I have not seen this discussed but before the final we saw the English changing room and Eddie shakes hands with players. However he skips Sinckler who appears to be vomiting.

Might just've been nerves. On Living With the Lions you can hear Neil Jenkins ralphing before every match in the changing rooms.

Normal enough, you'd imagine. RTE did a documentary where they followed Ireland around for the 2007 6N. In the changing room footage before some of the games you can hear someone vomiting loudly in the background.

Wilkinson threw up before almost every game, didn't he?

Jason Robinson said before his final game for the BaaBaas one of the players was vomming, which made him spew, so it seems to be a pretty common thing.

I always wondered who that was.

England nerves were ragged,

Farrell @ the toss.

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Suzi-san the Japanese Saffa chef dished him a dodgy cut of Fubu - he could've doid!

Sinckler is a known spewer before matches.

It doesn't mean too much - just his way of getting the nerves out.

England got off lightly, in '95 the whole AB changing room could be heard vomiting.



allegedly

That clip contains some Irishesque level of bullshit

That accent is horrific.

Edit: Reading far too much into the body language here BUT.

The more I reflect on the game the more I think the players utterly bottled it.

This is a good England team playing attractive rugby but there is a serious physiological flaw that kicks in when the pressure is on - we saw it vs Wales in Cardiff and we saw it in the second half vs Scotland in the Six Nations.

it takes nothing away from the Springboks to say this either.

That is a great example of reading way too much into something based on the result. Do you think the video of the toss before the Eng/NZ semi-final looks much different?

We definitely bottled it but I don't think that coin toss is evidence of that

Spewing up with nerves before a game is pretty common, there’s been at least one in all of the teams I’ve played in (and the biggest crowd I’ve ever played in front of was probably about 50, including the dogs!).

He obviously knew something terrible was about to happen.

Ben Youngs looked very queasy on his way out

Yeah he kept getting dizzy and throwing the ball in the wrong direction.

Jack Goodspew

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Every rugby team I've ever played with has had a nervous pre-game porcelain polisher. One side had one who vommed from nerves and a second who stuck two finger down because he felt better playing on a totally empty stomach. Fine FB though, so you'd be happy to throw chips his way after the game.

We didnmt bottle it, we had to play a bang average prop for 78 minutes against a super scrummaging outfit who took us for 15 points. We stopped being favourites as soon as Sinckler went down

He looked exactly the same before the semi.

... fat?

We must have had a f*cking brilliant coin toss for the ABs game. Hopefully they'll bring out the DVD in due course.

In his autobiography Jenkins says he did it before every single big game he played.

I used to do it. Was happy enough to see Neil Jenkins at it. Made me realise I was close to my test start

Andrew Sheridan and Paul Doran-Jones were also notorious vommers.

Yeah, but Jenkins did it because of his nerves...you were sick due to the 10 foot intestinal worm living in your gut.

That doesn't really explain the way we panicked from the start. Passes to no one, awful decision making, no discipline, no leadership, frenetic stuff...

Exactly.

Anyone who thinks England didn't have severe mental issues in that game clearly wasn't watching properly.

Hindsight experts abound.

And that was just the English posters ...

He certainly felt unwell after .

Yep, he was spewing...

Sure, but minus 15 points and I would suggest we’d have seen a very different game.

Bottling it is about the psychological aspect, which was clearly completely off.

No guarantee Sinckler wouldn't have conceded penalties or lost his rag, either.

I once vomited before my barbershop quartet performance.