Author Topic: Six Nations 2017 (Read 19801 times)

ElyDave · « **Reply #50 on:** 12 February, 2017, 08:40:17 am »

Very lucky win I thought, let's hope England don't start relying on the narrow win when they come up against NZ.

I thought it was very scrappy all round, but where the matches I used to referee could be scrappy due to low skill levels, this was scrappy due to being played right on the edge. Made for a nailbiting game to watch though.

Any idea whether Moriarty will be cited for that very late tackle on Farrell?

andyoxon · « **Reply #51 on:** 12 February, 2017, 08:50:51 am »

Nah, England made their own luck*...

Apparently they don't play NZ until 2018...

Won't be too long before the Vunipola bros are back.

* though, if Wales hadn't turned down a chance at goal for those two penalties in 1st half...

Jaded · « **Reply #52 on:** 12 February, 2017, 10:08:01 am »

Surprised so few people appeared to have watched it. Mind you, I thought the direction was poor. Far too many shots of the ball being retrieved from a tangle of legs, with no context - so you had no feeling for what might happen next. Also too many cuts to cameras when the operator hadn't quite set up the shot, so you got a moving or zooming camera, or someone in the way. Very distracting.

firedfromthecircus · « **Reply #53 on:** 12 February, 2017, 12:59:59 pm »

Quote from: andyoxon on 12 February, 2017, 08:50:51 am

Nah, England made their own luck*...

There is a very strong inclination for me to disagree with you on that point!

However, winning teams have a habit of winning. It doesn't matter if they scraped through with a single score at the end or romped it. Right now, England are a winning team.

Will they get the three wins needed for the record? The next two should be meat and drink, but I think they will need to up their game for the third. Interesting hearing Rory Best talk about the Scotland defeat. They were just caught napping. I can't see that happening at home with a chance to stop England getting a record!

andyoxon · « **Reply #54 on:** 12 February, 2017, 01:30:38 pm »

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Head coach Eddie Jones said England had used up all of their "get-out-of-jail-free cards"

BBC

tbf, probably a fine line beween being 'lucky', and using 'get out of jail free cards'...

ElyDave · « **Reply #55 on:** 12 February, 2017, 02:40:11 pm »

Quote from: firedfromthecircus on 12 February, 2017, 12:59:59 pm

Quote from: andyoxon on 12 February, 2017, 08:50:51 am
Nah, England made their own luck*...

There is a very strong inclination for me to disagree with you on that point!

However, winning teams have a habit of winning. It doesn't matter if they scraped through with a single score at the end or romped it. Right now, England are a winning team.

Will they get the three wins needed for the record? The next two should be meat and drink, but I think they will need to up their game for the third. Interesting hearing Rory Best talk about the Scotland defeat. They were just caught napping. I can't see that happening at home with a chance to stop England getting a record!

I'm with you there, doesn't matter how we won, but I don't want to be going that close again. There must be, however much the professional support teams try to prevent it, an element of invincibility in the eyes of the teams playing them at the moment i.e. they've won 16 in a row, that can't be entirely by chance, we have to play better than we can really hope to do...

Hopefully Scotland about to repeat what they did last week, vs Aus, SA etc

Basil · « **Reply #56 on:** 12 February, 2017, 03:43:33 pm »

Looks like it could be the end of this year's 6 nations for Laidlaw. That will be a real bugger for Scotland.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #57 on:** 12 February, 2017, 05:03:23 pm »

Paris littered with b0rked Scotsmen; cracking game though.

ElyDave · « **Reply #58 on:** 12 February, 2017, 11:29:00 pm »

Hmmm, was looking good for a while.

Laidlaw will definitely be missed

Jaded · « **Reply #59 on:** 25 February, 2017, 04:13:33 pm »

Hey, this is such fun!!!

Jaded · « **Reply #60 on:** 25 February, 2017, 04:16:14 pm »

...and hopefully no bonus point for the losers.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #61 on:** 25 February, 2017, 04:19:39 pm »

Dunno what the Jocks had in their half-time cocoa but it seems to have been effective.

andyoxon · « **Reply #62 on:** 25 February, 2017, 10:48:42 pm »

Good win for Scotland!

Jaded · « **Reply #63 on:** 26 February, 2017, 03:11:25 am »

Quote from: Basil on 12 February, 2017, 03:43:33 pm

Looks like it could be the end of this year's 6 nations for Laidlaw. That will be a real bugger for Scotland.

Indeed, but they worked round it. In a stunning way.

T42 · « **Reply #64 on:** 26 February, 2017, 08:35:06 am »

Well, we won.

Well no, actually, we lost.

Ireland v France is such sweet sorrow. $:-\$

Wowbagger · « **Reply #65 on:** 26 February, 2017, 03:53:20 pm »

Woss goin on at Twickers then?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #66 on:** 26 February, 2017, 03:56:21 pm »

Italy are being buried by a record score¹, just as the pundits forecast.

I-TA-LIA! I-TA-LIA!

1: Lie.

Basil · « **Reply #67 on:** 26 February, 2017, 03:57:39 pm »

"I'm a referee. Not a coach."

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #68 on:** 26 February, 2017, 04:00:07 pm »

Bof, you Eengleesh!

spesh · « **Reply #69 on:** 26 February, 2017, 05:19:34 pm »

A game of two halves if ever there was one.

madcow · « **Reply #70 on:** 26 February, 2017, 11:11:27 pm »

Quote from: madcow on 02 February, 2017, 12:28:28 am

On the other hand, this is the first time for several years that I have not bought any tickets for Murrayfield, so they are bound to win all their home games.

Can you see a pattern emerging?

Jaded · « **Reply #71 on:** 27 February, 2017, 01:57:49 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 February, 2017, 03:53:20 pm

Woss goin on at Twickers then?

They were emulating the Scots.

frankly frankie · « **Reply #72 on:** 27 February, 2017, 10:23:24 am »

Great entertainment, I thought. I nearly didn't watch, because watching a predictable drubbing is never pleasant, regardless of who is playing who.
Well done to Italy for introducing chaos theory into rugby. England cluelessness in the face of the unexpected was just amazing, they are so over-coached and incapable of thinking for themselves. Sir Clive saying from the pundit's chair that his sides, in similar circumstances, would feign an injury so that they could get coaching instructions out to the players!

ElyDave · « **Reply #73 on:** 27 February, 2017, 02:18:39 pm »

Should have been simple really, no offside line, use your back row and front row to pick and go repeatedly until the gap appears, then send through the fast boys. No need to ruck if the opposition don't want to play

citoyen · « **Reply #74 on:** 27 February, 2017, 02:34:24 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 27 February, 2017, 02:18:39 pm

Should have been simple really, no offside line, use your back row and front row to pick and go repeatedly until the gap appears, then send through the fast boys. No need to ruck if the opposition don't want to play

I was thinking much the same thing. If Italy had tried that tactic against New Zealand, say, they would have been massacred. England showed a lack of imagination in dealing with it, sticking too rigidly to the gameplan rather than using their instinct.

They worked it out eventually though.

Final score flatters England.