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[2015 RWC] Pool A: England vs. Australia (03/10/2015)

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Basically I feel Wood and Robshaw just need to do assign them selves to do a job on Hooper and Pocock.. If we stay disciplined we will be in with a shout..
It's kitchen sink time for England.
 
Christ there are a lot of trolls on this thread.

PS, people not understanding sarcasm is hilarious.
 
I can't wait for this game. So much trash talk/mind games in the media and the pundits. It's been awesome!

Of all the stuff that's been going on the Joe Marler thing could actually be a bit of a big deal. Far from me to have much opinion on scrummaging, but by all accounts there are quite a few "neutral" observers that agree with Dwyer and Kaplan. It does appear Marler tends to come in on an angle sometimes/often?

So the BIG question is, will Romain Poite take any notice? Could change the game a bit if he does!!
 
ABs2011 said:
I can't wait for this game. So much trash talk/mind games in the media and the pundits. It's been awesome!

Of all the stuff that's been going on the Joe Marler thing could actually be a bit of a big deal. Far from me to have much opinion on scrummaging, but by all accounts there are quite a few "neutral" observers that agree with Dwyer and Kaplan. It does appear Marler tends to come in on an angle sometimes/often?

So the BIG question is, will Romain Poite take any notice? Could change the game a bit if he does!!
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The top down angle doesn't lie, in the first half against us he wasn't even trying to drive straight. I'm no front rower but it was obvious what he was doing.
 
Tallshort said:
Marler was very lucky in that game, he isn't the best LH when it comes to scrum time.
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No, he's not, Corbs is a very bad loss. But was Marler lucky or smart? I'd say a bit of the former and a lot of the latter as he played the ref. If only we'd been quite so savvy at the breakdown.

Brian Moore had an interesting take on Marler in the Telegraph.
 
Corbisiero is a loss in as much as a few years back he was great.
He's not a loss in as much as he's crap right now.
 
ABs2011 said:
So the BIG question is, will Romain Poite take any notice? Could change the game a bit if he does!!
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His more likely to not like been told what to do by the PR and do the opposite, or not hear anything at all. Same thing, really.
 
Tallshort said:
Yes that's true.

Am I the only one who would prefer Mako to Marler?
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Yup,
I think a lot of people are coming around to that as well - they're basically even in the scrum atm but Mako's so much better in the loose.
 
chippieolamus said:
Christ there are a lot of trolls on this thread.

PS, people not understanding sarcasm is hilarious.
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Yeah, to be all hipster and cool i'd use the term: CircleJerkers. Where's the french one that was a one man swarm? At least he was funny at times.
 
Sweet Chariot bursts out in Cardiff at a match between NZ and Georgia................now that is racist!!!
 
Yeah big ewes.
think the OZ will have scrum parity. - hoping we just boot the ball out of play a lot.
 
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