Rugby Football

[DodgyAgent]

Excellent work

Where is your dopey husband? is he still stalking the Mcanns ?

[Tensai]

Results for the ballot for Twickenham tickets is out this weekend, fingers crossed.

The only thing I dislike about watching internationals there is the 80-odd thousand people are usually pretty quiet. I hear more noise from fans when I go to see Brentford at Griffin Park, and they only fit in about 12,00 on a good day.

[norrahe]

Excellent work

And will you be actually changing your team at all this year or just leaving it with nice looking blokes with bog thighs (again).

[cailin maith]

And will you be actually changing your team at all this year or just leaving it with nice looking blokes with bog thighs (again).

Prob just stick with the nice looking fellas

[Doggy Styles]

The 6 Nations is about to start and all we hear about are England's injury problems. Then you look at all the other countries involved and they have the same problems.

Wales don't have the same problems.

[Doggy Styles]

If this is the criteria we are using, then cricket and F1 go before rugby.

There are actually fewer serious injuries in rugby now then ever, despite players being bigger and faster than ever.

Can't wait for the 6 nations this year, even though I don't fancy England's chances much.

Where do you get your information from?

England always seem to have half a team injured including many first choices.

And many players at the top end of rugby suffer for the rest of their lives with wear and tear injuries.

[Ramrod]

Where do you get your information from?

England always seem to have half a team injured including many first choices.

And many players at the top end of rugby suffer for the rest of their lives with wear and tear injuries.

How many footballers/cricketers spend their post playing days with knackered knees and fragile backs?

Rugby players today are fitter than ever before, they train for the rigours of the modern game and condition themselves for the big hits they inevitably take.
Agreed, England always seem to have half a team unavailable, but I feel this hits us hard as we rely on a handful of key players and do not have the strength in depth that the likes of Wales or NZ have.

I'll gladly admit that I have no cold hard stats to back up my claims but I follow many sports very closely (rugby being my favourite, and the only one I still play myself). While I'm glad to see some of the thuggery taken out of rugby, I wouldn't like to see the game itself gentrified any more than it already has been.

[GlenW]

How many footballers/cricketers spend their post playing days with knackered knees and fragile backs?

[FatLazyContractor]

If you can take that ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uh_aWqm2I0

[Ramrod]

Oh, and get ready for England to lose another half a dozen players too....

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