+1. Williams is not a bad hooker at all. But, as the papers have pointed out today, Wales have lost 100 caps and 4 stone from the front row…

Despite all the anticipation I am getting very disappointed that we never get to see 1st choice teams playing against each other.

All these players dropping out are being injured while training – it seems mad that Flutey gets injured just a few days before the start of the biggest tournament he'll play this year.

One of the problems of professional sport, I suppose.

He'll be bouncing off the good Doctor all afternoon! Jamie should, if he gets any ball, run straigh at him and through him.

Fluteys out, tait vs hook will suit the welsh as it will not expose hooks weakness in defence too much.
Worseley put roberts and powell out of the game the other year and got man of the match for it. Amazing performance!
Narrow welsh win, french win (diff depends on conditions), irish win but not too convincingly.
I'm not too hopeful of any brilliant diplays of rugby though.

Worseley was awesome against Wales last year. He did the job he was given and did it superbly

The same will not happen tomorrow.

My confidence in a Wales win has dropped now that Gethin is out (best British loose head since Tom Smith!). Still think Wales will win though. Think they are stonger through the whole 3/4 line and upfront will be nip and tuck.

Fingers crossed for a Celtic clean sweep 😉

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Ha, you wish you had an O'Gara – it's a measure of the green machine's superiority that they can win with 14 men all game and bring this mystery ghost with a spotless jersey in for kicking duties 😯

They laugh at Rog…but, he has produced some amazing kicking under pressure. I'd rather have his longevity than the fragility of other No 10s. And there are few finer positional kickers in the game, who can continually pin the opposition inside their own 22s for the final quarter of a game. He has continually stepped up and produced after off-days.

I tire of people constantly pulling the piss out of the other aspects of his game. I suspect he's the one laughing with two Heineken cup medals, a grand slam and a couple of triple crowns thrown in (for all that they matter anymore).

And of course, there was that drop goal….

Just seen the saes under 20 thump Wales. Score was a bit flattering but the Welsh boys tired badly. Most og the saes lot had played at premiership level. I think an saes lad got a red for stamping but was hard to see, some good skills shown by both sides.

Given his relative youth, I think it's very promising for the future – it's also a credit to the coaching and development staff that they've been patient with bringing him through. I have no worries where he's concerned. I also think there are always good backs in development. I worry slightly for Ireland's pack in this coming tournament – they have looked weak in the scrum and the maul – while paradoxically strong in the lineout. As long as they can reproduce the form against SA, they'll be ok. But there's fragility there waiting to be exploited – which I predict will happen big style in Paris 😐

Just had to turn down tickets for The Cabbage Patch.

Very short notice and I'm out of town. Bah!
Wouldn't be able to make it

Anyway….ROG cannot tackle for toffee.

Oh, and FORZA ITALIA!

That is as bad as I have ever seen Italy play, very poor.

Yeah Flash, ROG was simply terrible wasn't he. Marvellous insight though on your part…old chap 😉

Bit quiet from the Welsh contingent innit.

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English are badly missing Flutey, bit of creativity and lack of link between forwards and backs, yet again.

That helped

GET IN!
DISSECT IT ALL YOU LIKE…
A WIN IS A WIN!
and A BIG ONE AGAINST WALES 😀

I don't think either scrums were particularly great. I wouldn't say the ref was any more lenient on either side, he was just rubbish. Saw several cases of poor binding and coming up early, not too mention the turning of the scrum later on. Overall an entertaining game and that AWJ sin bin was the turning point. Think Wales would probably have won otherwise.