why does everyone seem to hate bannhan he is clearly a good rugby player, he scores trys off loads well and has good acceptable hands. he also does some crunching tackles.
C'mon, he's not that bad
I was there. Me and my friend, who was supporting England, spotted the overlap some time before the ball came out. He was screaming for them to get the ball out. I then told him it was Banahan on that wing. He then started shouting for them to keep it in the maul. We both saw this coming.
He's impressively crap.
Wow, I've never seen that before. I don't want to crucify the guy, because I have seen him do some good stuff, but that is just woeful finishing considering the time and space he had and the fact he's a foot bigger and 30kgs heavier than Shane Williams! Good passing from England, that should have been try time.
In that situation it didn't really matter which wing is his preferred side (or 12, or 13....) as it was a 5m run in against a chap half his size!
I'd have put money on any player on the pitch scoring that try, especially any player of his size/strength.
I don't think it's that...He would not have had the pace to go around shane...shane's prefered method of tackling from what I've seen is giving the winger a yard on the outside and hitting low... However as opposed to a bosh had he ran it straight and used a fend while maintaining a leg drive he'd have bloody waltzed over..I remember that tackle,
he sees Shane and fancies his chance of stemrollering the little man to make himself look spectacular rather than going for the easy try in the corner