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Liam Williams.

Astonished by the selection of the bandy legged assassin on the wing. He was Shite against Ireland, surely there must be someone in Wales better than that dirty cheap shot merchant. I think Phillips deserved to be dropped for his complete loss of the head in Dublin. Elsewhere I am not surprised...

And that is before you even start on Reddan being poorer in every facet of scrum half play than Murray as was amply demonstrated in November.

I have a horrible, horrible inkling from a poster who is often in the know that Schmidt is going to start Reddan against England.

Wilson pencilled to start, Thomas on the bench. Wilson has been off with calf problems and in the last week has been struggling with a bad back!?!? After ten years of prayers about Ireland's tight head situation it is nice for someone else to have the problem. We have three HEC quality tight...

Very true and calling up Killer could be a master stroke. If I was Schmidt I would call up Archer as well to add some real spice and heat to the scrummaging sessions. Zebo not being called up is ludicrous but if St Joe is brave enough to make that call, and it is extremely brave, then we just...

And he is a quality lifter. Not as good as Bull but good all the same. This puts the whole England team under fierce pressure, any mistakes they know they are either putting a man who is half fit or a kid in against the best Loose head in the world in Cian Healy.

Dan Cole out of the rest of the tournament. That is going to hurt England.

Rumours are that it is stupidly down to 20 teams but the unions retain control with the PRL idiots having some commercial input, god help us given 2/3 of them are in the red. BT get England Autumn internationals and have ceded to Sky to run the Heineken cup. Have BT shafted PRL in favour of the...

English rugby supporters love the six nations though CB. Even when they are getting beaten they take a weird jingoistic pleasure in, "everyone playing better against us". Complete bollix of course but the six nations and the Lions serves to reaffirm the English sense of superiority which is...

Apost by Thomond 78 which clearly demonstrates that the WRU has put plenty of money into the Regions So, last ten years. £7.5m to the five regions on start-up in 2003-4 - http://www.wru.co.uk/downloads/WRU-AR-2003-04.pdf £6.9m to the four remaining for player services in 2004-5 -...

This was originally posted by The Doc, This gets complicated but there are a few factors; 1) The Directors in holding back the payments is not a sign of the ERC folding. But if there is any doubt about the company as an on-going concern they have to preserve assets or else face personal...

As I said on the six nations thread, I thought i would post some proper legal stuff from Munsterfans.com Rugby Law Monday, December 2, 2013 HEC, PRL & Competition Law. Who would have thought competition law would be of such interest to rugby players? One of the features of the ongoing...

I don't think the sporting world under the EU is quite the free market you think CB. I will dig up some of the legal stuff from the MF thread on this subject and post it on the NH rugby thread, makes for very interesting reading. Have to say as well that this issue is of massive significance for...

I have to say that I find the suspicion about central contracts really bizarre. Even if you didn't go down the Irish root of full union ownership, the English model of EPS is fairly close to a central contract system. I just don't see what there is that is so frightening about it. The amazing...

I agree, and England are priced up as strong favourites which is entirely right. The thing with Schmidt teams, is they are quite happy changing their style which makes them very hard to play against. Ireland put the ball through the hands against Scotland but, ever the pragmatist, JS looked at...

Have to say, there is no enjoyment in seeing Scotland struggle, to quote Murray Low's lip read comment from saturday, on that "fucking pitch". Scott Johnson doesn't help and injury to Visser has robbed you of a serious weapon. I don't understand Richie Gray's ommision or Kelly Brown for that...

I think it could be returning to port holed beneath the waterline and Lewis is ruthless enough to watch it flail and splutter. EDIT and maybe, given the disharmony in the Welsh game that Cardiffblue illustrated Woger's brand of autocracy is the only way? One thing I can say with confidence...

Did you get a bit of an end of an era about Wales? The props are past it, and a lot of Gatland ball was based around Hair Bears solidity. Phillips was raging against the dying of the light and Jonny Sexton totalled Roberts towards the end of the game. Don't get me wrong, in Jon Davies, Hibbard...

Just to be clear, I don't think the Welsh players are whoring themselves, I think the regions owners are. I really can't see how an Anglo Welsh league can happen btw unless the regions disassociate from the WRU. Maybe you know better but I can't see how it can happen.