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The best yearly sports tournament has begun!!!
I'm looking forward to England stuffing it to Wales later (I'm at work though :( ), fingers crossed for a White tournament win, or green, at a push!
Anyone fancy a trip to Dublin over the next few weeks? Seriously! I was there last year, Best Weekend Ever!
Eagerly looking forward to this one, beers are chilling in the fridge :D
It's on but I have to go out at ~1750 so will miss the ending! :(
I love the 6 Nations - great sporting camaradarie! :D
Princess Griff
06-02-2010, 18:06
My Dads watching the match right now....git. He got a free ticket from work.
Del Lardo
06-02-2010, 18:09
Game on! ;D
Piggymon
06-02-2010, 19:50
bah :/
Flibster
06-02-2010, 19:53
bah :/
:p:p:p:p:p
I discovered my text commentary skills. The game was pretty much one sided though.
Del Lardo
06-02-2010, 21:11
Both teams did their best to throw the game away. Wales were better as usual ;D
Sinead! Ave it!!
Many thanks to Zirax! Hero!
Pumpkinstew
07-02-2010, 01:38
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
Eat try pie Taff!
Now if we could just dig up a loosehead worthy of the name this team could go places.
Managed to survive without seeing any match reports and got a chance to watch both games this afternoon.
Oh dear... both matches were rather scrappy, a fair number of silly unforced errors. That trip was utterly ridiculous.
That said they were pretty good games regardless. Italy showed itself to be .. well.. Italy. I've long since expected anything particularly worth watching from them. Ireland usually does a better job of ripping such teams to shreds.
England vs Wales, decent match all the way through if you ignore the scrappy aspects. When they got their act together things were great. Given it's the first game of the 6 Nations which are usually scrappy I'm expecting pretty good things from both teams for the tournament.
Scotland vs France promises to be a very interesting game tomorrow, but not sure what chance I'll get to watch it. Tomorrow is also Superbowl Sunday :)
ALLEZ LES BLEUS!!!!!! :cool: :evil:
bah :/
Why you sulking? You're about as Welsh as Del Boy! ;D :p
There wasn't much rugby talk on the webcam this morning with Sinead's dad or bro ;D
Scotland vs Wales...
Wow now that's a game that reminds me why I like Rugby. Scotland had it completely in the bag at 75 minutes, then boy oh boy did Wales finally switch on. Two silly penalties by Scotland just ensured Wales got to do their thing.
France are looking dangerous. If they carry on like that I think they have a shot - France vs England is going to be epic!
Pumpkinstew
14-02-2010, 14:55
Defensively France were superb against the Irish, although the bounce of the ball went their way too early on.
Unless they have a massive wobble in the Minnellium Stayjum I can see them wrapping up a Grand Slam against a gutsy but limited England in Paris in March.
Scotland v Wales match - Scotland really did throw that game away with some ridiculous discipline in the final 10.
Really amateur stuff - how frustrating for the rest of the team, and Wales are too good to not take full advantage of being 2 men up; brilliant example of converting such an advantage to the maximum!
France are by far the most convincing team thus far: Ireland, as ever, playing either on or off - inconsistency is certainly their largest hurdle.
Midway through the Italy/England game at the moment and it is quite clear that England have much to change in their game before they will give the current french lineup a close match, let alone the bigger antipodean guns!
Princess Griff
14-02-2010, 17:20
Im a little worried after that shoddy performance....
Matblack
14-02-2010, 17:32
'Unconvincing' sums it up
MB
Pumpkinstew
15-02-2010, 12:35
Having had a chance to reflect on yesterdays game I’ve found a few things to be positive about.
England won. Away from home and despite Wilko having a rare game where his performance barely warranted being called mediocre. It also gave him some much needed match time with Flutey outside him. This partnership will only improve with time.
There were more linebreaks than against the Welsh, but frustratingly Monye had his blinkers on and only one got finished off.
We fielded an inexperienced front row against some genuinely world class scrummagers and came out more or less even.
Italy were hugely improved from the Ireland game – I suspect that Scotland or Wales, in their current slump, might have been narrowly defeated.
The bad news was that we failed to impose enough authority on the game to play at the tempo we wanted and allowed the Italians to suck us into a kicking duel. To compound that we then kicked from hand pretty poorly.
We still need to find some willing runners to come from deep off slow ball. Our big forwards seem too content to try to pick and go from the base of the ruck which every team we’ve played against has defended comfortably.
the Italians to suck us into a kicking duel. To compound that we then kicked from hand pretty poorly.
Good god you can say that again. I feel like trying to sneak in some Wiley Coyote Style Acme Glue Gloves™ to jam on the back three... There! You have the ball, now run with it! I don't care if you have people charging at you - Run it straight back where it came from and stop kicking it straight back to them! :angry: :D
Got tickets to England-Ireland in a couple of weeks time :)
*jealous*
Brilliant stuff Grandad :D Enjoy :)
Me and my brother go to a game each year,have a couple of nights on the lash down London while we are at it
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