England V. France

More of those things about being an Englishman. If you are an Englishman, you want to beat Australia at cricket - you want to beat Germany at football - you want to beat the USA at the men's 4 x 40m relay - and by God, you certainly want to beat France at rugby. Saves going to war with them all anyways.

we dicked em

May the best English speaking team win next week.

We did dick 'em, Fish. We certainly did.

fish do you think the introduction of catt in the second half, changed the game, and do you think he should be in the starting xv against france his first phase ball is something else isn't it...

well to be honest marty i was a bit too busy going "phwoaaaarr jonny!!!" with my niece aged 16 and "see him, martin, he goes to the same bank as me i have seen him in the queue" to really take any notice of substitutions ... but we certainly played much better in the second half ... and my niece says jonny is the beckham of rugby ...

>>and my niece says jonny is the beckham of rugby ... Rubbish. I've met his girlfriend, and she definitely isn't a talentless slapper. [%sig%]

I have long berated the unfortunate Catt - but he looks like the only one of our backs in any kind of form at the moment. He's got real zip, he's flinging out some great passes and even his kicking looks good. I hope he plays at inside centre with Greenwood outside him. It means no place for Tindall who will be very very unlucky as it's Jonny's lack of form that is bringing in Catt. We need Hill back and Lewsey at full back - and then we might have the nous to break thorugh the French. But watch it, we might not have that much ball. That French pack is awesome. The front five are playing out of their skins and we always knew that the back three were better than us. It's going to be hang on to your hats time.

England have only been playing in 2nd gear, France have given and shown too much too soon. Their back row is good, but the English pack overall outguns their, remember we have Richard Hill to return and Laurie D, Martin johnson and Steve Thompson have yet to play big games. Remember David Duckham?

let's dick em

let's duck em