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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    He's gone for the "former UDA enforcer failing to make a career as a legitimate politician" look. You can't say he doesn't know his audience.
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    Semi Finals

    England have a better chance than Argentina IMO. South Africa don’t slice through teams like NZ do so it’s not quite so difficult for underdogs to stay in the game. We haven’t seen a big game decided by an early red card yet (unless you count England v Argentina). Always a possibility for the...
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    Quarter Finals

    I think Farrell is the best coach we’ve ever had, and how we do at the next tournament is mostly about whether he’s still there, and whether he’s still at the cutting edge of rugby. I don’t think our individual talent is that much better than some previous generations. It’s hard to separate...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    I think Sterling’s decline just paved the way for Grealish to play more. In Euro 2020 England had a few decent options there and Grealish was arguably a marginal improvement over the others, but the media narrative became that picking him would transform the whole team. I don’t think...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    I thought Kane was overrated for a few years after Poch left, but last season he was definitely back to top 2-3 in the world level. Can’t argue with 30 league goals in a dogshit Spurs team. I’d have England in a fairly large top tier of international sides where nobody particularly stands out...
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    The playing out from the back thread

    Yeah this is a good point, defending has got much more subtle in ways that make it harder to win the ball from your own hoof. Centre backs used to just head the ball back where it came from as hard as they could when you hoofed it. Now the team will spread and they’ll try to find a team mate. Or...
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    Quarter Finals

    Yeah it’s one of the downsides of Argentina taking the points.
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    Quarter Finals

    Wales by 15 Ireland by 3 England by 12 France by 5
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    *Official* Match #10 — Australia Vs South Africa Oct 12th, Lucknow

    Right I mean it’s not like turning down the extra run cost a country the World Cup final or anything.
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    *Official* Match #10 — Australia Vs South Africa Oct 12th, Lucknow

    I just switched on for the last 2 overs and hahahahaha
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    NFL / NCAA Football

    The Mike Tomlin 0.500 machine rumbles on. Consecutive games against the Cowboys and Browns are giving me an insight into what life would be like as a 49ers fan. Pretty good it turns out.
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    The playing out from the back thread

    At the top level you just have to do it now, and that competitive reality is working its way down the system. Taking long goal kicks when the opposition is keeping the ball from theirs is too much of a disadvantage. You end up working so hard chasing the ball and have no energy to do anything...
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    Football stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    They need to borrow the rugby framework where they break down the level of danger and mitigation. I thought it was much worse than the Jones one last week - he’s from directly behind, there’s a bit more force, and it’s less incidental because he connects at a dangerous angle without treading on...
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    Football stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    I think it would be a yellow today, but IIRC there were quite a few reds for that type of thing at France 98. It was something they were trying to stamp out.
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    Football stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    Ahh I had no interest before but I feel like it's worth watching just for this.
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    Quarter Finals

    The South African defence should be enough to at least give France a game. Ireland had to win ugly against them.
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    Pool C - Wales, Australia, Fiji, Georgia, Portugal

    I'd love it to happen but it would just be too much of a risk for the other 6N countries to willingly take on. IIRC Scotland, Wales, and France have all finished last since it went to 6, and a whole year out of the tournament feels like a big price to pay given that none of them were too far off...
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    **Official** English Football Season 2023/24

    Has Alisson visited the Middle East lately?
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    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    That is LIQUID rugby.
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    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    Strange decision to go for the drop goal at all, never mind taking it on without dropping deep from the ruck.

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