Passionate England!

[ratewhore]

And Neutral? - my arse!

For 'neutral' read 'my teams flown home'...

[Moscow Mule]

For 'neutral' read 'my teams flown home'...

I think they made them get the bus - tight gits you see, the Scottish RFU.

[shaunbhoy]

So why did you then? I assume you didn't have any decorating to do?

I saw a small amount of it in between bouts of gardening. I had more fun weeding.

[DodgyAgent]

What's the matter sg, still got that stiffy from watching the rugger?



Even Webb Ellis picked the ball up and attempted to run with it. The current English mob seem to have forgotten you are allowed to do that. Shame really. That tactic was virtually the only saving grace the "sport" had. Sacrificed on the altar of negative desperation for success.
Wonder what the likes of Mike Slemen, David Duckham etc. make of watching the current team....................or if they even DO watch?

What hypocrisy, Scotlands win against france was hardly a display of fast open football was it? The scots scored a lucky goal and then proceeded to kick the ball and the French as far into the stands as they could.

As for Slemen and Duckham they never got the ball passed to them anyway

[Moscow Mule]

I saw a small amount of it in between bouts of gardening. I had more fun weeding.

So this

A bleeding yawnfest of a match really. England's game plan..............stop the Aussies from playing. How drab can you get? Sure it is effective to spend as much of the match as possible with the ball buried under a mound of sweating musclebound grunting forwards in the hope that they can wobble close enough to the opponents' posts and frustrate them long enough for them to concede penalties for Wilkinson to kick. But it is hardly entertaining for the neutral is it? The rugby equivalent of getting 10-men behind the ball at football. The preserve of the mediocre. Who the fook teaches them positive attcking strategy.............Geoff Boycott?
Give me footy anyday, a sport for those with athletic skill as opposed to the gruntfest that seems to be English Rugby Union these days.

Was based on watching only some of the match?

So you're not that bothered by rugby, and didn't watch all of the match, yet still feel qualified to bemoan the lack of entertainment in the game???

Go and get your own thread about kick-poof-ball.

[shaunbhoy]

What hypocrisy, Scotlands win against france was hardly a display of fast open football was it? The scots scored a lucky goal and then proceeded to kick the ball and the French as far into the stands as they could.

That is what the French are for. Anyway, I hardly came on here the day after slavering about it being "the best game I have ever seen" in quite the way little impressionable sasguru has about saturday's "performance", did I? Mind you, I expect he doesn't get out much.

As for Slemen and Duckham they never got the ball passed to them anyway

Not by design I'll grant you, but I can recall a number of occasions when they singlehandedly weaved through countless opponents only for it to dawn on them all too late that the red-faced wobbling pack were well to the rear panting and sweating and singularly unable to offer any sort of outlet, at which point they would be mercilessly buried by the opposition. Now THAT was what you call entertaining rugby!!

[sasguru]

That is what the French are for. Anyway, I hardly came on here the day after slavering about it being "the best game I have ever seen" in quite the way little impressionable sasguru has about saturday's "performance", did I? Mind you, I expect he doesn't get out much.




Not by design I'll grant you, but I can recall a number of occasions when they singlehandedly weaved through countless opponents only for it to dawn on them all too late that the red-faced wobbling pack were well to the rear panting and sweating and singularly unable to offer any sort of outlet, at which point they would be mercilessly buried by the opposition. Now THAT was what you call entertaining rugby!!

Methinks thou protesteth too much.
I like the fact you're obviously smarting.

[DodgyAgent]

That is what the French are for. Anyway, I hardly came on here the day after slavering about it being "the best game I have ever seen" in quite the way little impressionable sasguru has about saturday's "performance", did I? Mind you, I expect he doesn't get out much.




Not by design I'll grant you, but I can recall a number of occasions when they singlehandedly weaved through countless opponents only for it to dawn on them all too late that the red-faced wobbling pack were well to the rear panting and sweating and singularly unable to offer any sort of outlet, at which point they would be mercilessly buried by the opposition. Now THAT was what you call entertaining rugby!!

SB, even you have to understand that we English dont give a s**t about whether you "neutrals" enjoy our win against Australia or not. Just as I am sure the jocks couldnt care less whether English supporters enjoyed your win against France (I happened to have been in a bar in Le Touquet at the time shouting for the scots- not because I like your lot but because Scotland were underdogs and we were in a French bar )

I have seen that video of the 1973 ba bas v all blacks game too, BTW who was slemen?

[shaunbhoy]

Methinks thou protesteth too much.
I like the fact you're obviously smarting.

Not at all. Scotland got exactly as far as I expected them to. No more no less. On a weekend where Rangers lost at home and we went top with 2 goals in the last 5 minutes I am hardly likely to be downhearted am I?
No, what you are getting upset about is me pointing out the inescapable fact that when it comes to playing entertaining rugby, England simply don't.
That said, the strategy they are employing is most certainly the one most likely to bring them success, but it is far from entertaining and flamboyant. The sort of person that can get excited about watching such dull fare is the type that would get animated about a Geoff Boycott Test Innings. If the cap fits.
The long and the short of it is that if you want a game that involves any real skill, you make the ball round. If you want to introduce an element of luck to offset the skill, you play with an egg and allow half your team to have the physiques of Bella Emberg. Nuff said.

[wendigo100]

I have seen that video of the 1973 ba bas v all blacks game too, BTW who was slemen?

I remember him. Scouse winger.