[Closed] Rugby thread 2016/2017

Itoje is a damn fine player but I reckon he'd be a really good cheerleader too 😆

Yeah we have scored 50 points but winning a scrum needs loads of clapping and high fiving an embarassed looking Launchbury!

Thats a fine performance from England. They been threatening it for a while - but they blew Scotland off the park. I thought we would get 3 tries and we have but I didn't expect a humping. Eveything that could go wrong did from a soft yellow card to disruptive injuries and we came up against and England playing well

Right - I am leaving this thread for a while. Enjoy your victory england fans

Yeah we have scored 50 points but winning a scrum needs loads of clapping and high fiving an embarassed looking Launchbury!

Well, that was a bit of a drubbing

I give Care 7 out of 10 for the dive, needs to watch a few Shane Williams vids on youtube!!!

Does Brown ever pass the ball?

Good game though.

Brilliant play England - at last. Excellent TEAM performance. MoM pick any one from 1 -15.

That was a pretty impressive performance by England. Not a and way to equal the AB's record and retain the championship.

Scotland looked rattled from the start and never recovered from the yellow card. The injuries to the backs then made their task even harder.

Weeee are the champions (again), WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

Excellent, a good pasting for the Scots, not much collateral damage to England. Next weeks game has a lot of promise.

Oh did I mention? WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Hammering.

Enjoyed that!

AA - Russell also hit the self destruct button on his own goal line with some mad passeee that just put Scotland under more pressure.

Surprised how little impact the Scottish back row had in the game. I was expecting them to really take us apart and win an awful lot of turnovers.

After all the false hype - good victory for the team and a number of 1-on-1s wins re the Lions.

Good for EJ for getting the team up to play really well. Great coach.

(Farell showed how **** he is yet again. 😉 )

Big Game against Ireland next week. New record 19 wins and the Grand slam....Looking forward to it.

Brilliant play England - at last. Excellent TEAM performance. MoM pick any one from 1 -15.

I think false hype is a bit harsh, scotland have played well up until this game. We fell apart and never really got started but neither team looked like like the same teams as two weeks ago.

It all fell into place today for England, the Scots rocked up, pumped and thought they had a chance. England rose to the challenge and put them back in their box!
Brilliant play from the backs unpicked Scotland's defense time after time leaving little hope for the Scottish lads. A pretty much complete performance.
Yes!!!

Farell showed how **** he is yet again.

Indeed - Scotland 21 Farrell 24 !!

Well played England, the two weeks really look well used by Eddie Jones and team especially in dealing with the Scottish back row and some great lines of running.

Launchbury another good performance, definitely a starter for the Lions with Mario ijote.

Ford and Farrell were exceptionally good today. Both Lions options.

Well done Scotland for keeping going.

Well done England, best they've played all tournament. Gutted. As I feared Scotland imploded. Stupid yellow and the loss of Hogg killed them.

Ref had an atrocious game though. Neck roll should have been a yellow, being talked out that other yellow by the TMO when he explicitly said he was giving it for repeated offenses. Missed many England penalties, including that cynical swipe at the ball when Scotland passed long on their own try lines, at least two knock ons when the clock was red.

Sorry Akira don't agree, but will leave it there.

Treat the two impostors both the same 😉

Next week is what matters. But no harm in enjoying winning the championship with a very, very good performance.

😆
What's an imposter?

The English players seemed pretty quiet in the press this week. There were quite a few articles from Scottish players saying what a chance they felt they had a great chance, Visser saying that the English players weren't as cocky as usual etc.

I normally wince when I see a headline about such and such and English player saying something daft because we normally end up looking silly!

Ferrals, the yellow card he wanted to give was for a second high tackle that the replays showed it wasn't, was just a late tackle which didn't deserve a yellow.
Plus the tip tackle could arguably been red so i wouldn't complain too much as the score would have only been worse with Scotland at 14 men all match

Kipling, Captain, Kipling

Hats off to Eddie Jones, we where well prepared with the right attitude from the ko. Same next week against a team with nothing to lose playing in front of their home crowd.

Last night's game was better to watch with two sides capable of the win. 62 points against the tournament's second best team was a rather one sided non contest. My worry is we aren't really that good.

Flower of Scotland ??? weed, weed, weed more like it!!!

Lawrence Dallaglio 6'4" looks like a dwarf next to Bayfield 🙂

Gracious in victory as always. The ugly underbelly that is.

Not seen the match - had it recorded, but couldn't avoid spoilers.

I was genuinely fearful of a resurgent Scotland today. They got off to a bad start, an once we were ahead and playing with confidence it was curtains.

Scotland haven't become a bad team - they need to use it as a learning opportunity, much like when England got humped in Cardiff a few years back. They are a young team with potential, but the perennial lack of depth has hurt them.

Here's an exhaustive list of Scotland forwards who'll make the Lions tour after that showing:

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😆 😆 😆

Surprised how little impact the Scottish back row had in the game. I was expecting them to really take us apart and win an awful lot of turnovers.

Not much suprise, their front 5 was beasted and they are all midgets anyway. A lot of refs like whatsit w last night and todays ref dont seem to ping hanging on so players like Barclay are less useful.
As I said last week Wales battered them first half but couldnt finish and then fell away second half but England battered them even more AND could finish so it was always on the cards. England have a massive quality pack and their strength is exactly where Scotland are weak. Forwards win games, backs decide by how much, the old adage was true today.

So can we put to bed calls for the Grey brothers to be Lions?

Launchbury
Lawes
Itoje
AWJ

Bayfield is massive. Seen him a few times at Sixways and couldn't believe how tall he is in person. One of my mates is pretty big (played lock) and he looked like a Hobbit next to him!

Fair comments mostly but few people can't seem to win graciously, dread to see what they'll be like when England's current winning trend changes.

Correct AA with AWJ the midweek captain as discussed. (Two years too late for the 1xv and I'm a big fan)

Grays were ruled out today ditto Russell. Geeks and Laidlaw were honest on that after the match. He panicked and you can't do the against the AB.

An England front five, two welsh flankers with CJ and one England front five as the impact and Billy at 8. Sorted 😉

Only tough call is where to put Itoje.

As always Matt Dawson sums up the feelings of all English people.

A 40-point whipping of Scotland and we have to look towards the World Cup.

anyone know of a live stream of the U20 match? Showing on Sky Sports Mix (free to air channel) I gather.

Only tough call is where to put Itoje.

Not really Stander and Warburton are better 6's.
Cole, Hartley Marler may struggle to make the test starters too.

Hogg
Nowel
Joseph
Still not sure
North
Sexton
Murray
Not sure
Warburton
Stander
Launchbury
Itoje
Furlong
Not sure
McGrath or Healey( wonder if he may start v england next week) wouldnt pick Marler on principle, would take Mako first.

Great idea 😉 to leave out the two players who dominated the match today! Too much focus on the final scorers and not enough on the ones who created the opportunities.

(Although tbf I'm not sure about one of them as he can't tackle well enough)

grahamt1980 - Member

Ferrals, the yellow card he wanted to give was for a second high tackle that the replays showed it wasn't, was just a late tackle which didn't deserve a yellow.
Plus the tip tackle could arguably been red so i wouldn't complain too much as the score would have only been worse with Scotland at 14 men all match

Ah my mistake (re. the rescinded yellow).

I did think the tip tackle was going to be a red. It was a fifty fifty call IMO, lucky for Scotland he landed on his back.

dantsw13 - Member

Scotland haven't become a bad team - they need to use it as a learning opportunity, ... They are a young team with potential, but the perennial lack of depth has hurt them.

Completely agree.

The tip tackle law is looking an ass as most outcome based laws are.

I think it was lucky for the game that the tip was only a yellow as it would have messed with the structure even more than the injuries did

Great idea to leave out the two players who dominated the match today

The ones that the two most experienced pundits were eulogising over.