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- Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What Do You Think Is The Reason First Marriages Have A Lower Divorce Rate Than Second/Third etc.?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4038
Re: What Do You Think Is The Reason First Marriages Have A Lower Divorce Rate Than Second/Third etc.?
I wonder if blending families also has something to do with it? I'm guessing that a higher percentage of couples who are both on their first marriage don't have any children from previous relationships. Whereas perhaps once people are on their 3rd etc marriage they are older and may well have multi...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Britain in recession - so much winning by Tories
- Replies: 439
- Views: 25398
Re: Britain in recession - so much winning by Tories
Thank you guys for taking my genuine question for what it was. I learn stuff surprisingly often on here! And reading the comments, I wonder if our problem is not just with frothing-mouthed MPs but with wider society too? As embarrassingly childish as they were last night (and so many others), no MP ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Britain in recession - so much winning by Tories
- Replies: 439
- Views: 25398
Re: Britain in recession - so much winning by Tories
Ok so forgive my ignorance, and honestly this is a genuine question, but aside from breaking precedents / general frothing at the mouth over the perceived procedural bias / unfairness of it all, why are we so het up about this? It's not like Israel or Hamas are going to be remotely bothered by a sta...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
As for females, market Danny Care all over the shop or something. Serve pornstar martinis or Prosecco as well as just bitter and lager Patronising much?? Altho I do agree about the DJ / trumpets etc. Is it still so hard to believe that women actually go to watch the game? I been on a lot of dates… ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Patronising much??As for females, market Danny Care all over the shop or something. Serve pornstar martinis or Prosecco as well as just bitter and lager
Altho I do agree about the DJ / trumpets etc. Is it still so hard to believe that women actually go to watch the game?
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Anyone got the inside track on what is happening with RFU, Prem 1&2, Worcester Warriors, Wasps and London Irish? Lots of rumours circulating here in Worcester. It's all gone a bit quiet in the Championship, after the spate of press releases & general nastiness in January. Hopefully common sense is ...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: International travel thread
- Replies: 228
- Views: 14321
Re: International travel thread
Flying to La Palma (Canaries) for a bit of winter sun at the end of Feb, with a couple of friends. The friends are a couple, so two of us girls and her other half making the booking, which caused some hilarity with the booking agent. "Err, how many rooms do you need??" :lol: Temperatures look great,...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The nightmare of a (alleged) 2 x Women beater winning the Australian Open
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1094
Re: The nightmare of a (alleged) 2 x Women beater winning the Australian Open
Can't stand Djokovic, so delighted that he's out.
Not keen on the Russian or the German, so I guess I'm backing Sinner. Forza Italia!!
Not keen on the Russian or the German, so I guess I'm backing Sinner. Forza Italia!!
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: anyone else mentally struggle in their 40's ?
- Replies: 485
- Views: 22857
Re: anyone else mentally struggle in their 40's ?
I may be on the wrong side of the 'gender fence' to comment on the male menopause, but I sometimes wonder if having a goal is actually the problem. I've never had a 5-year-plan, let alone a 10-year one, and I'm sure not having kids to worry about makes my approach to what comes next easier, but I do...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
I see on The Beeb that Mercer has had a semi strop about not being picked for England. There's probably some truth in what he says but it's probably not the best way to go about changing minds. Oof yeah I just read it (link below), he's got quite an 'energy sapper' vibe about him... wonder if his e...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ITV reveal 6N punditry lineup
- Replies: 76
- Views: 4378
Re: ITV reveal 6N punditry lineup
Personally I cant stand Wilkinson's weird punditry. Its too much psycho babble. The deliberate aids spreader should be in jail not the telly. Woodentop I will never understand how he actually was involved in rugby. Maggie - god help me is there to tick numerous minority boxes. She just repeats what...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
- Replies: 11460
- Views: 1242558
Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2023?
what else is good on Paramount? I found a 1 month free offer and intend to use it so I can finally watch Sexy Beast, which has been on my watchlist for about 2 decades... Yellowstone obviously. And the prequels. 1883 is quite brilliant. Yellowstone was what took me to Paramount in the first place. ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is the RFU about to collapse?
- Replies: 242
- Views: 27079
Re: Is the RFU about to collapse?
If the club owners left, they would be £millions better off every year. Instantly. But unless they dismantled the clubs and nobody could use the stadiums or training facilities the clubs would remain, perhaps with less money and that would certainly cause problems, but still there'd be something. A...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wtf is going on in the Brit post office?
- Replies: 170
- Views: 20724
Re: Wtf is going on in the Brit post office?
I'm not getting into all the above stuff, but I know someone who features (all be it fairly briefly) in the ITV drama, and interestingly his comment last night was "why is no-one talking about Adam Crozier?" Paula Vennells is rightly getting a lot of press attention, but isn't the only one that need...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
- Replies: 11460
- Views: 1242558
Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2023?
Just splashed out on a discounted subscription to Paramount+, and already hooked on the Mayor of Kingstown. Took a few episodes to get into it but now gripped. what else is good on Paramount? I found a 1 month free offer and intend to use it so I can finally watch Sexy Beast, which has been on my w...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
This is where a lot of the problems spring from. We'd love to go up, but not at the expense of watching our club go bankrupt in the process. The ground criteria have long been a problem, and you only have to look at what Ealing & Jersey go / went through. With decent funding (no detail on 'financing...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Agreed Hoof, and we can only wonder at what London Welsh think of all this nonsense. But surely the rugby has to be the most important criteria? Bedford have been in the top two divisions for longer than I've been alive, but we always knew that we risked relegation, just like everyone else, if we di...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 1:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
That's pretty shocking on a £15m turnover. Where are they spending all the money ? Takes their debts up towards £60M. No need to worry. After all, Wasps, Wuss & London Irish are about to be reinstated into the Championship, sorry Prem 2, if the RFU gets it's way. People need to be more aware these ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
- Replies: 11460
- Views: 1242558
Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2023?
Just splashed out on a discounted subscription to Paramount+, and already hooked on the Mayor of Kingstown. Took a few episodes to get into it but now gripped.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Bristol post a 5 million loss for last season. That's pretty shocking on a £15m turnover. Where are they spending all the money ? Takes their debts up towards £60M. No need to worry. After all, Wasps, Wuss & London Irish are about to be reinstated into the Championship, sorry Prem 2, if the RFU get...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Songs that bring good or bad memories
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4822
Re: Songs that bring good or bad memories
Sonnentanz - Sun don't shine - Klangkarussell Both good & bad memories. Reminds me of sitting outside Manly's Wharf Bar towards the end of my best holiday ever, in early Feb this year. Glorious evening, watching the sun go down, kids diving off the wharf, having a beer and reflecting on an amazing t...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Things you appreciate more as you get older.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 9207
Re: Things you appreciate more as you get older.
My *real* friends, the ability to differentiate between them and the fair-weather variety, and the genuine joy of spending quality time with them. "You can choose your friends..." My health, and only in the last 6 months, the gym, which has done wonders for me, both physically & mentally. My brother...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your Club's Most 'Local' Sponsor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 460
Re: Your Club's Most 'Local' Sponsor
In 2008, Billy Twelvetrees was a little-known new arrival at Bedford. Not much was expected. A local lingerie shop owner had been pestering the club for ages to be a player-sponsor, and eventually they caved in and she became Billy's sponsor. Needless to say, Billy had an outstanding season, scorin...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 10:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your Club's Most 'Local' Sponsor
- Replies: 10
- Views: 460
Re: Your Club's Most 'Local' Sponsor
In 2008, Billy Twelvetrees was a little-known new arrival at Bedford. Not much was expected. A local lingerie shop owner had been pestering the club for ages to be a player-sponsor, and eventually they caved in and she became Billy's sponsor. Needless to say, Billy had an outstanding season, scoring...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is the RFU about to collapse?
- Replies: 242
- Views: 27079
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: anyone else mentally struggle in their 40's ?
- Replies: 485
- Views: 22857
Re: anyone else mentally struggle in their 40's ?
A) seen as profoundly weak for a middle aged man to seemingly be feeling like this I'm ashamed that any of my fellow women would think like this. :blush: For you to function as a Dad, you have to exist as a man, and a man that you like and that is content. Devoting time to get yourself into a bette...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: anyone else mentally struggle in their 40's ?
- Replies: 485
- Views: 22857
Re: anyone else mentally struggle in their 40's ?
I can't really add anything of use here; wrong gender, wrong decade & no kids. But... Despite all the crap that goes on on here, every one of you is an example of the 'good stuff'. Just engaging & sharing makes all the difference . Makes my heart sing. Keep doing what you do, and being there for eac...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is the RFU about to collapse?
- Replies: 242
- Views: 27079
Re: Is the RFU about to collapse?
If the external stakeholders in English rugby (the club owners) leave then the RFU are completely screwed. They'd have to hope English players pick up professional contracts overseas and then select from whatever is available with all the development pipelines gone to replace them as well. If they ...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is the RFU about to collapse?
- Replies: 242
- Views: 27079
Re: Is the RFU about to collapse?
I'm afraid I'm way too cynical to believe this is anything other than pre-panto-season bluster. I'd be delighted to see Halliday proved right, but I think RFU collapse is massively unlikely. Only last week, we were being told that the RFU council members were going all out to get rid of Sweeney, and...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112655
- Views: 7589010
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Calm down everyone. In the words of the current (still) Chief Executive of the RFU "we are on the cusp of something quite spectacular". In Bill we trust.
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jersey Gone?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3124
Re: Jersey Gone?
More power to their elbow!DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:55 amCalendar Blue wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:46 amNeed council members to grow a pair. Open letters are one thing, actual meaningful change is another. Here's hoping...
They're gunning for Sweeney big time.
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jersey Gone?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3124
Re: Jersey Gone?
How would ringfencing work? The clubs in Premiership stay there forever and Championship clubs have no chance of ever making it to the Premiership? Yes. That'll just kill the Championship if none of the teams have any chance of ever making it to the Premiership. Sometimes it's hard to tell if the R...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jersey Gone?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3124
Re: Jersey Gone?
Need council members to grow a pair. Open letters are one thing, actual meaningful change is another. Here's hoping...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jersey Gone?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3124
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jersey Gone?
- Replies: 131
- Views: 3124
Re: Jersey Gone?
This is really surprising and sad news. Jersey have been welcome additions to the Championship since they arrived on scene, for fairly obvious reasons in terms of the opposition supporters. Normally we're hearing rumours of problems long before they happen, but this one came completely out of the bl...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sound fcuker XV
- Replies: 135
- Views: 3440
Re: Sound fcuker XV
Some great recommendations on here. Can vouch for Flats; refreshingly seems to be the same on TV as he is in person. He came and did a evening thing at our club a few years ago despite heavy snow meaning he got stranded overnight, and came across really well. And I like the guy who owned up to knock...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Some good honest hatred
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2661
Re: Some good honest hatred
Not out-and-out hatred, but... Haskell (I'm sure I remember a game where he had a clear run to the line & ran into the posts. Thick as a f*ckin plank) Sexton & Biggar for their drama-queenery. (Saw Biggar at Newmarket races & he behaved like a complete twat) Owen Farrell (arrogant prick) Rob Andrew...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Some good honest hatred
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2661
Re: Some good honest hatred
Not out-and-out hatred, but... Haskell (I'm sure I remember a game where he had a clear run to the line & ran into the posts. Thick as a f*ckin plank) Sexton & Biggar for their drama-queenery. (Saw Biggar at Newmarket races & he behaved like a complete twat) Owen Farrell (arrogant prick) Rob Andrew...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 9:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Some good honest hatred
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2661
Re: Some good honest hatred
Not out-and-out hatred, but... Haskell (I'm sure I remember a game where he had a clear run to the line & ran into the posts. Thick as a f*ckin plank) Sexton & Biggar for their drama-queenery. (Saw Biggar at Newmarket races & he behaved like a complete twat) Owen Farrell (arrogant prick) Rob Andrews...