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@Bones said in NH International Rugby:
Congrats Mike. As BBC say, you're top of the "group" 😁
Riding our luck massively but in fairness we’re not giving up or buckling when we’re under the cosh.
There’s some real backbone developing throughout the squad.
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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Riding our luck massively
I've always believed a good team makes it's own luck, Mike.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Riding our luck massively
I've always believed a good team makes it's own luck, Mike.
There’s luck and there’s luck.
The tries we scored had nothing to do with luck for example, but the fact that we’ve scraped home twice in two weeks against 14 men when the opposition failed to convert match winning opportunities at the death is luck beyond our making.
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56047926
England's win does little more than stabilise wobbling chariot
Scotland defeat is out of their system but England have much to do to retain the Six Nations
Press not impressed
Farrell doing the Wilkinson pose for kick, maybe?
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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
@Victor-Meldrew said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Riding our luck massively
I've always believed a good team makes it's own luck, Mike.
There’s luck and there’s luck.
The tries we scored had nothing to do with luck for example, but the fact that we’ve scraped home twice in two weeks against 14 men when the opposition failed to convert match winning opportunities at the death is luck beyond our making.
That last try, while brilliantly executed was a opportunity there from playing 14. First because stretching the defence to one side and back created a little bit of time. Second because there was no sweeper
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@sparky said in NH International Rugby:
Scotland made 339 metres running, Wales 179 but Scotland lost.
That’s a fantastic stat for Scotland.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Riding our luck massively
I've always believed a good team makes it's own luck, Mike.
Or have cloaks of invisibility...
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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
we’ve scraped home twice in two weeks against 14 men when the opposition failed to convert match winning opportunities at the death is luck beyond our making.
I'd still argue that's also down to leadership, cool heads, defence and effective substitutions.
Or poaching Pacific Islanders....
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@cgrant said in NH International Rugby:
England's performance was poor, again. If three of their tries had been disallowed (one blatant knock-on, one forward pass, one late tackle before Watson's intercept), the score would have bee much tighter and more in line with the game's physiognomy.
how's that new thesauras?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
we’ve scraped home twice in two weeks against 14 men when the opposition failed to convert match winning opportunities at the death is luck beyond our making.
I'd still argue that's also down to leadership, cool heads, defence and effective substitutions.
Or poaching Pacific Islanders....
We had all of those as mentioned, but still both Ireland and Scotland shit the bed when it mattered and let us off the hook.
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@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56047926
England's win does little more than stabilise wobbling chariot
Scotland defeat is out of their system but England have much to do to retain the Six Nations
Press not impressed
Farrell doing the Wilkinson pose for kick, maybe?
Not a lot to be impressed about. Still waiting for some of the senior team members to show up. Still scratching my head about Daly at full back and continuing with Billy V in his fat and disinterested state.
On the plus side we showed more ambition, a couple of the more junior members stepped up a bit and we didn’t kick so much and so poorly. An improvement on last week but we’re not looking great.
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@Catogrande said in NH International Rugby:
@Machpants said in NH International Rugby:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/56047926
England's win does little more than stabilise wobbling chariot
Scotland defeat is out of their system but England have much to do to retain the Six Nations
Press not impressed
Farrell doing the Wilkinson pose for kick, maybe?
Not a lot to be impressed about. Still waiting for some of the senior team members to show up. Still scratching my head about Daly at full back and continuing with Billy V in his fat and disinterested state.
On the plus side we showed more ambition, a couple of the more junior members stepped up a bit and we didn’t kick so much and so poorly. An improvement on last week but we’re not looking great.
You’ll stuff us
But it would be hilarious if we went down to 14 men and won
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@MiketheSnow No.
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Some key England players (Sinkler, Lawes, Itoje, Curry May, Watson and Daly) are showing form again.
But Youngs' service was slow yesterday and both Farrell and Slade look out of sorts.
I thought Fat Billy was dreadful. Didn't ball carry effectively (made 1m from 7 carries), didn't contribute much in defence (only 5 tackles), was huffing and puffing after five minutes. Better sides than Italy will target him ruthlessly. I know Fat Billy is a bit of a favourite of England's Aussie coach, but I wonder how long Eddie Jones can persist with a player so obviously not in appropriate physical conditioning for international Rugby?
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@sparky said in NH International Rugby:
England Vs Italy highlights:
There were ‘highlights’?....
For the me the play of the game was the Italian try at around the 60th minute mark. Great to see an attacking midfielder run from deep, receive the ball at pace and then go into contact with momentum and offload.
