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early 00's thor was prime.

2031 rugby World Cup is already booked for the USA , Nz is playing South Africa there this year and we have played Ireland there a couple of times on the last 5 years

Mixed for me. Layout and terrain seems great. Having deep soil that creates deep, very hard, ruts on the straits would be one of my least favorite preps. Kind of reminds me of some of Lakewood preps a few years ago. Trying to make naturally hard soil soft rarely works well. It can be done over a long period, meaning years. I’m fine with natural hard packed tracks. This looked ugly to me during qualis. First motos today seemed better? I have not watched second. Did appear to be a good crowd, that’s a plus.

I may be in the minority but I really dislike that they make these tracks an entire rutfest

I’m with you. If they had left it just chalk there wouldn’t be any deep ruts but still would have been technical in its own way.

I’d venture to say the regime is currently in survival mode.

' In rugby England has the players and resources that other countries can only dream of' As they do in Football, which I think along with the pressure, expectation and media focus weighs heavily when the pressure is on. Clive Woodward, and to a slightly lesser to extent Gareth Southgate, were able to change that psychological mindset, prevent self doubt from creeping, made the players believe they were capable of beating the best and it lifted standards. What Wales, Ireland and Scotland have achieved in Rugby in recent years has been fantastic - Argentina and Italy as well - but...

I agree that England aren't a top tier team but to be fair that's irrelevant to the subject of my post. You say that '' Only if they fall behind, they'll ease up on the kicking, teasing and provocations'' but the worst of their behaviour happened after the game ended, when they paraded the Malvinas banner and threw a racist slur at Jude Bellingham. They are hated in the rest of Latin America for that reason.

Not soon enough!

You do realise that that application means Folarin Balogun is actually American and eligible to play for team USA right? Otherwise he would've been English.

The outrage isn’t aimed at Balogun or at the red card (which in itself was indeed unfair), but at the precedent that’s being created. Other players have also been wrongly sent off and suspended in the past (even in this tournament), but they served their suspensions like everyone else. They just never got this kind of leniency. Now that this is being overturned because of political interference is simply wrong. Aren’t Americans always all about justice? Imagine if Lukaku had received a red card and suddenly was allowed to play again out of nowhere, 24 hours before the actual game...