England - Barbarians FC (27/05/2012, 14:30)

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Farrell , stupid penalty. I'm waiting with baited breath for 12: Barritt 13: Joseph

 

[Wilko's left boot]

Beautiful offload from Laulala to put Muliaina for his 2nd

 

[Tribesmen-ce-123]

Some player is Muliania

 

[big ginger 8]

Probably because
a) He's English
b) He's been capped for England
c) Why would he want to play alongside the kind of frontrow Ireland put out?

Went to Trinity College, played rugby for Lansdowne RFC, played for Ireland u19's and u21's and played four seasons with Leinster. Not so clear cut. I'm not saying he shouldn't play for England but am simply wondering why people who like to troll English rugby about foreigners don't bring him up.

To your last question I ask who wouldn't want to play with the Irish frontrow. Healy is beautiful and Best is <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aIrCFrFpHvw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[Wilko's left boot]

Joseph, Goode, Launchbury, and Gibson all getting on - good to see. Joseph showing a glimpse or two already.

 

[Feicarsinn]

Went to Trinity College, played rugby for Lansdowne RFC, played for Ireland u19's and u21's and played four seasons with Leinster. Not so clear cut. I'm not saying he shouldn't play for England but am simply wondering why people who like to troll English rugby about foreigners don't bring him up.

To your last question I ask who wouldn't want to play with the Irish frontrow. Healy is beautiful and Best is

Seeing as you don't remember, he was cat for Leinster. At the time few people would have considered him a loss, I certainly didn't. He's done well for himself over in England, I have no complaints about him playing for them across the water.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Bothas been impressive. He's not a lock made of iron but he's athletic and has been a good link between our backs. Looking forward to seeing Launchbury

 

[Feicarsinn]

There's your back page photo anyway.

 

[big ginger 8]

Seeing as you don't remember, he was cat for Leinster. At the time few people would have considered him a loss, I certainly didn't. He's done well for himself over in England, I have no complaints about him playing for them across the water.

I'm not talking about how good he was and as I said I don't actually care that he plays for England. I'm simply wondering why people who are willing to troll over the fact that Dickson was born in Germany don't bring him up.

 

[Wilko's left boot]

Somewhat surprisingly, Dowson is playing very very nicely as well. Did well to give Wade a walk-in for his try there.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Went to Trinity College, played rugby for Lansdowne RFC, played for Ireland u19's and u21's and played four seasons with Leinster. Not so clear cut. I'm not saying he shouldn't play for England but am simply wondering why people who like to troll English rugby about foreigners don't bring him up.

I'm not talking about how good he was and as I said I don't actually care that he plays for England. I'm simply wondering why people who are willing to troll over the fact that Dickson was born in Germany don't bring him up.

Because he was born and raised in England. More a case of Ireland trying to poach him when he went over there for university.
Dirty Irish poachers, they tried it with Geraghty as well.



Good to see Ashton back on form. Been impressed with Johnson too. Botha would've had a good game if he was a centre, good on the crash ball/carrying, but completely anonymous in the tight and his defence at time was rubbish.

 

[Tony Manx]

Is it me or do the English team look quite "lightweight" compared to a lot of huge players playing in the Top 14/SH?

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Somewhat surprisingly, Dowson is playing very very nicely as well. Did well to give Wade a walk-in for his try there.

Spot on - good lesson to farrell for how to make the most of space..

 

[Feicarsinn]

Because he was born and raised in England. More a case of Ireland trying to poach him when he went over there for university.
Dirty Irish poachers, they tried it with Geraghty as well.



Good to see Ashton back on form. Been impressed with Johnson too. Botha would've had a good game if he was a centre, good on the crash ball/carrying, but completely anonymous in the tight and his defence at time was rubbish.

And we should have capped the ******** before you lot got your hands on them.

 

[Mrs. Peter Quinn]

Our defence has been shite at times.

 

[big ginger 8]

Because he was born and raised in England. More a case of Ireland trying to poach him when he went over there for university.
Dirty Irish poachers, they tried it with Geraghty as well.



Good to see Ashton back on form. Been impressed with Johnson too. Botha would've had a good game if he was a centre, good on the crash ball/carrying, but completely anonymous in the tight and his defence at time was rubbish.

Both were fairly half arsed attempts.

When Geraghty told his dad he was gonna play for England he stood up and walked out of the room.

Think people will have to wait and see before saying Ashton's back on form. Baa-baa's organisation hasn't been great Springboks will be another story. I've always been impressed by Johnson he's incredibly unlucky with the amount of blindsides in England.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Ashton's been playing decent for Saints the past couple of weeks as well, though.

 

[big ginger 8]

Ashton's been playing decent for Saints the past couple of weeks as well, though.

Ok haven't really seen them recently.

 

[Wilko's left boot]

Shame that Dowson is having to come off. If he plays at his intelligent best like he has today, I certainly wouldn't be against him being put in the starting XV later this Summer.

 

[Wilko's left boot]

Haha, why on Earth did Balshaw pass the ball there?