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Six Nations 2021

This is feeling like a repeat of the 2018 championship for me, an England team on the downward from hitting a peak a few years previously. Where a few months ago they played badly and won, now they just play badly.

The poor championship in 2018 meant a lot of new players coming in and the heights of 2019.

Maybe this will happen again?
 
Good result wales - england didn't deserve it, for me they play best when they're throwing the ball across the backs to end in may or watson. Surely has to be Jones' tactics to instead keep pushing with the forwards? When we actually want to win when we're behind we throw it across the backs - why not all the time like we used to?
 
Wales were ok
England discipline was appalling though they were by far the most dangerous team ball in hand.
First try was controversial, second not so.
When was the last time England shipped 40? In fact, how many times have they shipped 40 in their history?
Ffycin hilarious, basically.
 
A fair bit of this is the fault of the RFU. I mean when a big chunk of your players and most of your forwards haven’t had any game time this is going to hurt. I don’t want to rehearse the whole Saracens affair again, but I think the RFU thought Saries would play a fair few exhibition matches against Southern Hemisphere teams to bring in revenue ( and TV audiences) and that would give the England players high end game time: but of course Covid... No championship not only means this for the national team but second tier clubs are barely hanging on - Just donated £20 to the Blues as part of their lateral flow test campaign- fucking RFU wankers.

Anyway, well done Wales. Hope you do get the slam now.
 
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Agree with Bendeus that England looked threatening with ball in hand. Whatever your view on the two controversial tries, Wales won by a greater margin than 14.

Sheedy kicking those penalties to stretch the lead to 9 reminded me of Dan Biggar in WC 2015. Discipline is killing England.
 
I thought Wales played the ref very well, flopping on the wrong side and taking the free kick. For the first try he did signal a shot at goal, didn't he?
 
bendeus said:
Wales were ok
England discipline was appalling though they were by far the most dangerous team ball in hand.
First try was controversial, second not so.
When was the last time England shipped 40? In fact, how many times have they shipped 40 in their history?
Ffycin hilarious, basically.
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I agree. I also agree with Jiffy. Under Pivac wales have shown composure and discipline-when opportunities have arisen they've capitalised on them. Yes we had the rub of the green-and we had some reffing decisions that helped us against Scotland and Ireland...but fuck it. Take them all day every day. Englands penalties lost that game not those two reffing decisions. WTAF happened to England in the last 20. They were level pegging FFS and boom they imploded. That game was there's for the taken if they'd cut out their indisicpline.

On the plus side...Wales as you say havent been all that. The only way is up and if we can win a triple crown playing like this (or even a slam) the future is looking good.
 
1927 said:
It wasn’t a knock-on under the laws of the game and I think that’s pretty important.
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I'd have thought that it wasn't because he knocked it forward but it hit his leg before it hit the ground or another player. The commentators were saying that he'd lost control though so it was :confused:
 
Elpenor said:
Agree with Bendeus that England looked threatening with ball in hand. Whatever your view on the two controversial tries, Wales won by a greater margin than 14.

Sheedy kicking those penalties to stretch the lead to 9 reminded me of Dan Biggar in WC 2015. Discipline is killing England.
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Yup. And the pens were (blatant) pens. Itoje was lucky to stay on the pitch, tbh
 
Grandma Death said:
On the plus side...Wales as you say havent been all that. The only way is up and if we can win a triple crown playing like this (or even a slam) the future is looking good.
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Be careful with that, I spent the Autumn Internationals telling England fans that winning when you're shit does not mean you're on the up.

Anyway, nice to see you :)
 
Funny that Brian Moore thought this was OK....



... but not the first Wales try.

Perhaps something to do with the colour of the shirts of those who conceded....
 
On reflection, England fucked up the first as well. They had men in the line, men spreading in defence, when Biggar asked the question. That the rest of them were yakking and drinking water is immaterial.
 
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