2023 Six Nations

Where goats go to escape
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ASMO
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Its a game that is really lacking in quality.
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Big D wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:37 pm Nige feeling sorry for Italy there. Being off your feet and stopping the 9 playing the ball is always given as a penalty.
Yeah it was very odd. Whilst the second Italian was legal he only had the opportunity because of the illegality of the first.
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ASMO wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:39 pm Its a game that is really lacking in quality.
It is.

Both sides needing the win for different reasons might be putting too much pressure on themselves. Both are short of their best players too without the quality in depth.

For me this week is just about winning.
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Fusco is having a terrible game, needs to be hooked.
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That pass followed by a not straight in the line out really illustrating ASMO's point.
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That's was not a good turnover.
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Big D
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Cheap exit.

Usually Fagerson Snr gives the soft ones away not Jnr.
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Italy just keep butchering chance, after chance, after chance ..... :roll:
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Just...........terrible
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More weak defence by Steyn. That Italian should be put into touch.
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fishfoodie wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:50 pm Italy just keep butchering chance, after chance, after chance ..... :roll:
What are these Italian chances you speak of?
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A bit harsh from the ref telling fatty Zander he needs to control his weight
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ASMO wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:52 pm A bit harsh from the ref telling fatty Zander he needs to control his weight
:clap:
“It was a pet, not an animal. It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific!”
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Zander turning Bisceti into a pretzel
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ASMO wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:43 pm Fusco is having a terrible game, needs to be hooked.
Until we have two Urc teams with an all-foreign halfback partnership how are players like Fusco expected to just step in and do a job at international level against vastly more experienced opponents
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Allan gives a pass to his wing with 3 scottish players ready to smash him. Grazie Allan!!
“It was a pet, not an animal. It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific!”
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Italy trying to play too much rugby.

Gray got 19min more than he deserved.
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Allen is not an international standard anything
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White had a good 6N.
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Big D
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That was nice.
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Going to make the last 18 mins interesting
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ASMO wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:56 pm Allen is not an international standard anything
Yours
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ASMO wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:56 pm Allen is not an international standard anything
Allan might be, though.
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Big D wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:59 pmThat was nice.
You can't fault Italy's ambition, but their skills let them down too often, but as said above, they've too small a pool of players
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Italy looking fitter here.
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Italy might be favourites here.
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If Italy end without a win you still have to say that over 5 matches it’s the most competitive they’ve ever been. They’ve sorted out their open play pens, defence is good, stopped dropping so many balls. They still need to work out when to kick or not and find some better attacking lines but they are better.
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Big D wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:03 pm Italy might be favourites here.
Oh God, I don’t know the points difference situation. Could they finish ahead of us?
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To Torque's greatest dismay, we must admit that Scotland without Finn is only a shadow of the team it can be.
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GogLais wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:07 pm
Big D wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:03 pm Italy might be favourites here.
Oh God, I don’t know the points difference situation. Could they finish ahead of us?
Before this game you were at -50 and they were -48, so it's certainly a possibility that a win for them does condemn you to the wooden spoon after all.
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Redpath and Price really added some energy and quality
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Big paw by Skinner.
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Italy missing so many chances. Normally a single player with blood rush to head.
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Scotland got out of Jail there.
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Wow superb try
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Big D
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Lovely try.

Pish performance and questions need asked as to why.
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Oh Italy. Ah well. Improved my prediction.
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Italy do get ridden by the refs but yet again they have failed to execute their opportunities and yet again it has stopped them winning a game they should have won
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages, What feats he did that day
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Paddington Bear wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:20 pm Italy do get ridden by the refs but yet again they have failed to execute their opportunities and yet again it has stopped them winning a game they should have won
I'm not sure they get ridden as hard as people like to say. Because they are the underdog and won 1 6N game in 40 or whatever it is people focus on what goes against them rather than looking at what goes for them sometimes.
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Also massive moral victory for the only side to have beaten Italy comfortably - England
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