2015 Rugby World Cup **Potential spoilers**

[david k]

Yebbut England are better than New Zealand...

True they are 1-0 up, tomorrow's game will be interesting

 

[nickyboy]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng...hariot-in-search-of-the-soul-of-english-rugby

This is good too.

The fact that the guy they interviewed in Twickenham car park has a son called Geronimo tells you everything that's wrong with English rugby

 

[nickyboy]

What we need as a first step to domination is getting everyone singing this version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXB6rSSEYD8

 

[User482]

Lancaster's gone.

 

[Dayvo]

And what are the odds that the replacement will come from a southern hemisphere nation?

 

[Aperitif]

Lancaster's gone.

Maybe he'll spit fire...Ghosted autobio out in time for Christmas? Big money for a modest man...
Predictable pressure applied from within, to those on the outside, to do the dirty work...The RFU will say "...we reluctantly accept etc..." so saving the 'face' of the stuffed shirts, who are looking more and more culpable. And the Burgess Plan is unravelling like a badly knitted bobble hat.

 

[User482]

And what are the odds that the replacement will come from a southern hemisphere nation?

Nah. It's going to be Sven Goran Eriksson.

 

[Aperitif]

And what are the odds that the replacement will come from a southern hemisphere nation?

Someone that Jason Leonard didn't talk to, you mean?
Who knows - if I had to guess, it would be Eddie Jones...signed sealed and delivered long ago, on a 'name your price' basis. But maybe he's 'better' than that.

 

[martint235]

It'll be someone from RL, is Brian Noble free?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Nowt, well, very little, will change as long as Rob Andrew is in post...

 

[Beebo]

I hope Andy Farrell is next.

 

[Aperitif]

I hope Andy Farrell is next.

Another Father and Son combo..?

 

[Aperitif]

So.
Coach: Dean Ryan & Eddie J
Brown
Watson
Slade
JJ/LB
Nowell
Ford
Care
Lego Vunipola
George
Not Dan Cole - Wilson?
Launchberry
Lawes
Wood
Morgan/Tonka Vunipola
Itoje
It's so easy, can't understand what all the fuss is about!

 

[Aperitif]

I agree apart from Lego Vunipola, who can't scrummage and gives away too many penalties. Alex Corbisiero must have sorted his knees out by now....he'd be my pick....oh and I'd go for Hartley, coz I love the way he is when he gets angry and gets sent off yet again.

FTFY - in the best possible taste.
Forgot about Corbs. Generally, the team need to lose the penalty givers-away. I agree. And, of course, Armitage could step in for le prochain Grand Six Duff-up...thanks to the "rule changes that the RFU were never happy with, but took the coach at face value...but we realise that it was an error of judgement to keep such a fine player out of contention for a place blah blah" (© Ian Ritchie & Co.) So far. Dean Ryan and Mike Ford have said a lot of what 'the general cycling and rugby orientated follower' ()
are thinking. Something smells a bit, and the RFU are busy changing their footwear, tout de suite. Stuart Lancaster must feel like shoot at the moment, so spare a thought for him. I will - he wasn't playing in any of the games England XV lost...

 

[Aperitif]

Candidates for next whipping boy are... (also, there is a pic of Bill Beaumont. Does he qualify as an 'out damn spot' along with R. Andrew esq?)

Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images