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Harlequins	Steven_Sharks
Leicester Tigers	LukeLovesLuka
London Irish	stnick88
London Wasps	Arry
Newcastle Falcons	Sgt_Pooly
Northampton Saints	Dammit_Chris
Sale Sharks	SirJohnnyEnglish
Saracens	Ozzy3213
Worcester Warriors	prop_lyd

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Waiting List
1. pullthestrings
2. Bathite

Why kick away turnover ball!! So infuriating

Morgan really growing into Int rugby, Gloucester have got a gem. Cole having a great 6N

Really like Morgan think he can be up there as one of the best Number 8's in the Northen Hemisphere soon.

Rougerie, Medard, Mermoz, Toeava, Murray, Simmons could all leave...will get back to offers tomorrow probably not around for long

Loving this! Total scrum dominance and man for man better in the pack. Loving Croft outplaying Ferris after his arrogant jibe

And there's the Ben Youngs we all know & love!!! Where've you been Ben??????

Chuffed for Morgan, he was outstanding. His face was brilliant when it was read out

Morgan was so dynamic. The fact Lancaster started dowson above him
To start with shows you why Lancaster should not be England coach

Very nice watch Healy, Best and Court take a hammering at the scrum. The idea of Healy being the best in the world is unfathomable to me.

Morgan exceptional, Cole been magnificent.

Don't understand your problem with Lancaster Matt. Mallett would be a disaster as coach and Lancaster couldn't do anymore with a newly assembled squad.

To be fair Court is a LH, but you can only play whats infront of you.

No excuses from Ireland. They don;t have TH cover. Deserve what they got.

Too right not our issue but when your TH constantly crumbles it's hard for a LH to do anything about it. Big fan of Healy myself

Healy hasn't got the scrumagging game to be the best in the world. See him going backwards to often. He is like Gethin Jenkins in the loose but Jenkins much better in the scrum.

I think Healy generally scrummages well, probably not world class but he's a cracking player. Be great alongside Cole.

Jenkins takes some right hidings for the Blues but looks great with Jones.

Jenkins does struggle with the Blues but he is there best TH as they have some real dross there.

Lovely try from Youngs.

Didn't recognise Youngs from previous games.

Service was fast and played on instinct. Week back at Tigers done him wonders

Steve my problem with Lancaster Steve is that I think he will be a pushover with for the rfu.

He will not challenge them and they are massively interfering. Also to see him hugging and back slapping all the players looks too matey. Coaches need to be detached slightly from the playing group.

Also he is massively under experienced. Mallet is strong and his own man Lancaster is weak

Pretty fair ratings:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/mar/17/england-ireland-six-nations-ratings?cat=sport&type=article

Think everybody in the pack deserves at least a 7 after out muscling the Irish pack. Front row deserve the plaudits though.

Still unsure on Farrell, he kicks away too much possession especially turnover ball. His tactical kicking was hit and miss but grew into the game more in the 2nd.

Was at the tottenham game today.

Shocking. Seen physios run on a million times, but to see him doing CPR an awful site. Can't believe Muamba is still alive. They were still trying to resuscitate him when they took him off the pitch ten minutes later. Was quite close to it all. He seemed to be having convulsions as the physio arrived.

Whole episode has really cut me up. Never known an atmosphere like that at a football match.

Jesus Christ Luke bet that was so scary, was on my way out when I heard the news just not something you can fully get your head round, hope has a quick recovery

Mate that is awful. The fact that they aren't really saying very much about ow he is is not a good sign I don't think. Sad sad day for football and sport as whole really.

What happened???

What was the decision on EQ for next season Pete?

Absolutely horrendous thing to happen. Very strange feeling as its difficult to stop thinking about it and what's happened although I didn't hear about it till well after it happened.

Steven_Sharks wrote:Absolutely horrendous thing to happen. Very strange feeling as its difficult to stop thinking about it and what's happened although I didn't hear about it till well after it happened.

What's happened????

Fabrice Muamba (Bolton Player) collapsed on pitch yeserday in game v Spurs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17417973

That tells it better

Was awful to hear, you just don't expect it to happen to professional sports people. Poor bloke, hopefully he will be ok as he's in the place to get the best treatment.

Sgt_Pooly wrote:What happened???

What was the decision on EQ for next season Pete?

6 people wanted it changed to 4 starters, and 6 people wanted it to remain as 5 starters. I think without a majority wanting it changed it will stay as it is with 10 in the matchday squad and a minimum of 5 starting.

I once played in a school match and a guy on my team tackled a lad not hard or anything and the kid just died there and then.

He had this sudden death syndrome or something like that. It was nothing to do with the tackle. Apparently all your internal organs age like an 80 year old when you are 11-21. They did not know this kid had it. Think they can test for it now.

Ozzy3213 wrote:

Sgt_Pooly wrote:What happened???

What was the decision on EQ for next season Pete?

6 people wanted it changed to 4 starters, and 6 people wanted it to remain as 5 starters. I think without a majority wanting it changed it will stay as it is with 10 in the matchday squad and a minimum of 5 starting.

Close to a big change there! Would have totally changed next season I think.

Have you thought of increasing the EQ for the HQ Pete? Would put us on a more level playing field with other teams perhaps

That's a potentially good idea mate, I'll see what everyone thinks.

That's a good idea from my point of view. Makes It more realistic

mat - take it your not Lancaster's biggest fan from a few of your comments. Would you prefer Mallet to take the post?

I have to admit my opinion on him has changed a lot since the start of the 6Nations - after the Scotland and Italy games I was dreading the worst, but he's really pulled the team together and I think I have almost seen a structure to our game on at least two occasions this 6Nations!

Have been impressed with Robshaw's leadership this tournament - having a match day backrow of Croft, Robshaw, Morgan with Wood on the bench would be pretty impressive and I dont think Dowson should be in the England squad.

As much as I like Dickson I think he needs to develop more to his game to be an England starter - he's great at setting the tempo, but like to see a no9 who can do what Youngs did yesterday too. Care would be perfect, but needs to get himself together again.

There are positives and negatives from this campaign as there always is going to be, but I think the positives outweigh the negatives on this occasion.

I'd like to see Lancaster given the opportunity to take this team forward. There are a few players that need to be replaced to get up to a level where we can regularly compete with the SANZAR nations, but that has to be an evolutionary process not a revolutionary one.

Lancaster is making us a tough team to beat, which is a great starting point. Moving forward we need to see if he can develop us into a team to put fear into opponent. It could be exciting times ahead for England rugby.

Rowntree is an amazing forwards coach - the Welsh tried to poach him after the WC, so glad he stayed! Does anyone know if we send our younger props to him for training e.g. Marler, Thomas. Cole and Corbs have been great.

From what I've read Farrell has been a key part in the coaching set up, a lot of players are saying how motivational he is - wonder if the RFU appoint Lancaster they will also buy Farrell out of his Sarries contract.

anyone heard anything about the incident where Ferris was claiming that an English player bite him?

Heard talk of it during game, Ferris reckons his finger was bit I think.

Ben Youngs....obviously, er obviously, look forward to the 2nd half obviously, obviously a good game yesterday obviously.

I have a feeling that it could have been Hartley who did something to Ferris - few Saints fans I know say that something definitely happened in the game from both sides.

Ford's kicking display has been brilliant today

amazed at how Tigers have kept 14 players on the field here today - so many infringements, ref missing so much off the ball!

Does any one else here see a potential England back three of

11.Johnny May
15.Ben Foden
14.Johnathan Joseph

Can see Barritt and Tuilagi being centres for a long time to come. Although Toby Flood could end up back at 12 for Tigers yet

Don't think JJ is an Int winger, he does a job there in a AP but isn't as effective as 13. Flood won't play 12, Bowden will next season I imagine.

I'd be interested to see how well Christian Wade does next year - I always thought he would be a bit too small, but as soon as he's got injured at Wasps our tries have just dried up completely - I dont think I've seen someone as fast as him on a rugby pitch before - would have liked to have seen him in the Saxons this summer, but not sure if he will recover quick enough.

I almost sold him last summer for £1m as didnt think he would make it, but he definitely proved me wrong this year.

Some of you might be good for this...

Am currently arranging a stag do and am looking for any good ideas, themes, events etc - what we can dress the stag up as...

Pooly I get the feeling you might be a good person to ask for this sort of thing!

I want to get rid of the EQ altogether in the HC. I think it makes it more interesting. I think it brings it more level than increasing EQ as the better sides have better EQ and more depth.

Wouldnt mind at all if we changed EQ rules for HC at all.

With the 40 player rule it should mean that squads are overall a lot closer anyhow

dammit_chris wrote:Some of you might be good for this...

Am currently arranging a stag do and am looking for any good ideas, themes, events etc - what we can dress the stag up as...

Pooly I get the feeling you might be a good person to ask for this sort of thing!

Best thing to do is book a weekend away in some where like Leeds in a youth hostel as it's cheap and student life.

During the day take up a Leeds game in fancy dress with the stag being forced to dress in a man kinie or something along them lines before a crazy night on the town

Leeds is a great place for a night out - one of my favourite rugby tours was in Leeds - one of my worst games was the day after the first night out...

We went there year and was cracking night out , played West Park Leeds 2nds on the Saturday and Lancaster was volunteering behind the bar because they were short staffed!

Only got told this 2 weeks ago lol

Liverpool is this years destination! May 4th be with you!

Can't beat Liverpool or Dublin for stag close to home, Bratislava is a good shout for cheap foreign.

Top gun theme always goes down well with the women & really cheap to do. Green overalls (£3) raybans (£2) and a white t-shirt and your good to go.

Can always get some dog tags or name tags made up (groom - maverick etc)

Just seen the Calum Clark incident from the game earlier. I suspect he may in for a long spell on the sidelines.

What he do pete?