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Thats one of the dullest comments I've read in a while
I think it's fair to say that that was a blip on the England team at the time, and showed that although Lancaster wasn't bad at his job, he wasn't able to coach at the very highest level. Also, since the WC England havent lost and have played world class opposition. Sure they can improve, which is scary for other countries, but you can't compare the England team that went out at the WC to the one that is now representiing the country very well, and they are certainly doing a better job than the footballers ever have (bar 1966)
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Agree fully
Have done my best to forget the Burgess episode, terrible decision. But we have the right man in charge now and I am very hopeful for the future.
Just to be clear, I have been watching and playing football since 1988 and it was always my first love growing up. I only got into rugby when I moved to Wales in 2003 and am now starting to prefer it simply because the constant underperforming from the England football team has worn me down. We don't have to win everything, I'm not unrealistic, I just wish we'd play with some identity and conviction, I could be proud of a team that loses to a better side but gave everything in doing so
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It's not exactly difficult to be the world's best rugby team when only about eight countries worldwide are any good at it. See also cricket.
The English football team have to contend with the fact that pretty much every nation on earth has professional football leagues and the entire globe is football crazy. Scotland are a top-ten rugby nation despite only having two professional clubs. We're a non entity football wise despite having a league setup of 42 teams, 20 of which are full time professional.
Being world leaders at football is orders of magnitude harder than doing the same in Rugby.
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Hard to disagree with some of that mate. England massively underperformed at the world cup last year, losing to Wales was our own fault, having been ahead for so long, however Australia were excellent against us and were simply the better team on the day. So if we were having this conversation in 2015, then sure I would be more inclined to agree with you that England didn’t cut it. However having won the grand slam this year after such a shocking WC and then white washing the 2nd best team in the world in their own back yard, you can’t aim the same criticism at the Rugby team about bottling it. These 3 match test series are as competitive as international rugby gets outside the world cups as there is no such thing as a friendly, so there is always pressure on. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
As far as the Germany game goes, there was no pressure on England as no one expected them to win, also as it was a friendly there was nothing at stake bar bragging rights when players returned to their clubs. I watched that game, and what was impressive was the desire the England team showed that I’d not seen for a long time, and haven’t since. They then went and followed that result with a defeat to a Dutch side 4 days later who looked incredibly average. Since the last world cup one good result against Germany, and the away win in Switzerland at the start of the euro qualifying campaign, is simply not good enough for a country with the volumes of players, money and support than England has. Those 2 years should have been enough for the England team to find an identity and a style of play. It’s one thing to lose having given everything, knowing that you did all you could to make sure that the only way you lose is by being beaten by another side. It is however truly unforgiveable to make the same mistakes repeatedly and do nothing to change them. Einstein said that repeating something the same way multiple times and then expecting different results is the definition of insanity, it would be fair to describe the FA as insane.
To be clear, I would rather we had a successful football team, I’d trade us being good at any other sport for it, but until we start to play like an actual team (and it pains me to say it, like Wales do #togetherstronger) I am glad we have some success in other sports, other wise it would truly be depressing to be an English sports fan
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