Sporting Benching

Sporting thoughts and commentary particularly looking at the psychology of what's going on.

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

God bless Martin O’Neill

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@thepaulwilliams Playing against the best can only be good for our players

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@nikstorey_ Yep, unfortunately they ran into Martin O'Neil doing something unbelievable with a terrible team

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@surreycricket Can't wait. An evening session writing notes and watching cricket is my secret pleasure.

[Calum Crowe @CalumCrowe10]

A Six Nations championship decided by a moment of total madness from Henry Pollock.

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@ek_rugby Away from the posts though and they then missed the conversion

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@DjmComments

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The obvious thing is the English league standard is not good. It is easy to win simply by making fewer mistakes rather than forcing a win and too tight a salary cap prevents proper team building #6Nations #englandrugby @rugby

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Hard not to feel apart of England's rugby issues are they they don't recognise that their baseline is mediocre and failing to recognise this means they jump to superficial answers. Borthwick qas the outstanding candidate to take over from Jones #6Nations #EnglandRugby /1

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@OvalDigest @brettruganalyst But was the lack of kicking a deliberate strategy to use the game to develop other aspects for the team? Farrell has form for using fame time for training

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@Sonjamclaughlan @SBarnesRugby @thetimes This is an important point, england are traditionally competitive but not dominant in the 5/6nations yet the media great them as automatic favourites every year. England are historically, not France

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@rugby_ap You'd fancy Wales to beat England if they played next week

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@robkitson is a good and interesting writer most of the time, it is worth noting, which is why this article stood out for it's "hot take"

[Sporting Benching @sportingbench]

Was angry when I read this by @robkitson a few weeks ago. I understand journalism is a form of entertainment but this was just playing to the (English) gallery and hugely disrespectful to 4 of the 6n teams. Thankfully now it reads like hilarious satire #6Nations #Rugby

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Unkind but also necessary to repost this.

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

Unkind but also necessary to repost this.

[Sporting Benching @sportingbench]

@BenjiNaesen No, punishing success makes things boring. A salary cap is a good idea though as long as not too low

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

Okay okay here’s the clip

[Italrugby @Federugby]

𝙉𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖 💙

#ITAvENG #Italrugby
#insieme #rugbypassioneitaliana

[Sporting Benching @sportingbench]

The @ITV rugby commentry is oboxious. Mindless England cheerleading, sub pub level. Little analysis. No way anyone casually watching could understand anything from the misleading cheerleading #6nations

[Greg Stoker @gregjstoker]

The hardest part of a quick 2 week ground operation is the first 20 years