Off Topic Ospreys, Wales & BIL

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England: Daly; Joseph, Slade, Farrell, May; Ford, Youngs; M Vunipola, George, Sinckler, Itoje, Launchbury, Curry, Underhill, B Vunipola.

Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Genge, Stuart, Hill, Earl, Willis, Robson, Watson.
 
Arguably, this is one of the weakest looking teams to ever play England?

Not forgetting, being arguably one of the worst coached .....

I’d love to be proven wrong ......

Surely not one of the weakest. We have a long history of being (well) beaten by England.

I'll have to agree on the coach though... at the moment. Wait until his master plan falls into place. It's a five year plan though, so be patient <laugh>
 
Surely not one of the weakest. We have a long history of being (well) beaten by England.

I'll have to agree on the coach though... at the moment. Wait until his master plan falls into place. It's a five year plan though, so be patient <laugh>
A team containing the likes of Bateman, Alfie, Gibbs and Jenkins lost 60-26 - in my humble opinion, every single one of those guys would strengthen the team selected for Saturday <cheers>
 
A team containing the likes of Bateman, Alfie, Gibbs and Jenkins lost 60-26 - in my humble opinion, every single one of those guys would strengthen the team selected for Saturday <cheers>

Very true but then that wouldn't have been the weakest team we ever fielded against England :emoticon-0105-wink:

<cheers> just having a Guinness Foreign Extra - actually tastes great for a strong beer!
 
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Very true but then that wouldn't have been the weakest team we ever fielded against England :emoticon-0105-wink:

<cheers> just having a Guinness Foreign Extra - actually tastes great for a strong beer!
I was merely showing that ‘decent’ teams have been on the wrong end of a hammering like that side. <cheers>

I just honestly believe that the team for this Saturday is relatively weak as well as being short in confidence.

That said, I sincerely hope I’m wrong.

Nevertheless, I’ve taken the precaution of cancelling Sunday’s and Monday’s papers <laugh>
 
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Fair enough Taff <ok>

For all the points you make - "relatively weak as well as being short in confidence" - I think it's going to be embarrassing. The only hope is that England have an off day (over confident) and we just click on the day :emoticon-0107-sweat
 
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Fair enough Taff <ok>

For all the points you make - "relatively weak as well as being short in confidence" - I think it's going to be embarrassing. The only hope is that England have an off day (over confident) and we just click on the day :emoticon-0107-sweat
If I had the choice, 3pts for the Swans or a Welsh win - definitely the former <cheers>

(If it were a Six Nations or a World Cup game, it would probably be the latter)
 
Doing better so far - much better - than I anticipated.

TMO tried to persuade Poite that Biggar's charge down was a knock on; sadly for him an experienced ref didn't buy it but arguable it's either a level of rugby ignorance or dishonesty that should be intolerable at this level.....
 
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Ref had a howler

Biggar was tackled in mid air. That’s a penalty and a yellow card but instead ignoring the video ref they play on and score a try

Two penalties came from scrums when the truth is they were pulling down, another 6 points gifted

Josh Adams was the victim of a high tackle with no arms, that should have been a red card

Close yo the end their player Genge headbutts a welsh forward, that’s another red card not given

All in all an absolute shocker from Poite, but not as much as the shocker Pivac had. He is out of his depth and has to go