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- Friday August 17, 2012
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- South Wales
Bechet45 said:What cheered you up about our last successful team being ten years ago, Peter?
Gairdner said:That was a glorious day, Peter! English and British Rugby's finest hour.
Gairdner said:Golly, were you there? Actually standing behind the goal? Wow....you've lived some.
Fido said:Feeling depressed. Then reminded myself:
World Cup Final appearances:
New Zealand 3
Australia 3
South Africa 2
France 3
England 3
Grand Slams
Nation Grand Slams Grand Slam winning seasons
England 12 1913, 1914, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1957, 1980, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2003
Wales 11 1908*, 1909*, 1911, 1950, 1952, 1971, 1976, 1978, 2005, 2008, 2012 wales is nations champions 2013 six nations
France 9 1968, 1977, 1981, 1987, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2010
Scotland 3 1925, 1984, 1990
Ireland 2 1948, 2009
Italy 0
UKRob said:Jamie, I would guess that you were quite pleased with the result then.
Rob
p.s. I'm off to Germany for a couple of days fortunately. I don't think I can take any more photos of triumphant red shirts.
pugh-the-special-one said:UKRob said:Jamie, I would guess that you were quite pleased with the result then.
Rob
p.s. I'm off to Germany for a couple of days fortunately. I don't think I can take any more photos of triumphant red shirts.
Very pleased Rob, but I always knew that this team was a very good team, but poor Rob Howley was thrown in at the deep end and he had to step in when Gatland was quite badly injured when he was going to lead the team to Australia, so Rob Howley basically went from being an attack coach for Wales and all of a sudden being head coach is a big ask, then we lost the three tests in Australia by a combined score of 4 points, when in reality we should have won three nil, and during that time Rob Howley really showed how good a coach he his not moving away from his philosophy and with some major injuries during the autumn internationals we were somehow written off, but I still think England and Wales will both be in with a shout come the next world cup, one glaring observation regarding the English backline play and a something that could easily be put right, your outside center Tualagi can be a devastating runner with ball in hand but they need to tell him to pass the ball more because those outside runners must be frustrated, your backrow is a quality unit, and so is your second row, but a frontrow needs to be found the likes of Leonard Probyn and Vickery are not easy to come by, and what would England give for a Wil Greenwood in the center, I'm sure England have the right people in charge and they will be sorting things out as we speak.
Jamie.
Bechet45 said:Did you watch Mano Tuilagi playing Tigers-style this afternoon? He scored two of our four as we trashed Saints, amongst other things and being declared Man of the Match and a very strong contender for the Lions Squad.
If only England could play like Tigers and Tigers could play like this afternoon all the time!!
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