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Farrell has had his time. With apologies he will only depreciate. If England want to stick to the same plan they need to find a younger crew who can play in this way. Personally I'd rather back a dynamic team, build it around Marcus and go from there. No interest from the coaches though...
 
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There was a very unreal suggestion that 60K of the fans in the stad could be Irish, which i can only assume all the locals resold their tickets for $$
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The SA game seemed so surreal with the fans singing Zombie at the end, almost like it was a home game.

I can't see anyone other than France beating this Irish team atm.
 
As a Scot disappointed but on the other hand Ireland are very, very good and I won't be surprised if they finally break their duck and get past the quarter finals.

I don't even think we were that bad tonight it was just that Ireland took their chances and were much more clinical that we were able to be.

I think it shows though that while we talk about Tier 1 and Tier 2, there's really 3 tiers - The current Top 4 in the World (Ireland, France, NZ and South Africa) and then a Second tier of the teams ranked 5th - 10th and then tier 3 beyond that.
Scotland sit 5th in the World Rankings and I'm fairly confident we could win against any of the teams below us, of the top 4 its really only France that we seem to give a good game to.

Obviously annoyed the World Cup is over for us but we knew 3 years ago when the pool was drawn that we would need to beat either the defending World Champs or an Irish Team that I think we can officially say are now our nemesis!
 
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It's mad how bad the draw looks at this point. I mean, just look at the Quarter Finals stage:

France vs South Africa
Ireland vs New Zealand
Wales vs the winner of Argentina/Japan
England vs (probably) Fiji

These should be some exciting games. But the Semi Finals are likely to be quite one-sided. It's difficult to see how the final is anything other than the winner of Ireland vs New Zealand playing the winner of France vs South Africa.
 
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McPhee said:
It's mad how bad the draw looks at this point. I mean, just look at the Quarter Finals stage:

France vs South Africa
Ireland vs New Zealand
Wales vs the winner of Argentina/Japan
England vs (probably) Fiji

These should be some exciting games. But the Semi Finals are likely to be quite one-sided. It's difficult to see how the final is anything other than the winner of Ireland vs New Zealand playing the winner of France vs South Africa.
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How dare you discount the mighty England :cry: Ah username checks out, carry on ;)
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It is a bit off that the 4 best teams play each other in the Quarter Finals and the 4 weakest teams play each other.

Should England reach the Semi's or heavens forbid the Final it will give an uttelry false impression of their ability.
 
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