England 2024/25

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Pollock is a brilliant young player who's shown he's a top European player as well but it's his first season and he's got lots to prove still.

We've actually got 4 young flankers in the squad already , curry, Earl, CCS and then Chessum or Martin. We've got a very young pack really. Undersmash is only 28 as well.

 

[Rugbyfan564]

George Furbank: England full-back a doubt for Six Nations opener against Ireland

George Furbank fractured an arm in Northampton's Champions Cup win over the Bulls and could miss England's Six Nations opener away to Ireland in February.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Just in time for him to be dropped straight back into international rugby with no match fitness, as is the Borthwick way

 

[OllyM97]

George Furbank: England full-back a doubt for Six Nations opener against Ireland

George Furbank fractured an arm in Northampton's Champions Cup win over the Bulls and could miss England's Six Nations opener away to Ireland in February.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is just getting boring now - every single year pre Six-Nations we get absolutely hammered by injuries. It's an awful thing to say but given the choice I would honestly sack off the 6N. I just can't get enthused about another year of 3 wins being the probable limit of our expectations. It's just depressing. I'm not excited one little bit about Ireland and France in the first two games, we never start the Six Nations well and we've got the two best teams first up, then Scotland. We're going to go 0/3 in the first 3 games, I'm calling it now.

 

[BPM]

Joyful as ever in here I see …

 

[OllyM97]

Joyful as ever in here I see …

Would never want to disappoint you.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

It's an awful thing to say but given the choice I would honestly sack off the 6N

One of the most out of pocket things I've seen posted on here, tbh
I'd bin the RWC before I thought about binning the 6N

Rugby's a contact sport, injuries happen - every side has to deal with them, I don't think we have particularly more than anyone else. They should be used as learning opportunities, to look at other players

I mean who's injured atm?
Tom Curry having a pre-planned break, which was confirmed/planned by the England doctors and he'll be back way before the 6N
Furbank fractured arm, due back around the start of the 6N
......?

 

[BPM]

Chessum is the only other major one I can think of but he should be fit by then.

OTOH, if you'd prefer to be in a Greg Lake kind of mood, there's a few games of rugby between now and the 6N for more to join Furbank on the injured list.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Chessum is the only other major one I can think of but he should be fit by then.

OTOH, if you'd prefer to be in a Greg Lake kind of mood, there's a few games of rugby between now and the 6N for more to join Furbank on the injured list.

They will. It's a contact sport.

(Ford didn't kick from the tee last week due to a medial something or other).

Injuries happen. The goat is got when players are rushed back before they're ready or the injury happens in training.

 

[Reiser99]

I have no issues with injuries that players suffer in games, that's part of the sport, though possibly Curry's tackle technique needs addressing.

It's the injuries with have in the camps before me that irritate me. We seem to have more of those than any other nation.

 

[Which Tyler]

It certainly feels that way - but I always have this suspicion that it's just observer bias.
We notice those injuries more because it's our team.
Training injuries happen, and happen to all teams, I'd be surprised if there's a significant difference between nations (individual head coaches, maybe - with someone like Eddie Jones being a known brutal trainer)

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Yeah, I think if you asked Wales they'd say they have significantly more than anyone else in camp

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Yeah, I think if you asked Wales they'd say they have significantly more than anyone else in camp

They can only count to 10 though, 12 in the more rural areas.

 

[Geordie]

The answer's obvious.
Let's do a Carling, and appoint a youngster who could be skipper for a decade
If they're good enough, they're old enough, so Connor Treacy. U18s captain, has played U20s internationally, #8 is the best position to captain from.

Job done.

Then its Finn Carnduff isnt it?

6 Carnduff (C)
7 Pollock / Pepper
8 CCS

Just put them in for the 6n and the 6n is in the bag

 

[BPM]

I know your suggestion wasn't totally serious but the problem with any young player taking on the skipper's role is that leading your peers is quite different to leading professionals with significantly more experience than you.

In Carnduff's case, there's also the small matter of him not having played at all this season … I imagine Cheika will like him but we don't know that will be the case.

 

[Geordie]

I know your suggestion wasn't totally serious but the problem with any young player taking on the skipper's role is that leading your peers is quite different to leading professionals with significantly more experience than you.

In Carnduff's case, there's also the small matter of him not having played at all this season … I imagine Cheika will like him but we don't know that will be the case.

Very much tongue in cheek BP...but that could very well be the lineup in a couple of years...who knows...

 

[Which Tyler]

Just FTR - my suggestion of taking the current U18s captain, and making him captain of the senior side wasn't entirely serious either.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Revolt against Sweeney and Ilube gathering pace.

Enough support to force a Special General Meeting before the end of February. As I understand it that'll be be a motion of no confidence in Ilube with clubs also voting on a resolution to force the RFU board to dismiss Sweeney.

More chaos is just what the English game needs.

 

[BrokenWing]

As incompetent as he is, it's not a good look sacking someone you've given a bonus to for achieving the majority of his targets. Surely the scrutiny needs to be on the people who set the targets.

 

[Saintjay]

It's a worse look when they are getting bonuses whilst people are losing there jobs and careers. Christmas will certainly be better in the Sweeney house.

I hope he gets shafted without Llube.