Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:53 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Which of those categories does the current England RU captain fall in to?

absolutely no kin idea - complete mystery me that one - past his sell by date a good few years ago.

marrying into the royal family may help though

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:56 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

I'm interested to see where an RU side is going to play him.

IMO he lacks the speed and accuracy of pass required to play scrum half, the long kicking game to play fly half or the physicality to play in the centres. If you play him on the wing or at full-back he's going to have to deal with a barrage of high balls and spend half the game buried at the bottom of a ruck.

While he may be a good player, he's not of the same magical quality that Jason Robinson was - IMO.

I'd agree with this. It'll also be interesting to see whether he's got the self belief that Robinson displayed when switching codes.

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:00 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Which of those categories does the current England RU captain fall in to?

I don't even know who the current England RU captain is!

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:06 pm  

flipper wrote:

marrying into the royal family may help though

Is it Kate Middleton?

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:10 pm  

Must be, although I believe the correct terminology is Catherine these days.

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:39 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Must be, although I believe the correct terminology is Catherine these days.

Yep. One feels Catherine to be much more appropriate.

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:02 pm  

DHM wrote: ... I did laugh when hearing Jeremy Guscott talking about his tries on Saturday, saying that "you can't coach support play like that"... If you want another laugh, just click on Tackling Skills in here to see Guscott's idea of coaching tackling skills http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_u ... 198712.stm First you need a pair of wellies ...

DHM wrote: ... I did laugh when hearing Jeremy Guscott talking about his tries on Saturday, saying that "you can't coach support play like that"... If you want another laugh, just click on Tackling Skills in here to see Guscott's idea of coaching tackling skills http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_u ... 198712.stm First you need a pair of wellies ...

[Wheels]

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:13 pm  

tvoc wrote:

Must be, although I believe the correct terminology is Catherine these days.

Yeah, but would you smash it though?

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:19 pm  

Wheels wrote:

Yeah, but would you smash it though?

QILF.

Re: Eastmond to Bath RU confirmed : Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:27 pm  

Remarkable_Rhinos wrote:

I don't even know who the current England RU captain is!

Lewis Moody when he's fit, but he's injured so Mike Tindall got to do it for now.