Re: Gallows Pole being constructed for Sam Burgess.
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:56 pm
It was exactly the same when Andy Farrell played for England in the last World Cup. There was the prize buffoon of Jeremy Guscott practically blaming Faz for the England performances. Not to mention the sheer laughability of both some of the players and pundits in refusing to admit that the England winger actually had his foot miles in touch when diving for the corner, in what would have been a try to win the game for England. That level of blinkered arrogance is just the tip of the iceberg.
It's always been the same with some of the RU toffs, they are just so far up their own arses that they can't see what's actually wrong. As CP says, it was largely the England pack that gave all the penalties away, that were converted to points, via the boot of Biggar. Apart from Burgess' kicking game (or shocking attempts at it), he did very little wrong. I think he was once caught out of position early on, but from then on played solidly.
I had to laugh when (I can't remember which) I either read or heard someone say that Burgess had no experience of the big stage. I suppose the NRL Grand Final or a RL World Cup Semi Final isn't comparable to playing on the hallowed turf at Twickers!!
Just because I defended Andy Farrells decision to move to Union, for financial gain, don't misinterpret that as me having anything but huge distaste and anger that the RFU as a whole are a load of stuck up, blinkered, snobbish bigots that refuse to either see how great the skills are in RL or how incredibly athletic and versatile our players can be. The very fact that the RFU have again spent a fortune to sign a RL prop / second row and then panic when trying to think of his best position, only to put him at centre, says a lot about how desperate they are to actually do something worthwhile with their sport.
On the subject of so called pundits John Inverdale is one of the most horrible creatures to grace the RU coverage, I hate his totally unhidden opinion of looking down his (considerable) nose at our game.
I'd better stop now, I've made myself angry just typing that
It's always been the same with some of the RU toffs, they are just so far up their own arses that they can't see what's actually wrong. As CP says, it was largely the England pack that gave all the penalties away, that were converted to points, via the boot of Biggar. Apart from Burgess' kicking game (or shocking attempts at it), he did very little wrong. I think he was once caught out of position early on, but from then on played solidly.
I had to laugh when (I can't remember which) I either read or heard someone say that Burgess had no experience of the big stage. I suppose the NRL Grand Final or a RL World Cup Semi Final isn't comparable to playing on the hallowed turf at Twickers!!
Just because I defended Andy Farrells decision to move to Union, for financial gain, don't misinterpret that as me having anything but huge distaste and anger that the RFU as a whole are a load of stuck up, blinkered, snobbish bigots that refuse to either see how great the skills are in RL or how incredibly athletic and versatile our players can be. The very fact that the RFU have again spent a fortune to sign a RL prop / second row and then panic when trying to think of his best position, only to put him at centre, says a lot about how desperate they are to actually do something worthwhile with their sport.
On the subject of so called pundits John Inverdale is one of the most horrible creatures to grace the RU coverage, I hate his totally unhidden opinion of looking down his (considerable) nose at our game.
I'd better stop now, I've made myself angry just typing that