Lancaster’s needless by the numbers tinkering
cost England yet again.It was never going to be the so called gamble of Lancaster’s starting XV that would cost England in their second group match.Picking Farrell an Burgess wasn’t the gamble the...
View ArticleThere’ll only ever be one Jonah Lomu
R.I.P.Sad news that one of rugby’s greats, All Black, Jonah Lomu has died aged only 40 years old.With such players as Jonah Lomu there’s always going to be people compared to him and described as the...
View ArticleEngland, better with thirteen men than
with fourteen.England nearly blew it again against the Taffy Boyos but the pundits got it wrong to blame the near defeat on Eddie Jones’ substitutions.Posted here a number of times of my dislike of...
View ArticleThirteen years
later.England finally won their first Grand Slam since their World Cup triumph, thirteen whole years ago, with a victory in Paris over the French.How did it take so long to go a championship unbeaten?...
View ArticleRoy Hodgson the brave, inspirational, tactical
genius.Apparently we all have to be in awe of the great managerial skills of Roy Hodgson after England came from behind to beat Wales in their Euro 2016 group game.Yes the tactical genius of doing the...
View ArticleThere couldn’t be more fitting a final for such an awful
tournament.Euro 2016 ended as it started and then meandered for a month as the only team to beat Iceland lost the final to the team that qualified out of the group stage below Iceland.In Saint-Denis,...
View ArticleLosing to the Jocks used to be a sacking
offence.For all the games England have won under Eddie Jones, the weekend performance in their loss to Scotland was so abysmal I would be tempted to give him his marching orders.The utter shambles of...
View ArticleCan England go one further than the last time
they were this bad?For only the third time since the competition expanded to the Six Nations, England ended up losing three games, this years competition has echos of the one in 2006, which a year...
View ArticleBut weren’t Wales supposed to win
the Grand Slam.England put the tin lid on Wales’s Six Nations campaign with a comprehensive victory, in which the final scoreline completely flattered the Taffs.After England lost the opening game of...
View ArticleDon’t know what was worse, England, the game
or the drivel from the commentary box.Clueless Southgate produced another clueless managerial performance, getting lucky, again, as a bunch of third division Welsh players lost 3-0 in the forced...
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