Guinness SIX Nations 2021

Dwarf.Shortage · 07-02-2021 03:26PM

Who does the coverage for BBC? Not sure I am in the mood for Alan Quinlan today

Buer · 07-02-2021 03:28PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Plot twist. Buer and Thomond are the one entity. Ever seen Fight Club?

F*ck. Right. Off.

thomond2006 · 07-02-2021 03:32PM

Buer wrote: »

F*ck. Right. Off.

Yeah, shut up Zzippy.

Zzippy · 07-02-2021 03:33PM

Buer wrote: »

F*ck. Right. Off.

Face your demons Buer. You're a bogger-slash-hipster with a love of Munster and a fetish for pear in a bacon sandwich.

OldRio · 07-02-2021 03:34PM

Dwarf.Shortage wrote: »

Who does the coverage for BBC? Not sure I am in the mood for Alan Quinlan today

Warburton Heaslip and Johnson are doing the pre game and are very very good

.ak · 07-02-2021 03:36PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Plot twist. Buer and Thomond are the one entity. Ever seen Fight Club?

I thought we agreed we weren’t telling them this? They aren’t ready...

lawrencesummers · 07-02-2021 04:01PM

Wales by 3.

I hope not but they are being completely underestimated and Pivac is an excellent coach.

DJIMI TRARORE · 07-02-2021 04:13PM

Needs a bit more kicking in this game

lawred2 · 07-02-2021 04:26PM

Not a great start

Scratchly · 07-02-2021 06:38PM

Warburton on BBC very positive after that saying its a good start for Wales and they'll kick on with the momentum.

Surely Pivac answered nothing in that game. Wales were very close to losing and were outplayed for most of the game despite having a man advantage for most of it.

A win is a win but there can't be any confidence gained by that performance.

07-02-2021 06:41PM

Scratchly wrote: »

Warburton on BBC very positive after that saying its a good start for Wales and they'll kick on with the momentum.

Surely Pivac answered nothing in that game. Wales were very close to losing and were outplayed for most of the game despite having a man advantage for most of it.

A win is a win but there can't be any confidence gained by that performance.

Wales were incomprehensively bad and only two massive errors from Earls one after another and an uncharacteristic mistake from Ringrose kept them in the game.

They showed and offered nothing and I don't see them kicking on from this at all.

lawred2 · 07-02-2021 06:55PM

Scratchly wrote: »

Warburton on BBC very positive after that saying its a good start for Wales and they'll kick on with the momentum.

Surely Pivac answered nothing in that game. Wales were very close to losing and were outplayed for most of the game despite having a man advantage for most of it.

A win is a win but there can't be any confidence gained by that performance.

Another example of the folly that is employing a lad barely out of the panel to talk about his friends

Burkie1203 · 07-02-2021 07:06PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Wales were incomprehensively bad and only two massive errors from Earls one after another and an uncharacteristic mistake from Ringrose kept them in the game.

They showed and offered nothing and I don't see them kicking on from this at all.

Wales are away to Scotland next week. If they win that they have some momentum. Sometimes a win or two changes everything for a team.

thomond2006 · 07-02-2021 08:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Wales were incomprehensively bad and only two massive errors from Earls one after another and an uncharacteristic mistake from Ringrose kept them in the game.

They showed and offered nothing and I don't see them kicking on from this at all.

Wales won the tournament in 2013 after losing in the first game against Ireland at home, where Ireland completely dismantled them in the first half with the second half turning into a training run. Wales then went to Paris and won by 10 in one of the worst 6N games for a long time. They ended the tournament by destroying England and claiming the trophy on points difference.

In such a short tournament you only need to turn up in 2 or 3 games to get the job done. In Ireland's 2009 GS run you could argue the only game they outperformed themselves was the opener against France.

lawrencesummers · 07-02-2021 09:19PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Wales won the tournament in 2013 after losing in the first game against Ireland at home, where Ireland completely dismantled them in the first half with the second half turning into a training run. Wales then went to Paris and won by 10 in one of the worst 6N games for a long time. They ended the tournament by destroying England and claiming the trophy on points difference.

In such a short tournament you only need to turn up in 2 or 3 games to get the job done. In Ireland's 2009 GS run you could argue the only game they outperformed themselves was the opener against France.

You could argue that alright.

But you would be wrong

joseywhales · 07-02-2021 09:52PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Wales were incomprehensively bad and only two massive errors from Earls one after another and an uncharacteristic mistake from Ringrose kept them in the game.

They showed and offered nothing and I don't see them kicking on from this at all.

Earls missed a catch,gave away a penalty, kicked away a turnover and ringrose missed an offload?

This is some take on a game where a player got red carded in the first 15 minutes and the out half kicked a penalty out on the full in the last play of the game that they lost by 5 points.

hahashake · 08-02-2021 12:35AM

France by far the team of the weekend even if Italy are barely tier 1.

Maybe harsh on Scotland but they were dominant in most areas and yet couldn't turn that into points. Wales lucky to win after playing a man up for most of the game.

RugbyLover123 · 08-02-2021 11:54AM

Interesting to see Ian McGeechan has Murray and Russell as his half back pairing on his team of the week. He obviously doesn’t read BoardsðŸ€£

Podge_irl · 08-02-2021 11:58AM

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Interesting to see Ian McGeechan has Murray and Russell as his half back pairing on his team of the week. He obviously doesn’t read Boards&#55356;&#56355;

Good thing he doesn't coach anymore either.

Burkie1203 · 08-02-2021 12:26PM

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Interesting to see Ian McGeechan has Murray and Russell as his half back pairing on his team of the week. He obviously doesn’t read BoardsðŸ€£

Is Russell any good at chasing box kicks

08-02-2021 12:35PM

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Interesting to see Ian McGeechan has Murray and Russell as his half back pairing on his team of the week. He obviously doesn’t read Boards&#55356;&#56355;

He obviously doesn't watch the games either.

Even Murray's mother would admit he stunk out the Principality yesterday.

crossman47 · 08-02-2021 12:36PM

RugbyLover123 wrote: »

Interesting to see Ian McGeechan has Murray and Russell as his half back pairing on his team of the week. He obviously doesn’t read Boards&#55356;&#56355;

Nonsense to pick Murray if hes including France in his team but he was the best of the rest.

08-02-2021 12:36PM

Russell was genuinely appalling for Scotland, they won in spite of him.

Podge_irl · 08-02-2021 01:06PM

AdamD wrote: »

Russell was genuinely appalling for Scotland, they won in spite of him.

Close run thing between whether picking Russell or NOT picking Dupont is worse but if true they are both utterly absurd selections.

hirondelle · 08-02-2021 01:37PM

AdamD wrote: »

Russell was genuinely appalling for Scotland, they won in spite of him.

I agree- and also note that the BBC gave him MOTM, the Guardian was swooning over hm etc. I can't understand how some people seem to gloss over the truly crap things he did in the game. Even the drop goal attempt at the end- the pass to hm was poor so he should have readjusted and not just kicked it anyway.

Podge_irl · 08-02-2021 01:52PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

Close run thing between whether picking Russell or NOT picking Dupont is worse but if true they are both utterly absurd selections.

To further things, it was his Lions XV of the week and hence no Dupont.

Pretty happy he's not coaching the Lions anymore.

aloooof · 08-02-2021 01:53PM

AdamD wrote: »

Russell was genuinely appalling for Scotland, they won in spite of him.

It's almost incredible how well Scotland's entire backline played, considering how poorly Russell did.

I think we could have expected it from Maitland and Hogg, but I was extremely impressed with their new 12, Redpath, who I knew nothing about before that game. Some performance for your debut in Twickenham.

Digifriendly · 08-02-2021 01:59PM

aloooof wrote: »

It's almost incredible how well Scotland's entire backline played, considering how poorly Russell did.

I think we could have expected it from Maitland and Hogg, but I was extremely impressed with their new 12, Redpath, who I knew nothing about before that game. Some performance for your debut in Twickenham.

I agree. Bizarrely not only did BBC make Russell MOTM but Maggie Alphonso had him in 6 N team of the weekend in today's Telegraph!

crossman47 · 08-02-2021 02:25PM

Digifriendly wrote: »

I agree. Bizarrely not only did BBC make Russell MOTM but Maggie Alphonso had him in 6 N team of the weekend in today's Telegraph!

Ask yourself who was better? Not Farrell, Sexton or Biggar so he gets it for the good things he did.

Trey13 · 08-02-2021 02:27PM

Thought Russell was better than people make out. He had a few moment of madness which will always stand out unfortunately. But he got the backline moving reasonably well, better than Farrell did. Farrell just kicked up and unders, even inside the 10m line whereas at least Russell will try something inventive. Poor execution on a few kicks and the drop kick was bizarre. But I’d have him as the best 10 this weekend. Or do people think Sexton, Biggar or Farrell were better? Very hard to win away at Twickenham and the 10 usually is at the forefront.

On 9, probably not a lot between Murray and Price’s performances this week. Standard wasn’t amazing but I think people are being very critical of a guy who clearly knows the sport well.

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