The Rugby Thread

[Cormack74]

They were uniformly **** Boogs - I've seen them put out less strong sides before without abdicating their self styled "wolf pack" defensive ethos but this time they looked completely clueless.

Losing Paul Gustard (former defence coach)to England wouldn't have helped either but I reckon there would have been a few questions about attitude on monday morning.

[paulg]

Only just remembered to check my fantasy team... **** me. Last. Why do i bother with fantasy games?

My main problem, with picking England players, is knowing who will play. Even who will play for more than 60 minutes. I agree, the sport is brutal and the coaches seem much more inclined to see match as a 23 man game, rather than a 15 man game these days.

[Rigadon]

Reminder to check your fantasy teams. Wales v France tonight. Tidy!

[ChesterDave]

2 enforced subs. Wanted a tactical 3rd but country restrictions necessitated a 4th. -2 penalty for me.

[Rigadon]

2 enforced subs. Wanted a tactical 3rd but country restrictions necessitated a 4th. -2 penalty for me.

Made the mistake of making 3 transfers after week one. Saved the transfers then immediately reversed one of my transfers - it was counted as a fourth transfer and lost 2 points Schoolboy error!

[RichC]

The Welsh defence has been immense

[Liverpel]

Reminder to check your fantasy teams. Wales v France tonight. Tidy!

Aargh, I didn't know this was on tonight. Didn't get a chance to update my team.

[Cormack74]

Great to see Itoje getting a start tomorrow for England and Daly making the bench.

Expecting big things from these two over the next couple of years.

[Rigadon]

Not a great game but very happy with the result

The French have so much potential but seem to have no game plan whatsoever.

Couple of stand out lines from the commentators:

Jonathan Davies: "tug it out, strap it up and carry on"
Think he was talking about a dislocated finger!

Brian Moore referring to the French set-up 'like being coached by Jacques Clouseau'.

Looking forward to tomorrow's games.

[ChesterDave]

Very happy with my 2 point penalty sub so far. Warburton and Farrell out. Biggar and Billy V in.

[Boogs]

Shame the game was all about Wayne Barnes but good win with the defence playing a huge part again. England Ireland draw would do for me today!

[Red_Polo]

Yeah Wayne Barnes what a ****ing annoying **** as usual.

[Rigadon]

Barnes was better in the second half but my initial reaction (when I realised he was the ref) was "oh no, Wayne '****ing' Barnes".

Have the referees been told to hold back on issuing yellow cards? Been very few during this year's Six Nations.

[ChesterDave]

Some of the clips of incidents shown at half time and his position to see it - perfect spot close by and missed so many. Bloody awful!

[Cormack74]

I actually thought Barnes had one of his better games although I accept that's not saying much.

The top level rugby refs (and I wouldn't necessarily include him) do an incredibly difficult job even with a TMO.

I've reffed rugby albeit only up to 14 year olds and you need about 9 pairs of eyes.