Eng vs Ireland - Grand Slam Bid.

Saturday, 17 March 2012

England v Ireland, KO-17:00

Can we win the Slam to erase the nightmare of the previous years defeat at the hands of the Irish.


Head to head Stats

Games played: 125
Games won by England: 71 - 56.80%
Games lost by England: 46 - 36.80%
Games drawn: 8 - 6.40%

Most wins in a row for England over Ireland: 8
Most losses in a row for England to Ireland: 5

Largest points for England: 50
Largest points against England: 43
Largest winning margin for England: 40
Largest losing margin for England: 30

Total points for England: 1,483
Total points against England: 1,023

Average points for England per game: 11.86
Average points against England per game: 8.18
Average points difference per game between England and Ireland: 3.68

And that, little would-be wummers is how to have a dig at Wales without mentioning their name!

England are going into their third game and Ireland are still taking the cobwebs off that settled on them after their first game.

Much too early to be even throwing up gentle wums on this subject. Not enough stats in yet.

have england got france at twickers or in paris?

Oops I've done a Nike!

HERSH wrote:Oops I've done a Nike!

rapidsnowman wrote:And that, little would-be wummers is how to have a dig at Wales without mentioning their name!

I would add a slight shot at our green friends from the island to England's west, as well.
No mention of matches "won by Ireland", only "lost by England", as if Ireland had nothing to do with the winning and losing. Looking at the recent results between the two, England may have been godawful, but somehow Ireland helped England lose. Just a little, I think, anyway.

Yes of course you can beat Ireland HERSH old bean, but it looks like it could be more of a wooden spoon decider than GS decider on current form.....

What we're 2 from 2,

I can't see Wales winning with that lineout, and France will lose to us yet again.

This fixture has GS writen all over it.

HERSH wrote:What we're 2 from 2,

I can't see Wales winning with that lineout, and France will lose to us yet again.

This fixture has GS writen all over it.

Can we pre-oder Tshirts yet ?

roddersm wrote:Yes of course you can beat Ireland HERSH old bean, but it looks like it could be more of a wooden spoon decider than GS decider on current form.....

I wouldnt say that Rodders, of the two teams only the irish can get the spoon. England have already won two games.

If England win a slam playing the way they are now (and it's a very real possibility that they could, in my mind because Wales are the only side that look like they don't do flakiness this year) well then the rest of us need to commit Hara Kiri because shame will have been brought to the house of Europe.

If they get a Slam by steadily improving over the coming weeks and blowing an inept Ireland off the field, then congratulations will be due.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of optimism. We Welsh are experts at it and we've had a lot more practice than you at seeing our side looking average but expecting them to win every game.

HERSH, this is quality

Who are ENG? Are they that Dutch banking group with a woodeny orange lion or am I getting mixed up with Henson? I suppose with that amount of money to call on they should be able to put in a sizeable bid, but I suppose they'd recoup most of it in pre-auction tee shirt sales.

Haven't they also ENG Direct? Their UK based back office department is known as a place where big men can run straight online, and although the turnover is poor they can still succeed by keeping charges down.

Eclipse wrote:There's nothing wrong with a bit of optimism. We Welsh are experts at it and we've had a lot more practice than you at seeing our side looking average but expecting them to win every game.

I want to know which bright spark picked us to play the Irish on Paddies Day .....again

HERSH wrote:Saturday, 17 March 2012

England v Ireland, KO-17:00

Can we win the Slam to erase the nightmare of the previous years defeat at the hands of the Irish.


Head to head Stats

Games played: 125
Games won by England: 71 - 56.80%
Games lost by England: 46 - 36.80%
Games drawn: 8 - 6.40%

Most wins in a row for England over Ireland: 8
Most losses in a row for England to Ireland: 5

Largest points for England: 50
Largest points against England: 43
Largest winning margin for England: 40
Largest losing margin for England: 30

Total points for England: 1,483
Total points against England: 1,023

Average points for England per game: 11.86
Average points against England per game: 8.18
Average points difference per game between England and Ireland: 3.68

Apparantly ancient history is relevant in guaging how a current game will go despite the fact that all the players and coaching staff has changed numourous times over the period your stats have been gathered from.

Your stats tell us nothing about the next few weeks, they are rather just a method for the english to massage their own egos and then turn around and act shocked that everyone hates them...

...sigh

Have you seen the results from the last 10 or so meetings.

Not nice reading for us English.

Tbh I think HERSH might be on to something.

HERSH wrote:What we're 2 from 2,

I can't see Wales winning with that lineout, and France will lose to us yet again.

This fixture has GS writen all over it.

That is just the Hersh Muppet I love.

Shame we lost GG...

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That is just the Hersh [post auto ed [Muppet] I love.] Twartiness might do if you exchanges an r for a t.

Shame we lost GG...

KickAndChase wrote:Tbh I think HERSH might be on to something.

tbh Hersh quite possibly might be on to something.

I can't not see any light at the end of the non-English GS tunnel.

(that sentence is of course deliberately difficult).

st pathrick wont allow a grand slam

flynnnio wrote:st pathrick wont allow a grand slam

Ah st patrick, that great welshman.

HERSH

Can we please concentrate on this week end coming up, playing Wales at Twickenham that is?

Ireland is for another week end.

Whose going to win the rush to levitate this article to the top of the posting board come mid march ?