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How bad are Wales that they have to get North to announce his retirement just to motivate the squad into a good send-off performance against Italy ?! 😜 Only kidding! On paper I'd have put Scotland crushing Italy and Wales more likely to lose to them than anyone else, which probably means it'll...

Haven't had a chance to come back here since before the game. Well done England! Great win playing their own brand of rugby, disrupting the opposition, forcing them to play into your strengths and constantly adding points to the board. I love a last-second drop goal for the win, still have...

Agreed, he's litterally the first player I think of with the current squad. He does all the basics extremely well. He's agressive, powerful and fast in defense. IMO he's about England's best and most consistently high performing player right now. Not sure what to think about tomorrow's game. On...

Oui, mais je m'en fiche, franchement

This round there isn't even a France Vs Italy thread on the boards, that's pretty damning.

I'll be very interested in our scrum play during the Wales game because I think it's where England are likely to hurt us most when we get to Twickenham. We've shown we can improve very specific areas quickly (our line-out now Vs the WC), can we find a way to protect Porter better?

I'm not surprised by Lucu's inclusion from a skill POV, he's probably their most consistant fly half right now. You know exactly what you're getting out of the ruck. He's fast & reliable. He's a good, regular timepiece, always ticking over. He's a good option if you're looking to win the 6...

Why are France going with Luku at scrum half? He's not a player you are developping into the international first XV at his age. By the time the next WC comes around, he'll be out of the game and he'll have taken up minutes from younger lads that could do with playing, someone like Le Garrec.

I'd like to see Italy keep the ball in hand instead of kicking it away systematically. England were all over the place when Italy ran at them. Got them a couple of lovely tries, gained a lot of round out wide...... and then they stopped running it and started kicking it after 30 minutes with...

Ok, this, and more this (and lots of other things). Last year (or a couple of years back,? Getting old, memory's gone!) there was that last minute incident in NZ Vs Aus in the Championship where the ref said "Use it" and gave NZ a 5m scrum when the Aussie player faffed about for 10 seconds...

Not really a freak result, they were tactically well prepared, started fast and took what chances they were presented with. Add in some realism and some of the best defense we've seen outside of, well, Ireland these past 12 months. Without taking anything away from their win, I still think the...

Of course we are. He was terrible. As we've all had time to calm down and rewatch the game, the issues that everyone has been up in arms about have not gone away. Those who said France was robbed have had to put a little water in their wine, and those saying SA were hard done by are still not...

I think he's refferring to you being Dutch because obviously Holland had the greatest team to ever play football (outside of maybe early 70's Brazil) and they never won a WC so you're obviously rooting for Ireland & France to do the same in rugby! ;-)

Actually I was thinking about this. Didn't he ref SA Vs Ireland totally differently, penalising the rucks and the breakdowns? I wonder if he'll change style and get super picky just to set up NZ Vs England in the Final? It won't make up for my disappointment at what happened the past weekend...

And I think the most important point on both of these incidents is that we can look at them at the time they occured in the match and see if Kolbe was or wasn't off, if Etzebeth did or didn't knock it forward. Choosing not to TMO them is the biggest issue for me.

I've seen stills floating about that show the point Ramos started to move. Kolbe was over the 5m line at that point. I'm on the side of the "non-conspiracy but BoK was clearly lax on SA" side of things. There are multiple examples of clear infringements in the game that were not called or...

What's the story with the TMO tonight? Kriel leading with the elbow twice, both the DKO & the knock on from the kick for the first SA try, at least one neck roll that I've seen (and it's easy to miss stuff at the speed this game is going, breathless!!) , but still only 2 interventions: Possible...

The speed of this is insane. Feel that there's a lot of "just a little bit forward" passes being let go: NZ's second, just before the Yellow, but at the speed it's going, eitehr the refs stop the game every couple of seconds, or you just accept it. Huge second half for everyone. No idea who's...

Of course they're allowed to. Just the context is often slightly bemusing. Apart from Sunday Bloody Sunday. They play it at weddings.

To be fair, the French have a great track record for enjoying songs that are out of context: "I will Survive" (about leaving an abusive partner) for the Football World Cup. "Freed from Desire" (not such a bad choice here: break away from societal norms) for the current French Soccer team And...