The 6 Nations 2019 Thread

[Mr Retro]

England utterly dominant. Perfect game plan to upset Ireland. Fair play

 

[Ponyutd]

Why are England preparing for playing on a manic windy freezing night in Dublin, in front of a stadium full of baying pissed up paddies by relaxing in a sunny Portugese hideaway?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Fair fucks, mind. England have been absolutely superb.

They have. Being Scottish, I was hoping no BP.

 

[Mr Retro]

Lol. They should get the first plane back there tonight.

 

[Ax^]

awe fuck sake

 

[felixthecat]

Chuffin' heck!
I never expected this sort of score line. Bloody well played lads. Now let's keep it up eh?

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Just for posterity. Might bring it out when Wales play England

Shows how much I dislike this Irish team.

Cracking from England. Ireland just don't have a plan B.

 

[flypanam]

We’ll finish the year in 9th in the ra

So essentially I'm not as confident as I thought I would be because unlike every other team the only way is down...*

+ a load of mushier shite.

* The nineties destroyed my optimism.

 

[bendeus]

The thing about the super-structured, attritional gameplan adopted by Schmidt with the skills sets of the staff in mind is that at some point somebody will work out how to unlock it. If they can't bully the oppo in the air or around the fringes Ireland have no platform. I hate uncle Eddie but you've got to take your hat off to him - he's found the key that unlocks Schmidt's strategy.

 

[fucthest8]

 

[Spymaster]

Ireland grand slam.

Well huuush maaa mouth

 

[gawkrodger]

YES! What a game ! What a performance! So many MOTM candidates

 

[Mordi]

I can't say I enjoyed that, even if it was excellent rugby.

 

[Smangus]

Luuverly

 

[Ax^]

fair play England


took you six year to get it right

enjoy the night

now for the rest of the six Nations

 

[fucthest8]

Literally the best we've played in years. My fears about the back line were utterly unfounded. What a difference actually having a game plan makes.

I am SO fucking happy right now.

 

[Spymaster]

 

[Ax^]

fair play england

Ireland never play that well when we are the favourites and we had a lost against the sass coming

might be a good result before the world cup

 

[fucthest8]

if they can't bully the oppo in the air or around the fringes Ireland have no platform.

That was the key part for me, the breakdown. Ireland didn't get a look in. We've been so weak there for the last year, I was stunned at how well they controlled it. Fantastic.

 

[Mr Retro]

The thing about the super-structured, attritional gameplan adopted by Schmidt with the skills sets of the staff in mind is that at some point somebody will work out how to unlock it. If they can't bully the oppo in the air or around the fringes Ireland have no platform. I hate uncle Eddie but you've got to take your hat off to him - he's found the key that unlocks Schmidt's strategy.

Sexton has to look at himself here too. You would expect the supposed best player in the world to do something about the English blitz defense other than throwing the ball on the ground.

 

[fucthest8]

Backatcha

 

[bendeus]

The 'England for the World Cup' hype wagon begins to gather momentum right about now

 

[bendeus]

Sexton has to look at himself here too. You would expect the supposed best player in the world to do something about the English blitz defense other than throwing the ball on the ground.

He and Murray were really poor today, I thought. Didn't provide the leadership or control needed - just looked a bit lost

 

[gawkrodger]

Literally the best we've played in years. My fears about the back line were utterly unfounded. What a difference actually having a game plan makes.

I am SO fucking happy right now.

I've almost lost my voice!

Slade's best performance in an England shirt. Daly now has the 15 shirt. May was phenominal. Manu Slade combo worked. Mako and Sinckler were beasts. Yellow card aside Curry was immense. Billy and Wilson never stopped. Itoje was really strong (hopefully injury not too bad but we have Launches in the wings). Farrell looked like captain and great kick. Youngs best performance in time (though shame Robson didn't get his first cap)

 

[bendeus]

I've almost lost my voice!

Slade's best performance in an England shirt. Daly now has the 15 shirt. May was phenominal. Manu Slade combo worked. Mako and Sinckler were beasts. Yellow card aside Curry was immense. Billy and Wilson never stopped. Itoje was really strong (hopefully injury not too bad but we have Launches in the wings). Farrell looked like captain and great kick

Yeah, yeah. You'll lose in Cardiff

 

[fucthest8]

The 'England for the World Cup' hype wagon begins to gather momentum right about now

Yeah, probably. FFS


Anyway, very nice to hear Mr Poite telling Rory to fuck off with his chat "You speak about this again, is a penalty"

E2A sorry, Garces

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Don't laugh at me but can someone explain what set scrums really are for these days? I've always religiously just accepted them as part of the game, I was a forward too. But I'm having doubts.

They are boring and inconclusive, have so many restarts, and don't establish possession in any real sense: the putting-in team always gets the ball. I can see that the stronger forwards do get to knacker the weaker team, but they could do that without a put in. And that there's a bit of play without forwards, but they could just stand there and count to three. As a way of restarting the game it all seems a bit convoluted.

Put me straight because I must be missing something.

 

[fucthest8]

Don't laugh at me but can someone explain what set scrums really are for these days? I've always religiously just accepted them as part of the game, I was a forward too. But I'm having doubts.

They are boring and inconclusive, have so many restarts, and don't establish possession in any real sense: the putting-in team always gets the ball. I can see that the stronger forwards do get to knacker the weaker team, but they could do that without a put in. And that there's a bit of play without forwards, but they could just stand there and count to three. As a way of restarting the game it all seems a bit convoluted.

Put me straight because I must be missing something.

Thought the scrums today we're pretty good to be honest. I can only assume you've never watched a match where the team with the put-in are running backwards. It really isn't always them who win it. I still think there's a place for it if they can sort the lots of resets, that does get dull.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

It really isn't always them who win it.

You're right. I was exaggerating more than a tad. But it's rare

"A key difference between the two sports is that in rugby union both sets of forwards try to push the opposition backwards whilst competing for the ball and thus the team that did not throw the ball into the scrum have some minimal chance of winning the possession. In practice, however, the team with the 'put-in' usually keeps possession (92% of the time with the feed) and put-ins are not straight."

Wikipedia so maybe bollocks. At international level it's more like 99.9%?

 

[fucthest8]

You're right. I was exaggerating more than a tad. But it's rare

"A key difference between the two sports is that in rugby union both sets of forwards try to push the opposition backwards whilst competing for the ball and thus the team that did not throw the ball into the scrum have some minimal chance of winning the possession. In practice, however, the team with the 'put-in' usually keeps possession (92% of the time with the feed) and put-ins are not straight."

Wikipedia so maybe bollocks. At international level it's more like 99.9%?

Yeah, but a game can turn on a key scrum. Seen loads of them at International. Couple of points in it, defending team gets a scrum, gets fucked up. That 8% can really count.