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SaintK

The tories are expected to drop to around 100 seats based on current polling https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html https://electionmaps.uk/nowcast This is not just an SNP thing. Tories will probably scratch back to 150. Hopefully the party splits then. No chance of that. Reform doesn't ...

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Mr. Raynal did well yesterday. Sketchy at the breakdown and missed a good couple of blatant fwd passes- but that's standard Raynal to be fair, he doesn't ruin a game. Yep, he certainly didn't cost Saints the match. Their shit awful first 30 minutes worth of mistakes and unforced errors did that.

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Alas, Leinster by a lot I fear. Hope not. I hope Saints can put up a good fight. Normally I'd support Leinster but I quite like how Northampton play and they are big underdogs so I'm going to bed neutral in this game. I stii recall the horror of Saints being 22 points up against Leinster in the 201...

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Alas, Leinster by a lot I fear.

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johnstrac wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 3:24 pm Itoje cleared following a citation, I didn't even know england had a game coming up !

2 more Prem games and a possible semi final and final before England tour

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bimboman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:28 am Other big question is what on earth is he doing “on holiday” during Saracens live season ….

.....and will he still be able to get a work permit for France or Japan with a criminal record for resisting arrest and violence against the police

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:54 pm https://twitter.com/ClementMazella/stat ... 06010?s=19

That looks very bad. Yendell?

No citing as yet.
Never thought Yeandle was that type of p[layer

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They can and have done it this season. But not against what is basically an international side. I can only see this going one way. Yep. Saints have had a good run. Saints defence has come on leaps and bounds over the course of this season, from the shambles against Ealing where an extremely young g...

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Saints defence would be a worry for me. They shipped points against a largely scratch side whenever heavy traffic started hitting their line. Even Munster managed to get some joy out of them with a fairly limited attack. I think Leinster will look to bully them up front with lots of energy sapping ...

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:40 pm Ridiculous yellow. The kid clearly tried to catch the ball with both hands.

Dreadful call

SaintK

F uck me, this thread!!! Just about the only thread I now bother with here and it's unreadable. Back to rugby please Fine, has there been any action around Ireland allowing Frawley to play on with a concussion? Okay it was fairly funny in how he aided the English try scored by Furbank, but it doesn...

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Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:39 pm
piquant wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:06 pm it had never occurred to me to read the name as 'yawn' for whatever reasons all I see is 'Dan the pillock'
That was definitely funnier in your head.

F uck me, this thread!!!
Just about the only thread I now bother with here and it's unreadable.
Back to rugby please

SaintK

ovalball wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:55 pm
CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:14 am
message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:27 am

Kilos won't help them scrummage.
Good thing the scrums were even enough then.
Scrums were fine - we lost the game at the Line Outs - We were an utter shambles there.

Restarts were gash all match as well.
All they had to do was catch the last one and kick to touch

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Fin Smith has injured a calf muscle and is doubtful for selection on Saturday.

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Theflier wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:45 pm He’s a twat, he was already under huge scrutiny for leaving his heavily pregnant wife for a new bird. How can someone be so stupid, his broadcasting career is likely already over inside a year

He's absolutely shite at it anyway!

SaintK

Reports in Germany that Horner could be given the arse today. Marko and Newey allegedly want him gone A conflicting rumour also that he is cleared though. Sounds like it could drop either way today or tomorrow Cleared Red Bull's team principal Christian Horner has been cleared of inappropriate beha...

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shereblue wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:38 pm Ou sont les neiges d'antan?

I think you'll find them on NPR, non?

Torque must be erupting. Vesuvius-style in a nod to our Italian debacle.

Hasn't posted on NPR for quite some time.

SaintK

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHAzQMWWYAAlyzW?format=jpg&name=small What value does Ewels add here? Surely this is about fringe possibles, not failed test players? "Let's see what Ewels can add in a fast, young, mobile side [as opposed to his intl appearances to date]" I quite like that squad! Guess ...

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camroc1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:07 pm What the fúck are the RFU spending £ 663m pounds on at Twickenham.

They aren't, they haven't got the money and the RFU board have not approved a plan of any sort.

SaintK

Anyone see what Lindsay Hoyle did today? Instead of putting the SNP vote forward which would have put Keir and labour in a tricky position, he allowed both labour to put forward an ammendment on a motion from the SNP who are another opposition party so there would be no labour rebellion. Tories and...

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I wouldn't trust the current bunch of arseholes to organise a piss up in a brewery.
Their recent financial management of the game as a whole has been rotten.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:08 am Adds weight to the “Lawrence to Quins” talk.

Signed a 2 year contract extension at Bath. Would cost Quins a fortune.

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:26 am Who is Englefield?

Young Gloucester scrum-half. Was at L Irish

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England A Squad for Portugal. Let's see how Vesty can get them playing in attack. https://scontent.flhr3-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/424705814_936594138136287_5247726594149838243_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_ohc=M5PAQ5dYvOIAX_nvjEU&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr3-3.fna&oh=00_AfAHlqHhyWQ-9luO...

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Lynagh to Benetton confirmed by Quins. A tidy club player, who's a fair way down the England wing pecking order. Hopefully he gets tapped up pronto by the Italian RU. .........and straight into their training squad for the next match! Louis Lynagh has been called up to the Italy squad as they prepa...

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If I were in Scabnose's shoes, I'd have a massive clearout, similar to what Gatland did last year. After the RWC this 6N is basically a free hit-out for him. He's not going to get sacked for winning two games, and can point to progress by bringing in some youngsters. There are enough players puttin...

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TheFrog wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:24 pm Very good analysis by the Torygraph.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union ... i-mauvaka/

Paywalled!

SaintK

When in the last decade have Bath not had a "decent clearout" at the end of any season? Transfer roulette. They'll be shit again next season. And even fewer players from the academy. Why will they? Because they change their squad so much every year. The roulette wheel has looked favourably on them ...

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Another Falcons youngster off elsewhere. Good signing for Bath Barf are going to need to have a pretty decent clearout at the end of this season if they want to stay below the cap. I wonder whether we'll see any of their 11 centres moving on to another Prem side? I still think Bailey would be a sma...

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Another Falcons youngster off elsewhere. Good signing for Bath Bath have won the race to land highly rated Newcastle Falcons openside Guy Pepper, who has turned down a lucrative three-year deal to remain in the north-east. The 20-year-old rejected a new deal that would have made him one of the best-...

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:07 am Erm, yes

That would make Javier Sotomayor‘s world high jump record look like a bunny hop

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:53 am

That's got to be Photoshopped shirley?

SaintK

Good for him. He's a decent player, and obviously not getting a sniff from rfu or aru. No arguments about him being a good player. I'm sure Eddie had him involved in at least one training squad and he has also missed a fair amount of club games through injury in the last year, so I"m not sure how m...

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He's just not a leader. There's no vision or direction. 'We're just thinking about the next game' is a cliche for most people, but for Borthwick the short-term is everything. I always remember an interview with Donncha O'Callaghan where he talked about how the fear of failure was his, often crippli...

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Ticket price argument doesn’t really stand up as the problem. England football friendly rickets start at£110 and climb rapidly. And the crowd there is almost exclusively “working class” I think you're right here, it's not the price per se. Nor do I think it is about wall-to-wall coverage. Rugby get...

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Lynagh off to Benetton and the land of his birth by all accounts.
Should imagine an Italian cap would be forthcoming pretty quickly
https://www.rugbypass.com/news/harlequ ... netton/

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Seen Damian Mackenzie's name mentioned as a new Saracens recruit. He's basically Marcus Smith with more pace, better passing/kicking/match craft and experience. You fuckin g wish :lol: It's possible! I reckon they'll go for Carreras personally which I think could work well. I suspect they might als...

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Hoof wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:29 am Seen Damian Mackenzie's name mentioned as a new Saracens recruit.

He's basically Marcus Smith with more pace, better passing/kicking/match craft and experience.

You fuckin g wish

SaintK

even when everyone was available our centre partnerships looked complete shit. so we not really losing much that we going to have to look at other options now. Re sarries fly half- whens lozowski due back? he could be a decent option for a season until a bigger name is available maybe Think they'd ...

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Good start. Lawrence, Beard and LC-D withdrawn from England training squad injured. Ojomoh, Muir and Blamire called up Where do you see that? Not on the RFU site or the BBC. Any other updates given? Also, how do we feel about those choices? I'm not an avid prem watcher any more but happy enough wit...

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