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  1. You don't want to watch the film. You're only 44, you're too young for anything that traumatising.
  2. England's performance in Lyon was a lot less accurate than the game against Ireland, probably not helped by the early injury to Furbank, and the errors did cost them but they still showed a fair bit of promise. Scoring 4 tries and losing to a late, moderately harsh, penalty is a hell of a lot better than their last performance against France. Fair play to the coaching team, I was really down on things at the start of the tournament but it's really turned around. In terms of where they go from here I think Daly's probably reaching the end of the road. He's just not got the pace he used to have and they could do with a more dynamic winger than Daly is these days. Feyi-Waboso was a bit of a revelation when he played and England have other options too. In the centres Slade probably was the form English centre coming into the tournament and he's been ok but I think England do need to look to move on. If we could find a proper 12 and start playing Lawrence at his more natural position of 13 that'd be nice. France still have the best talent pool of rugby players, certainly in Northern Hemisphere rugby anyway, and it really showed whenever England errors gave them broken play to attack in. England, after dealing pretty well with both Ireland and South Africa's forwards in recent meetings, really struggled with the power in the French pack too. They just seem to have collectively really lost their focus post World Cup for this Six Nations though. Also Ramos defending in the front line is a problem.
  3. Bobby Clark was injured so we had to leave Salah on because we didn't have any more subs. He basically just walked around for the last 30 minutes of that game.
  4. Opta don’t have it that wide for normal time and a big chunk of that is Rashford’s offside chance that would’ve been ruled out if he’d scored. Liverpool were mostly fucking up the final pass to not take their chances. Extra time, yeah, give the ball away like Liverpool did it’s going to cost you.
  5. What are you talking about? Salah is coming off a fairly serious hamstring injury so he definitely doesn’t have 120 minutes in him and he wasn’t playing well anyway. Really? United were decent for the first 35 minutes or so but I thought they were rubbish in the second half. Liverpool giving away a couple of loose goals in extra time was irritating but the real problem was not taking their multiple chances in all the space United were giving them in the second half.
  6. Good first half from United, they’ve been the better side to be fair, but it’s gone a bit wrong for them in the last few minutes.
  7. I just finished House of Open Wounds, which was excellent, and was going to post something similar. Tchaikovsky's level of output combined with the quality of the books and variety of different imaginative settings and stories really is nuts. He's got another sci fi book coming out in a couple of weeks. Next up I'm going to read Robert Jackson Bennett's Locklands.
  8. Courageous defensive performance from Scotland but they never really got anything going in attack until right at the end. I like Christie, good player. Slightly deflating last couple of games for Ireland but they have been the best side in the tournament this year so deserved the Six Nations win. I haven’t seen the game yet but good to see things starting to come together for Italy. They’ve had a pretty good youth set up for a while but it looks like it’s really starting to pay off at senior level.
  9. I wouldn't be surprised to see them moving Tadhg Beirne to 6 and bringing in another second row. Beirne's not exactly young but you'd expect him to make the next World Cup and going with dynamic hybrid backrows/second rows at 6 seems to be be the in thing these days. George North has announced his retirement after the end of the Six Nations. Wales really are having to rebuild almost their entire side.
  10. I think that’s a reasonable draw for Arsenal. Bayern’s not the easiest possible draw but it’s not too bad in their current state. City and Real play each other so they’ll only have to play one of them. Ideally I suppose you’d want to avoid them altogether but that doesn’t seem likely.
  11. Salah and Szoboszlai probably need some game time but playing Nunez too feels a bit mean 5-1 up. Goal for Bobby Clark. Nice.
  12. I can’t say I’m too fussed since Liverpool coming 5th looks pretty unlikely at this stage but looking at the rules the big thing in the Champions League was getting out of the group stage. You get 5 bonus points for qualifying for the last 16, you only get 1 bonus point for every round you qualify for after that. So, yeah, United and Newcastle not getting out of the group stages really fucked the Premier League. ETA: England squad for the international break. It's been fairly obvious for a while but Southgate's clearly taking Henderson to the Euros. At least he seems to have given up on forcing Phillips in too. Gomez is back in, I think with the reduced squad sizes he's pretty nailed on to go even with only just coming back in with the way he's covered across the back four to a good level for Liverpool this year. The other big news is Ben White apparently declined the chance to be selected.
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