NH International Rugby
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Lunch call, so no typing
Scotland exerted their experience in the last 20 and pulled away to win
Italy 17 - 28 Scotland
Scoreline flattered Scotland but fair play they took their chances whereas Italy didn't
Italy would have beaten Wales today, so thank god we played Ireland last night.
Good young half-back partnership for Italy
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England v Georgia just started
Frenetic
England will walk this
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Fuck me England.
Bully, bully, bully and then when they can't bully their way over the backs (May) fuck it up
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England rumble, make hard work of it, but finally get over.
Willis on debut.
England 7 - 0 Georgia
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Shit from Farrell
Hard watch at the moment
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Global Harmtrotters
Thick Mick
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Would be nice to see some flair now
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Fuck England are easy to dislike
Boring as fuck
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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Fuck England are easy to dislike
Boring as fuck
But effective. I'd give anything now for a boring All Blacks team who were as ruthless as this England set up. Instead we have clown Foster and his circus.
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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Fuck England are easy to dislike
Boring as fuck
Loved May jumping to hit the guy in the chops with his shoulder and then doubling down by pulling his headgear off in the next motion. Keep that up and you could be an AB son!
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@sparky said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Fuck England are easy to dislike
Boring as fuck
But effective. I'd give anything now for a boring All Blacks team who were as ruthless as this England set up. Instead we have clown Foster and his circus.
That's the thing though, they aren't ruthless.
They make hard work of it.
And it's so ponderous.
They're the Arsenal of International rugby.
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@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
@sparky said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow said in NH International Rugby:
Fuck England are easy to dislike
Boring as fuck
But effective. I'd give anything now for a boring All Blacks team who were as ruthless as this England set up. Instead we have clown Foster and his circus.
That's the thing though, they aren't ruthless.
They make hard work of it.
And it's so ponderous.
They're the Arsenal of International rugby.
They make life hard for themselves by sticking to their bully style of play. But they make it even harder for their opponents, which I guess is kinda the point
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@MiketheSnow They win lots and don't lose much and that's what it's all about.
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@sparky said in NH International Rugby:
@MiketheSnow They win lots and don't lose much and that's what it's all about.
Never in question.
But against second string sides they could really let it flow.
And who knows, they may get better at it and use it when it matters.
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@MiketheSnow Mike, it was a hard watch and I walk away from it feeling unsatisfied but I’m not sure %Eddie does. I don’t think his agenda was to stick 80 points on Georgia but to test areas of our game plan in a match we were never going to lose. He didn’t pick a side to play an open game with inventive back moves. He will look at this as a good step on the road (can’t bring myself to say journey). I will look on it as an 80 minutes bore fest.
But at the end we stuck 6 tries on them to nil and didn’t play that well.
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Ireland team to play England. A mere 5 residency players and 3 parental qualifying in the squad. If Farrell had picked McGrath instead of Murray it could have been 9. Still, with about 7 or 8 regular first-teamers out, it was inevitable that this was going to happen as Farrell looks to develop/give game time to some newer names, particularly at 9/10/15/17.
Stockdale and Henderson available but only make it to the bench. Furlong, Scannell, Baird, Leavy, Conan, Sexton, Ringrose, Henshaw, and Larmour not available through injury/recovery.
15-9
Hugo Keenan, Keith Earls, Chris Farrell, Bundee Aki, James Lowe, Ross Byrne, Jamison Gibson-Park
8-1
Caelan Doris, Peter O'Mahony, CJ Stander, James Ryan, Quinn Roux, Andrew Porter, Rónan Kelleher, Cian Healy
Reps
Rob Herring, Ed Byrne, Finlay Bealham, Iain Henderson, Will Connors, Conor Murray, Billy Burns, Jacob Stockdale.Unlikely to be a cracker, if Ireland can keep it to under 10, they should be lucky.
