So with 24 (ish) hours to go the count down has definitely started for England’s 6 Nations campaign and that tingly feeling of nervous anticipation is sitting firmly in the belly. England will have been boosted by Gethin Jenkins suffering a last minute calf strain but typically we now have to suffer an injury blow ourselves. Flutey is out with a dead leg.
A DEAD FUCKING LEG!!!!
Now I’ve played a lot of rugby in my time and received countless dead legs, some more serious than others and generally pretty painful I grant you. But on the whole they don’t put you out of fucking action.
I appreciate the level of rugby that Flutey is playing is slightly – only slightly mind – higher than my own, but he didn’t get hurt in a contact session. This happened during a non-contact drill. How bad could it have been? This raises the question of whether professional rugby players are too wrapped in cotton wool?
At any rate we now have the ex-Newcastle backline of Wilkinson, Flood, Tait. Be in no doubt that Jamie Roberts will be chomping at the bit to take the ball flat and smash the 12 channel. Flood has to absorb this pressure and not rely on Wilko to do all the defending.
Even with Flutey out I’m beginning to grow in confidence for an England win tomorrow. It won’t be by much but a win is a win. It’s about time England started turning Twickenham back into the fortress it once was.
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