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Quote: Sandra The Terrorist "Unless my memory's tricking me I thought there was loads of dropped ball, Catalans knocked on in about four consecutive sets, I had a text from a friend that said there were so many knock ons and penalties it was like watching Onion!

My point about the old teams wasn't about strength and conditioning, obviously with not being full time and the advantages of sports science it isn't a fair comparison. My point was about nous. The old teams wouldn't have tried to play a game in torrential rain with the tactical style of being a game played in the middle of Summer, well apart from it being the middle of Summer!'"

Fair pionts, I actualy enjoyed the game, tight to the end. It raises the question that I often pose to others what actualy do you want or expect from the game? those of us with more years on the clock than we would admit have seen the game evolve to somthing totaly diferent from what we watched or played in our youth. I miss the the lack of chances to compete for the ball during play (no ball striping striking at the play the ball ect) people who have never seen that wont be bothered as they know no diference. Limiting the number of tackles was done as the game was stagnating into a boring mess but it has made the game more structured with less opotunity for off the cuff play. Who know were it will go? I just think at times we expect to much from players playing in a very structured & controled game. I remember some awfull games in the 60's with over 40 scrums in a game from forced knock on's played on swamps of pitches, I am sure we would not want that any more.