Off Topic Rugby World Cup

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Redreggy said:
England never had a chance as we didn't have a proper openside flanker at best Robshaw is a six and a half and the front row is crap.Also Robshaw isn't captain material.
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You've been watching to many Brendy interviews lol. Six and a half :grin:

Billy twelvetrees is really a 36 :o
 
Dirtyfrank said:
Fair play to Wilko there, he knows what's coming...I might be anti England where rugby is concerned but already the online papers are ripping this very young team to shreds...It's just ridiculous!

Ok, there's an inbuilt arrogance that always assumed they'll be the best but you have to go in like that.

Honestly...why do the English enjoy ripping the guys they were cheering on 90/80 minutes ago down? Not taking the piss, maybe it's because you enjoy success more than we do that you're expectation is higher but it all seems like you tip past the balance to self defeating ....
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They aren't that young. The core of the side will be close to or over 30 by the time the next world cup comes about.

I'd say the problem is the team wasn't that good to begin with, but English fans got carried away with it because they got a few meaningless end of season wins against tired Southern Hemisphere sides in the autumn internationals.

The team has consistently bottled it in the big games. Courtney Lawes got the ball ripped off him by a centre in 2012 to lose the game against Wales in the last 10 mins, they only need to not lose by more than 6 points against Wales in 2013 and they lost by 27 points. They lost to France in the dying minutes in 2014.

They are an average team led by an average manager <whistle>
 
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Your Rugby philosophy is all wrong if you ask me, your game is simply about strength and the breakdown, you have the players that can play an open running game, but you hardly ever select them, all you select are fat lumps of lard to bulldoze your way to titles, which is now old school. When you get the right foreign coach (Southern Hemisphere) then maybe you can then move forward with fitness and the modern game, but at the minute your like a dinosaur compared to Wales, France and Ireland, even the Japs love running with the ball?.............<ok>
 
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