Sure maybe Conor O'Shea will have some other obscure trick this year
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Fair enough and I hope it does make a comeback because free flowing French rugby is a thing of beauty. It's going to take a real change of mindset across the league though - one or two sides deciding to stick with the big, ugly enforcers could feasibly be quite successful while injuring the nice players in the other, more forward thinking sides.
Any interest in Fantasy 6 nations?
I always do one of these and then forget about it after the first break weekend!
I never even went back to check on last years one.
Mon you boring fecks.
What's the code for the league or the league name?
Never mind. Clicking the link again solved the problem.
Had the same thing with a mates league. Make team then click again solved it too.
Looking forward to seeing how Scotland fare in Cardiff this weekend. If they're any hope of challenging for the silverware, they really must beat Wales preferably with a bonus point as we can assume England will beat Italy scoring four tries or more. Now is the time for Scotland to go from admirable improvers to 6 nations title challengers.Ireland will beat France to in my opinion but won't do so with a bonus point.
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England team to face Italy:
Brown; Watson, Te'o, Farrell, May; Ford, Youngs; Vunipola, Hartley, Cole, Launchbury, Itoje, Lawes, Robshaw, Simmonds.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/42914905
Brown; Watson, Te'o, Farrell, May; Ford, Youngs; Vunipola, Hartley, Cole, Launchbury, Itoje, Lawes, Robshaw, Simmonds.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/42914905
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FINALLY!
Presumably Rassie Erasmus will take over? This suddenly makes a potential quarter final against the Boks in the World Cup more daunting.
Coetzee actually did well to last two years in the role. There were multiple occasions during his reign when SARU would have been justified in sacking him.
He didn't have a perfomance clause in his first year. So would have been costly to fire him.
So in all honesty, he's been fired at the first opportunity.
Super Rugby starts in two weeks folks. We'll see 16 weeks of a regular season, a few weeks worth of finals to find out that the final will probably be an all New Zealand affair. Can't see any of the 10 teams from outside New Zealand proving me wrong.
There's big pressure on all four Australian teams to improve. Winning against Kiwi and South African teams is a must. 0 wins from 26 matches vs Kiwi teams can be best described as unacceptable.
Results against South African team weren't pretty either. I'm hoping last year's record of 6 wins, 13 losses and a draw against teams in the South African conference can be improved on too.
There's big pressure on all four Australian teams to improve. Winning against Kiwi and South African teams is a must. 0 wins from 26 matches vs Kiwi teams can be best described as unacceptable.
Results against South African team weren't pretty either. I'm hoping last year's record of 6 wins, 13 losses and a draw against teams in the South African conference can be improved on too.
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For those who find this sort of stuff interesting, the roof will be shut at the Principality Stadium for Wales vs Scotland.
Anyone watching the game? Scotland looking so frail at the back, doesn't look good.
This new feeding in rule/stamping down by the refs for the scrums looks like it'll be a bit of a game changer, 2 mistakes already
This new feeding in rule/stamping down by the refs for the scrums looks like it'll be a bit of a game changer, 2 mistakes already
Scotland are toothless at the moment.
Didn't expect Scotland to get smashed to be honest
They are barely playing rugby here.
Scrum shambles too
Finally, a ray of sunlight for Scotland.
Edit: The speaker speaks in Welsh?
Edit: The speaker speaks in Welsh?
Wasn't expecting this from Scotland.
Well that's Scotland out of it.
Tough match so far but Ireland looking good.
So, weird thing a concussion protocol for a knee collision...
Edit: Defensively France are way better than they have been in the last couple of seasons.
Edit: Defensively France are way better than they have been in the last couple of seasons.
I’d like to see us kicking it more, looking for touch make them make mistakes
Still no real kicking in behind from us, it’s pissing down handeling errors will happen.
This is exciting!
When will Ireland learn?
It's a great year for France, every good player does his knee or a break a leg.
Scotland were truly dreadful. Ireland have showed a real lack of ambition in this game so far. France deserve to be ahead. All in all, looking very good for England.
This team today had no plan b, it’s all ball in hand but going nowhere
Whatever the outcome, I liked the discipline.
Well played.
Clutch.
Really tough on the French, they deserved to win.