2015-16 rugby, world cup year

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2015-16 rugby, world cup year
charliemort
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Looks like itoje at 6 and launchbury in second row against oz. Makes sense – adds pace and Another line out option. Launchbury is too good to leave out

Posted 7 years ago

namastebuzz
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That’ll work if England boss the game.

If not, a (probable) back row of Itoje, Haskell and Vunipola might struggle against Hooper, Pocock and Vardy.

A 5/6, a 6 and an 8 against two 7s and a 6.

Posted 7 years ago

charliemort
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Yes but I’d have thought that would be the case with robshaw playing too. Can see Clifford on sharpish

Wouldn’t like to be the Aussie hooker throwing in with kruis, launchbury and itoje gang marking their jumpers though

Posted 7 years ago

namastebuzz
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ABs XV to face Wales:

1.Joe Moody (11)
2. Dane Coles (36)
3. Owen Franks (78)
4. Luke Romano (22)
5. Brodie Retallick (47)
6. Jerome Kaino (67)
7. Sam Cane (31)
8. Kieran Read – captain (84)
9. Aaron Smith (47)
10. Aaron Cruden (37)
11. Julian Savea (41)
12. Ryan Crotty (15)
13. Malakai Fekitoa (13)
14. Waisake Naholo (3)
15. Ben Smith (48)

Reserves

16. Nathan Harris (2)
17. Wyatt Crockett (45)
18. Charlie Faumuina (33)
19. Patrick Tuipulotu (7)
20. Ardie Savea
21. TJ Perenara (17)
22. Beauden Barrett (36)
23. Seta Tamanivalu

Looks easy enough – Wales should thrash them(?)

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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What a shit team, Wales by 240 000

Posted 7 years ago

DezB
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Oh nos, no SBW and no Dag. They don’t stand a chance 🙂

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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Williams, North, Davies, Roberts, Amos, Biggar, Webb; Jenkins, Owens, Lee, Davies, AWJ, Moriarty, Faletau, Warburton

Evans, Baldwin, Francis, Ball, Jenkins, Davies, Anscombe, Williams

The squad to humble the All Blacks….

Nurse, nurse can I have some more!

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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Yarde not Nowell
Fas not Ford
Burrel at 12
Robshaw at 6 Launchbury on bench

Posted 7 years ago

muddydwarf
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Sale have new owners – consortium headed by Simon Orange, brother of Take That’s Jason Orange.
Opening mission statement is to spend “millions, not thousands” and first signing heavily rumoured to be Kyle Eastmond joining the exodus from Bath.

Posted 7 years ago

wilko1999
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Hospital passes a-plenty from the base of the ruck and scrum then. Farrell should take to the field on stilts.

Posted 7 years ago

jambalaya
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@aa et al seems a reasonably full strength side, lets see how it goes. First test “easiest” to win ?

Posted 7 years ago

wilko1999
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2-1 to Australia. They will win the first two tests and then we’ll win the last when Oz take their foot off the pedal.

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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England should have a good chance of winning the first test. Aus will be rusty and have 3 new caps. Wales will obviously thrash the All Blacks in all 3 tests.

Posted 7 years ago

DezB
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I like your positivity 🙂

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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like your positivity

Well THM and Jambo and the like always say that I should be more positive along with all the oter leakists and that will somehow help the team. Ao that Jerome Kaino is shit and Moriarty a man god who will show him what a true 6 is!

Posted 7 years ago

jambalaya
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🙂

I was more thinking Australia at home than New Zealand away !

Posted 7 years ago

dantsw13
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I think playing Itoje 2nd row gives England an extra man for the breakdown.

Posted 7 years ago

ElVino
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I fear for Ireland even if we do the unthinkable and win the first test we will be mashed in next two

Posted 7 years ago

Kryton57
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I think playing Itoje 2nd row gives England a ~~n extra~~ man for the breakdown.

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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Almost time for the boyo’s to make history, I’ve been looking forward to this day all my life!

Posted 7 years ago

deadlydarcy
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Best of luck to them. Still remember the green machine’s last tour there. A first test hammering, then we ran them very close in the second which must have pissed them off a bit as the third test was 60-0. 😆

Posted 7 years ago

DanW
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Try time!

Posted 7 years ago

DanW
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OK, back to realitya

Posted 7 years ago

CaptainFlashheart
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They really are a bit good aren’t they?

Posted 7 years ago

deadlydarcy
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Sounds like a cracking game.

Posted 7 years ago

welshfarmer
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Halftime 18-15……. to Wales 🙂

keep it up lads

Posted 7 years ago

namastebuzz
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What a cracking half of rugby!

With a bit more luck/composure Wales could have had a couple more tries.

Don’t kick it to Ben Smith unless you’re gonna nail him. Amos is too slow to mark Naholo.

Wales are disrupting the ABs lineout well. Liam Williams, AWJ, North and Faletau have been brilliant.

Highlight was North skinning Savea.

COME ON!

Posted 7 years ago

DanW
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Really good game.

NZ are letting Wales in with some uncharacteristic mistakes but Wales have turned up too. Loopy Liam is looking like the attacking x factor as he has all season, running lines you don’t see too much from Wales. Pack is working hard too but I can see NZ running away with this after 50-60 minutes. It feels like 80% of the Welsh boys are a few games back from injury and they must be flippin’ knackered already after that effort!

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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All Blacks doing better than I expected. Wales to up a gear second half!

Posted 7 years ago

cloudnine
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What channel is the wales NZ game on?

Posted 7 years ago

namastebuzz
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I can see NZ running away with this after 50-60 minutes

Yeah, probably……

But we can enjoy it ’til then. 😀

Posted 7 years ago

anagallis_arvensis
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Sky spurts one

Posted 7 years ago

namastebuzz
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What channel is the wales NZ game on?

Sky Sports 1 but try cricfreetv if you want a stream – with a pop-up blocker, preferably.

Posted 7 years ago

welshfarmer
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BBC Radio Wales Sport is the best I can manage on the internet

Posted 7 years ago

tallie
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Great effort from Wales so far – hope they can keep it up! ABs look more human than in recent years…

Posted 7 years ago

DanW
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Jeeebus, Biggar went flying!

Posted 7 years ago

DanW
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What could go wrong with 4 changes at once?

Posted 7 years ago

deadlydarcy
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I’d normally go with the defending team with an SH “flat pass” but to be fair, that looked ok. Wales still in it…just. 🙂

Posted 7 years ago

DanW
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Of all the NZ flat passes in the world that looked pretty normal

Posted 7 years ago

namastebuzz
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Plain wrong from Wayne Barnes.

The pass came backwards out of the hands from Cruden.

The TMO even told him the rule!

Posted 7 years ago