Wales team to face England at Twickers

reading a plethora of comments about the standards.

Prior to this game, I really thought our best team, by some distance, was last week, with the exception of maybe Sanjay and  Adams, and looks as if I was right .

Gatland has got a bit of thinking to do now , compounded by injury worries.

Regarding Farrell, I obviously cannot comment on todays incident, but he clearly seems to have a technical tackling issue going on recent history, so today is no surprise.

This is not the 70's , when people went out to deliberately hurt someone( I have have seen some appalling acts of thuggery in my time), but nevertheless professional players  have to be responsible for their actions, and Farrell has been a time tomb ticking for ages.

England are better off without him anyway

I think you may have a point with Adams - he is not the player he was a few seasons ago. With 14 backs assuming 3 x 9's & 3 x 10'a that just leaves places for 8. Covering more than one position may be the decider - Anscombe covers 15 but will not play any part in warm ups which isn't ideal. Of the 8no LRZ, North & Liam are on the plane with Grady & Llewelyn in with a good shout. Grady covers wing which will help. Joe did himself no harm yesterday for sure and Johnny Williams will be busting a gut to get his chance next weekend. Cuthbert needs to play against South Africa & if he goes well either he or Rio could edge Adams out. 

Both teams are poor in comparison to many others, we are both very slow in moving the ball into the wider channels and do not appear capable of playing what’s in front of us.

Wales have scored 4 tries against them, whilst they only managed one try in the 2 games and that came from a very familiar source (for England), a catch and drive where the backs join in.

Joe Roberts offered something different in midfield, he has pace to beat his man on the outside, something that GN and MG didn’t have (in the first match), that keeps defenders honest and creates space for the back 3 to run into.

It’s baffling how Chintza appears to struggle to turn his unbelievable club form into international competition and how the h..l Adam Beard is anywhere near the squad (let alone made captain) is beyond me.

With regards to Farrell, he deserves what he gets, he’s had form all his career for poor tackle technique (and I’m being generous with that description).  He’s got away with it too many times (yellow cards not being upgraded to red) and it was nice to see our friend Brian MacNiece taking a firmer decision on Saturday - although that wasn’t the worst tackle I’ve seen him make.

I don’t believe that he will get the ban his tackle deserves - he will get a nominal ban (just like Sexton) due to them being captains of their country and being integral to their respective teams.

He has form for dangerous tackles but as he’s got away with most of them (in the past) he will have a reduced sentence just for saying sorry, and going on a tackling course (again).

I didn't watch it but you do know that they're trailing  the "bunker" system?

Yse, i did know that. Perhaps you don't understand how it is supposed to work? Let me explain:

the first stage is as follows: