Team for the Final

[Bear]

So - it looks like Lewsey is out.

What do people think for the starting line up?

Do we push Tait to the wing and put Hipkiss at OC?

[shaunbhoy]

So - it looks like Lewsey is out.

What do people think for the starting line up?

Do we push Tait to the wing and put Hipkiss at OC?

It is all a bit immaterial what you do by way of juggling the english backs. If England are to win they will need to continue their tried and tested strategy of keeping the ball/egg buried beneath a writhing mass of sweaty gutbuckets for the full 80 minutes hoping to induce an obscure infringement from the SA wobblebottoms, and if/when it happens then Jonny can gloriously "kick them to victory" again. Failure to achieve this will result in the SA backs getting hold of it and throwing it to each other as they skip towards the try line.
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[wendigo100]

Alternatively the English could try and play with glorious carefree abandon like they did in the 1991 final.

Or like, presumably, the Scots in 2007...

[sasguru]

It is all a bit immaterial what you do by way of juggling the english backs. If England are to win they will need to continue their tried and tested strategy of keeping the ball/egg buried beneath a writhing mass of sweaty gutbuckets for the full 80 minutes hoping to induce an obscure infringement from the SA wobblebottoms, and if/when it happens then Jonny can gloriously "kick them to victory" again. Failure to achieve this will result in the SA backs getting hold of it and throwing it to each other as they skip towards the try line.
ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The real zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz comes from your repetitive, cliched, ignorant, so-called "analysis". Real rugby fans from all nations are in awe of the superb way a team of seeming no-hopers has turned the tables with sheer guts, will and determination - qualities that are the essence of rugby, and which the weak Scots can only dream of.
HTH

[shaunbhoy]

Alternatively the English could try and play with glorious carefree abandon like they did in the 1991 final.

Or like, presumably, the Scots in 2007...

As long as whoever wins is the team that scores the most tries I don't really mind. That way I might still be awake come the final whistle.

[rootsnall]

Alternatively the English could try and play with glorious carefree abandon like they did in the 1991 final.

Dumbest tactical decision of all time ! Fell for a bit of baiting by the Aussies.

[sasguru]

. That way I might still be awake come the final whistle.

Sorry that you find the complexities of rugby beyond your limited intellect. Perhaps netball or rounders may suit you more?

[wendigo100]

Dumbest tactical decision of all time ! Fell for a bit of baiting by the Aussies.

Indeed. If ever there was an argument for result over style, that was it. Sod the style - who's name ended up on the cup?

[AtW]

Don't want to pee on your celebrations guys but it really looks to a person who does not know much about rugby (ie me) like SA will wipe the floor with the lions...

[shaunbhoy]

Real rugby fans from all nations are in awe of the superb way a team of seeming no-hopers has turned the tables with sheer guts, will and determination

Get a grip. It is an agricultural stifling of a game that when played properly can be highly entertaining. Like a boxer constantly holding on or a team getting 11 behind the ball and hoping for a breakaway goal. A dreary negative
spoiling strategy that has undoubtedly bored the @rse off most union fans the world over. If England win playing this way then it will be a victory for the negative over the positive. Never a good thing, but I suppose if you are desperate enough for success however it comes then good luck. Just don't expect everyone else to get too excited about the dreary tripe.