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Your team of the 6 Nations.
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20-03-2011 4:35am#1
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1. Domingo (FRA)
2. Servant (FRA)
3. Giovanni (ITA)
4. Palmer (ENG)
5. Gray (SCO)
6. O'Brien (IRL)
7. Warburton (WAL)
8. Pairsee (ITA)
9. Youngs (ENG)
10. Flood (ENG)
11. Clerc (FRA)
12. Davies (WAL)
13. O'Driscoll (IRL)
14. Bowe (IRL)
15. Patterson (SCO)
To explain some of the decisions, I thought the French front row was superb, Servant & Domingo were stand out performers in their positions, as was Giovanni for Italy, second row, I think Gray was immense and Palmer was next best lock in the competition, back row Pairsee and O'Brien were both their countries (arguably) best players, and went for unsung hero Warburton of Wales who had a fine tournament.
In the backs, the half-back pairing of Young & Flood were the best pair in the competition, but only failed to out-play one other half back pairing on the day
(which is good news for Leinster when the same two 9/10 axis meet again in the Heineken Cup at the same venue) Clerc was great as usual, moved him onto the left to make way for Bowe who, despite only bagging the one try, was in my opinion the best winger in the competition, the guy transforms a backline, and against Wales especially, was my man of the match, O'Driscoll just keeps on doing it. Don't know how, but the guy is worth his weight in gold.
No inside centre screamed out to me to be picked, but I picked Davies on the basis of him being so young and showing so much ability, that I feel for his first few caps he did extremely well and is the one to watch for the future, and at full-back, vintage vintage full back, Chris Patterson, again try saving tackle against Italy, carbon copy from the week before, he's the fine wine of full-backs.
A total of 3 French, 3 English, 3 Irish, 2 Welsh, 2 Scottish & 2 Italians. A fair reflection of a fairly even competition.
My choice of coach, Martin Johnson. Has balls, picks his best team, got it badly wrong coming to Ireland, but I feel like he's the special breed of coach who has the ability to learn and isn't terrofoed of failure, in fact, it makes him and his team a better one for it.0 -
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Here's the UK Independent's team
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/news-comment/the-team-of-the-six-nations-2249771.html?action=Gallery&ino=15
Interesting to see BOD, POC and Ross as our three representatives. Good to see Richie Gray recognised and interesting comments on Parisse. Don't get the Tom Wood thing at all
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1. Domingo (FRA)
2. Servant (FRA)
3. Giovanni (ITA)
4. Palmer (ENG)
5. Gray (SCO)
6. O'Brien (IRL)
7. Warburton (WAL)
8. Pairsee (ITA)
9. Youngs (ENG)
10. Flood (ENG)
11. Clerc (FRA)
12. Davies (WAL)
13. O'Driscoll (IRL)
14. Bowe (IRL)
15. Patterson (SCO)
To explain some of the decisions, I thought the French front row was superb, Servant & Domingo were stand out performers in their positions, as was Giovanni for Italy, second row, I think Gray was immense and Palmer was next best lock in the competition, back row Pairsee and O'Brien were both their countries (arguably) best players, and went for unsung hero Warburton of Wales who had a fine tournament.
In the backs, the half-back pairing of Young & Flood were the best pair in the competition, but only failed to out-play one other half back pairing on the day (which is good news for Leinster when the same two 9/10 axis meet again in the Heineken Cup at the same venue) Clerc was great as usual, moved him onto the left to make way for Bowe who, despite only bagging the one try, was in my opinion the best winger in the competition, the guy transforms a backline, and against Wales especially, was my man of the match, O'Driscoll just keeps on doing it. Don't know how, but the guy is worth his weight in gold.
No inside centre screamed out to me to be picked, but I picked Davies on the basis of him being so young and showing so much ability, that I feel for his first few caps he did extremely well and is the one to watch for the future, and at full-back, vintage vintage full back, Chris Patterson, again try saving tackle against Italy, carbon copy from the week before, he's the fine wine of full-backs.
A total of 3 French, 3 English, 3 Irish, 2 Welsh, 2 Scottish & 2 Italians. A fair reflection of a fairly even competition.
My choice of coach, Martin Johnson. Has balls, picks his best team, got it badly wrong coming to Ireland, but I feel like he's the special breed of coach who has the ability to learn and isn't terrofoed of failure, in fact, it makes him and his team a better one for it.
Johnson the coach? You got to be kidding! He desperately lacks man-management skills. How could he blend in the Celtic players with the England saxons?
He has no personality. And he has reverted to ten man rugby which is a retrograde step for England in this a world cup year. The big man is tactcally naieve and has a lot to learn on and off the pitch.
He displayed no tactical awareness during the Scottish game, which England were lucky to win and his lack of coaching experience was badly exposed by Ireland's top class performance against England.
So, no way would Johnson be the coach. Like most England teams and backroom staff, they actually believe they are much better than they really are. The England half backs were both replaced against Ireland. They couldn't peform, couldn't take the pressure. And wasn't it Youngs who received a yellow card for petulance? You say no inside centre stood out for you. Well then, Gordon D'Arcy gets in. My goodness all last week the English were talking up big Banahan and how he was going to destroy Ireland's centre partnership. Well, I don't remember big Banahan making any break or playing through either D'Arcy or O'Dricoll. Several leading rugby analysts, former international players, praised D'Arcy's performance and O'Driscoll's describing it as a class act and one that up and coming centres should emulate.
I'd have Declan Kidney as coach with Andy Robinson as assistant. The latter is doing a great job with very limited playing resources in Scotland and the former is a Grand Slam coach who got his team playing the way they are capable of playing with a fantastic result.
Maybe I missed something during the six nations but what other country beat England, besides Ireland?0 -
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