Will Scotland benefit from playing at home? Will Ireland be able to achieve what the world’s number one team were unable to do playing at Twickenham? Answers on a postcard. Or below the line.
International rugby on the telly this weekend
Saturday 24th August
- Scotland v France 13:10 Premier Sports 2
- England v Ireland 14:15 (kick-off 15:00) Sky Sports Action & Sky Sports Main Event
Ovally Balls 
‘Afternoon, DCI, hope you are well.
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Simple first phase try for England after a good blind side fake from Billy off the solid scrum.
Good game so far.
Afternoon all. Just back from, hopefully, my last work trip to Houston for a good while.
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Glad Henderson is getting the runout. He’ll be important for us in the WC. Good game from him too, so far.
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On the flip side Aki and Stockdale have been nowhere for both tries.
England punching big holes in us and offloading from the contact.
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15 – 10. Penalty to Ireland then try to England, again after outflanking Ire on the right wing. Murray off for concussion.
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Those two passes from Ford and Curry were spot on.
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I am indeed,Ticht. Hope you and yours are too.
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England = 14 + 1 (Youngs)
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Best’s dart are under real pressure
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22-10. England score off the back of a 5m scrum.
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But Murray back on, which is good news.
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Cian Healey down looking poorly.
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Awful from Aki again. Ireland poor after a decent start.
And now a decent Healey is down.
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Replaced by McGrath, but he’s walking off, so may not be too serious.
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Scotland/France was a bit of a downer, littered with errors. Slightly improved Scotland logically prevail over a French team incapable of producing two good consecutive performances as usual.
Main difference with the following game: both England and Ireland seem much better drilled than either Scotland or France.
England quite impressive. Power, pace, familiarity with each other. Serious contenders next month.. Ireland ( Stockdale especially) making glaring mistakes in defence.
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Fuck’s sake; I’ve spent £8.99 to get a Sky day pass, and it’s fucking rubbish. Only just got it working.
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I’m getting a wonderfully sharp series of still pictures.
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Or, alternatively, live pics that are as bad as the worst streams you see.
Oh, now it’s working for the adverts.
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That’s unusual, Thaum, Sky’s is usually the best sports stream, better than BT or Premier
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…which reminds me, if anyone is interested Premier Sports is on offer atm, £49 for a year
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Youngs absolutely on the ball here, May outside him in space , so he throws a (forward cut out pass to the 6 on the outside. Idiot.
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It’s finally caught up and is working well. For the past 30 seconds or so.
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Just in time for a nightmare England try!
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Our fucking line-out.
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Trying to find some positives from this.
Good warm weather training?
Bigger all else.
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Ha, even Bigger couldn’t help us…
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Forward pass in that!
Never mind, it’s only a warm-up.
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England look good everywhere except 9
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Who’s missing for Ireland, apart from Sexton?
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@Thaum
Might be worth complaining to Now TV. They’ve chucked me a few free passes in the past.
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@Yosoy – I fully intend to. I tried to take a screenshot of the crap, but it said it detected a recording device and shut down. >:-(
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Nooooo, May done a hamstring.
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Oh, too easy.
Hope this is a tactic.
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Phew, Jonny looks ok. England look sharp. Sharper with Heinz.
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@flair,
Pretty strong side but first real hit out for many of them. No James Ryan, Toner on the bench.
Most importantly, no Keith Earls.
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Still don’t care…!
These matches are for getting players match-fit, working out the combinations, making sure key players don’t get injured, etc.
That’s what I keep telling myself.
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Is that a try for Aki? Think he might have had a foot in touch.
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No, I think it’s okay! It is!
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Oh well, refer to my previous comment about training etc.
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Well, that was a rout.
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Heinz is a big step up from Youngs.
Itoje and Kruis are a top class pairing
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Happy run out for England, looks like Mako might be done tho. One combination in the backs looks to be set, maybe the first team. Even Daly looked pretty solid, but Brownie or Watson may well have nailed Aki. Ireland just rusty, shouldn’t take much from it.
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Yikes, that’s a bit of a doing
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Sweated my way through that game at m-field in more ways than one.
Positives. We won
Pack didn’t get minced
The mish is a legend
We don’t half do some dumb play and big errors though. No use flinging the ball about if you pass it to the OPPO, drop it or miss the player
Could easily have lost that.
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Drugz r bad
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That’s sad news if he gets done for. Played really well last year but had a few injuries this season.
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“Afternoon all. Just back from, hopefully, my last work trip to Houston for a good while.”
Commiserations, Piper. I was just talking to a friend of mine in Houston the other day. Hot as Hades, muggy as a sweaty armpit, he said.
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Tiger? Just lock up the golf carts.
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I had a dream last night that Boris Johnson came to me cap in hand to ask for advice about how to handle Neil Kinnock.
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