This seems appropriate...
Saw this posted on another thread by someone called Elfieldinho, and had to copy it over - superb bit of insight and analysis;
"This is awful behaviour by the Kiwis on here. You can't start complaining about how in a perfect world you'd like something stronger than the world's strongest bench for a game against this England team. It's ******** and you know it.
'We might miss having ALB on the bench.' You won't sodding miss having ALB on the bench for the simple reason that all of your players are better than all of our players and your team know what they are doing.
None of your team have ***s for hands.
All of them can see and exploit space.
They all know what a ruck is and what to do when arriving at one.
Your fly half can pass in both directions
Your scrum half can pass.
Most of them aren't broken by an insane domestic league.
If you want to fret about needing your best team against Ireland, then fair enough. You're a sight better than they are, but they are tough, clever and know how to win.
Against this England team though? You are pretending that you need an optimum line-up to combat the fifth choice pack of a team with a weak pack, playing in front of a halfback pairing that has 'stuttering and workmanlike' as the height of its ambitions. This duo will try to feed a centre pairing made up of a non-crashing crash-ball centre and an out of position Toby Flood impersonator. Behind them lurks our only good centre, hating being a full back. Our wings are good, though one is slow and the other plays with the composure of a puppy that desperately needs to ****. The front row are puddingy novices with an empty shirt saying 'Captain' nestled between them. The locks are good, but not as good as yours and one of them doesn't know the rules. Where are your problems coming from exactly?
Two of the back row might, oddly enough, be pretty good which could catch you off guard for ten minutes or so based on recent experiences. Wilson is probably our best back row forward and yet despite this is actually likely to play, much to his and the fans' collective surprise. Mercer is good (Kiwi dad) and could be picked. There's bound to be a comedian in there somewhere though and at the moment it looks likely to be Brad Shield's beard, currently playing without any help from the rest of Brad Shields.
Honest question. If you blindfolded Hansen, gathered his squad in front of him and had him pick at random, would you win? Maybe you'd need to divide them into thinnies and fatties first just to stop your half-backs having to prop. Assuming he's allowed to do that though, it wouldn't matter a damn who was in, who was out, or even where they were playing.
Either talk honestly about the dry and painful humping you're about to gleefully dish out, or start the thread for the Ireland match early and bicker about which of your world class players makes up the most perfect bench for that game. This disingenuous head scratching about whether you've got the side to do the job for Saturday is dirty pool."
Chapeau that man.
