They just showed Byrne knocking the ball out of the Irish scrumhalf's hands for his yellow.

Agree Ireland could easily have lost a player to the bin. Think the newness of this interpretation of releasing the player before going for the ball saved them. 1st game of the series I have seen it been so rigidly enforced.

Hmmm…seem to remember saying 15-20 points. Wasn't far off was I, eh, eh?

Snigger, snigger

Well I have seen better rugby. How long before an England forward is in the bin? And can we please do something about the scrums!

Pathetic Scottish fans cheering when Wilkinson is taken off injured. **** disgraceful. Vile. At least it was only a minority, but still not what we do in this game.

Agreed CFH! Hope Monye is ok but i did laugh when the cart had to be pushed off.

Oh and is Scotland that bad that they have to advertise "Come to Yorkshire" on the advertising boards 😉

Amen.

Foden looked good, laughed when he smashed the lock and gumshield flying!
Textbook body position, accelerated into contact. I've never seen armitage do that, the opposite in fact.
Otherwise, pretty shit.

england loked a lot better when foden and flood came on!! seemed to up the tempo a bit.

quality bit of smashing by foden on the scottish bloke though!!

I'm Welsh and Wales were shocking, with Ireland not much better. Overall the standard of this whole 6 Nations has been exceptionally poor, with skill levels dropping year on year

Telegraph analysis of England's consistent underperformance.

Makes a lot of sense to me.

And something must be done about the scrums. I played in the front row for 20 years, and I'm the last person who would want to see them go, but the way they are just now they're hard to justify.

I dunno…more excuses and yet more excuses. It was the ref, it was the points scored while he was off the pitch, it was this, it was that.

Put simply, Ireland were 15 points better on the day – they moved the ball faster, passed better, put better platforms in than Wales did, obviously, easier to do when you've got a head of steam and the opposition loses a man for ten minutes. if you're going to keep blaming others around your team for constant underperformance, then you'll be at the back end of the table by the end of next year's 6N too.

It's wearing a bit…

****, at least the England fans have accepted that it isn't everybody else's fault.

Darcy if you want to go down that road then how is it that your golden generation has only won one grand slam and how many have you won all together? 😉 you are sounding liking the English with we won the World Cup once.

I got no problem with yesterday we got turned over.

Now one of the French wingers is 5'5" 😯 allez le petite homme 😀

Put simply, Ireland were 15 points better on the day

Which equates to a man better on the day. Which man, I'll leave you to decide… 😉

BTW, I can't see anybody, myself included, blaming the ref for the loss, just discussing a major talking point in the match – to spell it out to you – how do Ireland manage to get away with continually killing the ball, when everyone else is penalised for it?

Should we just applaud and cheer that Ireland win another game without discussing why? Well done chaps, you're all great.

I am mystified by England, heard Haskells name mentioned once,

The first time I saw Easter was in the second half – I genuinely thought he'd been on the bench.

Which is what you'd expect of a country of your size – in fact you are still rather underperforming when you take player numbers into account.

Well considering its the 3rd favorite sport in england, I think we do alright.
You could say we're better because of our larger population, I prefer to say we're just better. 😛

lol at Pigface.

backhander, seriously, what are your team doing? Johnson obviously doesn't know:

The great thing for you is that there is still a chance of winning the championship outright! They are taking the 'win ugly' mantra to an extreme though.

You had better hopr France only bother playing for 20 mins 😉

Pigface I expect nothing less than a thrashing from france.
I also think the Italians will turn wales over.