[2025 Six Nations] Ireland vs England - 01/02/25

[TRF_Olyy]

I think many England fans are at a crossroads. Do they continue supporting England or do they become game law geeks and start supporting Luke Pearce and Karl Dickson.

I will always support Luke Pearce and I will always support....the campaign for KD to be sent to the Hague for crimes against rugby

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Saw that Dan Sheehan has tied the scoring record for forwards in the 6n on 9 tries. He's 26 and one game into his 4th 6n. Nutty stats.

 

[BPM]

Marcus Smith once against demonstrating how overrated he is.

How so?

He was good when England had the ball. Couldn't do much without it in the second half.

The yellow was a team yellow rather than anything particularly egregious on his part and he certainly isn't the first player to be bumped off by Bundee Aki. I imagine Prendergast would have been similarly obliterated in the same scenario.

There are plenty of things to criticise about England's performance but focusing on Marcus Smith is a weird take.

 

[BPM]

Is this the longest spell of mediocrity an England team has gone through in the professional era? I can't remember an extended run quite like this with no hope in sight. It doesn't look like it's going to get better any time soon and quite frankly I can't see a way out.

Bringing the positivity I see?

 

[Geordie]

For France

9 Mitchell
10 Marcus
12 Farrell
13 Lawrence.

 

[McTallshort]

Is this the longest spell of mediocrity an England team has gone through in the professional era? I can't remember an extended run quite like this with no hope in sight. It doesn't look like it's going to get better any time soon and quite frankly I can't see a way out.

You don't remember the Robinson/Ashton/Johnson years then?

 

[Saintjay]

You don't remember the Robinson/Ashton/Johnson years then?

Might be off but Ashton and Johnson were on a 55% win ratio with 22/38 games.

No idea what Steve is on but it's probably close to 22. Someone can probably work it out. Unfortunately I've got to pop out

 

[ncurd]

You don't remember the Robinson/Ashton/Johnson years then?

Johnson never came less than 2nd in the 6 nations and won one. Ashton 3rd.

We only came 4th twice that was during Robinsons reigns of terror.

It's 5th and 4th and last year's miracle 3rd and another 3rd in 4 years. This year 4th feels where we'll end up and we haven't really looked like contenders at all.

It's a pretty sustained rot and 2020's win feels more like a blip.

 

[j-dawg]

You don't remember the Robinson/Ashton/Johnson years then?

Our W/L ratio and six nations placings are worse than during those years, and our World Cup semi doesn't beat the final we made in that slump, so objectively we are in a worse place now across every metric I can think of.

Bringing the positivity I see?

What is there to be positive about? Try and answer that without sounding as ridiculous as Borthwick.