

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With the criteria that Ireland, having scored 12 tries, do not deserve to have any player in the team of the weekend, next week's choice looks interesting. I don't expect to see any Kiwis, Saffers, French, Welsh, Italian or English players in that selection, given the quality of their opposition an...

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Correlation does not imply causation. Exactly this. There could easily be an actual and wholly separate cause and effect, with kicking being the mediator of that pathway. It could be turnovers conceded (knock-ons, step into touch, maul unplayable or penalties) is a causative factor in win % - and t...

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