Paphos Life

Meanwhile a nation is in mourning.

Clinical in attack, not so good in defence ............ but a great result!


Shane

England hammer Italy.

Final positions according to Alan:
England
Ireland
Wales
France
Scotland
Italy.

Alan

Where's France?

AL

emgee wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:46 pm Final positions according to Alan:
England
Ireland
Wales
Scotland
Italy.

Alan

Is it over already?

Al

Who cares ?

Jackie

PaphosAL wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:51 pm Where's France?

AL

Just below England as always!


Shane

Glad to see that emgee edited his 5 nations post to now include France for 6 nations. But I would rather have wished Scotland to finish at least above France...

AL

Scotland promised so much, but it never arrived.

Alan

Well done ENGLAND hammering Wales.

WM
Wouldn’t actually call it a hammering!

Suetal wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:05 am WM
Wouldn’t actually call it a hammering!

I did!!

Wales needed a "Plan B", but it never materialised. Time for Gatland to go and get a native Welshman in charge of our team.

Alan

The last thing Wales need is a native Welshman in charge. The WRU is the most inward looking organisations in the sport and have probably struggled the most to evolve during the professional era. Bringing in foreigners like Graham Hendry and Warren Gatland has helped develop the game dramatically over the last 15 years or so.
I do agree that Gatland should consider moving on, 10 years with the same team is too long to be expected to come up with fresh ideas, but I think the last thing the WRU needs now is to go backwards and start offering 'jobs for the boys'.

William Morris wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:01 amWe

If you think that 12 - 6 is a hammering you're definitely not a Rugby supporter.

emgee wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2018 2:37 pm Wales needed a "Plan B", but it never materialised. Time for Gatland to go and get a native Welshman in charge of our team.

Alan

Wales's game plan was fine, and could have won them the game. Their problem was too many high kicks to Mike Brown, which he fielded brilliantly.

Please define "hammering". Purely for the non supporter,, of course.

William Morris wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 8:32 am Please define "hammering". Purely for the non supporter,, of course.

A hammering is a heavy defeat. I wouldn't call 12 - 6 a heavy defeat.

Hudswell wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2018 9:15 am Actually in the context of his match...I would suggest England overwealmed the Welsh by sheer power, effectively "hammering" them not the ground....although I must admit I did get a bit twitchy in the last 10 minutes! Wales picked their socks up and showed what they were capable of..much was made of his support fitness of the Welsh team, but I didn't see much evidence f that.

The stats don't support your argument. Possession England 49% Wales 51%, Metres gained England 411, Wales 501, Defenders beaten England 18 Wales 23, Turnovers England 10 Wales 16, Scrums even, Penalties against England 10 Wales 2. England made a lot more use of their ball, and deserved to win, but certainly no "hammering".

I think it was a very evenly matched game, although I think if Halfpenny had been fit it may have been a different result, he would have kicked for goal instead of touch with a lot of those penalties but it was not to be.
As it was England deserved the win and Brown was unstoppable when Wales just kept feeding him the ball.