yeah - France are strong and should be a good force is they can keep it up. Ireland as you say maybe be strong but recently they seem to have lost the pace, so they need that back if they are to get anywhere. So yes the teams down under should be the ones to watch.
England need a serious haul - we need to be better at line outs, stop fouling and giving away penaties for stupid mistakes. we need more depth and we need something. Even in last world cup we were not that good. I mean its also based on johnny. hes a great kicker but average elsewhere - where as ronan o'gara or chris patterson are nearly as good at kicking and better all round players. We need to play to our strengths and build new ones.
Like the italians have this opportunistic play that is really getting them tries. The irish have a wider support and play than us. We need our 'thing'
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