Six Nations 2015

[formerflanker]

Absolutely nothing wrong with the tackle at all. Cracker of a hit.

I looked at the replay in Shelts89 post, and it seems Lawes is launching himself at Plisson while Plisson is in the act of swinging his arms across his body to pass - and the ball is still in his hands.
Legal tackle. Unfair - yes. French forwards should take appropriate remedial action!

 

[Cardiffblue]

One thought struck me as I was pretending to work and watching replays. If we are going to see a repeat of consecutive games like that in the future something is going to have to be done 1) about watching unusual betting activity on the games and 2) an integrity commission established to investigate match fixing. Not suggesting for a second that any of the teams Saturday threw the games but I can see circumstances where individuals might, specially in a game where the laws are so complex refs can basically decide the outcome of any match. When they and the team with nothing to win know what score teams are aiming for one could imagine them arranging it very easily. Whilst we might not wish to believe it possible in rugby, match fixing has raised its ugly head everywhere else. Imo, despite the excitement that built through the night, I believe that simultaneous time tabling of fixtures is safer

 

[Bardon]

Having the games on at the same time certainly would remove the factor of teams knowing what they needed but it would significantly reduce the audience for the games. Irish people would have watched Ireland V Scotland only, Welsh - Italy v Wales etc. While Saturday's set up kept everyone enthralled for over seven hours.

Match fixing is something we definitely have to be aware of, especially once the Olympics raises the profile of the sport. It will have to be at all levels though. Finding out that players from two minnows conspired at a RWC to fix how many lineouts were stolen would still be pretty damaging to the games reputation.

In the future the game will probably be forced to have silmultaneous games to end games in the 6Ns and RWC pools. It would probably be difficult to do it in TRC though.

For now I'm just going to enjoy days like Saturday while I still can and hope that this is one issue where World Rugby will take a proactive stance.

 

[Bardon]

S impossible. Best you can do is pick a 'where wouldn't I pick current Irishman xv'.

I just tried that and I only dropped Devon tone for awj. Tried it for Wales and ended up with two new props and for England they got foxy as a new outside centre, warbs for Haskell and replacement for Hartley.

It was certainly a tough task but the team is picked. Check out Lee Grant's excellent article:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/six-nations-team-of-the-tournament-2015/

 

[Cardiffblue]

It was certainly a tough task but the team is picked. Check out Lee Grant's excellent article:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/six-nations-team-of-the-tournament-2015/

It's good. Little surprised with no 8 choice. Heaslip or the man formerly known as Toby for me.

but tbh I think I'd Pick the entire welsh team or the entire Irish over this composite. Too many players in your team owe the performances and their places in your team to those around them.

 

[Shelts89]

Very strong team in that link. I might not agree with all of them, but I can certainly see the reasoning behind the picks.

 

[the plastic paddy]

Shame that some of the England players have felt the need to criticise the efforts of their fellow pros in Scotland and Italy. France made the grand total of 104 tackles with 81% success compared to Scotland's 155 at 87%.

 

[Shelts89]

Shame that some of the England players have felt the need to criticise the efforts of their fellow pros in Scotland and Italy. France made the grand total of 104 tackles with 81% success compared to Scotland's 155 at 87%.

Have they? I haven't heard any of this. Doesn't look good if they have, I wouldn't want that from my national team. And I have always thought that the team has been doing a job to come across as good eggs under Lancaster.

 

[the plastic paddy]

Have they? I haven't heard any of this. Doesn't look good if they have, I wouldn't want that from my national team. And I have always thought that the team has been doing a job to come across as good eggs under Lancaster.

Article in the Torygraph, I would put a link up but on phone. Richie, credit to him, is not blaming anyone else though.

 

[Shelts89]

I'll have a looksie later. Disappointing, I don't want to think there is any sort of match fixing in the sport.

 

[the plastic paddy]

It is complete nonsense. Scotland were battered by a relentlessly accurate Irish performance: the Scots only got two scrum put ins. The Scots made 155 tackles at 87% compared to France 104 at 81%. It is sour grapes, sad to say.

 

[Bardon]

Review of the tournament is up if anyone wants to check it out:

http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/2015-six-nations-in-review/

 

[Shelts89]

It is complete nonsense. Scotland were battered by a relentlessly accurate Irish performance: the Scots only got two scrum put ins. The Scots made 155 tackles at 87% compared to France 104 at 81%. It is sour grapes, sad to say.

Sad to hear, I mean Stuart Hogg clearly needs to practice holding onto a ball but that's just for the good of his own game you know

 

[Cardiffblue]

Sad to hear, I mean Stuart Hogg clearly needs to practice holding onto a ball but that's just for the good of his own game you know

Stuart Hogg would be a great player in any national side but Scotland. These days it's harder and harder for the Mavericks to shine unless the back row forwards are cohesive. Players like Hogg make breaks all the time but just get isolated and turnovers are almost guaranteed

 

[Shelts89]

Stuart Hogg would be a great player in any national side but Scotland. These days it's harder and harder for the Mavericks to shine unless the back row forwards are cohesive. Players like Hogg make breaks all the time but just get isolated and turnovers are almost guaranteed​

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I was making a joke based upon Heaslip knocking the ball out of his hand meaning England needed an extra try. But yeah I really like Hogg as a player, as you say its just plain unlucky for him to be Scottish! ​

 

[mxyzptlk]

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I was making a joke based upon Heaslip knocking the ball out of his hand meaning England needed an extra try. But yeah I really like Hogg as a player, as you say its just plain unlucky for him to be Scottish! ​