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I agree witht he feeding in the scrum. A central put-in would make it more of a contest. I think that the modern lineout is far cleaner, and better for the game, than the old style non-lifting style. The opportunity for moves off the lineout has increased, and it now forms a fascinating part of...

Really? I've never felt comfortable at Twickenham. Even as an Englishman, I feel like a character from an Orwell novel, visiting a foreign land.

No ....... Although if things had gone differently between 1943 and 1945, there might have been.

I remember watching this game as a kid, and being enthralled by the open, running, non-stop action ........ I look at it now, and it seems slow, full of errors, and very scrappy and messy.

Glad that the RFU have had to backtrack on this. Yes, the tackle height needs to come down to prevent head on head clashes, but tackling below the waist leads to head on hips and knees clashes. 70% of concussions and head injuries are suffered by the tackler, so it's a myth that the ball...

When I started playing rugby at the age of 10 in 1973, the first game I went to see was at Waterloo, but the second was Orrell, and for some reason they captured my heart. For the next 5 or 6 years, Saturday afternoons were about watching Orrell and Lancashire, until the joys(?) of the fairer...

In Rugby Union .... My team Orrell being destroyed by professionalism. We were just a little club on the edge of Wigan, once famously described as a "lay-by off the M6"; who punched above our weight in the amateur days. Without the money needed to compete in the modern pro era, we lost our...

There are a few specialised positions ..... Props generally are big brutes, to take the ball up and make the hard yards. Hookers need to be a good passer to play the Dummy Half role, and have speed to run if opportunity arises. Scrum-Half and Stand-Off run the game, and need a full set of...

I think you're being a tad over-critical of Doris. As you say, truly world class (at 6 and 8), and if he stays fit, I can see him going on to be one of the all-time greats for Leinster, Ireland and the Lions.

The best way to stop red cards spoiling the games, is not to get rid of them, or to introduce other cards (whether they be orange, brown or purple with sparkly pics of unicorns on them). No, the best thing to do, is to get the players to observe the laws of the game, and play to them. They're...

Football has its FIFA Club World Cup, featuring 7 teams, in a comp that lasts about 10 or 11 days; although the two big hitters (current champions of Europe and of South America) enter at the semi-final stage and always win it. Rugby League has its World Club Challenge, with the winners of...

Pffttt....... I was 47 when you posted it, I turn 59 next month. You think you've got it tough.

Very informative and thorough ....... I look forward to reading the rest of it.

"How To Win, (Rugby and Leadership)" by Clive Woodward ......... You won't be surprised to learn that Woodward comes across as a smug, arrogant p***k.

So, can we all now agree that JW was the best English Fly-Half of the last 50 years (I can't go back before that, too young :cool: ) .

If it was 2005-2015 then McCaw wins it by a large margin. So I'm not going to gripe about him winning this award, although I'd have preferred it be someone who played the whole decade.

You're lucky, they've been reducing my enjoyment since 1995. I miss proper Forward play, with contested scrums, lineouts, mauls, rucks. I miss players playing the full 80 minutes. I miss the Backs having space to play in. And most of all, I miss a bit of "biff". The occasional punch-up, or...

Only speaking personally, but I've always felt the Lions "represented " me just as much as England did ................ The only team I've ever really felt a bond with, in terms of belonging, in terms of "they're my team on the pitch representing me" is Lancashire, back in the amateur days, when...

The game today bears little resemblance to the one I played and watched in the amateur days (I was born in 1963). I miss the contest for the ball amongst the forwards, a real physical battle in all areas.

For what it's worth, I've also heard Dallaglio say that he considers the '97 Lions Tour as the pinnacle of his career, above a 6N Grand Slam and a RWC win in 2003. I think your view of the Lions might depend on your age, and how you first got into rugby. I started playing rugby at school in...