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<blockquote data-quote="Count of Devonshire" data-source="post: 252944">If you&#039;d have told me we&#039;d have finished second, losing twice on the road narrowly to Ireland and Wales, crushing Italy and France and comfortably beating Scotland, I&#039;d have taken that. It was always going to be a difficult tournament, and at least we appear to have some direction at the moment to take into the future. Quite often England as a nation are accused of being arrogant. We&#039;ve been generally quite pessimistic all tournament but shouldn&#039;t be ashamed of our performance. We know we can do better but it was a learning curve for everyone and we finished second.I wonder who&#039;ll be most confident going into next year. I cant imagine the Irish expecting another GS as the Welsh seemed to this tournament. Hopefully the Italians can wake up a bit, pleased that Parisse was the man to get their try as he&#039;s been excellent. Another wooden spoon, and to be honest the coach deserves it. They appear bereft of a gameplan.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Count of Devonshire, post: 252944"] If you'd have told me we'd have finished second, losing twice on the road narrowly to Ireland and Wales, crushing Italy and France and comfortably beating Scotland, I'd have taken that. It was always going to be a difficult tournament, and at least we appear to have some direction at the moment to take into the future. Quite often England as a nation are accused of being arrogant. We've been generally quite pessimistic all tournament but shouldn't be ashamed of our performance. We know we can do better but it was a learning curve for everyone and we finished second. I wonder who'll be most confident going into next year. I cant imagine the Irish expecting another GS as the Welsh seemed to this tournament. Hopefully the Italians can wake up a bit, pleased that Parisse was the man to get their try as he's been excellent. Another wooden spoon, and to be honest the coach deserves it. They appear bereft of a gameplan. [/QUOTE]

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