The English style of play

Interesting example of how English age-group players are encouraged to play.

England u18 try

With play like that it's amazing we've only scored 200 tries in the 6N

Lovely stuff. Out of interest, does anyone know if that was early in the game or was it when England were 40 points up already?

God...I'm sick and tired looking at English push-over tries!

Oh yeah a reet bobby-dazzler!

Beautiful

Comfortably better than that try scored by that Edwards bloke forty years ago

Just as well we coach all that out of them before they make the senior grade. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.

I counted two forward passes, three illegal blocks and some genuinely poor defence. Have no time for this basketball rugby.

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:I counted two forward passes, three illegal blocks and some genuinely poor defence. Have no time for this basketball rugby.

Tish and pish kiakahakkbb, kiakahavjkl, kiakayhvk, kiaka-fubble-dubble

Excellent stuff from the youngsters.

Cyril on 606v2 wrote:Comfortably better than that try scored by that Edwards bloke forty years ago

Just as well we coach all that out of them before they make the senior grade. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.

Exactly!!

They've obviously been skipping gym sessions and defence classes to work on those skills, the gall of it!

Sugarlump wrote:

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:I counted two forward passes, three illegal blocks and some genuinely poor defence. Have no time for this basketball rugby.

Tish and pish kiakahakkbb, kiakahavjkl, kiakayhvk, kiaka-fubble-dubble

That´s the comments we get if someone scores a try like that in the Super 15.

kiakahaaotearoa wrote: That´s the comments we get if someone scores a try like that in the Super 15.

Thats true, we have wrongly accused the S15 teams of merely tickling each other at the breakdown too!

Bathman_in_London wrote:Lovely stuff. Out of interest, does anyone know if that was early in the game or was it when England were 40 points up already?

England were 5-3 up at the time.

All the tries can be seen here:

England scores

Great rugby but the music raped my ears.
Watch this on mute

Thanks Dave

And an example of academy styles of play from last weekend:

U18 Saints vs Newcastle

It looks like Neil Mallinder's son might be a decent player (he's playing 12 here), and OC Tom Stephenson, who is very highly rated and is on the bench for the u20s against Italy, is prominant in a couple of the tries. Wooton the fullback looks like he's worth keepig an eye on too.