England EPS 2017/18 edition.

[TRF_Olyy]

I don't agree.

If they owned the clubs it would be different, but as it is they've got several wealthy individuals who are fairly open in their disregard for the organisation.
Keeping the cash flowing is ******* important.

Aren't the RFU significantly richer than every other union in the world?
Is halving the profits for one game every other year going to make much difference?

 

[ratsapprentice]

Aren't the RFU significantly richer than every other union in the world?
Is halving the profits for one game every other year going to make much difference?

And they have a much larger grassroots system to support, against the richest Football league in the world, and the highest player wage demands.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Shocking england U18 defence then

 

[Which Tyler]

Aren't the RFU significantly richer than every other union in the world?
Is halving the profits for one game every other year going to make much difference?

Yes; for a certain value of the word "significantly"

This doesn't mean they're sitting on stacks of gold.
The money they bring Inna's already been earmarked, and mostly, already been spent. Mostly on grassroots rugby throughout England, which would be bankrupt inndays without the RFU.

Does anyone else get this sense of Deja Vu?

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Couldn't resist

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Couldn't resist

Rare footage of Bruce Craig sitting in the Kingsholm hospitality.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Rare footage of Bruce Craig sitting in the Kingsholm hospitality.

Kingsholm has beer served by a guy called Pedro and is the go to place for Arthur Weasley?

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Attwood and isiewke Lock partnership for the SA tour anyone?

1. Genge
2. Cowan-Dickie
3. Sinckler
4. Attwood
5. Isiewke
6. Willis
7. Underhill
8. Vunipola (maybe)
9. Youngs
10. Ford
11. May
12. Lozowski
13. Merchant
14. Nowell
15. Daly

16. Hartley (I guess)
17. Marler
18. Williams
19. Launchbury
20. Ewers
21. Robson
22. Te'o
23. Cokasigna

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Isiekwe played 6 today so EJ will probably stick him in the backrow for the foreseeable

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Marler
George
Williams
Atwood
Launchbury
Willis
Armand
Clifford
Youngs
Earle
Smith
Lozowski
Marchant
May
Woodward

Genge
Cowan dickie
Sinckler
Isekwe
Hughes
Robson
Ford
Coakiasanga

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

England U18 getting off to a poor start
Losing
37-32 to Scotland
and
32-30 to Italy

Squad is without Lawrence and Redpath but still I suppose it is how they develop more than results, Tigers been playing around 9 U18 lads in their A league since the end of the comp, and i know Lawrence has been playing for Wuss Cavs physically that is prob a better thing i guess.

 

[curtbob7]

England U18 getting off to a poor start
Losing
37-32 to Scotland
and
32-30 to Italy

Squad is without Lawrence and Redpath but still I suppose it is how they develop more than results, Tigers been playing around 9 U18 lads in their A league since the end of the comp, and i know Lawrence has been playing for Wuss Cavs physically that is prob a better thing i guess.

Tiger in me will moan at the poor representation we've had and say 'if more were selected blah blah'

 

[ratsapprentice]

England U18 getting off to a poor start
Losing
37-32 to Scotland
and
32-30 to Italy

Squad is without Lawrence and Redpath but still I suppose it is how they develop more than results, Tigers been playing around 9 U18 lads in their A league since the end of the comp, and i know Lawrence has been playing for Wuss Cavs physically that is prob a better thing i guess.

Different age restrictions in place for this tourny apparently. Hence the difference in selection from only a couple of weeks ago when we hammered Scotland.

 

[BenJeffrey]

Tuilagi and Youngs both due back before the end of the season.

Hoping Tuilagi's latest was more of a bump on his rise back to full fitness. Pec strain after his longest run back from injury in 5 years, not surprising? Both of them playing in the England summer tour would be hugely beneficial, for whoever else they get paired with. Here's to hoping for a Tuilagi-Slade combo!

 

[curtbob7]

Tuilagi and Youngs both due back before the end of the season.

Hoping Tuilagi's latest was more of a bump on his rise back to full fitness. Pec strain after his longest run back from injury in 5 years, not surprising? Both of them playing in the England summer tour would be hugely beneficial, for whoever else they get paired with. Here's to hoping for a Tuilagi-Slade combo!

I hope, and think its sensible, they both get left out. Be stupid to take them IMO. Especially Manu.

Cant see Youngs going with Tom's family situation the same as last Summer when he turned down the Lions Tour.

 

[ratsapprentice]

Putting this here as it's basically the de facto "English Rugby" thread.

http://www.skysports.com/rugby-unio...lay-less-says-former-saracens-boss-mark-evans

Mark Evans speaks a lot of sense again.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

He does, although "a premiership team should just be running a premiership team" sounds more like a franchise than a club.

 

[ratsapprentice]

He does, although "a premiership team should just be running a premiership team" sounds more like a franchise than a club.

Exactly.

 

[stus768]

Definitely think player wages are too high in the sport and one of the biggest issues facing the game.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

I agree in principle but wonder who is going to be the first club to do it. The problem with lowering wages is that it only works if everyone does it. If 1 or 2 clubs do it and nobody else does, they just lose their players and things carry on. Basically the governing body for the clubs will need to force a proper wage cap and squad cap on clubs and then you get to the point of saying why not just get centralised systems and be done with it?