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JonChalk said:
Controversial opinion incoming:
England's dropped and most selfish Full-back still says he's best in the country:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49666971
Mike Brown insists he's the best full-back and doesn't want to talk about why he might have been (was) dropped.
My personal opinion of his sticky paws aside (he couldn't let the ball leave his hands if his life depended on it!), is he the best full-back eligible to play for England?
I don't think he is. I think Alex Goode is. England's dropped and most selfish Full-back still says he's best in the country:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49666971
Mike Brown insists he's the best full-back and doesn't want to talk about why he might have been (was) dropped.
My personal opinion of his sticky paws aside (he couldn't let the ball leave his hands if his life depended on it!), is he the best full-back eligible to play for England?
One thing i know for certain is that it ain't Daly.
He is very good in attack but in the air he is lacking. I would rather have Watson at full back for the world cup.
JonChalk said:
Controversial opinion incoming:
England's dropped and most selfish Full-back still says he's best in the country:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49666971
Mike Brown insists he's the best full-back and doesn't want to talk about why he might have been (was) dropped.
My personal opinion of his sticky paws aside (he couldn't let the ball leave his hands if his life depended on it!), is he the best full-back eligible to play for England?
I'm an England fan and also a Quins season ticket holder, so I saw pretty much every home game that Mike Brown played last season. The part I've bolded says nothing at all about Brown as a player, and everything about how Eddie Jones asked him to play, as he frequently offloads when playing for Quins.England's dropped and most selfish Full-back still says he's best in the country:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49666971
Mike Brown insists he's the best full-back and doesn't want to talk about why he might have been (was) dropped.
My personal opinion of his sticky paws aside (he couldn't let the ball leave his hands if his life depended on it!), is he the best full-back eligible to play for England?
In case you think I'm biased, take a look at this page to find out which player was by a country mile top of the Premiership offloads count last season.
Kermit power said:
I'm an England fan and also a Quins season ticket holder, so I saw pretty much every home game that Mike Brown played last season. The part I've bolded says nothing at all about Brown as a player, and everything about how Eddie Jones asked him to play, as he frequently offloads when playing for Quins.
In case you think I'm biased, take a look at this page to find out which player was by a country mile top of the Premiership offloads count last season.
That makes depressing reading, that a manager can constrain the talent he obviously has with his game plan, and sadly it is common not just in rugby too. I can think of about 2 times when I've seen Brown pass in an England shirt, when he's offloading 3 or four times a game for Quins.In case you think I'm biased, take a look at this page to find out which player was by a country mile top of the Premiership offloads count last season.
prand said:
That makes depressing reading, that a manager can constrain the talent he obviously has with his game plan, and sadly it is common not just in rugby too. I can think of about 2 times when I've seen Brown pass in an England shirt, when he's offloading 3 or four times a game for Quins.
Yep! He offloaded more in the first half of the first home game After the Six Nations last season than he had in that entire tournament.
Welshbeef said:
phil_cardiff said:
Shouldn't play again for a very long time, if at all imo. You have to wonder about the long term brain health of North and Halfpenny too.
I’ve no idea why scrum caps are not standard kit for the whole team. They might look silly and get hot - who cares if you all wear them you all look the same.
Not as good as a helmet but it has to be superior to nothing.
1/2p and North and so many others.
I think the diagnosis is CTA which has no current cure.
Our primary school doesn’t allow headering a football as the brain is still developing.
df76 said:
irocfan said:
just found out that Chester Williams has died 
Forty-bloody-nine years old!
The guy was a star - RiP chap
Both wingers now gone.. hard to believe. Forty-bloody-nine years old!The guy was a star - RiP chap
Kermit power said:
df76 said:
irocfan said:
just found out that Chester Williams has died Forty-bloody-nine years old!
The guy was a star - RiP chap
Both wingers now gone.. hard to believe. Forty-bloody-nine years old!The guy was a star - RiP chap
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-un...
The guy from the Independent (rightfully in my view) not pulling any punches about plastic pitches!
The guy from the Independent (rightfully in my view) not pulling any punches about plastic pitches!
Kermit power said:
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-un...
The guy from the Independent (rightfully in my view) not pulling any punches about plastic pitches!
Who has a plastic pitch?The guy from the Independent (rightfully in my view) not pulling any punches about plastic pitches!
The Mad Monk said:
desolate said:
The Mad Monk said:
Who has a plastic pitch?
Saracens All the pros I know hate them.
(Caveat being they are now all retired or nearly retired so may be on the old fart spectrum)
The Mad Monk said:
Are you sure?
Have I misunderstood?Some background. In 2016 the then cash-rich RFU, in a bid to pin the word ‘legacy’ on something following England’s disastrously premature home World Cup exit the previous year, announced to great fanfare they would invest £47m installing almost 100 untried, untested and largely untrusted AGPs at grassroots clubs across the country
The Mad Monk said:
desolate said:
The Mad Monk said:
Who has a plastic pitch?
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