Just leave it as is.

I think world rugby have said they not going to look at it specifically. a.k.a. stop whinging. There’s been a ridiculous amount of hand flapping, Two other good games of rugby and all the press have is outage that England were made to look silly.

Can’t see it becoming commonplace, has has been said above, its now obvious how to get around.

There were many many occasions where Italy started with men in the ruck then withdrew. They then went offside

coulda sworn I said that already!

yep, I watched the match again last night, it was actually shockingly refereed. I can see why there was utter confusion. At one point in the second half, England counter rucked, got the ball back, 3 Italians got out and then they proceeded to run around the other side as the ref shouted tackle. How you’re supposed to play to that I have no idea.

I also saw nothing wrong with hask talking to the ref to understand how it was going to be reffed, however the fact that nobody on the England team seemed to know what to do about ti was quite worrying.
Not sure I immediately follow that every other nation would however…

Maybe its just me but the England v Italy game, reminded me of a game from my school days. I don’t have an issue with that, all this crap about rugby isn’t rugby without an intensely contested breakdown is garbage IMHO.

The International referees wash up might be interesting this week! I wonder if Poite enjoyed the game or not – certainly was different!!

Storm in a teacup now

The only thing that matters is the next matches

Wales v Ireland on Friday evening (after a big lunch, marvellous!) and a hard fought Calcutta Cup on the Saturday. Shame we have a “missing” weekend. But more time for the build-up…

This is when Lions places will really start to emerge instead of too many players harming their chances to date!!

Yep – the next round will set up the final weekend. 2 big home nation clashes, with the Europeans doing their own thing. Hopefully we will find out a lot more about both England and Scotland. As I said earlier, I’ll happily accept a 1pt W. I’m sure Scotland will be travelling in expectation rather than hope for the first time in a while.

Then again, post WC, Sco were favourites for the first game v us last year. Seems a long time ago now. 17 times now I’ve heard “they’ll need to play a lot better if they want to beat xxxxxxx” I would imagine a lot of teams find England quite hard to play now.

I’ve got 17hrs flying the morning after the Wales v Ireland game. Not clever!

Bad timing Capn, you’ll miss the better match!! 😉

I’ve got 17hrs flying the morning after the Wales v Ireland game. Not clever!

Will you be wearing rugby boots?

Booked flights to make sure I didn’t….! Wales v Ireland is the pick of the games next time.

Who wants to watch a one sided affair at the Library? 😉

Might watch some of it, midnight kick off though. 🙁

I’m sure Scotland will be travelling in expectation rather than hope for the first time in a while.

I don’t know about that, surely England are still significant favourites despite the last few matches, maybe I’m pesamistic but after the last few years of ‘potential’ but I’m living in fear of Scotland fizzling out again.

Who wants to watch a one sided affair at the Library?

Look we might have a team full of thickos but dont rule England out that quickly. 😉

Three home nations in a row cant throw victory away can they?

17 hours Flashy?? You spend longer on aeroplanes than I do!!

I’ll be watching both games on t’internet in St Lucia – tough job this week 🙂 I watched the last Lions Test there 4 years ago when we destroyed Australia – 20 of us gathered around an IPad at 7AM with intermittent wifi!!

CX to SIN via HKG.

UVF, eh? Isn’t that a Gatwick route?

SIN via HK?

Yep, am coming back through HKG later in the week, and this route works out cheaper on CX than using Dan Air 😉

Also, breakfast in The Pier fLounge at HKG…. 🙂

You must love being on planes – I have has a long haul sabbatical over past 2 years (sniff no gold card!) and have missed BAs attempts to dress up the same meal under different names! Also missed out badly on films!!

Anyway, we digress, back to the English thickos…

Yes, out of LGW. We fly from both on the 777 fleet.

Don’t love it, but work means I have to, and it pays the bills! All business class, so not too terrible.

Anyway, anyone else think Italy could do a number on France? Might be worth a punt!

Could -yes.
Will – doubt it.

France much more disciplined than previously.

English thickos…

In the interests of balance and because Orcs has previously been used, I’m assuming its OK to re-introduce the words, Taffs, Frogs & Jocks into this thread. I mean, I just want to make sure no-one’s being overly racist and there are level terms with regard to the use nationalist nicknames of the Rugby teams in this thread seeing as AA and THM can’t help themselves.

Kryton – I’ve given up. Now I just use if to justify my smugness if we win.

😯 have you switched your irony filter off, kryton?

He cant help being a thicko!!

Oh, national and personal too. Thanks for the precedent, I just want to understand the rules of engagement.

I thought THM was English, its hard to tell though!!

Well, a sense of humour might help…..
#Obviouslyajoke

For you perhaps? Obvious for everyone else.

Seriously krypton can you not spot irony – does it need to be in CAPITAL LETTERS? Yes and as CFH says a SOH helps!

Did Kryton not have to self moderate after the Wales game? For somebody who is very touchy when anybody mentions pudding, he is fairly wanting to chuck it out. Oh; and THM is one of your own Kryton, so it is a TRIFLE unfair to use him as an example of somebody abusing poor ickle England.

English thickos isn’t one of those traditional national insults… is it?

the white orc on steriods thing came from those nasty kiwis didnt it?

a TRIFLE unfair

😆

My prawn sandwich comment from a few pages back wasnt picked up on. Bloody Tarquins.

Tut, tut ducks – not using words out of context to take the proverbial are you 😉 nice choose of capitals though 😀

Thin skinned folk get q upset and best avoided, it’s takes them years to get over it!!

Sorry AA – we just ignored you! 😈

Plus I can’t eat sandwiches on my low carb diet.

😉

Does the humour improve when there is a weekend off!!

Sorry AA – we just ignored you!

Sob, just like the Lions to the welsh players…becoming an irrelevance

In the interests of balance and because Orcs has previously been used, I’m assuming its OK to re-introduce the words, Taffs, Frogs & Jocks into this thread. I mean, I just want to make sure no-one’s being overly racist and there are level terms with regard to the use nationalist nicknames of the Rugby teams in this thread seeing as AA and THM can’t help themselves.

What have you got against the Gogs?

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