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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2016 RBS Six Nations] Round 5: France vs. England (19/03/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="LukeFitzgerald" data-source="post: 790820" data-attributes="member: 73469"><p><u>Last 6 Grand slams:</u></p><p>2005 - <strong>Wales</strong></p><p>Score a penalty in the 77th minute to win against England, slaughter Italy, come back in the last 10 minutes to beat France, hammer Scotland and Ireland.</p><p>2008 - <strong>Wales</strong></p><p>Score a 70th minute try to put them 7 points ahead against England, handily beat Scotland and Italy, scrape past Ireland and beat France.</p><p>2009 - <strong>Ireland</strong></p><p>Play well against France, hammer Italy, 1 point close win over England, limp past Scotland and Steven Jones' last minute miss gave us a 2 point win.</p><p>2010 - <strong>France</strong></p><p>Beat Scotland but not so convincingly, close enough against Ireland for the first 50 until they pulled away, strong against Wales, hammer Italy and barely get past England.</p><p>2012 - <strong>Wales</strong></p><p>Last minute controversial winning penalty over Ireland, comfortably beat Scotland, scrape past England in a tight game, weren't great against Italy and played well against France in a nervy game.</p><p>2016 - <strong>England</strong></p><p>Never seemed under pressure against Scotland but weren't amazing, were put under a lot of pressure by Italy for the first 50 but upped the tempo and ran away with it, played well against an injured Ireland, dominated Wales for the 60 odd minutes and almost let it slip in the last 10, played well against an average France team.</p><p></p><p>The last 6 grand slams have shown that no grand slam winning team has gone on to completely dominate every match of the tournament. Wales in '08, Ireland in '09 and England in '16 have all had new managers in their first 6 nations and came off the back of a bad RWC where Wales, England and Ireland all went out before the quarter finals. Without a doubt, England fully deserve this grand slam and I can't understand why people are even debating this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LukeFitzgerald, post: 790820, member: 73469"] [U]Last 6 Grand slams:[/U] 2005 - [B]Wales[/B] Score a penalty in the 77th minute to win against England, slaughter Italy, come back in the last 10 minutes to beat France, hammer Scotland and Ireland. 2008 - [B]Wales[/B] Score a 70th minute try to put them 7 points ahead against England, handily beat Scotland and Italy, scrape past Ireland and beat France. 2009 - [B]Ireland[/B] Play well against France, hammer Italy, 1 point close win over England, limp past Scotland and Steven Jones' last minute miss gave us a 2 point win. 2010 - [B]France[/B] Beat Scotland but not so convincingly, close enough against Ireland for the first 50 until they pulled away, strong against Wales, hammer Italy and barely get past England. 2012 - [B]Wales[/B] Last minute controversial winning penalty over Ireland, comfortably beat Scotland, scrape past England in a tight game, weren't great against Italy and played well against France in a nervy game. 2016 - [B]England[/B] Never seemed under pressure against Scotland but weren't amazing, were put under a lot of pressure by Italy for the first 50 but upped the tempo and ran away with it, played well against an injured Ireland, dominated Wales for the 60 odd minutes and almost let it slip in the last 10, played well against an average France team. The last 6 grand slams have shown that no grand slam winning team has gone on to completely dominate every match of the tournament. Wales in '08, Ireland in '09 and England in '16 have all had new managers in their first 6 nations and came off the back of a bad RWC where Wales, England and Ireland all went out before the quarter finals. Without a doubt, England fully deserve this grand slam and I can't understand why people are even debating this. [/QUOTE]
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