6 Nations Round 2019

[RugbyReg]

Thought we'd try a combined thread.

Fixtures this round are:

France v Wales, Friday Feb 1, Paris
Scotland v Italy, Saturday Feb 2, Edinburgh
Ireland v England, Saturday Feb 2, Dublin

 

[RugbyReg]

Wales: 15 Liam Williams, 14 George North, 13 Jonathan Davies, 12 Hadleigh Parkes, 11 Josh Adams, 10 Gareth Anscombe, 9 Tomos Williams, 8 Ross Moriarty, 7 Justin Tipuric, 6 Josh Navidi, 5 Alun Wyn Jones (c), 4 Adam Beard, 3 Tomas Francis, 2 Ken Owens, 1 Rob Evans
Replacements: 16 Elliot Dee, 17 Wyn Jones, 18 Samson Lee, 19 Cory Hill, 20 Aaron Wainwright, 21 Gareth Davies, 22 Dan Biggar, 23 Owen Watkin

 

[RugbyReg]

France: 15 Maxime Medard, 14 Damian Penaud, 13 Wesley Fofana, 12 Romain Ntamack, 11 Yoann Huget, 10 Camille Lopez, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Arthur Iturria, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 5 Paul Willemse, 4 Sebastien Vahaamahina, 3 Uini Atonio, 2 Guilhem Guirado (c), 1 Jefferson Poirot
Replacements: 16 Julien Marchand, 17 Dany Priso, 18 Demba Bamba, 19 Felix Lambey, 20 Greg Alldritt, 21 Baptiste Serin, 22 Gael Fickou, 23 Geoffrey Doumayrou

 

[Dan54]

Yep well ready for this to kick off, might just get up Friday and Sat nights!!

 

[RugbyReg]

Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg, 14 Tommy Seymour, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Sam Johnson, 11 Blair Kinghorn, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Greig Laidlaw (c), 8 Ryan Wilson, 7 Jamie Ritchie, 6 Sam Skinner, 5 Grant Gilchrist, 4 Ben Toolis, 3 WP Nel, 2 Stuart McInally, 1 Allan Dell
Replacements: 16 Jake Kerr, 17 Jamie Bhatti, 18 Simon Berhan, 19 Gary Graham, 20 Josh Strauss, 21 Ali Price, 22 Adam Hastings, 23 Chris Harris

 

[RugbyReg]

England: 15 Elliot Daly, 14 Jonny May, 13 Henry Slade, 12 Manu Tuilagi, 11 Jack Nowell, 10 Owen Farrell (c), 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Tom Curry, 6 Mark Wilson, 5 George Kruis, 4 Maro Itoje, 3 Kyle Sinckler, 2 Jamie George, 1 Mako Vunipola
Replacements: 16 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 17 Ellis Genge, 18 Harry Williams, 19 Courtney Lawes, 20 Nathan Hughes, 21 Dan Robson, 22 George Ford, 23 Chris Ashton

 

[RugbyReg]

Ireland: 15 Robbie Henshaw, 14 Keith Earls, 13 Garry Ringrose, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 Jacob Stockdale, 10 Johnny Sexton, 9 Conor Murray, 8 CJ Stander, 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 Peter O’Mahony, 5 James Ryan, 4 Devin Toner, 3 Tadhg Furlong, 2 Rory Best (c), 1 Cian Healy
Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 David Kilcoyne, 18 Andrew Porter, 19 Quinn Roux, 20 Sean O’Brien, 21 John Cooney, 22 Joey Carbery, 23 Jordan Larmour

 

[RugbyReg]

Italy: 15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Angelo Esposito, 13 Luca Morisi, 12 Tommaso Castello, 11 Michele Campagnaro, 10 Tommaso Allan, 9 Tito Tebaldi, 8 Sergio Parisse (c), 7 Abraham Steyn, 6 Sebastian Negri, 5 Dean Budd, 4 David Sisi, 3 Simone Ferrari, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 1 Andrea Lovotti
Replacements: 16 Luca Bigi, 17 Cherif Traore’ 18 Tiziano Pasquali, 19 Federico Ruzza, 20 Jimmy Tuivaiti, 21 Guglielmo Palazzani, 22 Ian McKinley, 23 Edoardo Padovani

 

[duckbill]

Italy a bit hard done by the ref. 2 forward pass tries for Scotland and can't understand how the Hogg try was awarded so quickly.... Meh

 

[Strewthcobber]

Massive result in Dunlin overnight as well. What a tournament

 

[Dan54]

Well Ireland were absolutely smothered by the Poms. Thought it an enjoyable game, not particularly open, but was never going to be, too much on it. That Pommy defence was watertight almost, and I wondered if Ireland struggled to create much with their inside backs. Conor Murray is bloody great, not sure that Sexton did much to spark the attack and Bundee at 12 is never going to spark much, does his job well, but never really questions the defence.

 

[The Honey Badger]

What was the story, with old mate playing with Ski Goggles? Wouldn't have thought that was legal.

 

[The Honey Badger]

Italy a bit hard done by the ref. 2 forward pass tries for Scotland and can't understand how the Hogg try was awarded so quickly.. Meh

The grounding on Scotland try, very suspect. Very hard to say there was any downward pressure.

 

[RugbyReg]

What was the story, with old mate playing with Ski Goggles? Wouldn't have thought that was legal.

an incredible story.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-u...ys-new-fly-half-journey-losing-sight-one-eye/

 

[Strewthcobber]

The 75th minute try for England was something. Check out the rush defense line speed still there in the last couple of minutes of a test match.

They are just about playing a different game to the pre-pro old days

 

[PaarlBok]

Lots of nr9 box kicking. Look like the new modern attacking weapon. 80% the runners are in front of the kicker.

 

[Derpus]

The 75th minute try for England was something. Check out the rush defense line speed still there in the last couple of minutes of a test match.

They are just about playing a different game to the pre-pro old days

Rush defense being code for 'you can't ping us for being offside every ruck'

 

[John S]

Wales also made a good comeback from being down 16-0 at half time in the rain.

 

[Dan54]

Wales also made a good comeback from being down 16-0 at half time in the rain.

That was an awful impressive comeback John, the French certainly seemed to turn off motor at halftime, or Wales turned thiers on then!!

 

[PaarlBok]

That was an awful impressive comeback John, the French certainly seemed to turn off motor at halftime, or Wales turned thiers on then!!

Wales shown their experience over France. They and Ireland is WC favourates.