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Wales will beat Ireland,then England will win the championship,I'm praying that will happen anyway.🏈😜

***** I don't think England are quite there yet, ye still lack one of the most important things in rugby: experience. If the World Cup was on next year however I'd say ye would be in with a fairly strong shout.

WhammyTime91 all blacks are still a good bit ahead of the other nations. If they somehow do terrible in the Rwc then England ireland and south Africa will contest it.

Gary Twist Yes just like England thought. Wales are in for a drubbing.

lol what a joke, Healy didn’t even dip slightly to tackle him, was completely upright, poor tackle technique that is frankly embarrassing

@@Aerosonic10001 crazy thing is healy didn't even go for a HIA

That's like me saying we need O'Driscoll back. Teams are supposed to plan for the future, not hark back to past glories.

brendan w Lawes is 26; Launchbury is 23; Corbisiero is 26; Wood is 28; Brown is 29; Tuilagi is 23; Morgan is 26. These players are not "past glories".... They are just all injured..... sadly

deasweinberger Heaslip, Trimble, Dave Kearney, OBrien, Henry, Strauss (& Ruddock, Marmion, Copeland?)

Well the thing is, i would say that Joe Marler is better then Corbisiero, Croft is better then Wood, and Billy is better then Morgan, so really you were without your second row and full back, your centre is the top try scorer so far so not much of a loss, but do remember Ireland won the 6 nations last year with loads of injuries, so really you cant hide behind injures, the World cup is going to injury a lot of players so you'll need to get used to not having a full team.

TheHairyKnacker O Brien started against England, and only Heaslip would make the starting XV out of the rest of those players. England were probably not full strength, but it certainly shows a lack of depth to the English squad. The players Ireland brought off the bench knew their exact hobs and fitted into the team perfectly. I think Ireland are a notch above the other NH teams right now, but Wales in Cardiff will be a really tough test. I predict a narrow win for Ireland in Cardiff and the Grand Slam to follow. Unless Scotland can do something they haven't done in the championship yet this year.

They're counting the World Cup warm up game in 2011

Ah I see, cheers.

no, this game showed that the best teams in the six nations are wales and ireland. wales only lost to england becuase it was the first game and they were rusty as hell. same as 2013

England are constantly offside and breaking all sorts of rules during games. Literally every single game. Robshaw punished correctly. No question.

doug armstrong sorry hasn't happened

Adrian Dyter no but Eddie Jones is not doing England's standings any favours outside of England. Arrogance from the top down. Well done on this year's 6 nations BTW. .

doug armstrong yeah I think he doesn't pick the team well

+Fergus Lawlor Yea, English Flankers tend not to get away with much. Irish forwards got away with murder at the breakdown (at 2 minutes you see the Irish guy resting on his elbows, clearly not supporting his weight with his legs) but you can't really complain at this game. England were bossed, pure and simple. The boys in white suffer at the breakdown and Lancaster has done little to remedy that (ditching Kvesic from the RWC 31 was a mistake). Still, I have faith that the tournament will be a good one and if England get some good wins that'll just be a bonus