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sorry [1] about that England ;o)

[1] well not really!

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Hair gel should be banned - it clearly has performance-enhancing
properties.

 

Good win for the Taffs, but they should have had a much bigger margin.
Crap game, nearly as cut up as the pitch.

At least the Jocks got stuffed.
Any day that they lose cannot be all bad.

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Bear emerged from their own little world to say

Eddie Butler [1] mentioned the history between England and the NZ ref at
the top of the game.

[1] namedrop time: he was a schoolmate


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you say that like it's a bad thing.

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Have you seen how they lay that pitch?

It comes in on forklifts like some oversized carpet tiles. No surprise
it's shite turf all things considered.

 

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It's English

 

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:52:59 +0000, Bear wrote:

That, and having a hooker who can't throw the ball in and should be
dropped from the England side until he can. Yes: his open-field play is
very good but in the modern game you have *got* to have a solid lineout.

 

The English player for me was Charlie Hodgson - we missed Wilko less
than I thought we would.

 

Well at least you didn't riot and wreck Cardiff which is what would have
happened if it had been football instead of rugby.

The way we played against the French means that you may very well be on
the receiving end in a week or two, we'll see how smug yer coupon is
then bawbag.

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awww bless do you want a hand picking up your toys ?

 

Some day they will get a turf that doesn't need replacement every few
weeks. Why they don't sort out some extra lights with a natural colour
balance to assist on overcast days I don't know.

On the whole the Welsh did play the better, but it wasn't a particularly
good game from either side. Time to put 5 quid on the Italians

 

The "Caps Lock" key got stuck.

 

If your lineout and licking from hand are OK then at least you can control
possesion and territory when the rest of your game is failing. Equally,
if your lineout isn't working then the opposition only need one decent
player with a good boot to keep you completely out of the game.

It's not the only problem but it's such an obvious one and ouhgt to be
easy to fix. If Robinson can't find an alternative to Thompson, then set
him to throwing line-outs for a couple of hours a day until he can get it
right consistently.

 

The other thing about robinson I didn't get, was the fact that on 4 or 5
occasions, I caught him burying himself in a ruck, while our forwards
seemed to be standing around watching. What the **** is the fastest man
in the team doing getting hisself buried in rucks? You're right -
captaincy should be reserved for forwards or half-backs; in wingers it
seems to draw them in to the centre, were they're of least use.

Oh, and shoot Steve fucking Thompson; we could (mostly) get away with
poor lineout ball when we had the ferenghi tidying up for us, but teams
have cottened on now, and until we can win clean, fast lineout ball[1]
we're going to be spending entire games pinned behind our own ten metre
line, just like saturday.


Tiff
[1] On the odd occasion we did win a lineout, we invariably tapped it
back off the top, instead of catching it and setting up a maul. Tapping
back immediately puts us on the back foot, because there's no offside
line, and they can leap forwards and get amongst the centres. If you set
up a ruck, they have to stay behind the offside line, giving us 5 more
metres of space.