2015 Six Nations

[thebish]

Ha! Scotland (snigger!)

[Worthy4England]

Ha! Scotland (snigger!)

That's the three teams directly above them, they've lost to. Just the easy teams to play, now, to avoid another spune.

[TANGODANCER]

France were their own worst enemies there.

[thebish]

France were their own worst enemies there.

the welsh try was classy - but they've survived on kicking for quite a long time - must be summat in the water as they have had some annoyingly brilliant exponents...

[TANGODANCER]

Confessing I'm not familiar with the current Irish side. I loved them when Steve Wood, O'Driscoll and O'Gara were playing, but I'm a bit out of touch with this lot. Sorry to see Mike Brown out from his injury for us.

[thebish]

well - that was an irritating and frustrating first half!!! niggly, stupid errors in all the most dangerous places - losing TWO lineouts during the most territorially dominant phase we had - then - on 39mins40secs - we have possession, but kick it away... why not go through the phases - put the irish under pressure - and go for the try and as a back up settle for a penalty/drop goal??

let's hope it's like the welsh game and we come out a different team - cos that was pretty disjointed...

[Worthy4England]

Yes to the above. WTF were we trying to do at those two lineouts? Hit 2 or 4 and have the ball thanks. I did also think that last move, there was an offside that should have been a kick to us.

[thebish]

Bollox - worse.. Bollocking kicked the bollocking conv too

[Worthy4England]

How many penalties? Great play by Ireland.

[thebish]

Feckity feck - how many times are we going to get isolated and give away penalties?? Answer: every fecking time we have possession.
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[thebish]

Also what's gone wrong with our lineouts - we're getting murdered

[Worthy4England]

Good morning Mr Healey. What a hit from Coles.

Too many mistakes from Irish pressure.

[thebish]

We have no ideas - hoof and hope...

[thebish]

Feck - stupid! Drive too soon.
. Arse!

[thebish]

Well done Ireland - fewer errors, better kicking - deserved win

[Worthy4England]

Great tactical performance. Deserved win. Billy Twelvetrees passed it like Stevie fecking Wonder. Two try scoring chances last 5 mins, not taken...had the chance and didn't take it.

[TANGODANCER]

Of the six teams, England are the least passionate. Composed, yes, hard to beat on a long stretch yes. Slow to get going, yes. Always think there's plenty time, yes. We win wars and test matches and losing anything of ninety minutes or one day at cricket. Bottom line, Ireland wanted it more. We always give silly penalties away and we should never have let them score that try. Our line-outs are a bit pathetic at times and we never really got a run at anything first half. They defended well when we finally got going, but the old "too little too late" sums it up. My dad would have been delighted, I just did some swearing.

[thebish]

Of the six teams, England are the least passionate. Composed, yes, hard to beat on a long stretch yes. Slow to get going, yes. Always think there's plenty time, yes. We win wars and test matches and losing anything of ninety minutes or one day at cricket. Bottom line, Ireland wanted it more.

nahhh - don't think that's true at all... bottom line was that Ireland were more precise at key moments and in key areas. The defeat was nothing to do with lack of passion or "wanting it" (in my opinion).

[Prufrock]

Yeah, don't buy that. Two v committed teams, and the better one were that little bit better in every area.

[TANGODANCER]

Oh, all right, frustration talking. We wanted it all right in the back half of it all, but by then we were trying to climb out of a hole and up a slippery slope.