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Point of information - it was Laidlaw's (yes - Laidlaw) flat pass across the face of the defence that put him through for the second try. Assume Jones made the call. The boy seems to have a feral instinct for gaps in the midfield. I thought that was a really interesting pass, right out in front of ...

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The worst thing an English rugby player can do in Dublin, Cardiff or Edinburgh is antagonise the opposition just before KO... Farrell is a top class player but a bit thick too it seems... Farrell was the only English back that really looked interested, but had one of his worst defensive performance...

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Anyway- he deserved it for his performance. Well, if we're talking about that moment. It was Mako who blew the coverage and over-ran his man. Farrell had just checked Barclay's offload by rushing up and was getting back in the line when Mako screwed up. https://youtu.be/_8AYtT2gIBw?t=2m50s ... I'm ...

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bimboman wrote:
piquant wrote:Good to see some movement on the customs union, though the single market is the bigger issue perhaps so work to be done still

Optional movement.

Baby steps. Like many Brexit fans he has big issues with reality so this isn't nothing.

piquant

Good to see some movement on the customs union, though the single market is the bigger issue perhaps so work to be done still

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Fwiw, nothing you can really do about his break for Maitland's try. That Russell pass just isn't something you plan for. How many players even think of that? I don't think any. Russell all over. It’s a high risk pass. Overdo it even slightly and it’s an interception try. If you’re going to try it a...

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I'm not surprised there are come calls to look into and progress the ideas for an EU army. But I can't see anything happening other than joint ops which we can and do already run. Anything beyond that which would actually see the UK or Germany or France hand over control of their or part of their ar...

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If it hadn't been for the injuries England would still have won. Just not by 40 points. If is always a tricky game, maybe England would have won by 50, maybe Scotland would have agreed on a system out on the field and kept the score within 20, nobody knows. Injuries were a big part of the problem l...

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So Ben Kay was a backrow In a game in which he was playing in the backrow, yes. Heading off on a tangent given that was a game Vs Wales many seasons back, but why did Ben Kay come on at flanker rather than Lee Mears? I never understood that. Mind I also never understood how we butchered so many cha...

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A few things went wrong with the Scotland defence last year. England had worked on some structural flaws in how Scotland defended which was allowing them huge momentum, and than on the back of that (a) the Scottish defenders started trying to solve the problems on an individual basis and not as a te...

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If Russell is at fault for not kicking enough how much are Scotland playing from their own half, and indeed from within their own 22? And even in those instances was it even on to go wide had the execution been better?

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EU has time and time again failed to deal with varius crises. Maybe it's the number of people invovled in the decision making process, maybe it's because of the liberal beurocrats who don't take a prgamatic approach, running the show or maybe they are just a dysfunctional organisation. Yeah, the ma...

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Without doubt Merkel made some mistakes in the attempt to look welcoming in the face of a refugee crisis. But lets be honest, people were on their way regardless of what message Europe's leaders were putting out. And if say the UK leaves every last part of the EU and issues severe warnings to any a...

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Without doubt Merkel made some mistakes in the attempt to look welcoming in the face of a refugee crisis. But lets be honest, people were on their way regardless of what message Europe's leaders were putting out. And if say the UK leaves every last part of the EU and issues severe warnings to any an...

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Chuckles1188 wrote:
DragsterDriver wrote:Which all points to the need for a new political party in the centre- I think it would flourish.
It would not - not without abolishing FPTP at any rate

And there is the Lid Dems took a kicking for forming a more centrist than we see now as a for instance

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Very well put, Croyals. Yourpoint is entirely logical Other than if we know an attack is coming we're not going to not tell the authorities involved just 'cause we didn't get the trade deal we want. At least I can't envisage a PM going before the British people and explaining yes we knew there was ...

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The country is mostly made up of centrists. The issue hasn't been there's a lack of voters there, it's with the major parties getting a decent centrist candidate past their own zealots. I do still wonder where we'd be had Ed Milliband not pandered to the unions and left his brother to take charge. ...

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The country is mostly made up of centrists. The issue hasn't been there's a lack of voters there, it's with the major parties getting a decent centrist candidate past their own zealots. I do still wonder where we'd be had Ed Milliband not pandered to the unions and left his brother to take charge.

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Stop buying the worlds entire playing base and create your own. No sympathy. Quite correct. There must be over 300 French players in the Top14, maybe 350 odd, and probably similar again in D2. How many are we expecting them to supply? Also it's not like they're importing slaves, most players headin...

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Surely France would be one of the leading suppliers of professional rugby players in the world? Problems for France are partly a mindset in how to approach the game, and the club Vs country issue which is still very much an issue for England too even if we've moved forwards a little with the EPS. Th...

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It only makes sense for the short term by ensuring we're not going to have problems at all our major ports and the border with Ireland - but it's a piss poor option for the medium to long term given it will prevent the UK from signing independent trade deals with the rest of the world which will be...

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The point I keep trying to make is that the UK cannot withhold cooperation on defence, and probably not on security either. I don't see why we couldn't. Okay we'd piss off the EU, the USA, Canada, Australia, NZ... but if we wanted to and risk a loss of information sharing in return and lose influen...

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If memory serves the last five UK Governments have wanted to reduce EU regulations. As they should, part of their purpose is ongoing review and reduction where possible of regulations. Unless of course you tie your hands spending billions of pounds on a vanity project that leaves little time for su...

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He's been particularly vocal on NHS funding. His record at City Hall wasn't exactly slash and burn either. Boris is many things but an arch Thatcherite ain't one of them. He's blathered nonsense about spending money already committed elsewhere to be spent on the NHS from time to time. He's never ac...

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It's completely transparent - no secret whatsoever - that the Brexit favoured by Boris, Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Hannan, Owen Paterson et al is about slashing regulation, cutting tax, further cuts to public services and letting the market decide what's what. If they are in control - which is highly ...

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It's completely transparent - no secret whatsoever - that the Brexit favoured by Boris, Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Hannan, Owen Paterson et al is about slashing regulation, cutting tax, further cuts to public services and letting the market decide what's what. If they are in control - which is highly ...

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People changing their mind isn't extremism. I'm not sold on the merits of another referendum myself however, even if some of the arguments against it are more than a little desperate the arguments for it haven't swayed me. And neither party leader is going to touch it anyway, we'd need something mu...

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People changing their mind isn't extremism. I'm not sold on the merits of another referendum myself however, even if some of the arguments against it are more than a little desperate the arguments for it haven't swayed me. And neither party leader is going to touch it anyway, we'd need something muc...

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It's not just the lack of nuance to he Romanian attack, they could have lived with that and still won the game, it's also the number of errors they backed up to see them going 10-0 down to begin with. They were not even for the most part forced errors, just rank bad play.

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Anyone got any matches (with match timings) where they feel concerns around pace are illustrated? I don't really like watching Leicester so I mostly don't, but I've seen a bit and he's not stank the place out, okay he hasn't looked explosive but that's a different thing

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It was really quite odd reading the coverage about Merkel's statements yesterday. The Times seemed to see it as an offer of a bespoke deal, the Mail as a rude snub, the BBC going down the "curious not frustrated" route. Germany's main concern will always be the survival of the EU and the keeping of...

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Are those net costs, which is to say is that after benefits are considered too? I would say I'm at least part amused that those who voted to leave to secure themselves better paying jobs will be delighted to see those jobs coming with less security/rights. Figures are from Open Europe. I find your ...

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If he has 'lost it' why can't he still have time to get it back, or indeed find a new way of playing? For instance let's suppose he has lost a yard of pace, what's to stop him then spending sometime working on a new sprinting technique and/or looking to train in a different manner? Things have chan...

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What regs do we need to get rid of? If there is sensible reduction to be made in regulation why can't that be done withing the EU? Working time regulations costs £4.1billion a year. Temporary Agency Workers Directive costs a further £2billion. The energy performance of buildings directive is a furt...

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So do you think we can have a comprehensive goods and services trade deal, control immigration and make our own trade deals and have no ECJ jurisdiction and all that? Isn’t that cake and eat it. Would the EU – with their own ideological red lines – be OK with that? Genuine question – some of the co...

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The worst case scenario at this stage is we will get a Canada type will with only a few extras but I don't think that will be a disaster by any stretch of the means. A lot of people don't, and many of those are fine even with us going onto WTO rules claiming we'll be just fine. Worth noting many of...

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Both parties agree that transition period shouldn't last more than 2 years but here you are insisiting that it will take more than 5 years. Is pessimism a common trait in all remainers? If the transition period is only 2 years we'll fold over into something that's a transition period by any other n...

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If he has 'lost it' why can't he still have time to get it back, or indeed find a new way of playing? For instance let's suppose he has lost a yard of pace, what's to stop him then spending sometime working on a new sprinting technique and/or looking to train in a different manner? Things have chang...

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If we are genuinely ruling out single market and customs union, want to control immigration and make trade deals, why don't we just accept that it's Canada and get working on the implications and supposed benefits? According to UK officials that were part of CETA negotiations the EU were looking fo...

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Why can't one deplore a decision even whilst celebrating democracy? Is it not a free country? So you are saying it's right for a country's leader to deplore a democratic decision made in another country? So if May deplored France electing Macron it should just be regarded as free speech? Come close...

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