Six Nations 2017
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@Crucial Mate, when 30% of your club sides used letters and some others didn't use the number 13 because it was unlucky, you have to admit we're probably doing the best we can.
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@gollum said in Six Nations 2017:
Behind The Lions
For over 130 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a symbol of the ethics, values and romance at the heart of rugby union. To represent the Lions is the pinnacle for every international player in Britain and Ireland, and the dream of tens of thousands of avid fans who fol-low them. A...
Simon Shaw talking about how no one had a fricking clue what the Lineout calls were
There's some interesting commentary in that article.
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I'm sure Gatland has taken those past experiences into account along with his own ones from Australia.
What will add intrigue is how he deals with the schedule without forming two camps.
On the last tour the schedule went along with a lot of easy midweek games meaning a bit of mixing and matching could happen before the tests. This time around there are no real easy games which may dictate a split. It also make sit difficult when injuries arise and players have to shift up which could mean that even the reserves for the top 23 are protected.
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Yeah, I've just wasted an hour reading random bits about Lions tours
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Ireland team in no particular order - just because:
J Payne (Ulster);
G Ringrose,
K Earls (Munster),
S Zebo (Munster);
R Henshaw (Leinster),
I Henderson (Ulster),
CJ Stander (Munster),
S O’Brien,
K Marmion (Connacht);
J Sexton (Leinster),
J McGrath (Leinster),
R Best (Ulster, capt),
T Furlong (Leinster),
D Ryan (Munster),
J Heaslip (both Leinster).Replacements P Jackson (Ulster), A Conway (Munster), J Ryan (Munster), D Toner (Leinster), N Scannell (Munster), C Healy (Leinster), P O’Mahony (Munster), L McGrath (Leinster),
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@antipodean given today is St Paddy's day, they were always fooked this weekend!
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@taniwharugby said in Six Nations 2017:
@antipodean given today is St Paddy's day, they were always fooked this weekend!
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@MN5 after last weeks effort v England, I suspect a few Scots are looking at their roots....
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@taniwharugby said in Six Nations 2017:
@MN5 after last weeks effort v England, I suspect a few Scots are looking at their roots....
There's been a few I never want to see again
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@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial Mate, when 30% of your club sides used letters and some others didn't use the number 13 because it was unlucky, you have to admit we're probably doing the best we can.
I once played against a team wearing shirts "numbered" with the classical Greek alphabet.
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@MiketheSnow said in Six Nations 2017:
England at crunch time
What I'd most like to see is a repeat of 2003's stuffing, but I think it will be closer (Murray's a big loss for Ireland, though, so that must have shortened the odds on an England win). Thinking about that game, I was looking back through old match reports to see if I could find any mention of Greenwood arsing about with his second try (as recall), dotting down in the corner in some sort of ill-conceived homage to a footballer running the clock down by playing keep-ball by the corner flag? Maybe I imagined it, I was watching the match round at me old mam''s place, and she was always resentful of any English victory against Ireland, so maybe I was just seeing the game through the mood in the room!
Anyhow, when looking at the Beeb's website report, I saw this photo:
A straight red for Jonny, these days, possibly. How things have changed, eh?
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@Disgusted-of-TW You're right about Greenwood, it was an intercept of sorts - more that the Irish guy passed it to him than an actual intentional intercept and he sauntered over line going further and further away from the sticks before dotting down in the corner. Despite us being about 30 points to the good I was screaming at the TV for him to go under the posts. From memory it didn't matter as I'm pretty sure Wilkinson nailed the conversion anyway.
Happy days for an Englishman.
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@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial Mate, when 30% of your club sides used letters and some others didn't use the number 13 because it was unlucky, you have to admit we're probably doing the best we can.
Bit like having 1140ml bottles of milk because it's too hard to get your heads around metrics or measuring fuel consumption in MPG but selling petrol by the litre.
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@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Disgusted-of-TW You're right about Greenwood, it was an intercept of sorts - more that the Irish guy passed it to him than an actual intentional intercept and he sauntered over line going further and further away from the sticks before dotting down in the corner. Despite us being about 30 points to the good I was screaming at the TV for him to go under the posts. From memory it didn't matter as I'm pretty sure Wilkinson nailed the conversion anyway.
Happy days for an Englishman.
Yes, that game and the June test against Aus in Melbourne were the zenith for that team from an attacking pov.
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@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Disgusted-of-TW You're right about Greenwood, it was an intercept of sorts - more that the Irish guy passed it to him than an actual intentional intercept and he sauntered over line going further and further away from the sticks before dotting down in the corner. Despite us being about 30 points to the good I was screaming at the TV for him to go under the posts. From memory it didn't matter as I'm pretty sure Wilkinson nailed the conversion anyway.
Happy days for an Englishman.
Maybe he had been watching a bit of Carlos Spencer?
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@Crucial King Carlos landed the conversion also, did he not? Great fun to watch when he had the force with him, I was so pleased when he came to play in the UK, even though he never consistently hit the heights that he was capable of. Plus ca change, though, I guess.
England's form in Six Nations Grand Slam deciders - how do they fare when the pressure is on?
