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Six Nations
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Tim
Cricketer Of The Year
Henson is a joke. He's a showman with fake tan.
A Welsh mate of mine tried to convince me that Henson is better than Dan Carter. haha.
His comments after the game were unbelievable. "I feel suicidal". He needs to be taken down to the local Youth clinic to see what that actually means.
A Welsh mate of mine tried to convince me that Henson is better than Dan Carter. haha.
His comments after the game were unbelievable. "I feel suicidal". He needs to be taken down to the local Youth clinic to see what that actually means.
Loony BoB
International Captain
Although I'm late... Just thought I'd say as a person living in Scotland that I was immensely proud to see them beat England. As much as England might have played poorly compared to their potential, Scotland didn't play crap. I don't know how many of you English people have actually watched rugby regularly prior to your lads winning the world cup, but the strategy used by Scotland was clear and England didn't expect it. Scotland's defence was brilliant - England may have made the errors, but it was Scotland that held them out until those errors were made, and to take that away from them is to take the same thing away from any other team. If a team play crap, they make a lot of mistakes. Scotland didn't. Paterson missed no kicks, they missed an extremely small amount of tackles - most top sides in the world make more missed tackles than that, especially when you count into things the fact that Scotland had to make a massive amount more tackles than England did. Hell, when England were passing the ball, the Scots were on them so fast that they were often moving backwards from the last tackles. Scotland, at 7kg per forward lighter, were faster on foot and the English couldn't get up to the Scottish line with the speed they needed to really make an impact on it. The Scots didn't attack amazingly, but they did everything that England didn't expect. Including winning.
Watching rugby since I was a kid, and that was probably the best tryless game I can remember.
Watching rugby since I was a kid, and that was probably the best tryless game I can remember.
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Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yep, another reminder to me that league is superior to union. That sort of kick and drop fest just doesn't happen in league.simmy said:
Loony BoB
International Captain
Like I said - best tryless game of rugby I can remember. If the sides were brilliant at attack and still made no tries, to me that would mean it's a crap game because if it's attacking rugby, tries should be scored. Neither England nor Scotland are really attacking sides.simmy said:
Loony BoB
International Captain
Having followed league closely over different periods of time, I think it's much like most sports - if you watch it long enough, then you start to see how good it really is. I used to only watch the odd rugby match or motorcycle/motorcar race, then I started watching cricket, then league, then yachting, then golf, then basketball, then snooker, then formula one, then soccer, then American football. The only ones I've not really got into the following of on any level are probably golf (although I still have it on every now and then when doing something else) and American football. Not really spectator sports, at least not for me.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Since when were complex sports automatically more enjoyable?simmy said:
Union seems to be about cheating as much as possible without being caught out, or deliberately stopping a team scoring a try by doing something that's obviously illegal (apart from when a penalty try is highly likely to be given) and seeing how many times you can do it without getting yellow carded. Football these days is getting the same way with certain individual players cheating at every opportunity. I personally don't see the appeal of union over league as a sport, the only thing union has in its favour is that the international game is better established.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
I sorta feel obliged to establish my Union credentials now! For the record I'm 30 & have been playing and watching the sport since I was 8. You do the maths....Loony BoB said:
I agree absolutely with what you say tho. Scotland had a very limited game plan (not a criticism) & executed it superbly. They defended like Trojans & their loosies (White especially) were heroic at the breakdown. They must've turned over our ball close to a dozen times.
Scotland existed on scraps of possession (think it was 68% - 31% in our favour), but never really looked in too much danger. They're an exception to the old "you can't play without the ball" adage. As a paid-up member of the forwards union I'd be having very serious words with the ladies in the backs; when you deliver that amount of ball something is seriously amiss to lose a game!
Fair play to Scotland (and particularly Frank Haddin); thoroughly deserved the win & it is (as I said earlier in the thread) a good result for Rugby.
steds
Hall of Fame Member
For a start, it's quicker and the rules encourage more attacking play with ball in hand (none of that silly kick to touch and lineout crap. Six tackle rule forcing more urgency rather than going through as many bloody phases as possible, yet getting nowhere, before the kick to touch and lineout crap. Tries being worth more and drop goals less.) The forwards also need to be more athletic and better all-round rugby players, too, as there's no need for scrummaging or line out specialists.simmy said:
Plus it's no southerners allowed.
