Graeme Forbes

Think that is fair, I think RW is good but probably tapping into Vestys work (which is sensible).

England's Attacking Evolution - The Dead Ball Area When Andy Farrell announced his coaching team for the British and Irish Lions tour, it’s likely very few would have seen the announcement of Richard Wigglesworth coming. Six Months ago, there were sho...

Some thoughts on Englands attack.

www.thedeadballarea.com/englands-att...

Good film though.

Fiennes is very good in it.

🌹England Rugby

Attack: Under Jones good to very good but began to decline 2021 - 2022. Improving again now under Borthwick.

BUT

Defence: Problems started in 2020 and increased to the point where Jones was sacked. Now as bad as it was in the days of Robinson/Ashton/Johnson.

#SixNations

YouTube video by The Dead Ball Area The Anatomy of a Try: Dennis vs New Zealand January 2025

Took another look at some Svns play.

This time a set piece from Australia Women to put Dennis away for a cracker vs NZ.

https://youtu.be/nPGQz-fNnrI?si=7EHaD8rjE2kS7_Nn

This is really worth following.

Analysis by Simon on the bookies accuracy vs the teams performance (kind of)..

YouTube video by The Dead Ball Area The Anatomy of a Try: Brake vs France January 2025

Quick Look at Brakes try vs France in the Perth Svns Semi Final outstanding skills from the Black Ferns.

youtu.be/kEmH4f5fD18?...

thecurrency.news/articles/178... #Rugby #SixNations

Rugby is trending away from multi-phase play and more towards starter plays. Against Italy, Wales had 17 line-outs from which to launch attacks. Here’s what happened at ever single one. 🧵

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1. Italy disrupt, a few pick and goes, Wales kick

Not slow at all, this was asked last well as well, it's a fair question.

So the Y axis is just needed for the visual, to spread the players across the caps...it isn't needed but can't find a way to hide it.

This should be the correct England vs France one..

No deffo meant to post the England one.

Not sure what happened.

Hang on.

What I think we're seeing en large is an effort for Teams to develop their bench now ahead of 2027.

Most teams will take a reduced strength side on tour this summer, Lions tour and a chance to rest key player said cycle.
9/9

Perhaps an indicator of the uptick from England yesterday was
A: their experience and use off the bench
B: the experience of the pack 364 caps vs 251 with 155 vs 112 coming off the bench.

8/

Obviously total caps aren't everything discretion is important.

Inexperience of decision making is constantly flag but looking at the 2/8/9/10/15 spine of the team we see:

Wales = 271
France = 220
Scotland = 202
Ireland = 199
Italy = 192
England = 113

7/

And Finally bench impact. We again see the potential impact of the Irish Bench, but interestingly Englands bench jumps from the least experienced to 2nd most experienced behind Ireland.

166 caps entering the fray with George and Daly.
6/

Starting 15's by Experience.
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Round two Squads against each other.
4/

Finally, Scotland vs Ireland:

Ireland Carrying 200+ caps more than Scotland in both the Squad and starting 15.

3/

Next Italy vs Wales.

Wales as last week, vs France again the team with more Caps.
2/

Ok, slightly late this week, as had a lot on but 6 Nations Squad Composition by Caps.

First Up England vs France (we'll come back to this).
1/

hahahahahaha!

Non-Rugby. My good friend Darren Aka Syon Ward put out his LP, Last Sane Man, and 50 digital copies are going free.

If you like techno and electronica it might be your thing...

Bwahahahahahaha! Shameful!

What is he talking about?

Pouring rain, a hugry defence? They should be playing the touchline and pressuring the Italian lineout.

Shane Williams... there has to be numbers, someone needs to step up and say right let's have 2 passes and have a go!

Getting paid for that sh*te!

Fantastic piece of analysis by Carrick!

They should have focused on a team each year. Like an "all or nothing"

The G wagon was awful, absolutely terrible.

Though I will say the Jamie George Episode is great... really emotional and just made me love him and Genge even more.