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:lol: I think the French game is more balanced now - with Jalibert and Ramos we had two players with a fairly similar profile/role and they were sharing the responsibilities, which wasn’t properly working. You need one or the other to organise the conduct of the team. But I tend to agree with TheFr...

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France have called up some of their big guns for the England match. :thumbup: Yes, it seems that we should be able to line up our best XV. No excuses. Indeed. Le XV de départ : Ferté ; Attissogbe, L. Darricarrère, Gourgues, Bollengier ; (o) Reus, (m) L. Carbonneau (cap.) ; Quere Karaba, Gazzotti, C...

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puku wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:36 pm Earl MOTM for me.

Great game.

Mine too.

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Entertaining 2nd half. Both teams raised their game.
Irl from a low base by their standards. Congratulations England.
Deserved.

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Unlucky Carl Dickson.

I T A L I A !

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Meanwhile at Treviso, Italy from 7-14 to 33-14 in the blink of a 2nd half eye.

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I would give the Tories some leeway on attacking the financial crash in '07 as being Labour's fault if I thought the Tories would have acted more strongly on banking regulation, but somehow I have my doubts. As is it's more stuff that happened when Labour happened to be in power, and what one gets ...

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Tories have f**ked the UK and can only offer us culture wars, Labour are conniving in Tory economic fiction. Other parties are either equally conniving or more ensconced still in unicorn fiction. The UK needs immigrants for economic growth and maintenance of public services. EU migration was far mor...

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FT 12-48. France rather untidy faced with a much improved performance from the Welsh "boys". Wales may be stronger next year but next week they can expect an even tougher time v the Italy U20s forwards, for sure. Sia Tolofua of Toulouse, MOM, at 8 (as a very early replacement). Mine was flanker Quer...

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5-28 HT. 5 players off injured inc both captains in 1st half - not to mention a YC against France. Men against boys. Game over as far as the result is concerned.

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5-7 Quick throw from 7m lineout.

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Barré is hugely talented. That's what everybody is saying. As mentioned, I haven't seen him yet. Just a few short video on YT, which doesn't mean much as you always show the best parts... Ramos at 10... I am not convinced it is a good idea either. Just to be honest, I am not saying that Ramos is a ...

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Ou sont les neiges d'antan?

I think you'll find them on NPR, non?

Torque must be erupting. Vesuvius-style in a nod to our Italian debacle.

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The tory members wanted Kemi, and got rishi. That was the death knell. Penny. Isn’t a Tory. Cos plays as one. Mordaunt falls outside the public school/Oxbridge class whilst being too southern and white for the "best of the rest" racist attack-dog types. Being a normal, fairly typical Brit isn't wha...

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Honestly, they had periods under him where they didn't look like a well coached attack. So often the best stuff came from individual brilliance or physical dominance, rather than systems breaking teams down. Take out a pair of excellent halfbacks and a brilliant 8, and France go from in contention ...

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He also made up for a complete lack of attacking coaching and organisation. 60 on Italy in the RWC and 50 on England in the 6N suggests the loss of Laurent Labit as attack coach may be closer to the mark. Honestly, they had periods under him where they didn't look like a well coached attack. So oft...

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Great defence. And then no breaks on the refereeing front. That was a historic win, Italy but for some key decisions going awry.

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Did he just not place the ball on the tee properly? I mean wtf. Typical italy. Anyway, france are terrible currently. Something rotten in the camp. Its alot more than Dupont missing. DuPont still masked lot of France's weaknesses, not the least their technical cleaning of the rucks which is light y...

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Hardly ever watch 7s but decided to because of Dupont. :blush: He's a bit of a fatty in that environment but it will be interesting to see if his other skills come into play. His winning try v Irl from behind a scrum was something of a routine day at the "15s office" for him. Watching the women (and...

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Since the last GE, we've had photos of Johnson and Truss astride tanks, echoing the blessed Margaret.

Perhaps the 1922 Committee is right now planning the same for Sunak. But this time with the decrepit old rust bucket test-firing a live shell?

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Yet we still live rent free in your head. Imagine that Arthur Wellesley, Horatio Nelson, Henry V, Winston Churchill, Maggie Thatcher, Nigel Farage...fear not, your boys are still protected from a beating by the French nuclear umbrella. Funniest episode was Grant Shapps going all that way to Florida...

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Felicitazioni Italia!

Same dominance at the scrum. If not quite as many opportunities in the 2nd half - your boys made it count for the winning try. Also great defence, holding up a maul on the line and also preventing any French score when down to 14.

Good entertainment also.

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tanu wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:00 pm
shereblue wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:50 pm Italy with Bok-like dominance, but wasteful. 7 scrum pens but losing 3 lineouts and missing touch with anor resultant kick. Fra 8 Ita 13
Pity about the lineouts; our backs always seem to be able to come away with points, given the opportunity

Using BBC iplayer. Is Rugbypass.com showing it?

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As expected, the bambini are hammering the Bleuets in the scrums, which gives them plenty of penalties to work from, and put pressure on the French when trying to play their risky running style. Add to that clever choke tackles smothering French attacks and the Bambini are logically ahead at half t...

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Italy with Bok-like dominance, but wasteful. 7 scrum pens but losing 3 lineouts and missing touch with anor resultant kick. Fra 8 Ita 13

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Ships that can't sail, missiles that flop into the water after a few meters, russians taking the piss. Yet we still live rent free in your head. Imagine that Arthur Wellesley, Horatio Nelson, Henry V, Winston Churchill, Maggie Thatcher, Nigel Farage...fear not, your boys are still protected from a ...

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Scotland deserved to win on the balance of play. And most certainly because they had an ultimately "clear" try disallowed at the end. Whilst a 95% ++ certain try at the end was bizarrely disallowed, generally there are no replays in most games of rugby. Should the referee's initial call therefore al...

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Disappointed with the French second half. Our maul defense was a joke, and we were lucky the Scottish fly-half put an amazing 4 penalty kick out on the full denying its side as many scoring opportunities. A lot of work for the French to do for the rucks, in defense and in the mauls. And another yel...

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Scotland now dominant. Quick tap by SH and a fine rolling maul sees the game back to 14-26 with 20' still left. Fra down to 14. Plus ca change.

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Rafy and Carboneau playing for Brive tonight, Bosmarin off injured after a jinking try, so some lesser edge understandable.

Scotland contested well, especially early on and put in some great tackles. 0-26 at HT.

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eldanielfire wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:49 pm
iarmhiman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:32 pm Pay us all to stay at home and post more shite on here
Or why pay you to post shite when an AI bot can do it for free?

Will AI bots be able to "work from home" on Fridays still?

Asking for a friend.

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There are loadsa colonials in the Cotswolds.

Wish they'd fcuk off back to Hampstead whence they came.

Tbf, not all of the colonials are white.

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That guy was falling like that either way. perhaps but his fall was accelerated Can you explain the physics of that given our guy barely touched him enough to count as caught in tag? You're asking the wrong guy to explain Newton's laws of Physics. You don't need much force to make a tap tackle. A s...

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Great game.

Good double lads

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CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 10:47 pm That guy was falling like that either way.

perhaps but his fall was accelerated

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Obvious to everyone in the ground but the referee.

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https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/brexit/

GDP Growth measurement is "per capita".

Also some interesting pointers on growth in real disposable household income as it happens.

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Since the Brexit vote in 2016, UK GDP is up by 8pc. The equivalent figures for France, Germany and Italy are 8.5pc, 5.8pc and 6.5pc respectively. And since the expiry of the Brexit transition period at the end of December 2020, the UK has outgrown not only France, Germany and Italy but also the US....

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I wouldn't sign up.

But I might don a balaclava and nip down with pitchfork and holdall to the oligarch yards on the St Georges' Estate in Weybridge.

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