Planet Rugby Forum

4071

That counter attack for the first try though likely doesn't happen in previous games though. That ball is hoisted high. Maybe, but I'm not convinced by the all-or-nothing narrative. I'd certainly agree that Furbank is a more natural attacking threat, but it's silly to pretend that Steward was just ...

4071

I'd sort of get the argument Biden is saving his political capital, but for what? He's bad on housing, education, health, the judiciary, guns... Define "bad" Do you mean you disagree with the very clear policy positions in each of those areas, the legislation that has already been passed, or that y...

4071

And yet he's done nothing about the balance of power on the Supreme Court in 4 years, nothing about the corruption shown by those sitting on the courts. So it's all very well telling them where to go, but actually do something would you please. The only thing going for Biden is he's not Trump, clea...

4071

Winnie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:32 pm The f**king state of jiffy
He is ready to go on to the pitch and shout at the ref

In fairness, the try should have been disasallowed. It wasn't even close to onside.

4071

A blatant capture cap. I'd be surprised if we see him again outside of an Autumn test or injury crisis. Pfft, not good enough to get into any other side he is eligible for. I prefer to see him as a speculative pick that hasn't worked out. On the plus side, he was a solid 6/10 against Italy. So he's...

4071

Is George Ford going to continue to f*ck our backline by throwing the ball yards over the heads of his centres? Has he always been this sh*t at passing? He may never have been a world class fly-half, but he had world class attributes. His ability to spot space and put the ball exactly where it need...

4071

Feyi Waboso replacing Elliot Daly. 8) Excellent news. Mind you, I thought we'd finally moved on from Daly when Eddie jettisoned him a few years back so I won't get too excited. What better time to bring in a young player than against the best team in the tournament. He'll have plenty of opportunity...

4071

"9-0" As it should be. Like the Orangeman or not, lawfare should not be waged to prevent fair elections from occurring. A dangerous precedent which paves the way for future autocracy. The public should be trusted to solve such questions at the ballot box and I find it unseemly for lawyers to divine...

4071

Vs Ireland - L At France - L At Japan - W At NZ - L At NZ - L Vs NZ - L Vs Aus - W Vs SA - L Vs Japan - W So that would be 5 wins and 7 losses on the year. Then the following year isn’t it a tour to SA? :lol: Interesting additional stat in terms of England's try-scoring. SCOT 3-1 ENG ENG 2-2 WAL IT...

4071

As a comment on the primary I read an article on interviewing 15 of Halley's supporters. I'm not reading anything into the overal numbers, it is her home state afterall, but rather these 15 non-Trump primary voters were bookmarked at each end by 4 who stated they would categorically vote for Trump ...

4071

France are very lucky not to be bottom of the table. They lost to Scotland, but got rescued by the ref, and they should have list to Italy. They should be on 2 points, not 6.

4071

It's fun for the England lads, but this is a pointless fixture. The full Portuguese side might have given us a clue how these younger England players might perform, but this is just... silly.

4071

I'd actually disagree, the sparks and the patterns are there. It's just sloppy execution killing us. It's certainly better than the last 6N game. Still some shit selections. WTF does Daly need to do to get dropped. How is Care starting and surely we have seen enough of Roots already (his first matc...

4071

How the hell hasn't Feyi-Waboso played earlier. He's absolutely electric and that useless wit kant Daly has been wandering around to no effect for about five years. Borthwick's selection is absolutely shocking. Almost as bad as Brace's ability to call 'maul'. Too much flair for England. They'll kno...

4071

Scotland have been excellent today. Well played. Lots to think about for England. Scotland have been... fine. Nothing great. They were better against France. The main difference has been basic skills. Scotland had them, so capitalised on England's mistakes. England didn't, so failed to capitalise o...

4071

Last Line wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:28 pm Lawrence is cack.

He has been cack.

He's a decent player who had an absolutely appalling day.

At least Dingwall was anonymous rather than dreadful.

4071

How was that a knock on?

It was a handling error, but that's a really bad call.

4071

England haven't scored more than 20 at Murray field since Woodward was in charge. Scotland don't need many more points on the board.

4071

Any chance we could stop throwing the ball into players' faces? It makes it slightly harder to catch.

4071

dshepuk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:08 pm Advantage should have been over.

Yeah. That was a LONG knock on advantage.

4071

Ford is a much better defender than he's credited with, partly because he's not so big. He won't smash players in the tackle, but throughout his career that's meant he has targeted the ball in the tackle. He may often lose ground in contact, but he often wins turnovers.

4071

Who had 36yo Dan Cole and 37yo Danny Care starting a 6N match together on their 2024 rugby bingo card? I'm a big fan of Dan Cole. When others were writing him off as done for during the pre-WC Six Nations, I still advocated for him and fully expected him to be selected in the World Cup for one last...

4071

So with Martin in and Pearson dropped, numpty will be selecting a lock in the back row. That signals to me no intention to change the style of play, more dull 10 man rugby based on forward dominance which has not been a reality for over 5 years. Ewels in but Pearson out, crazy. Right let me say som...

4071

So the Senate passes the aid package but we'll have to see how it goes in the House. On the good news front Sholz has promised to spend a full 2% of GDP on defence this yea r which must have ramifications. Trump will claim credit for that. A little threat in the media and Germany complies. He defin...

4071

JPNZ wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:38 am I don't think he has dementia, most times he just out talks his attention span.

Which candidate are you talking about here?

4071

He doesn't have dementia he is just doddery Yeah, it's probably the loss of focus and concentration that comes with advanced age, rather than being full-on dementia. It would require an actual diagnosis to confirm either way. But it's probably not controversial to suggest that someone with age-rela...

4071

He doesn't have dementia he is just doddery Yeah, it's probably the loss of focus and concentration that comes with advanced age, rather than being full-on dementia. It would require an actual diagnosis to confirm either way. But it's probably not controversial to suggest that someone with age-rela...

4071

bimboman wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:40 pm
not_english wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:10 pm He doesn't have dementia he is just doddery

Dear god. Making excuses for it just marks you as a shill.

His cognitive ability has even been judged as failing by the legal system now.

No, it hasn't.

4071

Odd situation coming up. Do the Dems risk trotting out Joe for debates when he can't remember much or do they admit he is mentally defective by canceling and/or failing to show up at all? The public will see through a lame reason to not have them. Personally I think both of them on a stage together...

4071

Need less time in the gym and time with the ball on the grass in competitive situations. Oh, and pick a coach and players with a brain. Desperately poor performance, it’s now obvious that the kicking game was hiding basic ball handling skills If Lawrence was fit, I suspect we might have seen Furban...

4071

Chandler and Dan look athletic enough for test rugby. It's hard to believe people pay good money and endure the transport to twickenham for this shite. a friend of mine goes to practically every game, texting me from the match today about how shit it was. Says he hates going now, only does it becau...

4071

Always interesting that sometimes perception isn't reality. Borthwick in his press conference, said that in round 1 of the 6 nations, England kicked 5th out of 6th, in most kicks in a match. Ireland, France, Scotland and Italy kicked more than us. Now it certainly doesn't feel that way, but maybe i...

4071

About ten years ago when BT got the rights to the premiership and it was getting a lot of interest and the world cup was coming up, I was very optimistic. I do wonder if going to BT in 2012 was in hindsight a really, really bad decision for the game in England. BT/TNT has grown more recently to hav...

4071

Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:13 pm Correct decision

Only in the sense that there was not enough evidence to overturn the ref's incorrect on-field decision.

4071

That's robbery. It was a try.

4071

Tim the tit from eggchasers, just this week, has claimed Marler is the second best LHP in the world and would get onto the springbok bench. Also they met up with Paul Gustard in France who said Farrell is the best English fly half and has been for a decade (not biased at all is he). Also that Stewa...

4071

Steward will need smoking a few more times before reality sets in. These people also declare Faz the greatest ever England' player, so they can go fück themselves. Tim the tit from eggchasers, just this week, has claimed Marler is the second best LHP in the world and would get onto the springbok be...

4071

Conrad was pretty nippy back in the day, but after that horrible knee injury took some time to build his game such his reading offset the reduced pace. But yes both he and Greenwood show it can be done, but as noted with a really good reading of the game. Not sure Nonu and DeAllende were/are all th...

4071

I never laughed st the suggestion sam simmonds and earl should have been 12s earlier in their careers. Both a decent bit of pace, step, hands, power. Not too tall. The laughable suggestion is that having established themselves in the back row they should now switch. Either of them (or Harry Thacker...

4071

Unfair, before one of their tries he piled into a ruck and got munched and in doing do left us under resourced in midfield as they then ran at props for a horribly easy score. I felt he was anything but anonymous in that passage. And I did enjoy watching him trying to sprint back at the fag end of ...

Search found 7007 matches