And there I was thinking you couldn’t possibly sound more ridiculous. But you managed it. Well done!

EDIT: If you need the stupidity of your first statement explained, I’m happy to do so. I reckon you know why already though. Or maybe you don’t…it wouldn’t be a surprise.

Indeed, you should have; but you didn’t. I think I’ll join in with the little wager from up there.
If england win I’ll put a tenner in a charity of Wrecker’s choice.
A twenty point difference, on an england victory, and I’ll up it to twenty.

What are the odds on an english red card? 😛

I’d be quite content to see Brown, and indeed Farrell, get thoroughly Blanco’d by Warburton and his mates, during the course of an England win. Something for everyone in that scenario I think.

England at the moment are in a huge state of flux, whilst they might not be missing as many layers as Ireland, but the fact that the coach has only known them for a few weeks is a pretty big deal.
For me, this team is largely placeholding. Come the aus tour, when we see underhill, Hughes, slade, manu, ewers, and players like brookes and george mature, only then will we see what england will be moving forward.
Great that EJ has been able to bring itoge and clifford in, but it’s only the start.

Oh and on Brown, can he be assured of getting his quins shirt back? That Chisholm bloke has been very impressive indeed.

Wales are too experienced, too slick and too canny.
Farrell and JJ are the least of our worries, get roberts, davies or north running at Ford 5 times, you have 5 tries.
The only hope england have is to smash it up front, but even that is a bit of a stretch.

Tuilagi and Ewers return to the England squad for training this week.

Maybe too soon for Manu to play against Wales but you never know….

As usual I don’t agree with you :lol:, I think its much closer, more like 55/45, and if Wales go ahead on the score board, I think it goes more in their favour as England don’t currently have the confidence to “know” they can pull it back.

I’ve only one thing to say to you in reply; what er, happens if I neglected to oil the floor you laid in the last two years? 😳

Early days, but I agree that EJ is subtly managing a transition phase pretty well. Gradually mixing things up but not abandoning experience completely.

Where does 70:30 come from – Wales are a better team as we are often reminded and they are going to muller our backs with ease. We have a poor 15 too – backs off confrontation unless surrounded by his mates, so imagine how bad he will be under a high ball.

Very close – as before, penalty count will be key.

All this talk of a coach/ team in transition neglects the (alleged) fact the real coach is still there watching over his boy 😆

England are massive favourites IMO. As a_a says, last time around Wales got lucky with a dodgy selection policy and some bad captaincy. That kind of lightening doesn’t strike twice unless EJ picks a front row of Care, Brown and Ford and Robshaw leads the team again.

England have a new head coach but most of the structure stays the same with a few key changes that have all proved to be for the better so far. That England side isn’t exactly inexperienced which is the only aspect Wales have any slight advantage in and the gap is closing.

Aside from experience, Wales offer very little besides a solid defense. England made very easy yards against Ireland and as long as the game is in Wales’s half Farrell will get plenty of opportunities to do his funny hand signal.

Realistically I think Wales are very unlikely to win but I wouldn’t be unhappy to be wrong

We really cant win can we…

DD you were well beaten and the 6N table doesn’t lie. Biggest critism of England is we didn’t score 35+ points.

Whilst we have home advantage those odds look too optimistic from an England perspective.

As I’ve posted before home advantage is usually a big factor, this time round I’m not sure its enough. Wales have stuttered so far but are very capable of a big performance and imo they’ll be much stronger than against France? The game is perfectly set up. I also said the 6N after a RWC is somehwat meaningless, I don’t really care how we do results wise its more about rebuilding and establishing a style which can take us to 2019. So I’m not talking England up/down or sideways.

So you wont be cockahoop if you win the grandslam???? Jambalyafib 😆