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It wasn't something you posted, so nothing to prove. It was my wager that I was correct - that you haven't taken up. Thus the ???
I don’t understand…have you been drinking?
You’re talking more rubbish than the forums other Walter Mitty!
 
Nice to see some rugby chat. The Welsh lads on my WhatsApp group seem to have gone awol
England winning ugly is always a good day for Rugby chat.

Surprised your Welsh mates aren’t claiming the moral victory, based on tries scored.
 
England winning ugly is always a good day for Rugby chat.

Surprised your Welsh mates aren’t claiming the moral victory, based on tries scored.

That'll be the line next Saturday morning on the 1st tee.

Bbc Wales programming has be knobbled for the week now!

Gareth Edwards reading the news, JPR on weather, all off
 
Thought the ref (Eng Wal) was very picky, he seemed to be the centre of attention rather than the players.

The first half was awful and stop start as he seemed incapable of making an on field decision never mind get control of the scrum. In fact at one stage he said to the video ref "on field decision is...?" - that's you pal!

Seeing that we stupidly go for a scrum when Williams is binned and 3 minutes of the 10 passed with no play. Poor decision for me - take the 3 and then go at them from open play with the full back missing. Frustrating game.
 
I wouldn’t say that either ref yesterday was of international quality
 
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Just rewatched the England game, fastforwarding the rubbish.
If you ignore the scrums, which the ref didn’t seem to understand, it was actually quite a good game.
England played bits of very good rugby, with lots of frustration as well.
I think we gave Wales too much width at times, with Adams and Cuthbert making too much easy yardage.
Dombrant is avery intelligent player, and either he or Itoje should have had MOM. But Smith did get the points again.
He’ll be like DuPont, getting MOM more often than not.
Ruck speed was good, a lot of good carrying, especially from Dombrant and Genge, and Steward is looking the part at FB.
Credit to Wales for coming back into it, but they played typical Wales of old. Potential not matched by result.

Much more enjoyable way to watch. For a non-rugby fan it must be so boring to watch all that faffing about.
 
Just finished watching yesterday's games. Enjoyed them both.

Gutted about the result at HQ. Wales have got into a habit of going to Twickenham and just falling short. Lots of naivety from us - spurned kicks at goal, the attempt to run a penalty out of our own 22 rather than take the kick etc - but plenty of signs that we're not quite as bad as I thought we were.

France were excellent yesterday but the Scotland defence coach will be having nightmares. As good as they looked going forward, they were shambolic on the back foot and not all of that was due to France's sharpness.
 
Just rewatched the England game, fastforwarding the rubbish.
If you ignore the scrums, which the ref didn’t seem to understand, it was actually quite a good game.
England played bits of very good rugby, with lots of frustration as well.
I think we gave Wales too much width at times, with Adams and Cuthbert making too much easy yardage.
Dombrant is avery intelligent player, and either he or Itoje should have had MOM. But Smith did get the points again.
He’ll be like DuPont, getting MOM more often than not.
Ruck speed was good, a lot of good carrying, especially from Dombrant and Genge, and Steward is looking the part at FB.
Credit to Wales for coming back into it, but they played typical Wales of old. Potential not matched by result.

Much more enjoyable way to watch. For a non-rugby fan it must be so boring to watch all that faffing about.

I agree with you about Marcus Smith. I like watching him play - already class and with bags of potential to improve - but I thought he had a bit of a shocker yesterday, especially defensively. I think you're right. Dombrandt was England's best player with Maro not far behind. From a Welsh point of view, I thought Alex Cuthbert and Nicky Tompkins were particularly good.
 
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