DuPont and all these young French lads, have that spark that make people fall in love with this sport.
It’s about 2 years that they are a joy to watch.
No one else can even try to be as entertaining as they are.
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- Thu Feb 11, 2021 11:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dupont has a new fanboy, Aaron Smith himself
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1113
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread
- Replies: 1368
- Views: 22051
Re: 6 Nations 2021 - Rd. 1 Wales v Ireland Official Thread
If Italy can tweak his defense, Ire and Wal will have to sweat to win.
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Highly Anticipated Spaghettis vs Frogs game or a Roman Holiday
- Replies: 33
- Views: 731
Re: The Highly Anticipated Spaghettis vs Frogs game or a Roman Holiday
Obviously Italy will win this, first grand slam is the only target.
Anything less will be a failure
Anything less will be a failure
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sophie
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1023
Re: Sophie
I confess to never having heard of this person. Every death is tragic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Es_JjdRXUAQYPIZ?format=jpg&name=medium I went crazy for her song “Faceshopping” last summer. Somehow it got stuck in my head after a round of “dear old dad listen to this new stuff” by my 15ys old daug...
- Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
If there's one thing that this Covid reminded to all of us, is that we live all together in this world. It's sounds so rethoric that I'm ashamed to have written it. But if our governments had faced the crisis with an ONU coordinated effort, maybe we could have been a lot nearer to the end of this me...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sri Lanka v England test series
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2659
Re: Sri Lanka v England test series
A Question by a still fresh cricket fan. About Root’s run out: I see he has been caught by Oshada, I can’t see the ball touching the ground, so why the need to hit the stumps? Wasn’t him already out? Root hit the ball into the ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeIb1q1wJU The replay I saw was ...
- Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sri Lanka v England test series
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2659
Re: Sri Lanka v England test series
A Question by a still fresh cricket fan.
About Root’s run out: I see he has been caught by Oshada, I can’t see the ball touching the ground, so why the need to hit the stumps?
Wasn’t him already out?
About Root’s run out: I see he has been caught by Oshada, I can’t see the ball touching the ground, so why the need to hit the stumps?
Wasn’t him already out?
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
I'm fairly sure we've done better. Good for you wherever you are from
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
But none of that negates the fact that when Italy was looking like an obvious disaster the UK and all other European countries should have closed borders and initiated hotel isolation and/or testing where possible for anyone entering the country to stop the spread of cases. Now European countries n...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
But none of that negates the fact that when Italy was looking like an obvious disaster the UK and all other European countries should have closed borders and initiated hotel isolation and/or testing where possible for anyone entering the country to stop the spread of cases. Now European countries n...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
- Replies: 1593
- Views: 33228
Re: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
Wow wow wow. What A Match Not as glorious as Headingley 2019 but it’s up there. Its better as India did it away from home in Australia at a ground the home team haven't lost at since 1988. Would be fantastic for indian supporters but Headingly kills it as i had skin in the game. plus the England wi...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
- Replies: 1593
- Views: 33228
Re: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
Wow wow wow.
What
A
Match
Not as glorious as Headingley 2019 but it’s up there.
What
A
Match
Not as glorious as Headingley 2019 but it’s up there.
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
- Replies: 1593
- Views: 33228
Re: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
Besides Paine, would Kholi be in trouble too as captain after this?
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
- Replies: 1593
- Views: 33228
Re: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
This is gold stuff, as a neutral italian I don’t care much of the outcome . An India’s win would make me cheer more though. Stick around son, a few Kiwis can teach you a thing or two An India’s win would make me cheer more though. He's already an expert :thumbup: :lol: Anytime I watch a match in an...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
- Replies: 1593
- Views: 33228
Re: Cricket: Australia vs India TEST SERIES
This is gold stuff, as a neutral italian I don’t care much of the outcome.
An India’s win would make me cheer more though.
An India’s win would make me cheer more though.
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
- Replies: 129800
- Views: 5691770
Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
A police officer has died
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-capitol-p ... ring-riots
It wasn't so peaceful then...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-capitol-p ... ring-riots
It wasn't so peaceful then...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
- Replies: 25866
- Views: 627550
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Maybe your government can teach me something, since UK has never ever traded with China : https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-53468925 Funny when those kind of überBrits try to marry economics with ethic. Always judge others, always excuse themselves. I've certainly been uncomfortable with the le...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
- Replies: 25866
- Views: 627550
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55464564 Eat your cake and share some slices with your commonwealtieez. Good luck brexiters, enjoy your holy sovereignity, whatever that means. this is just the beginning. Thoughts on the genocide of the Uighers? Maybe your government can teach me something, since ...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
- Replies: 25866
- Views: 627550
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Italy has to leave the Euro. It is destroying your country. Just look around you. I wish it was so simple, really. Yes, THERE ARE problems connected with the € that affect Italy. But the truth is that my country is old, the vast majority of the CEOs or PA leaders are elders that believe they are st...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:06 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
- Replies: 25866
- Views: 627550
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55464564
Eat your cake and share some slices with your commonwealtieez.
Good luck brexiters, enjoy your holy sovereignity, whatever that means.
this is just the beginning.
Eat your cake and share some slices with your commonwealtieez.
Good luck brexiters, enjoy your holy sovereignity, whatever that means.
this is just the beginning.
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: No-vax healthcare professionals
- Replies: 57
- Views: 2211
No-vax healthcare professionals
I’ve always thought No-Vaxxers were a loud minority of ignorants or intelligent lads (maybe with a degree in literature) who overstimate their poor scientific knowledge. But this anti-Covid vaccine campaign is shocking me beyond my worst nightmare. In some provinces, up to 80% of healthcare professi...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Breturn thread
- Replies: 204
- Views: 5181
Re: Official Breturn thread
We still have a long way to go to be as incompetent, crooked and as laughable as the Italians. Never ones to have the minerals, the Italians. Look at them in WW2. Tried to be Hitlers poodle and the British gave ‘em a bloody nose for it and they soon turned tail. No cojones! That’s true, we know it....
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Breturn thread
- Replies: 204
- Views: 5181
Re: Official Breturn thread
Every man and his dog has been briefing against Brexit for four and a half years. Your perception of events has been greatly distorted because of this. The UK and the EU seem to have reached agreement on a deal that suits both our interests - so perhaps now the rhetoric will cool on all sides and w...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Breturn thread
- Replies: 204
- Views: 5181
Re: Official Breturn thread
No major country will leave, or attempt to leave. They'll have seen the uk nearly tear itself apart. The EU will need a two tier system to suit the means of the member countries. Italy was the major contributor to AntiEU seats in 2019 EU election. Back then Italexit was the word on mouth, “let’s do...
- Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
- Replies: 25866
- Views: 627550
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
We are the EU, the EU is us. You English really can't understand anything beyond crude 19th Century gunboat diplomacy. Seems like a husband leaving his wife for another woman, eager to come back to the previous home to fudge his ex wife whenever he wants. Good luck UK, maybe one day, with other pol...
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Having kids ... yay or nay?
- Replies: 194
- Views: 4411
Re: Having kids ... yay or nay?
I'm a bit of a white fly. I've dreamt to become father since I was 15 yo. I liked the whole idea of taking care of a baby, giving your best to raise a decent human being, creating a little small "eternity" passing on my genes. Now, my daughter is 14 yo, I have developed a deep connection with her, I...
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: France v Ireland - 6 Nations 2020
- Replies: 822
- Views: 7865
Re: France v Ireland - 6 Nations 2020
What’s the point for the future of Irish rugby playing with Murray and Sexton again?
- Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rudy Giulani and Borat.
- Replies: 104
- Views: 4152
Re: Rudy Giulani and Borat.
I’m an audio producer for TV and radio. I’ve been in that situation thousands times. I’ve never, never, never, never seen something like that. When you get the mic gear on or off you instruct what to do to sort the meek wire under someone’s vest or shirt or whatever. Then you fix the meek and the tr...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:06 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Chess
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1201
Re: Chess
Guys chess.com is great.
But recently I bumped into lichess.org is way much better IMHO.
It’s full feature free, btw
But recently I bumped into lichess.org is way much better IMHO.
It’s full feature free, btw
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 3:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Underrated rock and metal bands
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2110
Re: Underrated rock and metal bands
I have spammed the metal and music threads with igorrr. Absolutely brilliant. TBF the modular rack he uses is no more or less an instrument than a DAW. True, but it’s a whole lot more complicated than with a DAW. Don’t get me wrong I love electro stuff DAW crafted, I’m not an analog purist, really ...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Underrated rock and metal bands
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2110
Re: Underrated rock and metal bands
Igorrr, they should be the word on everyone mouth but they are still underground. Listen to their last album. No, it’s not a plugin/virtual instrument/DAW wizardry you are earing. It’s all played with real instrument by real musicians. Those effects? Analog synth magic filtering + tons of genius. Th...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Overrated Rock & Metal Bands
- Replies: 148
- Views: 4632
Re: Overrated Rock & Metal Bands
I just entered the thread to post something similar :D Man, I really tried to listed to them because of the fame that they had among some of my friends. But god, they are so effing boring. I think the singer has no charisma whatsoever, he sounds so ... generic. Maybe that is what ruins them. Here t...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 4:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Overrated Rock & Metal Bands
- Replies: 148
- Views: 4632
Re: Overrated Rock & Metal Bands
It amazes me how music is perceived subjectively. I love all Patton’s stuff, from FNM to Mr.Bungle, Fantomas to Mondo Cane. I love Anthrax first Belladonna era, I rate those LPs the best thrash has produced along Megadeth’s RIP and Pantera’s classics. I love those classic grunge bands, love the RHCP...
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 1 man XV
- Replies: 116
- Views: 4178
Re: 1 man XV
Gavin Henson?
I’ll go with a great backrower with skilfull handling and can kick: Parisse or Zinzan.

I’ll go with a great backrower with skilfull handling and can kick: Parisse or Zinzan.
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
She was my friend’s mom. She was 72. She was in hospital since January with a pancreatitis. She was recovering well, should have been home by the end of march, she saw her daughter, my friend, for the last time at the beginning of march before hospital’s closure. Then came the Covid, at first my fri...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
A guy I know, brother in law of a dear friend, works in the frontline in that Covid hell that Bergamo hospital still is.
He wrote this about what he is experiencing everyday
He wrote this about what he is experiencing everyday
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
News from the red zone.
I posted in this thread for the first time back in the 26th of February.
Finally, after all this long days, we are approaching the decrease curve.
I posted in this thread for the first time back in the 26th of February.
Finally, after all this long days, we are approaching the decrease curve.
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
I’m no math expert, nor a virologist, so I won’t draw conclusions or theories. I’ve taken data from the Italian institute of statistics: flu and pneumonia death toll for the year 2014 was 9413. One month since the first death and we are already near 7000 Covid related casualties, in 3/4 days 2014 wi...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus: Is the cure worse than the problem?
- Replies: 98
- Views: 3869
Re: Coronavirus: Is the cure worse than the problem?
The economic devastation and misery that will result from the isolation measures will far exceed the benefit to society of saving several million, mostly elderly and infirm people. Its awful to say. I realise that. But it is a cold fact. There is a very real prospect of mass unemployment, social un...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
- Replies: 33557
- Views: 925975
Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Update from the red zone. In the town I live supermarkets are almost empty. There’s no flour or yeast left. A over 60 yrs old man from the town I was born and raised has died. He owned a haute couture clothing store, he loved music and he financed a Lot of classical/music shows in my own town. I wor...