England vs Wales, 5pm Sat 6 Feb, Pre/During/Post Match Thread

thomond2006

D Armitage (London Irish); M Cueto (Sale Sharks), M Tait (Sale Sharks), R Flutey (Brive), U Monye (Harlequins); J Wilkinson (Toulon), D Care (Harlequins);
T Payne (Wasps), D Hartley (Northampton), D Wilson (Bath), S Shaw (Wasps), S Borthwick (Saracens, capt), J Haskell (Stade Francais), L Moody (Leicester), N Easter (Harlequins).

Replacements: S Thompson (Brive), D Cole (Leicester), L Deacon (Leicester), S Armitage (London Irish), P Hodgson (London Irish), T Flood (Leicester), B Foden (Northampton).




Lee Byrne (Ospreys); Tom James (Blues), James Hook (Ospreys), Jamie Roberts (Blues), Shane Williams (Ospreys); Stephen Jones (Scarlets); Gareth Cooper (Blues);
Paul James (Ospreys), Gareth Williams (Blues), Adam Jones (Ospreys), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Luke Charteris (Dragons), Andy Powell (Blues), Martyn Williams (Blues), Ryan Jones (Ospreys, capt).

Replacements: Huw Bennett (Ospreys), Rhys Gill (Saracens), Bradley Davies (Blues), Jonathan Thomas (Ospreys), Richie Rees (Blues), Andrew Bishop (Ospreys), Leigh Halfpenny (Blues).

Sangre

Somehow, I wish they could both lose.

stephen_n

Nice to see Johno throwing caution to the wind

chupacabra

Thats a strong English team, have they FINALLY realized what a talent Tait is?

Webbs

A bit of role reversal on last 30years with England likely to play expansive and Wales looking to take them on upfront (though loss of Rees is big blow to this)

Noffles

Rees will be missed, shame.... Surprised to see Cooper start thought... nice to see Roberts and Hook in centre, they should be a good pairing... the rest is fair enough I suppose... Looking a the English team they look like they are going to play an attacking game... we seem a little "meh"....

I'm just not able to get myself going at the moment, "till Saturday comes I suppose"...

Noffles

Gethin Jenkins now out with a calf injury.... Paul James in.... We're going to miss Jenkins for a prop he gets around!!

Webbs

Riki Flutey has been ruled out of the England game with Toby Flood taking his place.
Looks a very lightweight center partnership can see Wilkinson being asked to do a lot of tackling

twinytwo

omfg that may fantast team gone.. flutey,jenkins,sexton, now elissalde is out as well and if drico misses tomorrow im goosed

wixfjord

Webbs wrote: »

Riki Flutey has been ruled out of the England game with Toby Flood taking his place.
Looks a very lightweight center partnership can see Wilkinson being asked to do a lot of tackling

Flood isnt too bad a tackler, but I can see Jamie Roberts going through them a few times tbh.

toomevara

Webbs wrote: »

Riki Flutey has been ruled out of the England game with Toby Flood taking his place.
Looks a very lightweight center partnership can see Wilkinson being asked to do a lot of tackling

Big blow to England's chances of producing an upset.

ScrubsfanChris

toomevara wrote: »

Big blow to England's chances of producing an upset.

Don't know about that, I mean how much game time has Flutey got in the last few weeks?
On the other hand with he out, England have no "stepper" in the centers, ie: to attact the inside shoulder.

andrewdcs

Hook and Roberts are going to have a field day running at that, given half a chance.

toomevara

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Don't know about that, I mean how much game time has Flutey got in the last few weeks?
On the other hand with he out, England have no "stepper" in the centers, ie: to attact the inside shoulder.

Don't get me wrong, I think England are going to beat Wales (just) tomorrow, but Flutey's absence makes it harder. just a massive game first up...whoever looses tomorrow, the seasons going to look grim, no grand slam, no triple crown...the 6N is a cruel mistress and no mistake....

Judgement Day

Yep, it's going to be a tough one. But but despite because of the young pretender Flood being in the team with Jonny I like the look of things. England expects......!

ScrubsfanChris

Wales look better in attack so far, England going backwards when they have the ball.

thomond2006

Gareth Cooper is terrible, second time he has kicked the ball away.

athtrasna

Can't take the English serious in THOSE shirts!! Totally poser!!

Terrible first 25...I'm bored already

handsomecake

athtrasna wrote: »

Can't take the English serious in THOSE shirts!! Totally poser!!

Terrible first 25...I'm bored already

awsome shirts.class looking.almost wish i was engish:P

thomond2006

What are the odds of a draw?

As an Irish fan, it would be the perfect result.

fullstop

What's up with the England jerseys

athtrasna

fullstop wrote: »

What's up with the England jerseys

Centenary of the RFU - replicas of the old shirts (just tighter!)

randomname2005

England up at half time, could be an interesting second half. England look the better team, I don't see Wales doing much unless Roberts and Hook getting a lot of good, quick ball.

funky penguin

I wish we could get jerseys like them, nice mix of old and new.

Hoping for a more up tempo second half here!

Onearmedbandit

Crap game so far. Nothing to worry about if these two play like this when Eire play them. What's with the replays looking all brown? Is that another centenary thing? The shirts are very poseriffic alright.

thomond2006

Great try from England. Care touches down. Been impressd with him so far.

toomevara

Nice try Care. Costly sin-binning for Wales.

Mint Sauce

i kinda like the england shirt, just dont like england rugby, even though i was born and raised there, come on wales

toomevara

NIce try Wales....game on.

thomond2006

lol G'wan Hairbear!

Game on now.

England 20
Wales 10

athtrasna

"the big hairy prop has popped up to score" - George Hamilton you're a legend!

Glad I have Jones on at least one of my fantasy teams!

Alicat

Having a white shirt in Rugby is silly, they just look 'puke green' now.

bleg

Game has come to life now.

RuggieBear

Score? (





Stuck on train)

Mint Sauce

athtrasna wrote: »

"the big hairy prop has popped up to score" - George Hamilton you're a legend!

Glad I have Jones on at least one of my fantasy teams!

just trying to remember which A Jones is on my team, pretty certain its the hairy one

sock puppet

20-10 to England.

randomname2005

Try for Wales, could be an interesting last half hour.

randomname2005

Bad decision by Rolland - never touched the welsh players hand or arm. Should have gone upstairs. Give us an interesting game!!!!

wixfjord

Cooper being given the crook. Think theres only one winner of this

laugh

Gwan Hook.

wixfjord

Try Hook! 20-17 and Prince Harry givin it large in the stands!!

ssaye

hook amazing try 20-17 now

Essien

Fantastic try there, wp James Hook

jd007

Great try by Hook! Good handoff's

cruiserweight

3 ponts in it and 8 minutes to go, should be an interesting finish, mantra for both teams has to be no mistakes and play the territory

toomevara

Great stuff, grandstand finish in store...

ssaye

Can we have a 20 all draw please - signed Ireland

Sherifu

Great try.

Squiggle

Cracking try by Hook - come on Wales ! Give Jonno a kick in the núts for me !

Squiggle

Fúck it :mad:

ssaye

balls