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Amashukeli is reffing Lein v Leic.

Re rail passenger numbers: July last year - 95% of pre-Covid levels https://www.railtech.com/all/2022/08/30/uk-rail-passenger-numbers-hit-post-pandemic-high/?gdpr=accept November last year - 99% of pre-Covid levels https://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/articles/uk-rail-passenger-numbers-reach-99-p...

They certainly aren't that small - outweighed the French. Maybe least powerful but not smallest. I hope they're reading all these insults - should, at the least, get them fired up. I think people are too trusting in programme and wiki stats.... Also small/big- weight is only ONE of the key measures...

Nick Easter This is the smallest, least physical forward pack I have ever seen in England,” Easter told Telegraph Sport. “Not only that but it has been stated by the opposition. I spoke to a couple of French players after the game and I won’t name names but they were astounded by the lack of physic...

Robin Jackman?
Les Taylor?

This was put together in 2019 by the New Civil Engineer magazine that claimed the following could be built for the then cost of HS2. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/scrapping-hs2-could-fund-28-transport-schemes-report-claims-14-05-2019/ A1 - Dual carriageway From Durham To Edinburgh £1.3bn ...

Hawk97 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:10 am
Jake wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 11:07 am Rowell 95 approach needed;

Pick a side to dom collisions and air.
Chess, Rib, Lawes, Maro, Curry
It's like a basketball team

But it is a team designed to deliver a focused plan. And would scare the crap out of others.

Rowell 95 approach needed;

Pick a side to dom collisions and air.

Freddie, Malins, Marchant, Manu, Arundell; Faz, Mitchell; Genge George, Kyle, Chess, Rib, Lawes Maro Curry.

Focused and clear ID. Mitchell and Arundell are your X Factor players.

@backrow @hawk

Absolutely.

Strange to me that Borthwick made more changes in the backs, than the forwards after the France demolition. I would have lobbed lawes and launchbury in for starters. (Googled and launchbury is only 31? Feels like he’s been around longer). Maybe bribe and try to get kruis back also. Here's something...

Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:38 am
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:27 am I thought Ribbans was supposed to be a big fücker?
He's the same size as Willemse.

He's about 10kg lighter.

I thought Ribbans was supposed to be a big fücker? He's not small- but the point I am making is his superpowers are his handling, offloading and try scoring (21 tries in 114 matches is remarkable for a lock). Whereas Hill is just a huge nasty bastard (despite being a pen machine). if he were French...

It's pretty scandalous we still have Mako waddling onto the pitch alongside Dan f**king Cole as our prop replacements. Even more so that Sinckler appears to be unquestioned first choice :uhoh: Beginning to have my doubts about Jamie George as well. 1. Mak is still incredibly dynamic round pitch. Wo...

How does that explain their all white backrow murdering ours though? It is the sheer depth and standard of TOP14 you should be looking at that's driven by pure athletic depth. Also- Danty, Macalou, Woki, Taofifanua, Willemse- all from that outreach programme. Willemse was literally targeted to move...

In both our losses so far, we've actually had the superior territory and posession stats. Even in the French game. The one unique factor in both our losses is how clinical the opposition were. Scotland scored 4 times from 4 trips to 22. France were only in our 22 for a minute and a half, how many t...

How does that explain their all white backrow murdering ours though? It is the sheer depth and standard of TOP14 you should be looking at that's driven by pure athletic depth. Also- Danty, Macalou, Woki, Taofifanua, Willemse- all from that outreach programme. Willemse was literally targeted to move...

Everybody knows the premiership and English rugby in general is in a mess, but that doesn’t excuse picking an EPS full of junk and playing like spastics. So who would you pick that isn't in the EPS? I am sure there's a few possibles that *might* succeed, but there's few that really spring out. Pear...

Borthwick's Leicester took a few licks early in his tenure, didn't they? They ended up being able to squeeze the life out of teams. I'm holding out hope Me too. However, the big issue isn't England, nor the Prem. It's the lack of RFU direction on Acads and other things. Simple e.g.- 15 or so years ...

That clip’s alright for me. No sense of schadenfreude at all, he even said he felt a bit queasy watching it. You can tell how under pressure he was to pick certain players. Sorely missed. Eng have spent an entire Six Nations proving him right. Wtf are you talking about? Eddie was so far ahead of SB...

Eddie on England - a clip from the podcast Eddie where he discusses England's loss to France That clip’s alright for me. No sense of schadenfreude at all, he even said he felt a bit queasy watching it. You can tell how under pressure he was to pick certain players. Sorely missed. Eng have spent an ...

I’ve got no hope. The only thing I’m excited about is Arundell can put people in a blender and has the ability to score from anywhere. Otherwise, it’s the same backrow that got manshamed PRISON STYLEE, the same front row that makes no impact, and we retain some other liabilities. Fixed that for you

So Malins and smith the dropped players. Yeah, they were the problem. Malins has been the one bright point in the backs, absolutely baffling decision. Not a single forward gets dropped. Not one. Agree. I would have put Martin in there at 6- but I do know that when SB called him up he was seriously ...

Walder to Bristol as assistant to Lam.

Hoof wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:48 pm
Jake wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:38 pm
Hoof wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:37 pm

Non-traveling reserve?
Full back.

A slower version of Daly with even less tackling ability who can't kick the ball as far. Triffic.

Slade's issues are he can't stay in a defensive situation, not that he cannot tackle. And he's many things but he ain't slow.

Slade is a great example of a player getting away with it because he does fudge all. His involvements are so minimal that nobody notices. You can't get annoyed with a player for missing high profile tackles or missing gaps if he never touches the ball and doesn't make attempts. He's much more likel...

Hoof wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:37 pm
Jake wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:04 pm It doesn't help that (in many's opinion) he's not playing (or wanting to play) in his optimal test position.

Non-traveling reserve?

Full back.

There are lots of England players who go under the radar and accumulate extraordinary numbers of caps whilst being utterly ordinary. Ben Youngs of course is literally the national record holder in this regard, a player so ineffectual and banal that his England career is fizzling out in an unheralde...

Hoof wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:03 pm
Jake wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 11:47 am Out of 35 games from his debut until WC win, he played in 25, started in 17 of them and was injured for/or unavailable for 9 of them.
35-9=26

Not selected for one....

Lions Squad tomoz, Eng players would be: Deffos: Maro Genge Sink Farrell Smith Curry T Steward Poss: Arundell VRR Ribbans Chessum Malins Lawes Willis Delusional. Premise of the thread is which English player would start if the team was announced today. Answer zero in the 15 maybe 2 in the 23 The ke...

Stop it. He played there early in the season, because lynagh and green are both out. They are still out, but we signed bassett as cover and beard has had his breakthrough season. He can cover wing. He's a 13. Particularly at international level. But yes, he is a better winger than slade is a 13. So...

I don't care how superb a tactician or coach EJ may be. A simple question would be did he get the best out of England over the last few years? An accurate answer would be did he bollocks. Are Borthwick, Sinfield and Evans doing better? Behave. I think all four (EJ included) are FANTASTIC coaches. T...

fatcat wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:10 pm I don't care how superb a tactician or coach EJ may be. A simple question would be did he get the best out of England over the last few years? An accurate answer would be did he bollocks.

Are Borthwick, Sinfield and Evans doing better?

And- Eddie may be many things but he is without question one of the greatest rugby tacticians on the planet. Meh. Eddie Jones is to coaching what Tony Spreadbury is to expert witness. I realise you are more of an armchair supporter, but that is just a bizarre statement. Even his worst enemy wouldn'...

It's not as simple as 12 v 13 obviously, but if you're playing someone at 13 who doesn't have significant experience defending there you have absolutely screwed yourself needlessly. It is mad to suggest a 12 can easily slot into 13 without any other considerations of wider skillset. Yes during a ga...

A 12 defending at 13 is abject terror. How many test sides currently play left and right centre? How many test centres play both 12 and 13 regularly? How often does a centre defend 12 or 13 from second/third phase? It's not as simple as 12 v 13 obviously, but if you're playing someone at 13 who doe...

Well that's part of the problem with rugby as a spectator sport. All the proper stats are locked away from punters. Couldn't agree more. However, I know a number of organisations, WR and 6N specifically, are looking at interactive red button stats, so cool your jets for a few months.... That's inte...

Well that's part of the problem with rugby as a spectator sport. All the proper stats are locked away from punters. Couldn't agree more. However, I know a number of organisations, WR and 6N specifically, are looking at interactive red button stats, so cool your jets for a few months.... What I woul...

The front row and centre partnerships must have less than a dozen caps between them. Fair point on the stats vs minutes argument, but if anything that only shows me players who are robust enough to play regularly. True- although I always go back to the fact that any Prem player is unavailable for 3...

Maro will still be there or thereabouts. Sinckler actually scrummaging OK (watch him get monstered by Porter now I said that)- suspect THs would be TF, FB, then one of Sink, Francis or Fagerson. Genge-interesting- he and Kyle stuffed the Irish scrum last yr- six pens conceded. Although IIRC Healy wa...

The front row and centre partnerships must have less than a dozen caps between them. Fair point on the stats vs minutes argument, but if anything that only shows me players who are robust enough to play regularly. True- although I always go back to the fact that any Prem player is unavailable for 3...

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