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Finally found a way to get England 6 nations tickets for anyone that is interested. You can pay £25 to get membership of the rfu 'first XV membership' as they call it. I always assumed this sort of stuff was a dead loss with little real chance of getting tickets, but decided for £25 I'd take a shot, anyway Italy tickets are up for grabs right now and it looks like the France ones might be soon also.

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rfu/

Great spot Woodsey, however I'm unable to get through for tickets - I get the following when selecting the game - any ideas?


TICKETS

This is event will be on general sale from 10am on Wednesday 14 December.

England Rugby Club First XV Members can access their priority sale from 10am on Tuesday 6 December. To find out more about First XV membership and the benefits of joining, please visit the England Rugby Club Memberships page.

RFU Honorary Stewards can access their priority sale between 10am on Friday 9 December and 5pm on Tuesday 13 December.

Payments for Twickenham Community Residents who have successfully applied for tickets in the ballot will be taken week commencing Monday 12 December and we will send confirmation emails by Friday 16 December.
 
WE'RE SORRY!

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Have you paid the £25?

Yes - paid the £25

Italy tickets still deffo for sale, just checked. It might be they need to process your order fully, I was able to buy them as soon as I received an email from them which was a few hours later I think.

France game still not available yet, if even it does become available, I think it might but there are no guarantees..

Thanks Woodsey,

Will give them a call.

Actually, looking at my email trail it looks like it was a little over 24 hours between purchase of membership until activation of the correct privileges to buy tickets.

Reading the message about the France game I reckon if any are available they will be available to members either after 5pm tomorrow or sometime on Friday.

It needed a manual intervention there end to activate it properly. All sorted now

Good stuff  :)up

Reminder tomorrow 10am France and Scots game......

one of the highlights of the year

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Off to Twickers - looking forward to seeing all the rugger buggers in the flesh. Assume the crowd, which I'll catch a glimpse of from the box, will look something like the aficionados of the French farmers market in Harpenden ?

Can we call full time and avoid the second half? Fantastic first half from Scotland. Amazing what a difference when you take your chances.

Lucky man, your seat will be outside with the hoorays though  :cheers:

 

Last time I was in a box somewhere it was sealed from the outside world. This is.much better. Glass of shiraz, lovely day and right behind the posts in the north stand. Looks to be fun

Fantastic game management by Scotland in the closing minutes of the game. 

 ;mexicanwave; ;esochomp; ;mexicanwave;

Some pressure by Ireland in that second half - but we managed it - didn't expect to be top of the table at any point - will take that :D

AND the Brucey bonus of avoiding the moaning about the gazillionth false dawn  ;yippee;

Fantastic effort from the Scots, well played!

Sick to the back teeth of glorious defeats. So glad to have a win, especially managing to withstand the Irish pressure (just).

Well it's more wide open now than most thought with you lads winning and a poor England just scraping a win....

If England play like that against either Scotland or Ireland, they'll get beaten. Fascinating opening day.

Decent win by Scotland, an actual dawn on the horizon?

We also need Italy to get their arses together, a strong six nations gives us all a better chance of beating the Southern Hemisphere sides.

Jesus, I didn't realise the Irish President was an actual leprechaun  rotflmfao

wish we could get 2 divisions in european rugby a few side out there nearly as good as italy that could improve if they got regular games with the bigger nations

imagine 2 leagues of 4 teams playing home and away each season with promotion relegation

wont happen though as the big 5 couldnt afford to drop into a 2nd level

Not only that, Italy would fall off the face of the earth if they didn't have 6 nations to aim for. They need to find a way to give Georgia a fair shot at improving faster by way of more games somehow or another....

russia and ukraine are bubbling under aswell and could do with a helping hand  to get up to italy level

Add Romania into the list. Need to find a way of getting them some games vs the bigger sides not just friendlies.

Scotland will fancy their chances next week if England serve up that bag of shit again!

this is what one team did to counter what the chiefs did in the S18 and where Italy got it from

Poite specifically didn't allow England to pull players in to form a ruck, so until they realised that the best counter is to pick and go right through the middle it was a tough watch

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I wasn't really surprised at how long it took them to work out how to counter that. It's a pretty basic sevens tactic and the sort of thing that all of these players would have come up against in training during their school days yet they looked baffled. Feel like the all blacks would have exploited it after a couple of phases whereas England took 40 minutes. Very naive.

It was all a bit confusing to my eyes, not seen a RU game like that before.

I'm not entirely sure what was different to normal, but it was not much fun for a "casual fan" like me to watch.

I watched the Scotland - Wales game on Saturday - now that was most enjoyable.

I was at the game and couldn't even work out what was going on, it just looked like a terrible game and performance by England from where I was sitting....

I think it shows what a mess the law makers have made of the game. It is easier to stop teams playing if that is the intention of a team. In the old days we would have seen 50 yard driving mauls and It aly would have had to put people in to stop that.

Hopefully that match will have put paid to any idea of Farrell captaining the Lions.

I like Farrell as Lions captain (he won't be) but yesterday was a stinker.

one thing it did show is that England lack leaders on the pitch. can you imagine Martin Johnson allowing 40 minutes of that? christ he'd have had the pack smashing them up the gut straight away

listening to James Haskell and his one brain cell try to work it out was excruciating.

full marks to Italy for ingenuity though. 

I thought it was good by Italy, thinking outside the box. They were big underdogs but didn't just rock up and take a hiding, they tried something new. From a "entertainment" perspective, it was a poor game to watch but that won't bother Italy. They are under pressure for their spot in the 6 nations, losing an entertaining game 60-20 isn't going to help them.

From an England standpoint, I did expect them to adapt quicker. It looked to me as if they should have been "picking and going" at a quick pace, as there was no defense where the ruck normally is. They got there is the end, but it didn't bode well for their ability to think on their feet.

There wasn't a lack of Italian forwards around the tackler, I think in the early stages anyway, by the end they were just run ragged. Fascinating defence and it really put English backs up. Farrell looked like a cool head to me in previous games but he ran 30 metres to push an Italian forward when the maul was going over in the first half. Proceeds to blast his first 3 kicks wide. He was way too fired up and my heart leapt when I saw the Italian 9 down, although what a ridiculous way to get injured. Points flattered both sides as England ran circles at the end and the Italy 2nd was obviously a joke.

I actually watched this without commentary and really enjoyed it. Might be worth watching again i guess to get the reaction from the commentary though.

Seems like the best no took formed tactic  would be in the opponents 22 but not in your own. Slows the release of pressure and forces an awful box kick angle. I wonder what the spirit of law thing mentioned is. You have to go full throttle with it or what's the point? Red handled things well but fully, seems fine to explain how a ruck is formed. Rule clarification rather than coaching. Anybody impressed by 15.8a? That was the law he recalled.

Another fascinating test for this England side, really enjoyable to watch again.

At half time I wondered if Italy hadn't missed a trick by only doing this tactic in the second half. Traditionally Italy have competed fine in the first half anyways (see Wales game for example). If they were within a score then confused the English in the second half, they could well have nicked it.

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the 100 minute game

first recorded instance of a guy being sin binned in added time and being able to come back on again

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What a great weekend of rugby that was. England showing some creative play in the first half and then managing to shut up shop effectively when Wales found a bit of form in the second half, good tight game. Scotland also stopping pissing around like they did last week and finally getting a decent result.

Gonna be a tight six nation sessions I reckon, I can see all the contenders potentially losing 1 game each so it might come down to bonus point and points difference. Looking forward to the rest of it  :)

I'm not sure England shut up shop that well. Wales' 2's dropped the ball a lot. Underhill's intervention was exceptional though . Really hope we get Wales 1st XV vs England in Japan, should be the last go under Gatland/Edwards, they have been amazing for Welsh rugby.

I've actually been pretty underwhelmed thus far. Very clear post Lions hangover going on.

-England stalling and getting stuck in third gear and Wales too injury hit to capitalise.
-Impossible to read anything into Italy games thought Ireland surely worse off for the Furlong and Henshaw injuries.
-Scotland naive enough in letting  a poor France stay close.

Not a vintage tournament so far.

Well I enjoyed them, can’t beat a tight game. That’s why no mention of Italy.....

Exactly my assessment.

France are playing like they're contractually obligated to turn up. The solution to having an old head coach who's stuck in his ways is rarely bringing in an older one, but here they are with Brunel, Laporte's assistant, for more of the same. All the talk was new system and out with the old. Fooling no one. It's a shadow of the teams from not that long ago and they have a relentless desire to make stupid errors in key moments.

Where Martin Johnson's England lacked discipline and control, Brunel's Bleus are weak. The way to beat them is the same: put them under pressure. The spell on the hour where Scotland just kicked the ball to the France backs and invited handling errors was schoolboy rugby.

The Italy game for the spoon is no gimme.

Tickets available on French RFU site for next weeks Englands game and Eurostar is available for for £220 return if anyone is so inclined, just booked up to tick another box for me and the missus is away so I have a weekend pass.....

Might give Jaques Brunel a bit of abuse if we win, then again......

If you enjoy a drink with your rugby, be aware that the stuff in the ground is 0.5%.

Take my own stuff in normally so I’m not running to the bog every 3 mins for a piss....

Great atmosphere in Paris today. Mostly a boring game until the last 15 when you could cut the tension with a knife, that bit was worth the money alone. Good banter with the locals, I will deffo be back now I know tix aren’t hard to get for that game.

Ireland deserve the title this year, good on ‘em, let’s just hope we can improve enough to beat them next week.....

Just came through a contact if anybody interested

England v Ireland March 17 St Patrick’s Day Twickenham

A friend of mine has two tickets England v Ireland this sat 17th Mar. He paid £80 each but he didn't realise when he bought them last year that it was going to be the same day as his wedding. If you are interested, he is looking for someone to take his place.

It's at Marylebone Registry Office, at 4.30pm. The bride's name is Nicole -- she's 5'4", about 8 stone, quite pretty, has her own income and is a really good cook.  :)

Very good haha