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Yeh, most the hype has died down now but I was bored so decided to watch the dvd with the main highlights.
Wow, what a tournament looking back on it now. I had everything, absualutely everything the perfect rugby tournament should have. SUperb individual tries, insanely good team tries, emotion and some purely comic moments.
I was going to try and pick out a best individual and best team try, but there were just so many good ones (oh and by the time the dvd ended I ahd forgotten who scored what tries).
The New Zealander Rokacoku (or whatever his name is) scored some great tries, dinking thing way and that, as did our own Jason Robinson.
The best team try however in my oppinion has to go to France in the pool stages I think it was. When their ball wa splayed along the line and i think their inside centre hit it at full speed and broke through. He came to the full back and in the tackle popped it up to a guy who then passed it out again. Well yeh, I'm sure there were more.
Comic moments, my number one moment has to be Mike Tindall's tackle on Gregan in the final. The sheer look on Gregan's face as he is $hitting himself wondering if he's going to ddie or not. IN the words of mastercard, priceless. Also, when the Japanese player tackled someone into touch near the Japenese try line and did a little dance in celebration merely for that.
The of course there is the man of the tournament in almost everyone's oppinion Johnny Wilkinson. Without him England would not have won it. The number of times he kicked the all important kick was incredible. He scored every point against South Africa, bar the try, and many of England's others. Not only that but his solid consistant tackling, his great passing and his incitefuly vision. The try where he kicked it over the top to Balshaw was incredible, how he saw Balshaw and then kicked the perfect kick that we have come to expect of Sir Johnny.
Will England be able to win the Six Nations without Johnny? I think yes, but only because there is very little opposition. Everyone is saying that France AND Ireland are forces to be reckoned with, but I think not. Ireland are still nowhere near the standars of the English class, and even more so without Keith Wood their influential captain now reitred. France have a few flair players and put them together they are a class act. But again not quite up to England.
With incredible players such as Robinson, Lewsey, Dawson (in my oppinion still shouldn be the England no1) and many many more competing for the honourable starting place. We have such a depth to our team as well. Just in the team we started today, I think we wer eplaying four natural fullbacks, but they had been scattered around the pitch because they are class but you cannot play four players in one position :-D.
So yeh, I apologise for my late night ramble. If you couldn't be bothered to read it all a quick summary:
England rugby team = class with or without Johnny
Wow, what a tournament looking back on it now. I had everything, absualutely everything the perfect rugby tournament should have. SUperb individual tries, insanely good team tries, emotion and some purely comic moments.
I was going to try and pick out a best individual and best team try, but there were just so many good ones (oh and by the time the dvd ended I ahd forgotten who scored what tries).
The New Zealander Rokacoku (or whatever his name is) scored some great tries, dinking thing way and that, as did our own Jason Robinson.
The best team try however in my oppinion has to go to France in the pool stages I think it was. When their ball wa splayed along the line and i think their inside centre hit it at full speed and broke through. He came to the full back and in the tackle popped it up to a guy who then passed it out again. Well yeh, I'm sure there were more.
Comic moments, my number one moment has to be Mike Tindall's tackle on Gregan in the final. The sheer look on Gregan's face as he is $hitting himself wondering if he's going to ddie or not. IN the words of mastercard, priceless. Also, when the Japanese player tackled someone into touch near the Japenese try line and did a little dance in celebration merely for that.
The of course there is the man of the tournament in almost everyone's oppinion Johnny Wilkinson. Without him England would not have won it. The number of times he kicked the all important kick was incredible. He scored every point against South Africa, bar the try, and many of England's others. Not only that but his solid consistant tackling, his great passing and his incitefuly vision. The try where he kicked it over the top to Balshaw was incredible, how he saw Balshaw and then kicked the perfect kick that we have come to expect of Sir Johnny.
Will England be able to win the Six Nations without Johnny? I think yes, but only because there is very little opposition. Everyone is saying that France AND Ireland are forces to be reckoned with, but I think not. Ireland are still nowhere near the standars of the English class, and even more so without Keith Wood their influential captain now reitred. France have a few flair players and put them together they are a class act. But again not quite up to England.
With incredible players such as Robinson, Lewsey, Dawson (in my oppinion still shouldn be the England no1) and many many more competing for the honourable starting place. We have such a depth to our team as well. Just in the team we started today, I think we wer eplaying four natural fullbacks, but they had been scattered around the pitch because they are class but you cannot play four players in one position :-D.
So yeh, I apologise for my late night ramble. If you couldn't be bothered to read it all a quick summary:
England rugby team = class with or without Johnny
What I was trying to say is that we are not a one man team. So wow Robinson can run, but you need backs to give him the ball, forward to set up the stage. Yeh, not a one man team!
We will win the 6 nations without Jonny we still have Robinson.God he can run.
Yeh, most the hype has died down now but I was bored so decided to watch the dvd with the main highlights.
Wow, what a tournament looking back on it now. I had everything, absualutely everything the perfect rugby tournament should have. SUperb individual tries, insanely good team tries, emotion and some purely comic moments.
I was going to try and pick out a best individual and best team try, but there were just so many good ones (oh and by the time the dvd ended I ahd forgotten who scored what tries).
The New Zealander Rokacoku (or whatever his name is) scored some great tries, dinking thing way and that, as did our own Jason Robinson.
The best team try however in my oppinion has to go to France in the pool stages I think it was. When their ball wa splayed along the line and i think their inside centre hit it at full speed and broke through. He came to the full back and in the tackle popped it up to a guy who then passed it out again. Well yeh, I'm sure there were more.
Comic moments, my number one moment has to be Mike Tindall's tackle on Gregan in the final. The sheer look on Gregan's face as he is $hitting himself wondering if he's going to ddie or not. IN the words of mastercard, priceless. Also, when the Japanese player tackled someone into touch near the Japenese try line and did a little dance in celebration merely for that.
The of course there is the man of the tournament in almost everyone's oppinion Johnny Wilkinson. Without him England would not have won it. The number of times he kicked the all important kick was incredible. He scored every point against South Africa, bar the try, and many of England's others. Not only that but his solid consistant tackling, his great passing and his incitefuly vision. The try where he kicked it over the top to Balshaw was incredible, how he saw Balshaw and then kicked the perfect kick that we have come to expect of Sir Johnny.
Will England be able to win the Six Nations without Johnny? I think yes, but only because there is very little opposition. Everyone is saying that France AND Ireland are forces to be reckoned with, but I think not. Ireland are still nowhere near the standars of the English class, and even more so without Keith Wood their influential captain now reitred. France have a few flair players and put them together they are a class act. But again not quite up to England.
With incredible players such as Robinson, Lewsey, Dawson (in my oppinion still shouldn be the England no1) and many many more competing for the honourable starting place. We have such a depth to our team as well. Just in the team we started today, I think we wer eplaying four natural fullbacks, but they had been scattered around the pitch because they are class but you cannot play four players in one position :-D.
So yeh, I apologise for my late night ramble. If you couldn't be bothered to read it all a quick summary:
England rugby team = class with or without Johnny
Wow, what a tournament looking back on it now. I had everything, absualutely everything the perfect rugby tournament should have. SUperb individual tries, insanely good team tries, emotion and some purely comic moments.
I was going to try and pick out a best individual and best team try, but there were just so many good ones (oh and by the time the dvd ended I ahd forgotten who scored what tries).
The New Zealander Rokacoku (or whatever his name is) scored some great tries, dinking thing way and that, as did our own Jason Robinson.
The best team try however in my oppinion has to go to France in the pool stages I think it was. When their ball wa splayed along the line and i think their inside centre hit it at full speed and broke through. He came to the full back and in the tackle popped it up to a guy who then passed it out again. Well yeh, I'm sure there were more.
Comic moments, my number one moment has to be Mike Tindall's tackle on Gregan in the final. The sheer look on Gregan's face as he is $hitting himself wondering if he's going to ddie or not. IN the words of mastercard, priceless. Also, when the Japanese player tackled someone into touch near the Japenese try line and did a little dance in celebration merely for that.
The of course there is the man of the tournament in almost everyone's oppinion Johnny Wilkinson. Without him England would not have won it. The number of times he kicked the all important kick was incredible. He scored every point against South Africa, bar the try, and many of England's others. Not only that but his solid consistant tackling, his great passing and his incitefuly vision. The try where he kicked it over the top to Balshaw was incredible, how he saw Balshaw and then kicked the perfect kick that we have come to expect of Sir Johnny.
Will England be able to win the Six Nations without Johnny? I think yes, but only because there is very little opposition. Everyone is saying that France AND Ireland are forces to be reckoned with, but I think not. Ireland are still nowhere near the standars of the English class, and even more so without Keith Wood their influential captain now reitred. France have a few flair players and put them together they are a class act. But again not quite up to England.
With incredible players such as Robinson, Lewsey, Dawson (in my oppinion still shouldn be the England no1) and many many more competing for the honourable starting place. We have such a depth to our team as well. Just in the team we started today, I think we wer eplaying four natural fullbacks, but they had been scattered around the pitch because they are class but you cannot play four players in one position :-D.
So yeh, I apologise for my late night ramble. If you couldn't be bothered to read it all a quick summary:
England rugby team = class with or without Johnny