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(WTF is "Baby blacks" all about? We all know the All Blacks are Neath. Or Launceston. 😉 )
New Zealand U20s 6 - 9 Wales U20s
[b][i]Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.[/i][/b]
So anyway tomorrow, wales will lose and I'll be gutted as they bave the team to win it.
Ian Robertson is just a utter tool, just heard him on the radio talking utter shite, how is he still employed by the BBC.
Great win for the Welsh U20's
Flash you will have to explain your dislike for the All Blacks and I am not talking about Neef.
oops
come on Ireland - having a real go 🙂
SBW with another quality offload. Great game so far, some good hits and quality defence from Ireland.
er how is being 16 - 3 down having a real go TJ?
A little more now.
Ireland seem up for it, but some sloppy tackling seems to be letting them down.
I quite fancy Dan carter
Savea hat trick 😯
My radio stream (RTE extra) seems to have switched to music- anybody got a link to a live commentary?
*Frantically calling a few pubs to see who's showing the Wales game....:*
Irish fight back starts now 😉
*Finds pub. Rides off to watch! Might even have wifi......*
No shame in that for the Irish, NZ looking amazing.
Ireland played well. NZ were brilliant today.
Bugger same old slow starting problems and to many errors, beaten fair and square 😥
Anyone point me to somewhere i can download the game?
Slow starting indeed but bloody help Priestland cost us 10/14 points. Very disappointed with him and with the opening half full stop.
Priestland hasnt played well for a while. Not seen todays game but he has looked like he's carrying injuries for a while. No option to change either unless he plays v brumbirs on wednesday and hook comes in but then who plays 15 if norths broken?
Hook in at FH would be an improvement, definitely worth a go 'cos the Ausssies were there for the taking when the ball went wide. He was better than Priestland (he can catch 😉 ) in the time he had. Not difficult today though. Wales can play better and the series could still go either way.
I wory more for Ireland. The All Blacks were different class. The three new caps- Retallick, Smith, and Savea were brilliant. They didn't miss Brad Thorn, or Kahui and Jane. And Dan Carter playing again more than compensated for any others missing.
Guildford, SBW, Victor Vito and Hore dont excatly weaken the team
TBH, three of those are players that don't improve the team. Guildford's nowhere near Kahui or Jane when they're fit, and probably behind Savea now too. Thomson came on for Vito and improved things in the back row, but neither can match World player of the year Jerome Kaino. And Mealamu and Nonu were being rested but are unlikely to be replaced permanently by Hore or SBW. I'd say Elliot has more chance of hooking in the next WC. And Sonny Bill's an exciting player, but I wouldn't be surprised if they play Cruden at 10 and move Carter out to 12 ahead of him. They are brilliant, but this All Black team will get even better.
Pigface - Memberer how is being 16 - 3 down having a real go TJ?
It was 3 each and Ireland were attacking witht he ball in hand when I posted that.
So AA - thats Scotland proven to be a better team than Wales then?
😉
I guess it does TJ 😆
Is that a demonstration of the Edinburgh defence 8)
Newcastle 🙂
Dull game so far
Bugger same old slow starting problems and to many errors, beaten fair and square
Agreed. Also agreed re Priestland. He had a shocker. Should have taken Dan Biggar.....
England two tries down now. Wish i could see this game.
Oh, and TJ's two links from earlier page both show up as "malicious" on my AV. Just in case....
Both work - I use them all the time. Watching one now
Loads of pop ups and stuff tho#. good medicine is useful
16-9 to S.A. England only holding on due to penalties. If Steyn could kick his goals S.A. would be out of sight.
EDIT: 16-12 🙂
Typical - Engand wait til the 80th minute to decide to score a try!!
So AA - thats Scotland proven to be a better team than Wales then?
must be
Scotland 1 - Wales/Ireland/England 0
Have to say, can't fault TJ's logic as far as it goes! 😆
Yup -its official Scotland are the best of the home nations now. *smug face*
That's a TJ FACT! It's OFFICIAL!
No point in arguing with that, is there? 😉
As much as I respect Farrells kicking, he's simply not a running fly half. You can't defend your way to international wins as per Saracens! He wasn't even first choice fly half at age group level, he shouldn't be starting ahead of Flood! With a decent fly half in there, Manu / Barritt are suddenly going to look a lot better as they'll be getting the ball in space and able to come in on it at pace.
Need to shore up that scrum as well - Marler was way out his zone!
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can't argue with facts.
England were rather stodgy were they not - great stuff from the forwards in the first half disrupting and stealing ball but the backs did little with it. Needs creativity. What happened to Farrell? Seemed to disappear for long periods apart from getting into fights with forwards.
Barrit / tualagi is just not working. to much beef not enough champagne
Agree with that TJ. There are other good English centres (although I'd need to google the squad to see if they are in SA) who would work better.
Actually, farrell might be better in the centre (which is where he plays a lot for his club)
The obvious problems with England's backs during the 6 nations which to some extent have been ignored due to the teams relative success will now become more of a talking point. Farrel has not always been first choice ten at his club.
To be fair, England's defence was not bad, but the physicality of the boks was impressive, if predictable. They really fancied it, and on another day would have scored 3 more tries.
5 point game was about right.
Barritt, parling, Farrell, youngs, Johnson not good enough by today's example. Doran jones completely out of his depth.
England need a slippery inside centre, a fly half who has an attack setting and a SH with some flair. The forwards don't have enough menace, they need an archetypal English 2nd row in the team.
How was Botha? Always seems to be very busy doing nothing to me whilst Parling is ok. Need a big ugly ****er to go with Parling imo. And I reckon Flood is the player you need at ten.
So mr visser is playing for scotland v fiji, good luck to him excellent player.
Botha had a good game, parling largely anonymous. Im not sure who the right player at 10 is but I do know it's not Farrell. Youngs was even worse.
Barritt injured for saturday, which is good news for the team, could force SL into trying something which works.
Flood at ten for england, Ryan Jones, Rees, AW Jones and intrestingly Beck in for Wales. Like the look of Beck always reminds me of Will Greenwood.
In other news this is ****ing hillarious
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/18440208
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I suppose he'd be a good mule for all the kit bags AA 😉