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Thoughts anyone? I reckon if England win in Cardiff tonight they'll have a very good chance of going all the way, with 3 home games.

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Thoughts are that I'm torn. I have such a soft spot for Wales but am English through and through.
and - Go Tom! (Another Cov kid :) )

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I thought you would just go for the hottest looking team.;)

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Fully agree

Its going to be a good game.

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True, but they aren't going to are they Russ. Positive Mental Attitude!
Have sent 1st born to bed in red pj's in support of my Welsh friends.

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Grrrr :D
The ones with the least damaged heads?
I'd better change "soft spot" to 'decades of admiration' :)

(When do England play Italy?......:Sprint:)

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Fixture list http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/16622.php

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Thanks Masque ;)

Wasn't Flood an absolute star?

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Well Done England........Brilliant

and i agree Caff Flood was a Star and well deserved 'Man of The Match'

Italian's next week lol

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Just for you.

http://www.martinbrent.com/img/photo...toby-flood.jpg

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Tosh - He was? Good. I understand why he was substituted though.

Masque - don't start me off now :D

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Utter crap. Losing to a team like England shows how wrong Gatland is for the job.

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he was very good - and yes it must have been a hard decission to substitue him tho - but Johnny still has the 'touch'

lol :D

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Ah but you won hands down with your national anthem as you always do :)

@Tosh - it was an easy decision I'd say - he'd played so well, and converted twice when I wasn't sure he could, he got his own standing ovation, and Jonny W was a crowd-pleaser move and he shored the team up, I thought.

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After the 2003 World Cup final Clive Woodward thanked Eddie Jones for doing his team talk for him. From what I've heard about Dylan Hartley's performance this evening, I'd just like to do likewise and thank Warren Gatland for shooting his mouth off.... :D

Anyway, it'll be the excuses flowing rather than the beer in Wales tonight. :D

As for who's favourite to win the title well France would be my bet but I wouldn't rule out any of the teams except Scotland and Italy.

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Wales were not a walkover tonight...

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Thankfully, there are very few walkover results in the 6 nations these days. That's very important if the northern hemisphere teams are going to hope to really compete with their southern hemisphere rivals.

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I wonder what odds i can get for Italy finishing above Wales, worth a punt imo :)

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Last few times I've seen them play they've competed pretty well. It'd be good for all the 6N teams if the likes of Italy could progress that bit further and start taking regular scalps.

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'common Russ - your team, first choice, has injuries - yes?
The fight will carry on another day yes? :)
And it is just sport.
Don't put us Englungers down :) or - I might be forced to sing in harmony again :D
There's a lot of matches to go yet.

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There's a lot of pressure on Gatland especially with the World Cup coming up so we'd expect to beat a team like England through sheer hard work and the right tactics, not the half-hearted flatulent effort from last night. His attempts at pre-match mind games were childish and ineffective. We had injuries yes but Gatland can't hide behind that..

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Can we not be hoping Italy play too well just yet please.

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Oof. Italy are getting it tight today. 31-6 after 37 minutes and England looking like they could double that without breaking sweat.

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Yes a very professional and controlled demolition job I'd say. Italy must have been a tad deflated from last week, having snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against Ireland, but that takes little away from very, very, good and highly entertaining England performance. Ashton has a natural instinct when it comes to being in exactly the right place at the right time but so many of his team mates stepped up to the mark today and that made life for him a lot easier than it might otherwise have been. Two wins out of two and 10 tries in the process isn't at all bad. :) Harder games to come however...

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I hate matches like that.
After not many minutes in it's no 'Might we win?' but' How much will we win by...?'
Takes the oomph out of it completely.
But I still want to see a bit of skill from the Italians.

:(

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Another nice win for England! A good try, two very near misses and some excellent defence. The only downside was some very poor penalties given away for no good reason. Anyway, I'll settle for that win against a very determined French side and a tally of 3 out of 3 at this stage of the championship.

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England are playing well, Excellent game tonight i feel.

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Creating opportunities is what we haven't been doing for quite and now we're doing that and taking them - 11 great tries in 3 Six Nations games is no mean feat. In recent years we've been suffering very badly with ill disciplne and sin binnings - there was still some of that evident today and we really need to get to grips with the laws.

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I'm not a rugby fan, but still support England.

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Not seen all the match yet but it looks to have been one of those scrappy games it'd have been easy for England to lose. If they're going to progress to bigger and better things England need to win matches like this and carve out results when everything isn't going to plan. They seem to be able to do this but next week's game against Ireland away will be a very tough test of character. It could go either way but I wouldn't rule out nerves getting the better of England and a fairly comfortable Ireland victory. They'll rightly be hurting after being on the wrong end of a truly shocking decision against the Welsh and will also want to deny England the grand slam. As for England, well they're doing the right things at last but really ought to be thinking further ahead to the RWC at which I reckon the southern hemisphere sides are going to be the ones to watch.

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A good and deserved win for Ireland - they outhought and outmuscled England who really lacked the experience when and where it mattered most. They did however at still make a few chances and for me that's a good sign - we went through a very sterile period not so long ago during which imagination and flair were very thin on the ground. A grand slam certainly would have been nice for their fans but England have to learn to play intelligent rugby and handle serious pressure when it really matters so to that extent they might actually come to thank the Irish for snatching the GS from their hands on this occasion. There are far bigger and more important games to come this summer and the true test of this England team will be whether they let this bad loss set them back or learn an invaluable lesson from it.