Six Nations 2015

[the plastic paddy]

The way Walsh has refereed his last couple of super matches, you guys are lucky.

Could he be back on the grog? Seems very strange to pull out of a game like this. As the son of an alcoholic I would take zero pleasure in Walsh falling off the wagon I would add.

 

[mxyzptlk]

I think both sides are going to look to play a lot more rugby.

That tends to be the pattern. England and France are arm-wrestles, Wales is a wider game.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Italy v France:

15 Luke McLean, 14 Leonardo Sarto, 13 Luca Morisi, 12 Andrea Masi, 11 Giovambattista Venditti, 10 Kelly Haimona, 9 Edoardo Gori, 8 Sergio Parisse, 7 Samuela Vunisa, 6 Francesco Minto, 5 Joshua Furno, 4 George Fabio Biagi, 3 Dario Chistolini, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 1 Matias Aguero.
Replacements: 16 Andrea Manici, 17 Alberto De Marchi, 18 Lorenzo Cittadini, 19 Marco Barbini, 20 Guglielmo Palazzini, 22 Tommaso Allan, 23 Enrico Bacchin.

Parisse will become Italy's most-capped player.

http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_36844,00.html

 

[Shelts89]

Fingers crossed for a tight Welsh win... gives us poms a chance

Though in all seriousness I expect the Irish to win a tight game, I just think they play very smart rugby right now.

England: 15 Mike Brown, 14 Anthony Watson, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Luther Burrell, 11 Jack Nowell, 10 George Ford, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Chris Robshaw (c), 6 James Haskell, 5 Courtney Lawes, 4 Dave Attwood, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Joe Marler

I'd expect this team to win, but I still think we desperately need someone half decent at 12! Pack strength is looking good for us though.

 

[Cardiffblue]

Great second half

 

[Cardiffblue]

Both teams

 

[Cardiffblue]

Holy fuck we won!

Glad I kicked the optimism gnome out this week

 

[Cardiffblue]

Och aye the noo. Cmon scotland

 

[Cardiffblue]

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/wales-v-ireland-six-nations-8835646

Hahaha

Plenty for Francis to whinge about

 

[Cardiffblue]

Cmon Scotland score another

 

[Cardiffblue]

Chwarae teg. Ball in hand they're tearing the orcs apart

 

[Cardiffblue]

Laidlaw needs to stop kicking

 

[Highlander35]

Lucky not to be 3 tries down after about 20 minutes, but then perhaps should have had a second in that last 7 or 8 minutes.

Still a lot of issues especially on Defence. Scrums are only holding up through the wily play of Euan Murray.

But it'll be another performance where the effort far exceeds the total execution, making 4 out of 4.

 

[Cardiffblue]

Re run of the first half. Cmon scotland. Hang on in there

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Wales 23-16 Ireland

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/...old-off-ireland-to-blow-six-nations-wide-open

England 25-13 Scotland

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/...d-in-six-nations-clash-but-could-rue-mistakes

England, Ireland & Wales all on 6 points going into the final round:

Wales v Italy away
Ireland v Scotland away
England v France at home

Ireland still very slight favs IMO.

 

[Cardiffblue]

Shame jocks ran out of steam, players and ideas in the end.

 

[Shelts89]

Thank f*c k we won that. That should have been a massacre for us, but credit to Scotland for hanging on in there, but we should have been at least 2 tries up, possibly 3 by 10 minutes. Need some accuracy, wouldn't see the All Blacks create 2 on 1's with the full back and not score.

 

[Marcelo]

With this performance Wales scares me. They were very intense at the breakdown, we have to improve a lot to beat them

 

[Cardiffblue]

Massive d from Wales. Sean Edwards is a genius. Would love to know how many of those running yards gained by Ireland were yards over the gain line

 

[Cardiffblue]

Thank f*c k we won that. That should have been a massacre for us, but credit to Scotland for hanging on in there, but we should have been at least 2 tries up, possibly 3 by 10 minutes. Need some accuracy, wouldn't see the All Blacks create 2 on 1's with the full back and not score.

Darkness defence wouldn't leak like the Scottish in the first place