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Congratulations to both of you Ewen, have an amazing time.

Your second point regarding Farrell is exactly the reason Lancaster has NOT done a good job. He built a team around George Ford and then bottled it to play Farrell and Burgess. Burgess has never been, neither ever will he be a world class centre, he may even only ever be a reasonable Union back row player. It had disaster written all over Lancaster's team selction policy when he omitted Luther Burrell and others from the squad. I believe there are players in the England sqaud who have openely said they won'y publicise their thoughts regarding the failings. It all looks like a complete shambles to me and something is very wrong within the whole structure as far as I can tell, there are 31 player in the squad and individually most of them are very good players, in this sqaud they have almost all become medicore together.

Ditto what Humpster said ^

Well we had the doors from the house refurb - the patio doors are for the "summer house" or Zed Shed waiting room as Buster has named it Waiting room? Is that for Wasso!!?

I actually loved the old Ultrac Sessanta, but sadly you can't get them any more. MPSS's for me when the Ultrac's are done.

No timing belt on 350's, it's a chain.

Ekona has an mx5 track car, PM him, his advice will be honest and I suspect he might suggest some driver training too.

That's so sad Dan, sorry mate

Happy Birthday mate

Dan, you need to get out more

Once a car widow always a car widow! Sent from my Zed using Nangkang tyres front, RE040's rear

Once a car widow always a car widow! Sent from my Zed using Nangkang tyres front, RE040's rear

Love this place, great effort guys & Katrina

Just as well you didn't go to the Fanzone, they closed it at 1400, packed!!

Sorry to hear this Dave Sent from my Zed using Nangkang tyres front, RE040's rear

Nice one David Sent from my Zed using Nangkang tyres front, RE040's rear

80% coaching staff 20% players for me. This is not a bad bunch of players but the bunch could have been better. Lancaster made a decision to play attacking rugby last season when he selected George Ford at Fly Half and it was begining to work, however for me his thinking became confused and unsure at sqaud selection time. To pick an ex Rugby League player to play centre at international level in Union is a naive decison. Burgess plays at flanker at club level and had only ever played 3 ganes at centre in his whole career!!! He's a stopper, not a creator. To put this into perspective Sonny Bill Williams (All Blacks) is also a Rugby League convert to centre, he has far more natural ability than Burgess and was lucky enough to join Toulon in France in 2008 and was coached on a daily basis by one of the greatest centres of all time, Tana Umaga (All Black Captain). He was good any way but it toook him nearly 2 years to reach the standard that enabled him to play All Black rugby, he still isn't a first choice centre!! The pont I'm making is that Lancaster & Farrell were naive beyond belief to imgaine that Burgess wouldn't get found out at international level, and he was. It takes years to become a good centre. Not only that, Lancaster and Farrell compounded the problem against Wales by playing our defensive centre (Brad Barritt) at outside centre to accomodate Burgess at inside centre, Barrit's ideal possition. Barritt missed 4 tackles against Wales which is unusual for him but he was being exposed by Burgess's poor positional play, Against Oz Barritt played at inside centre and when he went off injured had made 13 tackles and missed none. The centre issue is however not the whole problem, the real problem is confused and unclear thinking at coach level but questions have to be asked how much influence coach Farrell had in the Burgess selection. Now for those who don't know, Farrell made his mark at Wigan playing, you guessed it, Rugby League, he converted to Union and was hailed as the future at, guess which position, you guessed again, yup, Centre. It's fair to say he played at a reasonable level at Saracens but never ever became what I would call a real Union centre. Back to the unclear thinking. As I mentioned earlier Lancaster opted for Ford at Fly Half to play expansive rugby a year ago, First big game (Wales) he drops him and brings Owen Farrell (yes he's Coach Farrells' son) back to play defensive rugby, this is the League way of doing things, see above, this will have upset the routine and the feel for the whole the group and we were found lacking, poor decsion making on the pitch didn't help. Against Australia we were out muscled in the front row (that doesn't happen) and on the floor at the ruck by 2 exceptional flankers in Hooper and Pocock but we weren't street wise enough to deal with them, we should have been, we knew what to expect and didn;t deal with it, hence the nunber of turnovers. In summary, poor coaching decisions at too many levels including squad selection, Care, Cipriani and Burrell to name 3 should have been in this squad but they are creative players, god forbid!!! Poor execution on the field by some players and too many unforced mistakes cost us dear ultimately. Well you did ask, I'm sure others have thoughts too but that's my 2 penny worth. **edit** Interestingly Lancaster now says responsibility lies with him and others and their positions shoud be considered!!