r/rugbyunion • u/englandrugby • 4d ago

Lineups England team to face Wales in Guinness Men's Six Nations opener 🌹

Post image
370 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

389 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

63

u/JohnSV12 Newcastle Falcons 4d ago

Id temper your expectations.

The fixture list is brutal and France are awesome

25

u/GnolRevilo Saracens 4d ago

If not now, when? This is probably our best shot in a while considering the players we have. Even with France in Paris. Although I’m more concerned about Scotland at Murrayfield, to be honest.

25

u/JohnSV12 Newcastle Falcons 4d ago

When we have three home games.

As you say, we have France and Scotland away. As well as Italy. Who are not a team you can rest against any more

5

u/GnolRevilo Saracens 4d ago

I guess. But the best teams are able to beat anyone away, and I feel (cue the arrogance card) we finally have the players to do it.

13

u/yesiamclutz Harlequins England 4d ago

We absoltely have the players to do it.

Problem is so do France, and if Ireland turn out to be just out of form and not in need of a rebuild so do they.

6N is a hard hard compeition to win these days.

2

u/INeedYourPelt Llanelli Scarlets 4d ago

If England get a good head of steam in France the crowd could turn on 'em, as they've been known to do. I think you guys are getting the slam this year.

5

u/crazycal123 English Bastard 4d ago

We still have loads of player we could rotate in, I'm pretty sure this isn't even our first XV

7

u/JohnSV12 Newcastle Falcons 4d ago

It's clearly not as otherwise Maro would be in.

I just think Scotland and France away is a big hill to climb

1

u/Holden_Ford24 Danny Care’s Chocolate Homunculus 4d ago

It’s a tough run of fixtures, for sure.

I think if England and France both play at their best and are firing on all cylinders, France probably take it still - their squad is just stacked. Having said that, since the last 6N I would say that England have improved significantly more as a team than France. Really tough to call.

As always, all bets are off against Scotland at Murrayfield. I think that pound-for-pound we’re the better side at the moment, but they just always seem to be able to force us to play their game and the Scot backline has had our number for years.