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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Maro Itoje - the greatest rugby player of all time, is he there already?
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<blockquote data-quote="McTallshort" data-source="post: 786663" data-attributes="member: 53362"><p>Our media is terrible at hyping English players up but in terms of fans I find the Celts with the Irish in particular to be much more partisan when it comes to talking up their players. On the 2 rugby forums I have been on in my time it only seems to take one or two good performances from an Irish, Scottish or welsh player before they are classed as world class or a lions shoe-in. Take zebo, one heel flip with a ball and all of a sudden he's the lions test wing, Gavin Henson tackles and 18 year old debutant and he's world class (playing for Bristol now) and Denton for Scotland makes one break and he becomes the token jock in everyone's lions test side.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes the English press is bad but most English fans are pretty grounded when it comes to describing their players as world class</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McTallshort, post: 786663, member: 53362"] Our media is terrible at hyping English players up but in terms of fans I find the Celts with the Irish in particular to be much more partisan when it comes to talking up their players. On the 2 rugby forums I have been on in my time it only seems to take one or two good performances from an Irish, Scottish or welsh player before they are classed as world class or a lions shoe-in. Take zebo, one heel flip with a ball and all of a sudden he's the lions test wing, Gavin Henson tackles and 18 year old debutant and he's world class (playing for Bristol now) and Denton for Scotland makes one break and he becomes the token jock in everyone's lions test side. Yes the English press is bad but most English fans are pretty grounded when it comes to describing their players as world class [/QUOTE]
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