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Season 5- Episode 24- Getting Nitpicky is a Good Sign (6 Nations Round 2)
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It's the rugby latest from those dopes from America. On this episode of TFRY we are talking about the revamp of the Premier 15s, and the nitpicky issues that we may have, overall it's still good. Then we do our best to recap all the action from Dublin, Edinburgh and London, while also trying to pick out some of the best performances of the weekend. Spoiler alert, we still missed acknowledging some great individual performances, oops. All this, everything in between, you know the drill. Kick the feet up, get something to drink and enjoy with us!
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Introduction and Banter
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It is... The Fantasy Europeans. My name is Jared Dyke. I wanted to say it's stupid and let's move on, but then you kept going. I'm Ben Glauser. I don't like any way anybody gambled that. Collusion! Collusion!
Rugby and Puppy Bowl Talk
00:00:27
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Hey everybody, welcome back. It is the Bay of Zero Beings. My name is Jared Dyke. I'm Ben Glauser. Let's go. We got a plane to dive into despite there only being three matches. What else is new for us? There was some American sports that we could talk about. I mean, it was, you know, Puppy Bowl weekend. Puppy Bowl. I only saw the halftime show of that. It was Cats. I was disappointed. I came for the puppies and didn't get to see them.
00:00:57
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Cats instead Oops Yeah, I mean Anywho there was a lot of there was you know minimal rugby but enough to make a beer always chat about it. Yeah Ball a cider for me. It's
Listener Engagement and Support
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going long every podcast app Share us on your favorite podcast app Hmm rate review all that good stuff as well. Mm-hmm
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Don't mind leaving comments to leave a comment. Hey, even if we don't we don't delete them. Let's feel like right being racist or something. Exactly. That's the only time but other than that. Okay, so let's
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Let's get into
Super Bowl Ad Critique
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the next stuff. Uh, by our good friend, George, the fancy rugby geek, a coffee or beer, as we've seen, he's at the last two weeks. He's been back in action. And I believe George, George will get back to her membership stuff this week as well. So good to see him diving back into that. And then we obviously have super rugby FRD, which we're going to talk about a little later. I'll be back into play. So loads of loads to keep him busy. He's busy by buying a coffee. So right. Support him.
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There is no discrimination here on this podcast, nor should it be in life or in sports. We had, I mean, you couldn't get, put it to a bigger audience, putting it in a Super Bowl commercial, but like. Right. The Jesus, he gets us kind of thing. Yeah. It's, it's a, and.
00:02:41
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Yeah, it's something that I think we were talking about. We saw it starting around Thanksgiving when it was the message was essentially, look, just because your relatives are racist, that doesn't mean you're supposed to be you know, you can. Or what?
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And it's like, no, like, you don't have to be nice to racist people. And it's like they're being impolite for being bigots. And if that's, you know, if they choose to be like that at Thanksgiving.
00:03:14
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then it's okay to tell them, hey, don't be like that. That's wrong. Like you're a dick. Yeah. Um, but now this was introduced to the super bowl. Like they actually bought, first off, yes. Jesus says work is to buy what a hundred million dollar super bowl at. Yes. That's better than say, you know, feeding the homeless. You could have used that for so many other things and use it for this. And this is why, you know, people don't like you very much.
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Yeah, it's, it was backed by a super right wing. Very owners of the hobby lobby. Yeah, so they do a lot of the super massage in a stick at the minimum, that too but then they also buy stolen artifacts and so they fuel a whole like black market of religious artifacts.
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Yeah, it's obviously shady characters. And yeah, well, I mean, they're shady characters a long time ago. Exactly. They're they're bad. But yes, just the same. It's yeah, it's not the same guys. It's it's not OK. No, but it reminds me of what family guy when when he brought back Jesus and he saw George like George W. Bush was having a
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Oh, he's like, you know, nothing in my work. Right. Yeah. Like, you know, I. That was funny. Yes, that was that was. That's right there. I remember that one. You know, nothing. Be quiet, you. Yeah. That's great. Yes, I remember that episode well. And then let's go to, of course, Patreon, where we get to that.
Fantasy Rugby on Patreon
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Grab our Patreon via the fantasy column article, whatever. It's not a boom bus this week, obviously, but a little bit of a shades of that, but not quite wrapping up the, kind of summarizing the last two weeks for certain players and.
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hardest part of that was picking out players that were bad from Ireland and making sure that I could, you know, justify the three Welsh players hit I picked. Good luck with that. Right. And I think I found three good ones. I don't think if I, if you had asked me to find more, I would have been a bit of a bit of a trouble in terms of the fantasy score. So.
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So that's up the sheet as well. Yep. Yep. For the, the prem FRD. Right. When are we going to put the super FRD up there? Um, well, there's no stats. Oh, that over it's right. I guess I'll put them out this week. Yeah. Yeah. Good call. All right. There you go. So we'll put that for everyone. Right. So you can see what we're, what kind of stats and analysis we're dropping. Yep. Yep. Um,
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Women's Premiership Changes
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Right, so before we get into round two of Six Nations, again, this is one of those weeks where we get a little catch up work in because we have the time and we're not gonna, we can shove it in there with the rest of it.
00:06:27
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I think it was a good time to talk about, because there was also recent news that came out and around with it too. The women's premiership being established next year. So at the beginning of the month, we had Salem Worcester who were conditionally added to the league next year. The other teams that were axed were
00:06:56
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DMP Durham and, uh, wasps. So it's, yeah, I don't think it speaks so badly about DMP Durham in terms of the players and the staff. They're just more about the club and the way they treat that team. And it's not good. You know, and I, and I, and I really feel bad because there's actually a couple of Eagles that have joined up for them for their last season in the premiere 15s. And, uh, I hope, hope the season gets a little better for them.
00:07:23
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Yeah, it's not great. I know they've it's been rough there for a while. So right. Right. And that's I don't I don't understand that if you have the talent, like what is what's not what's going wrong, like that's not that they don't. I mean, I guess they they don't have the talent, but.
00:07:40
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It can't be that far off. I don't think it is. They got a couple of good Eagles that I thought I saw them sign and I thought great for both sides, honestly. Right. Change it around a little bit and no. There's something bigger than that at play. And for that club specifically, like you have
00:08:02
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this women's team that is playing in a top-end league. And then you have their men's club, I think it plays in the national league, maybe nationally too. I'm like, really? Like that's the one you're prioritizing, not the one that's playing at the top level. And you shouldn't prioritize one or the other necessarily, but push comes to shove. I'm picking that personally. So it's like, I was telling some of the players, I think it was last week though,
00:08:32
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I was like, look, I went, when I was in, Oh yeah. Cause they were talking to some players missed last Monday's practice because of the beanpot hockey tournament. And I was like, Hey, when I was in high school, I was on the football team and our dominant sport at the high school was lacrosse. When I was in college, I went to Johns Hopkins, which as if you don't know about it, it's lacrosse. It's lacrosse.
00:08:55
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And it like, it was a culture shock for a lot of my teammates. So like, what were the football? It's like, shut up. Like, no, like the cool, the funny thing was that the lacrosse team would actually get out of our, when we came into the weight room, they would be like, yeah, we're good. We're done. We'll leave for you. And it's like, no, we, we have no problem with you. Like, it's like, why are you leaving? Do we smell like we're cool with you guys? But, um,
00:09:14
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Yeah, but they like doing their own thing and you know, whatever, but it's like be it's okay to not be the dominant sport, right? You don't have to be the guy. So like, yeah, if you're focusing on the men, you know, Irish, which I mean, at least that's their that's a dominant side right now. So I can't really, you know, complain too much. But at the same time, give some resources to the women in this case, feed feed the monster. That's that's where the money is going to be. You're not going to get any money from the men's program. So
00:09:43
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give them some resources, help them out. Because otherwise you're going to lose them. Oh wait, you already did. Too late. Yeah. Too late. Dummies. But otherwise, so the other teams that are, the teams that are in, so we know, so sale and Worcester have been offered back into the comp. Great. Good news there. Really happy for Worcester too, that they've been through so much. Yeah. There's a lot, there's a lot of good, good feeling going on with that one. And then we have,
Leicester and Ealing Concerns
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Loughborough, Leicester, Gloucester, Bristol, Exeter, Saracens, Queens, and Ealing. Now, there are two teams there that I really don't feel great about them being in here and then other clubs being axed. And that's Leicester and Ealing, especially with them only being established for a year or so.
00:10:32
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And I'm not trying to, and I'm not taking shots at any of the players on this team. And just remind you, this is more of a who the fuck's running the shit show type of thing. I think it's more that these teams better earn it like immediately kind of thing. Like you don't come in and be a doormat team. Don't come in and be, you know, a one or two win team on the year. Like you want to be like, you're going to jump the line and like, just jump right in.
00:10:59
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then, you know, at least make the showing of it. You better win like, you know, five or six matches. They show something. Yeah, I mean, and people could argue because Bath's team has been around for a little while longer than them that you could have easily argued for them if you wanted it to be a Premiership club or a club attached to one of the top two team top two leagues. But nobody wants to play more at the rec than they have to already. Sometimes.
00:11:28
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But it's, and the initial uproar was the whole like, Oh, there's no team in the North. And there wasn't, you know, the furthest North team was Lopro. And most people were just like, that's not the North dipshit. What's wrong with you? So they're the sale now as a team. So that's getting along the right direction, at least overall, very happy with the idea. And this is progress that.
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they are if you promised and came through on. So.
00:12:03
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now I'm being nitpicky because, well, when you have things that are good, you can be nitpicky. And this is good. This is good. So yes, now we need nitpicky. Yes. Yeah. Now it's a luxury of poking holes in the whole thing. Grand scheme of things. This is awesome. It's going to be great for the game. Our concern is that, is it the decision that will work best for the competition? That's really all this is, which is great. That's a good concern to have.
00:12:30
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Um, yeah, so it's not at all trying to tear it down. It's more of a, are you doing the right thing? Cause it doesn't seem like it, but Hey, maybe they are. Maybe they are. Maybe I'm willing to, I'm willing to, you know, we're, you know, we're hopeful here. Yeah. I'm willing to give it a shot and let it be. But obviously, as you said, Lester and healing can't come in and just get absolutely steamrolled every match. They need to be given the help and they need to.
00:12:56
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be given, um, they need to also give a quit themselves. Well, they need to, they need to put up a fight in every match. They can't be just getting steamrolled, putting no points on the board and giving up 60, 70. And I, Oh, I know DMP does that. Yes. We already talked about DMP. Their problem is resources that aren't be given to them. That's not, that is not their fault. These teams, I believe are being given their resources. So don't get steamrolled. Yeah.
00:13:21
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I think that they're being given the resources at least. That would be my understanding. So I hope it's good.
Ben's High School Lacrosse Stories
00:13:32
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If Lester can come in and be awesome and
00:13:39
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And both men's and women's, I would love that. That would be awesome. That would be fantastic. That would be great for the sport and the overall club. So yes, I'm rooting for that. And Ealing, yeah, I'd love to see them get a foot in the door because the men get rejected from the prem for not, I don't get, I don't. Yeah, I saw that too. Unless they really are trying to control. I mean, you're going to tell, like Ealing would be more competitive next year than Exeter will be.
00:14:10
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Maybe so like I'd like to yeah, I'm happy that the women are getting a foot in the door because that that at least it's something. So let's let's make it work. So I saw the headline, but none of the championship teams have qualified for the standards. The only the one did, but I remember which club it was, but they're like,
00:14:34
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Nowhere, they're not going to win, but they're like the fourth, fourth place. It's like pretty shitty. Right. I don't understand why healing. I mean, doesn't healing stadium support more than Saturday? I guess that's before the expansion, but it did like, yeah, it did not anymore. Saris is right. It was much better now. Yeah. It can confer. No, that was, that was a few, that was about five years ago, I think.
00:15:02
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Yeah, no, Ealing's looks like, um, it looks like when they redid UP for the free jacks. That's what Ealing's kind of looks like. Yeah. Which is not awesome. Not great at all. But anyway, it's a good thing for the league. And you got to believe that some of the players from the teams that didn't get like the top end players from the teams that didn't get picked, uh,
00:15:31
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term and and wasping the two obvious ones they'll probably start to filter into eeling and lester as well and right or be dispersed somewhere else within the competition as well and then unfortunately the really bad news is the players that aren't the top end those are going to be the ones that suffer which does suck it does kind of at that point hope and that's going to be either the some of the older players who've had like nice careers but like
00:15:59
Speaker
is another team going to invest in them to bring them in? Probably not. And that sucks. That's a shame. Because you still need a body, you still need that leadership. So hopefully some of them, the young people, yeah, that won't be a problem. It's like, yeah, if you're kind of on the cusp, we're good. We'll give you a spot and see what you can do and try to develop you. But yeah, it's those mid-range older players that
00:16:24
Speaker
could provide good leadership for some of these teams and solid foundations. So let's see. Yeah. Let's hope I'm pulling for them too. So we'll see. Time will tell, but I am rooting for this whole thing. This whole project overall, obviously. Obviously. Yeah. Let's do it in the MLR.
00:16:49
Speaker
Oh, I'm a bunch of moves. We'll get there on Friday. Yeah. We're going to we got we have a big week, actually. We do. So we're throwing all sorts of content at you. So muscles in and deal with us and bear with us. But let's start right off with. Six nations, let's get into it. We'll go over Dublin first. Ireland
Ireland vs France Analysis
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and France.
00:17:20
Speaker
Should've been a red, but it doesn't matter at this point. Which one? Oh, the Antonio. Antonio. Yeah. Yeah. I knew he was, I thought he was a lucky boy. It was, I get what they were seeing and I see that the force kind of went into the ball first, but these are the hits that we need to take out of the game. And Antonio had all the time in the world to just cut him in half. Right. And I think the commentators were making that point as well. Yeah.
00:17:49
Speaker
And it's like, I get your prop and all that, but it was still early in the match, fairly early in the match. And you can't be that tired 24 minutes in to. Better not be. Right. You can't be here. I'm pulling over. Yeah. Right. Because it's like just wreck his life, not his entire life, wreck his life for right now. Yeah. Right. Yeah. He wreck his phone there. I have seen at points.
00:18:13
Speaker
where officials referee a tackle like that, where he's always upright. He never makes an attempt to get bent at the waist as you're always high. So you're always in a dangerous position. So if you make head contact, regardless of if it goes through the body or whatever, then it's, then it's, then it's a red. And I don't remember the last time I saw that, but I do remember that being a thing for a little while. So maybe that's something that can come back in a little bit. And especially that, um,
00:18:42
Speaker
It got close, but France never really threatened to take, they didn't even got the opportunity to threaten to take a lead. Cause you know, when they, they got somewhat close and then, um, yeah, Ramos is droppy was, they were in front at one point where they with pin out the panel try.
00:19:01
Speaker
Okay. Oh yeah. That was early. I mean, but, but like even, you know, that was, that was before the, uh, Antonio yellow and your card anyway. Um, and then they were back behind anyway. Um, yeah, I feel like now knowing how, how it ended this way, I, yeah, I wish it was a red because it's like certainly even more. So it's like red cards don't really ruin the game that, you know, like they say. And France really, I was underwhelmed by their performance.
00:19:28
Speaker
with just the one try and they kind of, you know, and what was, but fuck that stat. Hold on. Let me get to it. But the 57 seconds, 57 seconds inside the opposition 22. That's it. That's yeah. 57 seconds. That's ridiculous.
00:19:53
Speaker
That's not even like a complete strum. Like, nope. What are we even doing here? Nope. Yeah. Looking at a few moments where they had it in there. Plus the, what, how long it took Pinot to run in from 22 into, yeah, into the, into the dry area. You know, that's, that, that's it. Yeah. Pretty absurd. Pretty absurd. So is it Francis attack or is it islands defense?
00:20:23
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I'm going to go with the latter. Although, Fred's attack was not that great either. They had moments though. They did. They did. They had moments where, even despite the fact that they didn't spend a ton of time in the 22, they could have pulled it off and got themselves back into it with another score. And then, you know, it was 22-16 at halftime. What was Ireland's next try? It wasn't for a bit, was it?
00:20:52
Speaker
They didn't score from, yeah, till the 71st minute. Okay. So you had the burn penalty. Yeah, they kicked a penalty and yeah. And that was it. So that brought it a little beyond, yeah, beyond the two score mark. Yeah. I mean, that's the crazy thing. It was 22, 16 and a half and the second half was 10 to three. Yep. Like, I still think that France
00:21:21
Speaker
Um, kicked for points too much.
France's Conservative Strategy: A Mistake?
00:21:26
Speaker
Right. And this was, this was not the match to be, and that's part of the reason why they didn't spend enough time in the 22. And, and that, that builds up over time. And if instead of kicking those, those penalties, you're putting that much more pressure on the Irish defense, putting actual pressure on them. That's the difference. You know, this is not, you don't go, um, you know,
00:21:49
Speaker
go to where the Dublin and and kick penalties and only score one try and expect to win. It doesn't work that way. No. So I think it was more if anything, it was it was kind of the coaching and. Yeah, they kind of just took a shit, I thought.
00:22:11
Speaker
I only just played a fantastic solid match. And like their their try scores were the people that you don't they show up on the trial and the score line. You're like, yeah, that that makes a lot of sense. Even poor tracks. Great. OK. This wasn't one of those like, gee, who's who's scoring for? Like, wow, these guys. No, no, no. It's like, OK. These are the guys who scored that Keenan. Fucking a. Finley Phelan. Finley Phelan. You fucking what these props eat for breakfast that morning. All three out of the four of them really. Yeah.
00:22:41
Speaker
freaking Beelham Porter and O'Toole, like all three of them, and sorry, leaving Kilquine out, that's because he, but it seemed like the three of them especially just were on a mission. Whether it be strong carries, good tackles, or obviously just good ball movement that passed back inside from Beelham was gorgeous.
00:23:08
Speaker
All of a sudden we forget about Dyke for a long time. Yeah, right. Like it's yeah. Just all around not disgusting play for them and then burn being injured.
00:23:24
Speaker
You think would be, it does hurt except for the fact that, oh, we'll just throw Ian Henderson. Yeah. And that is a luxury obviously that I don't have right now. Remember? Okay. So here's the funny thing. Remember a couple of years ago when we were talking about Devin Toner being dropped and it's like, well, who else you got it locked? And now it's like, well, you got, like they, they have three good ones. Recharge that, you know, that power unit quickly.
00:23:51
Speaker
Yeah. And there's, there's still, there's still bodies in the, in, in, in the Irish provinces that could be called in as well. Most definitely. And they won't disappoint either. No, no, no.
00:24:04
Speaker
Sure. And you're still talking about guys that have been solid performers, but not necessarily amazing performance that have left Ireland as well. And they still have more to call on like Delann and, and Roo are both gone. And those would have been somebody that they might've called on in this situation where it's like, all right, we,
00:24:21
Speaker
We need a solid and steady performer just to come off the bench if one of these guys can't finish the job in a couple of weeks. But now the upside of that is you still have some good players, they're probably gonna be young and you get to test them right now. Not bad. Not bad at all. How about this though? Do you think eggs are going back the other way? Aldrit coming off at 52 minutes.
00:24:48
Speaker
I thought it was a poor decision. And then the game just changed then too. That was really, I don't feel like France had much of a oomph after that. Like, they had to drop gold. Like, undoubtedly one of the best back rowers in the world, let alone in France. And I don't know why they took him off, because I don't have anything against, because Mackaloo came on instead of him. I don't have anything against Mackaloo, but... Neither do I.
00:25:15
Speaker
Like if I'm taking off any of those right, I'm thinking that's the other thing is Jelonsh was the one who who stayed in And I think he's the worst of the three Like so you took off all three then you take off all Yvonne it's like okay I get you want to get not crossed and and Makaloo some time but I
00:25:39
Speaker
I mean, yeah. Don't take, don't take off your best. You know, your bet, your two best players, especially not your, your, your best, um, forward, you know, 52 minutes in that's, that's way too early. Yeah. Your best ball, unless he's carrying something. That's the only thing. Yeah. That's, I guess, no. And they said it was tactical. So I don't know what tactics you're going to do. Yeah.
00:26:06
Speaker
Makes one scratch one's head. Right. How did, you know, Van Ifler didn't get over either. That's crazy. No, he didn't. Of course Doris was a fucking terror. So, now we have this problem for Ireland. Who's their best back row player right now? Yes. World player of the year, Josh Van Ifler, or the man on fire, Caelan Doris. Caelan Doris, yeah. Like, I...
00:26:37
Speaker
Man, it's scary. It's pretty scary. But at least there's not any decision that needs to be made at the moment because, you know, you got Ohmani and Conan there and that's okay there. There's your four. And you can alternate the other two anytime you want. Right. Well, I heard Coombs is on the outs because of political business. That was something around the women's. Well, I saw
00:27:05
Speaker
Cryptic comments about that from what the Irish women supporters on the Twitter's that, you know, you can't really speak up that what Maloney was dropped after her comments last year. So she like, she's basically like out, she'll never play for Ireland again. Cause that's the way the old white men run it there. And I think he said something too. And Oh, come on. That's like,
00:27:33
Speaker
Like, what are you going to do when Omani's done? Because Omani's done after this site, after this year, let's be real. He shouldn't be anywhere near. I think he's an asset to this team right now, but in terms of where you're going for 27, shouldn't be anywhere near it. So, and that should be your next guy in line, probably, is Coombs. And I'm not to say that they don't have the replacements ready. They do. They have plenty of guys that can do it, but still, you don't just throw that.
00:28:02
Speaker
Gooms could be as good as any of the other guys. Yeah. And you're really going to just throw that away because you can't admit you're wrong. Yes, you are because you're stupid, old and white. But, you know, that's. Yeah. And like they showed pictures of of the guys who are in charge. And it's like, holy shit. Like, yeah, there they are.
00:28:24
Speaker
They're incredibly old. They have no frame of reference when it comes to today's player. Like, I wouldn't want them, if I was a men's player, I wouldn't want them in charge because, like, they don't have any connection to me. They're not going to care what... Yeah, pretty bullshit. They don't care what we're going through. Yeah, I would want someone younger and far more connected and understanding of what's going on today than that, so... And really, if just... We'll dive into this for two seconds. If we want to get...
00:28:53
Speaker
the message through, it can't be just, you know, a fringe player for the Irishman. It needs to be your captain. It needs to be your head coach, really. You know, the men's head coach needs to come out and say, guys, they're not wrong. And I'm going to pick this guy or you're going to fire me. And right now, if you fire Andy Farrell, you will have an uproar. Because I've got
00:29:18
Speaker
I have a couple, one of my clients is originally from Ireland. She's lived here for a long time, but all her brothers back home still live, they're from Dublin and they are just jumping up and down about how good this team is right now. And that's something she said. I've never heard them this excited about this in my life. So if Andy Farrell might be impenetrable right now, you know, he's not fireable. And if you do so, you will just have the biggest upheaval
00:29:46
Speaker
In Irish rugby history, probably. It'll just go so sideways for them. So, yeah, you need Sexton and Farrell to speak up and say this is wrong. Yeah. And hopefully something like that happens. Yeah, I hope so. That'll help. Anyway, speaking of. It's going to pupils anyway.
Wales vs Scotland Match and Welsh Unrest
00:30:06
Speaker
Fucked up rugby unions. Let's go to Wales. Traveling to Scotland. Oh, yeah. Up to Maryfield.
00:30:14
Speaker
Which we may see this, this might be the last we see of the Welsh players, the six nations, apparently. Um, well, at least for a couple of weeks, we'll see how that goes. Maybe not. We'll find out, but yeah, the rumors are circling and they ain't good. No. Well, hello. Hello has been just tearing it up on the Twitter too. He has been extremely vocal today. Um, interest. Yeah. Real interesting stuff. Interesting. All right. So there's a lot right there.
00:30:44
Speaker
Yeah, it's like the players are in a state of like, fuck this. And I mean, yeah, you would, you know, the, I'm sure that the, the results here kind of are a part of that, but I know it's obviously deeper. Um, because yeah, like if these players don't know what they're getting paid or if they're getting paid or any of that, like so much fucked up around it. And so yeah, you're going to get, you're going to get this. Yep. Here's.
00:31:14
Speaker
We'll talk about Scotland in a minute. Cause they were fantastic. Um, yes, they were. Here's the really bad thing. And this is, this is something that you see at the end of a coaching era, not the beginning and end. And that is, it was 13, seven and a half time. And honest to God, I'm not sure that every Welsh player was giving their all by the final whistle. And I, and I, and I get it sometimes like you just kind of let it all down because you know, you're going to lose, but like,
00:31:46
Speaker
A new coach and something to prove and all that stuff, you want to see them fight. You want to see them get one or two over to end the match.
00:32:01
Speaker
I'm not saying they quit, but fuck, it didn't look like they were given everything they had either. No, and it was a lot of the veterans who were doing that too. There wasn't the young bucks who were still trying to prove a point, but there's not that many of them. And I get it. You got your Joe Hawkins and your Rio Dyer. They're talented, but they're not.
00:32:24
Speaker
they're still learning it at this level. And, you know, same thing for Chenza, Raphael, who's still, you know, he's still kind of imperfect at the prem level at times, not the saying he's bad, but it's like, he'll make kind of rookie, still making kind of rookie mistakes. And Jack, you know, Jack Morgan, who was off at that time, but like, yeah, I mean,
00:32:48
Speaker
Fuck, who is it? Reese Webb, the yellow card, 81st minute, like just not really giving a fuck at all. Brace was so annoyed with the Welsh team by the year, right? Like the amount of penalties they were giving away in the really dumb areas. He's just like, you know, you can't do that. Why are you making me load this fucking whistle right now? Come on.
00:33:08
Speaker
You can see look like go back and watch it's one of the penalties near the end down by the goal line You could just see his eye rolls like you fucking idiots. What is wrong with you, right? Like I can't believe you're still doing this like yeah, yeah
00:33:27
Speaker
Sorry, Wales fans, but I'm not sorry at the same time. There's deep problems there. Sorry doesn't help anyway.
00:33:39
Speaker
Yeah. And I'm glad that there were pops thrown out there because they need the need the work. Why the hell Reese Patchel is a part of those team. I have no idea, but that's a different story for a different day. Scott Baldwin as well. That's like poor Teva Jenkins is just
00:33:57
Speaker
way too lean right now. He's a he's a string bean out there and he's get he doesn't have a good easy time getting around at the Prem with Exeter right now. So getting around here against, you know, international forwards and players is going to be even harder. So I appreciate that he's out there and he's doing an OK job hanging in there, but still put some beef on that boy. But he's also very much an Exeter player. He's much more of a physical type, too, which is weird. He's lean, but he's not like
00:34:28
Speaker
mobile. You're not getting the benefits of lean from him. He's more like the he doesn't enforce or like he'll he'll he'll hit hard at the rock. And but that's also he did a lot of good exit or work out there. But that's not that's not what you need to win at the international level. You know, and even some of that stuff went sideways because he's just doesn't have the frame. And there are people that can get away with being a little smaller and doing it well. I don't think he's one of them right now because he's too damn young.
00:34:57
Speaker
You know, he's just he's got to learn how to use that. He does have strength, but he doesn't have the. The how do I use it effectively yet? Because he's yeah, you know, again, he's still a pup. He's never had to, you know, like you 20s level. Yeah, it doesn't matter. He's he's still he's more athletic. He's still stronger than them just naturally. Now it's like he's playing against men and it's.
00:35:19
Speaker
different. Yeah, he's playing against a full grown adults now. And it's yeah, it's a different story out there for sure. These guys shave. So all of them shave. Yeah, some of them refuse to shave, but right. But yeah. When
Scotland's Team Dynamics
00:35:37
Speaker
anyway, let's go over to the to the let's let's have the praises for the. Because, yeah.
00:35:46
Speaker
this team is actually very well constructed. And I saw a post about being able to bring on Chris Harris as a defensive substitution late in the game. And it's like, holy shit, that's actually, yeah. They had that luxury. I mean, Hugh Jones.
00:36:02
Speaker
Um, I said it this morning when I, when I was writing, he's getting into not quite, but getting into you. He's, he's, his trajectory is towards that world-class 13 player right now. He's not there, but his trajectory is heading there. But I mean, he's doing the things you got, like the, what he's missing right now is the consistency. That's it. And he's, he's been consistent the last two weeks. So this, this six nations could be a, um,
00:36:27
Speaker
very much uh uh an announcement of his presence on the world stage if he keeps it up for another three matches which i have no reason to think he can't they go to paris next that's there it is you know when do we know that'll be the one that'll be the one he showed well against england he's gonna have to go against fiku he's going to get speak yeah that'll be and then going against probably ring rose later that's i would just i would guess as much yeah i think that's the last match to the
00:36:55
Speaker
There you go. Now it's time to put up even more. Continue to put up and you're good. Yes. Yes. Agreed. It's hard to understand for me how good this Scottish team is without the background necessarily having a giant impact on the game.
00:37:25
Speaker
that might be the case where it's actually a little scary that this could get better as well. I think that they, I mean, Jamie Ritchie is good. These class don't get me wrong. Yes, I agree.
00:37:38
Speaker
I still think that they could play a different, three different players who are not out there when healthy, and be better than this group. So that's the scary thing. Darge and Mish, and fuck, I just lost his name when I was talking about Darge. Who plays it for Bristol? Bradbury. Bradbury, thank you.
00:38:05
Speaker
That's a better back row than this is, almost man for man. Like this could be such a good, they could even be better. I mean, Fagerson, Welsh were so bad that Fagerson looked good this match.
00:38:25
Speaker
Yeah. He was one of the top carriers, I think in terms of number of carries. Yeah. He had the most 13 carries. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he was at least doing the grunt work. There's no doubt about that. But and he had a try. So, yeah. I think I lost one at the end there. Let's talk about the player of the match because no matter how what it seems no matter what
00:38:55
Speaker
things on the outside are going for him. And if things are going on for him at the club level, he just waves this magic wand when he wears the Scotland shirt and phenomenon appears like. He's so fucking good. It's just that he's that, yeah, he's too good. He's too good. Yes, he's a bit of a maverick, but that's what you want out there.
00:39:22
Speaker
You're not New Zealand, you're not England, you're not South Africa, you're not France. You need something that's an X factor. And he 100% provides that X factor. So you live with the, why'd you do that cross kick again? Type of things.
00:39:39
Speaker
But when it comes off, brilliant. Usually, yeah. But even even when it doesn't come off, you can watch what he does and say, I can see what the plan was there. It didn't it didn't work out, but at least there was thought to it. And he was trying to do something. And again, you know, if the ball gets to where it needs to be for play to happen, then your 10 is playing a good match. And that's all he's doing, whether it's he's doing it.
00:40:06
Speaker
The traditional way, but just it's traditional doesn't mean it's it's not traditional doesn't mean it's bad. It's just no, it's using the skills that you have to make the best plays. What the fuck else would you want from any player at any position? Three, three tries. So retry sisters match. And they were all just delicious. The back door to stay.
00:40:33
Speaker
The back door to same was just silly. And yeah, the best part about the whole thing is like, they spoke of continuity on the broadcast. And that was the first thing that the word popped in my head when he did that to the wing there.
00:40:48
Speaker
you have like his teammates know that that's on the cards most of the time so they're ready for it which is good yeah you know and maybe that might have been the issue in the past where maybe teammates the players that were in the team weren't quite expecting that because they just hadn't played with fin before and didn't understand this is something that's in his locker
00:41:08
Speaker
Yeah, but now he's got guys that understand him have been around the block once or twice and I don't love staying but he has been there a bit so yeah, he's got at least little minimal talent for like for eating and not not disrespectually, but like he's got the talent sufficient to play at this level. It's just can you know,
00:41:31
Speaker
can he actually take that talent and make it into a good rugby player? So it's like, yeah, he's good enough where, as long as he makes that catch, as we saw last week, he's fun. As long as it's not hog throwing a pass, everything should be good. I think we can win hog. I don't see why not. I think we can, because I know Townsend loves Blair. Kinghorn has a 10.
00:42:00
Speaker
full back. He needs to be a full back and put them there. We saw what he could do when he's given space that I think that's the biggest thing that he needs is space space for a guy like him space for him. A guy like do Han is
00:42:16
Speaker
dangerous to any team. Yeah, it's just and he clearly and he knows what to do, too. Yeah, he's like he's he's a lot like Stuart back there. Yes. Yes. Like why would you not want that there, especially when you have Finn at 10 like your tennis set? Throw, you know, throw him back there and hog. You don't you don't need hog anymore. Top two meter meters, guys for Scotland or Doohan and Kinghorn.
00:42:47
Speaker
149 and 110, 200 at the top. And he played the full match, so you can understand what kind of rate Kinghorn was on to even come close to keeping up. So, yeah, it's no longer a thing for me. It shouldn't even be a question in the heads. I think if they want to win going to Paris, and I understand that's a cauldron, and it's that'll be France's first whole match of the comp. Get it?
00:43:17
Speaker
Test this kid, kid, he's not here, kid, test this guy at this level in that situation, because you have to go back to France in about six months anyway.
00:43:31
Speaker
Might as well find out now, okay? And their expectations for Scotland are almost none. So every match they went from here out, obviously their own fans will be very disappointed if they were to lose any match at this point because they just feel like they're probably on fire. But outside of that, expectations are so freaking
00:43:54
Speaker
are out the window at this point. They've achieved way more than a lot of people thought already just by winning those first two matches. So indeed, like they were, they were not unpopular picks for the spoon. So yeah. And now they're, you know, they're the old, they're one of two teams that are still on for the slam.
00:44:13
Speaker
And now you need to really be playing the players who the other, at this point, it's not just about who you like the best. It's about who the other team will not pick on. And I got a feeling if I'm France, I would pick on hog all day long. I would make him do some work, see what happens. Because England did that.
00:44:35
Speaker
Um, just, just the problem was when, you know, when they were able to pass to do on, so you got to shut, if you shut that down, you know, everything's cool. But, um, you know, it's when they were kicking to that, again, they were, it was when they were kicking to the space and France do that. France are good at like, you know, they, they love kicking to the touch line and they're going to run hog around all day long. And I don't know how much that's going to help him. Any edit, you know, probably not.
00:45:05
Speaker
Probably not. I do want to give a shout to George Turner. I thought he played a pretty damn good game. Just like the card. A second time in a row. So he's, he's another one who's on my radar. Yep. He's put his hand up twice in a row now. So give him credit. Give him credit where it's due. Loads of credit to that boy. Okay. Let's go to Twickenham.
00:45:33
Speaker
and
England vs Italy Overview
00:45:34
Speaker
England and Italy, and up until, I mean, really, up until the Arendelle try, this is interesting at the very least. Mm-hmm. It certainly is, because, I mean... I know it's 19-nothing at halftime, but... It's 19-nothing. Well, Missouri came out with their hair on fire. They did, but the penalty try, I think, was the... I mean, that was the end.
00:46:06
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, this was not a bad team that that England just shoved literally just shoved around and and this is what I know. So this is what annoys me. So these English fans is like, can't you just accept the fact that your team had a game plan? Their game plan was clearly to just physically punish Italy and not that they were and
00:46:32
Speaker
Not that England didn't play well. They use their talents. Well, I mean, they were they were playing loose. It's just that when it was time to hit, they were going to bring the wood. Yep. And it worked. Like you don't want to play like France tried to play open and and just run on on Italy. And it turns out Italy can do that. So don't play a game that favors them. Play the game that favors you and takes away, you know, play, play, you know, take away their
00:47:02
Speaker
game they want to play and play a game they don't want to play that's and they did it and this is this yeah and the kicking inside the 22 well at that point i'm sorry you're out of you're you're almost out of options because
00:47:18
Speaker
they would run a crash with Ollie Lawrence. And then it's Farrell and Slade in a wing and Stewart. And it's like, again, if it was Marchant, now you're running the ball, you have options there. Slade, he's more of a defensive, he like can run the defensive line, although he got bounced off a lot of tackles for a defensive specialist.
00:47:47
Speaker
But an attack, he gives you nothing. And I think that's the problem there, because it's like, yeah, they're out of options, because you can't really go through Slade, because he'll just kind of take it and get tackled. And now we have slow ball again, we're back to square one. So, yeah, I think that was a little bit of the selections by Borthwick. And I hope, you know, Borthwick's already shown
00:48:10
Speaker
that he's willing to make the hard decisions. So I'm hoping that he's, and he seems to see the same things that I was seeing at least before. And I know I'm not the only one I'm just saying, but by the way, I see it. I don't see, I kept slate on for this heat, this next training weekend, but I can't imagine he's going to play. If you're, if you really want to, if you were going to want to need, if you need to score points, he's not your guy. Yeah. This is a wounded Wales team. So we'll see what they put out as well. Exactly. Um,
00:48:40
Speaker
And to the Feral kicking point, I do want to talk about this very little bit too. To the Feral kicking point though, Italy are still a team that maybe not so much at scrum time. I think they showed their own there for the most part.
00:48:57
Speaker
But at line-up training, especially at a fair old time. What's up? Yeah. They were getting beasted in the scrum early. But they figured it out. Yeah. And they also made life hard on trance last week in the scrum. So they did. But don't forget that as well. Right. But when it comes to their mall defense, it's just not quite up to snuff yet. And England know that. So yeah, you can. And even their set pieces a little bit, you know, a little wonky as we saw. So between the two of them, those two ideas,
00:49:25
Speaker
okay yes you had ball inside the 22 and I'm not always a great fan of kicking it away inside the 22 I get it but sometimes there's also a point where you're like we are going fucking nowhere in fact we might be getting backed up so right let's put a good kick in behind where they're not gonna be able to field it they're gonna and they're gonna have to either make a choice of carrying it into touch or just letting it roll into touch and maybe we get it um and those are good kicks you know not the
00:49:53
Speaker
There are such things as some really bad kicks from the 22 and we've seen some of them. Like Young's last week. Don't get me started. But yes, so, and again, I'm not a great fan of that per se, but if you have a plan and you're executing it well and it obviously worked, okay, you're executing the plan and, you know,
00:50:22
Speaker
Farrell also might still have some leftover stuff in his head about Eddie, like, shit, if I don't execute this plan perfectly, then I'm going to get pulled early. Like he wouldn't, but you know what I mean? You know, some of these guys might have that point being, um, I think it's, I think it was a, I think it was a plan. It was executed. Well, do I love the idea of kicking inside the 22? No, but if you do it well and you have a plan for it, okay, do it. Right. You know, that being the big point. And again, it's, it's,
00:50:52
Speaker
making the best of your options. And if your best option is to try to kick it, because, all right, I'm done hating on Henry Slade, but that's, because that really is your only option to get it to the players who can make plays. Then yeah, then you do it. So, and mail-ins did pretty fucking well on kicks inside the 22 last weekend, if I'm not mistaken. So. Something like that.
00:51:18
Speaker
and then there was yeah the the mail-in's non-try not the mail-in's one but the the um jack van portley non you know try that was called back that was some open play shit it just there was a kind of wee bit of a hiccup with that whole thing yeah that kind of got in the way and yeah i didn't really agree with that but okay i thought it was a little bit i mean yeah someone there was like legs tangling up but i don't think that was
00:51:45
Speaker
I think that should have been a... Yeah, that's getting nitpicky sometimes. Yeah, it was. And there was a little bit of a, you know, soccer dive in there too on it, so. It did not take that much contact to put that guy down. That's all I'll say. What does happen sometimes? The leading runner in this game was... Is
Italy's Potential in Rugby
00:52:11
Speaker
it Capuzzo? Yeah, say between both teams. Yeah, Capuzzo.
00:52:14
Speaker
by far, by far. Yeah. The next one. The next one is Brex. It is. Yeah. So this team can play. This team can run. This team can attack. I feel like Kupotza did a lot of running in front of the defense, which didn't help him. He didn't do nearly enough running behind the defense. Well, his biggest threat was on the edge and on the angles, which he did
00:52:42
Speaker
get the edge a few times. So that's where a lot of it came from. Yeah, he was good in support as well.
00:52:52
Speaker
This team is good. They're minus their best 10, without a doubt. I love Tommy Allen, but Paul Urbisi is better. He's better. I don't think there's a question about that, and I don't think anybody would argue with that. Right. So we're waiting on, you know, we're a little bit waiting on that. They were missing Lambrail for a while. That sucked. Yeah, it does. I was sad to see him have to come off.
00:53:15
Speaker
And Alan, I felt bad for Alan. I mean, you know, you passed him, but like he got the shit kicked out of him. Oh, he was getting knocked around quite a bit. Yeah, he was. He was. He was. He was getting quite quite a bit knocked around. Yeah. You know, Negri had another good match, too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I was I had my my eyebrows raised about seven in the back row. But
00:53:39
Speaker
I'm believing it right now. The only thing I didn't like was the afters on Farrell. That's the only thing I didn't. That's definitely the only part of his game. But also, I can understand the frustration at that point because he's having a great match in his teams. Not supporting him. Not supporting him. And his 10 is getting the shit kicked out of him. So he's just trying to repay Farrell for it. And it's like, I get it, but you can't just make a hit like that on someone and then throw your forearm into their neck.
00:54:08
Speaker
Yeah. Well, you're on top of them like that, shall we? Yeah. Although I did appreciate Ali Chasm coming in and like flipping them over and then giving Farrell a pat on the back saying, all right, you got it from here. I flipped you. Have fun. Let's just flip this over and yeah, you got this from here. Yeah.
00:54:35
Speaker
Hilarious. That's like, yeah, that's like, you normally kind of see that from a veteran with a rookie. You're like, all right, now you got a rookie. You got it from here. But that's the other way around. It's like, sir, happy to be a service. I believe you have this one here. Oh, you're his boss. Have fun. Yeah. Good stuff. So was it Monticello that broke the line that eventually got their second try?
00:55:00
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And I know there was a little bit of bitching about the obstruction. He knew who he was picking on. Regardless of the blue shirts that were there, those two props are not kidding. No, no. And that's that's the difference is that they were neither of them were in position to potentially make a play because they were fat. Yeah, I have no issue with that. You know, if that's really in the way, if that's a back and a back rower. OK, then you got a case. But two props, neither of which are getting there, especially not coal, not coal now.
00:55:30
Speaker
Yeah, sorry. We're good. We're all good. So yeah, this team... That was the Fusco try. That was the Fusco try, yeah. Yeah. So this team has some good things going around. I hope Lambrel comes back. I hope that was just a dead leg. Yeah. And Richie. Richie played a hell of a match scoring a try, too. Yeah, Richie only had a good game. I thought Dolman was a little harsh on him in the first round, though. A little bit, yeah.
00:55:57
Speaker
Yeah. And, uh, quickly back to England, like just looking at the forwards, like I don't, the only one I didn't really notice. And I know we came off early a little bit with Sinclair and that's, that's kind of weird to think about that. Like.
00:56:17
Speaker
It's okay for a prop if you, if you get lost in the shuffle, that's okay. It's just that Sinclair is that, you know, he's usually not that that's why exactly. That's why I was kind of surprised. I guess that's what we're at with that one. Uh, yeah. I check Willis though. Yeah. You're not ripping that seven shirt off his, off his back right now. I think he's, he's too happy to have it at this point. I think this for this group of four right here, that's your.
00:56:41
Speaker
That's your back row. It's a really good back row. I don't, I mean, you know, people are talking about Curry. I, I, first off, who you take, who are you like, who here that, that, that Curry's very good at it being the defensive specialist. Can he do what little, any of these four players did in a loose?
00:57:04
Speaker
Oh, we've talked about it. His attacking sense is kind of meh. So certainly international level. Give me these four and you're good. That was, yeah. Yeah. I'm chasm. Yeah. I don't know who else you start at lock besides these two right now. And there's a lot of options, but...
00:57:33
Speaker
with the way Chasm is playing and Maro being Maro is- Right. Like Maro goes out and has just a world-class day at lock and people are like, he's not the player he used to be. And it's like, he, like, no, he's not doing everything. That's true. You're right. He's not doing like all the things he used to do. He won the most layouts for the team. Right. Like he's still clearly their main weapon. He's now the guy who's the like veteran consistency guy.
00:58:03
Speaker
Like that's his game now. And that's like, you can still take over a game. Like he just hasn't, he doesn't need to. So it's like, but he does everything right. When he, when he does, he does right. So leave it be like, why would, you know, start ribbons, but can ribbons play defense the way it told you does. Can you run the line out the way it told you, can you do, there's a lot of things that he cannot do that it told you can. And really, so that was the question, but it was between him and Chasm and, and I guess it's equally too, but it's like,
00:58:36
Speaker
Ezekiel was solid, but Chasm is just, that's, that's the guy. He's, he's your, I don't know where the hell he came from. Like, where has this Ali Chasm been? At last right now. This is not quite the same player that we've seen in. We've seen flashes of it, but maybe took a Nick Evans type attack. Yeah.
00:58:59
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. And then the Nines, Vanport Fleet had a, he's still making some mistakes here and there, but they're not killing the team. Cause he can still throw, throw dimes when he has to. And you make, you know, make one tactical error. That's fine. Come back from it. No big deal. And then Alex Mitchell comes on and it's like, if this, if Alex Mitchell came on last week, they win that game.
00:59:25
Speaker
instead of Ben Young's. And I hate to put it that way, but yeah, they needed to get up and go. And Mitchell absolutely provides that. Really does. He really does. I guess that's that's the reason that Young's has been sent back home because it's like, no, we're good here. I think those I think this combination as well as probably perfect for the most for the most part, it really is. You know, you have the important fleet who is going to be
00:59:53
Speaker
You're pretty much your everything guy. He's got the kicks down. He's got the, he can scoot a little bit. The service is good. And then we know Mitchell's had his issues with kicks, but really, as far as an attacking nine goes, name a better attacking nine in the prem right now. There isn't one.
01:00:10
Speaker
You know, there are many anywhere. So no, he's he's got that ability. So does he have to work on other assets of his game? Yes, he does. Yeah. But yeah, he is still without a doubt one of the best attacking nines that we have right now in the world, right? We let alone in the prep. So yes, I think both would be silly to leave that at home and not at least put him on the five to. Yeah, he's like he's he's like he's a
01:00:36
Speaker
Yeah, it's like he's got this right where you want to be at 25. Like, yeah, could you could you be better than that? Yeah, but that's like freak prodigy type situation like he's yeah, he's in right where he needs to be. And he could have, you know, eight great years in it. And Steve Worthwick.
01:00:58
Speaker
Unconsciously, probably, is desperately trying to unfuck the things that Eddie had done with this team, too, in terms of not picking certain players and not giving players experience.
Steve Borthwick's England Rebuild
01:01:08
Speaker
So he's desperate to try and get some players some run just to at least see what the fuck he has. So I give him credit for doing what probably feels like an impossible job.
01:01:19
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, he's got to check the combination because he's seen how the way they can play. And it's like, you know, that that is kind of why, you know, some of the players are around that are still around. But there he's also working his way through. He's like, no, OK, I was right about, you know, I wasn't sure about you. Now I'm sure. But like, and this is what we want to do and who's going to actually be able to execute what they need to do. Yeah. And that's that's coming together. Yeah. And, you know, it may be
01:01:49
Speaker
in in france when it comes to playing in the world cup the number next to how many caps you have may be completely irrelevant for borthwick honestly yeah and he may have to just go by gut feeling and it'll be a combination of the two more than likely but really i think when push comes to shove he just needs to look at that and say i don't care if you have five caps you're in this week you know
01:02:14
Speaker
Yeah, and women like we talked about that last week too. It's like the people who have all the high level of caps, especially the ones who got a lot of caps under any.
01:02:23
Speaker
Aren't really Mako is not Mako anymore. No, nothing against that. But like, yeah, now he's, he's good. Yeah. He'd be the replacement for Genge. That's great. You know, you'll get some decent minutes. Although I'd still, I think it's, it's time for like a Valor Pava Ruskin to start getting his good to see or rod or something like that. Yep. Right. Yeah. I'm kind of disappointed that right. I don't know what that's, that's kind of scary that rod is not getting, um, look right now. Yeah. I look right now.
01:02:50
Speaker
Yep. I agree. I agree. But at the same time, I mean, I have no reason not to trust forthwick right now. I liked what he's doing. I think he's, he's making some, some tough decisions and I think he's making them well. Yeah. I think he's going about it in a pretty good way. So thus far, right? He's shown, he's shown competency at creating game plans. Now it's just down to making sure you get the guys out there who know how to execute that game plan. A hundred percent, a hundred percent.
01:03:20
Speaker
All right, and my prediction of England winning the championship without the Grand Slam is still may still may still happen. They'll happen may still happen. So your dream about whales being less than Italy might not be so far off either.
01:03:41
Speaker
We'll see. Wales, Wales get a lot to fix. They really, I think they just don't have the same resources and talents. No, that's why the players are striking, right? The same level as, uh, to the same level as England. So that's why it's going to be a lot uglier going into the World Cup than it will be for England. For sure. All right.
01:04:12
Speaker
That is
Episode Wrap-Up and Future Teasers
01:04:13
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round two. We take a break from it this week. We go back into the prem. With the players missing, so that'll be interesting to see how that affects teams. Big week for us this week, as we said at the top of the show. Obviously, we have Fantasy Corner coming up. We're picking the super rookie draft order because guess what's Saturday? We're doing our live pod.
01:04:42
Speaker
Our old friend George is going to join us. Yay. We got to talk a little bit more about that come fancy corner. So stick around for that if you hadn't over there. We also have
01:04:52
Speaker
an MLR special. We're going to do MLR preview with our old friend, Bill Baker. So that's going to come up later on this week. So keep your eyes peeled onto your apps and for your updates and listen for that, we'll probably stick to that for about 30-ish minutes or so, because we don't have to deal a whole lot else other than talk about that. So we won't burn too much of Bill's time because then we want to go actually watch the match too, because Three Jacks Play Friday.
01:05:19
Speaker
Oh yeah. Buckle up for another MLR season. I've got my free Jax shirt on already. I'll have it on later. Not today, but later this week. No, I'll definitely have it on on Friday. Both for the pod and for the match. Fancy Rugby podcast at gmail.com. Tweet up NRI. If you're coming over to the Fancy Corner, we'll see you over there. If not, enjoy the return to League Play. And we'll see you all next week. Have a good one. Later. Cheers.