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Interesting. How will the team play without packer?

I'll dare say it, is Packer being phased out to the new gen playing a faster game?

Connie Powell can feel very very hard done by that she's not starting. She's actually one of the players who's really kicked on under Mitchell.

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Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:56 pm Down with this sort of thing.

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Feyi Waboso looked handy didn't he :shock: There seems to be so much hype around this guy He's good but I'm not sure he's that good? He was doing a lot because his side weren't getting the physical advantage up front. Arguably he did too much, but it's hard to ignore how effective he is in and past...

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Don't feel like Leinster are the best coached side currently. Still world class, all over the pitch, but, Leicester were a couple of key knock ons and OHC madness away from being drawing at 36-36 (or some score which was a draw). Leicester are no great shakes, and seeing Leinster go back in the scru...

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Benny The Ball wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:35 am All change again at the top of the Championship. A fantastic competition this season.

Norwich and Cov doing you a favour. Coventry doing you both a favour beating Leeds.

I've got a mate who's a Birmingham fan.

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Feyi Waboso looked handy didn't he

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Well intercepted

England look a poor outfit compared to a well coached and hungry french side.

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France look a far better team, coaching and technically. Defence looks decent as does the breakdown.

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England's ball handling skills are awful. As well as their defence.

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There's a rumour now going around City aren't facing 115 charges anymore.

It's 175.

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most teams in the womens prem play a very traditional english style game,set piece,power based, territory based.and its been very successful for england-few teams ,even NZ as we saw in the autumn can cope with that power. Im not sure this group of players as you say at this point has the skillsets ...

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The only players that emerged with any credit from that turgid affair were the two Arsenal CBs and Rice Doku was absolutely shocking at times today, how he gets a game in a Pep side having such a poor first touch and an inability to cross is beyond me Haaland was absolutely bollocks. I know people ...

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Agreed on Muir, and frankly Roebuck, neither should be in the england squad at all. Were they going to a capture selection? Do they qualify for Scotland? Well, Roebuck does, but even then I think Scotland have enough depth that it doesn't really matter. Very confusing selection in hindsight. I supp...

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Agreed on Muir, and frankly Roebuck, neither should be in the england squad at all.

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:04 pm That game sums up United this season.

They were unbelievably bad.

They are poorly poorly coached. A bit of luck, a smidgeon the ball is connected differently in finishing situations and brentford must hit 5 or 6 easily. So unlucky not to win.

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maverickmak wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:02 pm Apparently Rowland has a fracture and is out of the tournament

Finger fracture. Think we'll see more of Greyson then and maybe Scarratt with more minutes?

Apart from McDougall are there any centres worth looking at? The exeter girl seemed talented.

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:40 pm Just embarrassing. In many ways worse than last week. 28 points in 17 minutes apparently. 2 points needlessly gifted.

Something absolutely reeks at Quins right now. No idea what it is tho.

The defensive structure is pants. All over the pitch.

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whats with the pro welsh commentary throughout? you would think wales had almost won.hard to listen to for english supporters. Should have been a 50 pointer-the goalkicking was terrible. not totally convinced with englands 'new style' of rugby- thought they been looking worse than in WXV. feel engl...

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Lots to like from the Wales game. Commentary and reffing left a whole lot to be desired. The amount of times the wales scrum had Callender detaching and already going after our 9 and not getting pinged was f**king silly. Kildunne, Galligan and the whole team in general played very well. Bit concerne...

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whats with the pro welsh commentary throughout? you would think wales had almost won.hard to listen to for english supporters. Should have been a 50 pointer-the goalkicking was terrible. not totally convinced with englands 'new style' of rugby- thought they been looking worse than in WXV. feel engl...

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:01 pm Not very 'neutral' this commentator

Terrible, terrible commentary.

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At one point sleightholme held off a counter ruck on his own, which might well have been a try saver. He's bloody strong, looks for work, gets his hands dirty, scores oodles of tries. Yes it's crazy that Daly is there ahead of him but to be quite frank same goes for manny - sure he's played well bu...

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Sleightholme and Pearson are musts surely for the EOY tour?

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Clive Simms wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:54 pm Why is the Newcastle game in the 99th minute?

Not sure, but it's FT.

Newcastle 13-19 Leicester

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What an amazing game. Loved every minute of that.

Fin Smith, Langdon and Sleightholme

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Jasmine Joyce injured. Neumann comes in.

This could get really really ugly.

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I need to watch tonight I saw the score. Were they good to watch? We have new pathways now to better develop players at a younger age which is good. Not really good to watch, but worth watching if you like age group rugby. Camera work could have been ... better. And with a score like that it was a ...

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Future looks bright for the Tories as well. Ipsos March Numbers. Voting intention in the 18-34 age range: Tories on 3% Reform on 7% Lib Dems on 7% Greens on 11% Labour on 62% Voting intention in the 35-54 range: Reform on 3% Greens on 7% Lib Dems on 12% Tories on 16% Labour on 55% Be more Conservat...

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I watched the u20s hammering the army the other day. Impressed with some of the youngsters. Ella Cromack and Joia Bennett particularly. Bennett only just 18 I believe. I need to watch tonight I saw the score. Were they good to watch? We have new pathways now to better develop players at a younger a...

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Reform now at 16/17%. So it's not high enough just yet. But it's a clear trend of going up and up.

It was 3% in November. A month ago 11/12%. Now 16%.

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I watched the u20s hammering the army the other day. Impressed with some of the youngsters. Ella Cromack and Joia Bennett particularly. Bennett only just 18 I believe. I need to watch tonight I saw the score. Were they good to watch? We have new pathways now to better develop players at a younger a...

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I agree in the 1st World Cup, the squad wasn't great but it's been decent in the last 2 tournaments. England squads have an unfortunate habit of ageing terribly in hindsight, once the true ability of those players becomes clearer over the course of a few seasons. Most people thankfully now accept t...

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Sarah Beckett will miss 3 6 nations matches. Next available for the france game. Have to say that's stupidly light and I hate mitigation.

Especially when Sillari has a broken leg and will miss potentially the rest of the season minimum, maybe rest of the year and is one of Italy's best players.

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Dan James shat himself in the walk up.. he looked very very nervy the whole time.

The polish pens were absolutely emphatic though.

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:12 pm
Frodder wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:46 pm Never mind all this Saes shite. Can we count on you all for support tonight?
What is Saes?

Welsh for Englishman. Englander etc. Basically enough of the england chat

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Frodder wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:46 pm Never mind all this Saes shite. Can we count on you all for support tonight?

Yes. COME ON CYMRU

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https://www.reddit.com/r/englandrugby/c ... ost_match/

Eld - My post on the match if you are interested, or Cicero.

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We are now in the Mitchell/Spencer era. Possibly JVP backing them up. About bloody time. We could easily skip past Spencer and have one of JVP, Quirke or even Randall on the bench. Spencer is only a couple of years younger than Youngs, or only a decade younger than Care! Which is to say Spencer's t...

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Scotland France… is there half a chance of an upset there? Not really. (Unless you mean losing bonus points?) Having said that, France only scraped home away to Italy last year. And yesterday, Scotland moved the ball about better. France rely on an inexperienced, young captain, so would they cope w...

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Pretty pleased with the second half. Far too many handling errors but quietly the more we play this way and play at pace, this would have been a proper hammering.

Players being picked who havent played in 2 years was also a problem.

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