With the Grand Slam event on 17th March 2018, all eyes have been glued on the two nations who were competing at the Twickenham stadium. Ireland has a better chance at the game this time as England has been taking a beating in the last few games. This is also the last game of Six Nations for England for which it has been a vital one to watch for all the fans.
After winning the one of the most respected awards ‘European Player of the Year’ in the year 2013, Jonny Wilkinson has gained tremendous popularity and why not after all he has become the first winner of the English origin of this award.
The fly-half player almost handled the game alone, he steered the team into the final by scoring all their points to get a 21-15 home win opposite Leicester Tigers in the quarterfinal match and in the semi-final match where the team got 24-12 victory, he was the one who scored over Saracens.
Though, this British Lion in the finale wasn’t as influential still he contributed 11 points of Toulon from the boot. The match was a nail biting one with 16-15 triumph opposite ASM Clermont Auvergne (ASMCA) in Dublin. More »
Jonny Wilkinson has referred to the disastrous 2005 British & Irish Lions tour under Clive Woodward as “chaos like I had never witnessed before” therefore warned the class of 2017 to be expectant of such beating by New Zealand if their previous mistakes repeat.
Woodward chose a bloated 44-man squad which included a number of England’s World Cup winners who were past their best and a 26-man support staff, with Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell included.
In addition, Woodward incited irrelevant division within the squad by dividing the Test and midweek sides.
After they have been trashed by the New Zealand Maori, the Lions lost their captain Brian O’Driscoll to a broken collarbone within a minute of the first Test in Christchurch after a spear tackle from TanaUmaga and KevenMealamu.
They lost the match 21-3 before losing the series to a Dan Carter master class in Wellington – going down 48-18. More »
Jonny Wilkinson believes that the tough pool of England will only serve to increase their possibilities of winning the World Cup 2019 in Japan.
The team admits that having Argentina and France in the same pool, with the second-best Oceania qualifier and North and South America qualifier mean England have to have a flying start if they are going to win the tournament – the team will have to play a high level of rugby right from the start, which might benefit them as it progresses.
Wilkinson spoke on the behalf of Land Rover and said, “I am certain that it will be called as the ‘Pool of Death’ and this pool is tough-looking, but the team have two years of time until the tournament begin and we will use this time to target the first game.” More »
World Cup winning Coach Sir Clive Woodward is backing English star Owen Farrell to emulate the achievements of Jonny Wilkinson – former England fly-half – or even surpass them and lead the country to glory.
Under Eddie Jones, Farrell, 25, has been a key player in England’s 16 game winning run where he featured at the inside-centre. This thus allows George Ford to play at fly-half.
Farrell who plays at club level for Saracens as a fly-half won his 50th cap on Sunday against Italy. He is already being compared with 91-time capped Wilkinson by Woodward. More »
Ever since after Jonny Wilkinson, there has been no other player capable of meeting that World Class status at England, Eddie Jones, England’s coach believes. However, he hopes that this could change very soon.
England who had been on an 11 game winning streak since the takeover of Jones as coach, faced Argentine, defeating their opponents at the Twickenham last Saturday, and thus extending their winning streak to 13 games.
Owen Farrell, Billy Vunipola and George Ford, who had all started in the game against Pumas had played some sensational game and were pushing hard to be included in a global XV.
Jones, while speaking before the game against the Pumas had said,
“If you look at the record of English rugby since 2003, there’s only been one world-class player produced and that’s Jonny Wilkinson,”
He also added that a number of his players were on the move towards the world class area. More »
