England Rugby Supporters Thread

Northerner wrote:

The French always have that ability to hit you when you least expect it.

Unfortunately they didn't show that ability when it really mattered - in two World Wars.

Lucky for them that the brave and resilient English were there to bail them out on both occasions.

Edited by sid waddell - 01 Feb 2014 at 10:22pm

Professional performance from England. While Scotland have had better teams over the years, any Calcutta Cup clash, especially away from home, is a difficult match to win and Stuart Lancaster will have a feeling of quiet satisfaction tonight.

With one trophy of a possible three already secured, England can look to February 22nd and that potential Triple Crown and Home Nations championship decider against Ireland with confidence.

FrankosHereNow wrote:

Were you not watching the World Darts trophy earlier Sid? Some Dutch chap that was playing Montgomery looked impressive.

Missed it unfortunately although I hear that Wolfie missed a nine darter on the final double 12 during his win over Jan Dekker.

Good to see the great man back in good form, and it contributed to a fine day for English sport.

greenforever wrote:

sid waddell wrote:

FrankosHereNow wrote:

Were you not watching the World Darts trophy earlier Sid? Some Dutch chap that was playing Montgomery looked impressive.

Missed it unfortunately although I hear that Wolfie missed a nine darter on the final double 12 during his win over Jan Dekker.

Good to see the great man back in good form, and it contributed to a fine day for English sport.

What do you think of the English clubs attempt at setting up a new Rugby Champions Cup seeing as they cant win the Heineken Cup, and will they try restructure the 6 Nations now that they can't win it any longer.

The Premiership is the main competition in European club rugby.

The Heineken Lager Beer Cup really isn't that important to English teams, in fact its treated as a bit of a nuisance, a distraction from the main business.

We generously offered to include teams from other countries in the Rugby Champions Cup. Sadly it seems that offer has been spurned. It's their loss.

sid waddell wrote:

Swing low, swing sweetly, dearest chariot.

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As You Were
Three in a row

Great resilience from the chaps after a bad start to the second half. Should close this out now. We've been the comfortably superior team all through.

Good performance by the chaps this morning against New Zealand at Eden Park, but ultimately we came out on the wrong side of a 20-15 scoreline. To us, defeat is defeat, whatever the scoreline is. This differentiates us from lesser countries, who celebrate a narrow loss to New Zealand as if it is a victory.

We may have lost 20-15 today, but we will win in 2015.

Delightful to see the return of Danny Cipriani, by the way. He has the ability to dominate the next World Cup.

Landon Donovan wrote:

I read all your rugby posts in the voice of Stuart Barnes

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

Tremendous resilience from the chaps to end up comprehensive winners over a full strength Wales team after we suffered a disastrous start.

With our only rivals for the championship now firmly dispatched, we can use the rest of the tournament to build for the World Cup.