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| Quote Kol Witless="Kol Witless"I am attending a dinner on Friday night where the guest speaker is the ex-England Rugby Union prop Geoff Probyn.
At the end of the evening the diners will be invited to ask Geoff questions.
I am considering askingGeoff "you played rugby union at the highest possible level. In all honesty do you think that you would have been good enough to have played amateur rugby league?"
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"I remember Jeff Probyn well, he was England prop when I started watching RU. His game was based around the set pieces and the ruck and maul, so he was a very union-oriented player. He probably never thought about crossing codes to turn professional in league because it wouldn't have suited his game, but he would have dominated amateur league players because he would have been far too tough and physically strong for them.
No doubt you think you're being a smartbooty by making the suggestion that league is better than union, because he wasn't a player suited to it, but your question is about as relevant as asking Mark Roberts and Mike Gregory if they would been able to win any lineout ball against a university union XV.'"
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"I remember Jeff Probyn well, he was England prop when I started watching RU. His game was based around the set pieces and the ruck and maul, so he was a very union-oriented player. He probably never thought about crossing codes to turn professional in league because it wouldn't have suited his game, but he would have dominated amateur league players because he would have been far too tough and physically strong for them.
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| Quote worthing wire="worthing wire"That's what props in union do.
He wasn't that fat.
And it's Jeff.'"
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| Quote worthing wire="worthing wire"Never - he's made it up.'" It's true, soft lad. Can't remember the year and i don't even know if Jeff/Geoff Probyn was playing. They beat France 21 to something in the last game at HQ. It was on ESPN classic the other week. Er,....I was watching whilst waiting for something else to come on. |
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Theres a few unpleasant places you dont want to be on a rugby field in either code, but, I reckon if you could ask every player from both codes the place they'd least want to be, most would say the front row of a union scrum. Jeff lived there, and cut it at international level to boot.
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| Quote Moe syslak="Moe syslak"It's true, soft lad. Can't remember the year and i don't even know if Jeff/Geoff Probyn was playing. They beat France 21 to something in the last game at HQ. It was on ESPN classic the other week. Er,....I was watching whilst waiting for something else to come on.'"
To have not scored a try, their points total would have to divide exactly by 3 (pens and drop goals). In 91, which you're on about, they scored 83 points in total, ergo they must have scored a try. Similar story in 92 and 95 and 03.
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Yeah, but i believe the one they got was a penalty from a collapsed scrum near the line. And they don't count in my book.
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Moe stop making up rubbish.
England's Grand Slam teams scored plenty of tries. Underwood, Guscott and Carling scored lots of tries in 91, 92 and 95 and Robinson, Luger, Lewsey, Tindall and co filled their boots in 2003. The idea that England were a forwards dominated machine who never scored any tries was basically bait thrown at them by the Aussie media because England won a couple of games against southern hemisphere opposition off the back of Wilkinson kicking penalties and drop goals. The majority of England games in Englands Grand Slam winning eras, they used to rip teams apart quite convincingly because they had a good backline.
Moe you know nothing about RU so stop trying to make cheap jibes.
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"Moe stop making up rubbish.
England's Grand Slam teams scored plenty of tries. Underwood, Guscott and Carling scored lots of tries in 91, 92 and 95 and Robinson, Luger, Lewsey, Tindall and co filled their boots in 2003. The idea that England were a forwards dominated machine who never scored any tries was basically bait thrown at them by the Aussie media because England won a couple of games against southern hemisphere opposition off the back of Wilkinson kicking penalties and drop goals. The majority of England games in Englands Grand Slam winning eras, they used to rip teams apart quite convincingly because they had a good backline.
Moe you know nothing about RU so stop trying to make cheap jibes.'"
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Hate Rugby Union - astonished they are apoligists for it lurking on this forum...
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| Quote sally cinnamon="sally cinnamon"Moe stop making up rubbish.
England's Grand Slam teams scored plenty of tries. Underwood, Guscott and Carling scored lots of tries in 91, 92 and 95 and Robinson, Luger, Lewsey, Tindall and co filled their boots in 2003. The idea that England were a forwards dominated machine who never scored any tries was basically bait thrown at them by the Aussie media because England won a couple of games against southern hemisphere opposition off the back of Wilkinson kicking penalties and drop goals. The majority of England games in Englands Grand Slam winning eras, they used to rip teams apart quite convincingly because they had a good backline.
Moe you know nothing about RU so stop trying to make cheap jibes.'"
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