Planet Rugby Forum

Fenman

OptimisticJock wrote:World Class Phil Godman.

Another Newcastle FH

Fenman

Not sure Gatland is going to be selecting more than a token sweatie, so you're not going to be too badly affected.

Fenman

My grandmother lived in Brighton in the 1980s. Her neighbour (and good friend) was Dave Greenfield's mum. Mum was very proud of Dave of course and kept bringing copies of his music for Gran to listen to. She didn't really care for it, but clearly was too polite to be honest about it. This is rather ...

Fenman

Surprised at various kiwis referring to Brenda as HRH. She's your head of state FFS. HM to you!

Fenman

John Gray the Coventry hooker was in the England Sevens World Champions team in the 1970s as both hooker and goal kicker. He later went North to League. In a position with a paucity of candidates for the team, he's a cert. I don't think he ever won a senior international cap, but at least he had int...

Fenman

Am waiting to see the Tonga effort. Suspect the result will have to be taken with a pinch of salt. Not sure there are many sets of scales strong enough to take the Tongans.

Fenman

Using the pedometer app on my phone to remind me I need to get in plenty of exercise since retirement in late December. I see that I am averaging about 10km per day over the last six months. The consequence is that the waist line has tightened up nicely.

Fenman

Newcastle back ... but (I only skimmed this), no one dropping (yet)? https://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12321/11967266/rfu-confirm-newcastle-falcons-to-be-promoted-back-to-premiership Typical of a Welshman (Shingler of Ealing) to say that despite being beaten by Falcons with a TBP (in their...

Fenman

We were pretty good in the 90s but I reckon a post World Cup England could take part in the spacker fest. 1. Tim Payne 2. Andy Titterall 3. 4. Alex Brown 5. Dean Schofield 6. Chris Jones 7. 8. 9. Shaun Perry 10. Ollie Barkley 11. Bananaman 12. Noon 13. Erinle 14. May 15. Shane Geraghty, Andy Farrel...

Fenman

A couple of notable omissions. Keith Fielding had a phenomenal scoring record in League. Not sure of his Union international record, but he was part of the England team that won the Sevens World Cup (along with John Gray, a goal kicking hooker) and Bev Risman changed codes after the 1959 Lions tour.

Fenman

We had a visit from a Canadian team in 1985 and the players were hosted by rugby players living locally. One of the guys staying with me gave me his old team jersey as a souvenir. That was 1985 and I have no idea how old the jersey was then. The number on the back had frayed away. Admittedly it is n...

Fenman

Ive ordered from online suppliers but not for varifocals. They have been for pretty basic glasses. Service and quality has been good, I now have glassed lying all over the place and have spares in car, work etc. Ive also had prescription sunglasses and these have been excellent. Unless it is a comp...

Fenman

A former colleague who has worn glasses all his life used to go to a (UK) optometrist for his eye test and then (armed with a prescription) used to purchase his lenses and frames from an Italian supplier. Apparently significant cash savings can be made with no diminishing of quality. Sorry, no idea ...

Fenman

In the last three weeks, I've had two small glasses of Laphroaig. In the week before that, when things were relatively 'normal', I only had one day where alcohol passed my lips when a mate and his wife came round. Admittedly my mate and I shared 3 bottles of wine, his wife had two cans of cider and ...

Fenman

I note that the administrators of that curious round ball game are contemplating declaring this season null and void. What would be the implications should their rugby contemporaries do something similar? Would they dare to leave Saracens in the premiership whilst 70 odd points behind the rest and F...

Fenman

It's not about killing the disease, it's about slowing it so that hospitals can cope. That's what Ireland is doing. We don't have the beds available so need to slow it. The UK way of building up immunity will results in the disease being killed sooner but a lot more deaths as a result of no beds av...

Fenman

Has the German healthcare system expanded at the same rate as migration ? How will a country that has accommodated over 1.5 million migrants in recent years react to seeing native Germans denied life saving access to ventilators as doctors prioritise treating Syrian and other migrants ? They won't ...

Fenman

I did the shopping last Friday (being the only retiree in the house). We had about 3 spares in the house before I went and the only packet in the supermarket had 24 rolls in it. Normally that would last us 3 months. Let's see how we get on in these troubled times. I can't see common sense prevailing...

Fenman

Might have saved the next Lions with AWJ proving conclusively he has no right to a place on the team, let alone be captain.

Fenman

I don't think the late tackle on May was a penalty try, he kicked the ball away in-field where there were covering Irish players. It was a penalty though imo. And quite possibly a yellow. Not sure about either of these points, but the one decision that should not have been considered was simply to ...

Fenman

AND-y wrote:He was trying to milk another 10m, it's a common tactic

Rather pointless exercise given where it took place on the field. Now if he had been between the half way and opposition ten metre line, that would have made a bit of sense as a penalty 10m closer to the posts would be helpful.

Fenman

I was thinking of doing another 3.67 miles tomorrow. I am taking from what you wrote I am within the zone of safety doing that. I should say that you will make rapid progress towards a world record over 3.67 miles. In all seriousness, all you are doing by constantly running the same course is teach...

Fenman

Mary decker's husband got caught juicing didn't he? You mean Richard Slaney, the British discus thrower? I'm trying to remember when the Athletics world got serious about PEDs. I used to do Athletics (throwing events) outside the rugby season to a reasonable standard (not globus level obviously) an...

Fenman

When the Irish start getting too chippy over alleged English cheating, there is a two word answer - 'Michelle Smith'.

Fenman

A few years ago when I had a company car, I regularly visited a client's office in Huntingdon. Within a year, my employer received three letters from the owner of a car that was parked 20m from the client's office claiming that I had had a collision with their car and left the scene of the 'accident...

Fenman

Falcons Academy players don't get enough games at Academy level to keep them match fit, so typically 18 yo academy players will play for one or other of the local Nat League 2 North clubs - Tynedale and (until they got relegated) Blaydon. Last year Morgan Passman, who was in the England U18 squad sc...

Fenman

Everything hurts. I'm in my 60s and still think I can do everything I could do in my 30s. Basically my brain is still in its 30s and my body is in its 60s. Luckily I retired from rugby at about 30 due to persistent injuries. If I hadn't, Sundays would probably be spent searching for analgesia and w...

Fenman

9-6 written all over it I have a vague memory that one of the first televised matches I saw , was a 6 - 3 thriller, with Bob Hillier the hero of the hour kicking the two England penalties. First game I ever saw at Twickenham saw France beating England 4-3, with Alistair Hignall missing several pena...

Fenman

Not enough bruisers in that England pack for me When you go north of the wall to hammer the Scotch, you go full metal jacket. There’s only one way to put an impudent Jock back in his box, and that’s with the meaty fist of an English yeoman. LCD should be in. So should Dominator Dombrandt. I’d also ...

Fenman

If there is another referendum and it rejects independence again, can the Nats seriously call for a further referendum? The Quebec nats stopped at 2. It might be possible, but a respectable period would need to pass - at least 20 years one would think.

Fenman

I felt Simmonds was rejected too soon. With Curry and Underhill alongside him, most opposition teams are going to be seriously embarrassed by their pace. Vunipola has had his moments, but is too easy to work out. Not many teams can handle him even so.

Fenman

He is covering himself for picking an unbalanced back row that got stuffed on the day. With a number of excellent 8s in England why pick a guy who is inexperienced at 8 and looked completely out of place on Saturday? For me I would have picked and played Dombrant even if he is inexperienced at test...

Fenman

Long long ago, I was chasing a guy who was over the try line and doing a bit of show boating. As he was in the process of touching down, I pushed him to see if he might drop the ball. He didn't, but the bastard kicked me when he got up. He got sent off for that, which I considered a result. As long ...

Fenman

iarmhiman wrote:
Clive wrote:Along with Italy time to drop England.
England will win the remainder of their games but yes right now they should be relegated

Fair enough, but with the same number of points as Scotland and the same points difference, they'd need to go as well. Perhaps we should leave it at the 3N.

Fenman

This thread is full of negative comments about Italy. Elsewhere on the front page, we have other threads raving about the Welsh performance yesterday and how Josh Adams (who scored a hat trick) must be among the best wingers in the world. I suppose a certain degree of consistency is too much to hope...

Fenman

I'd be interested to know (well not really, but somebody is bound to work it out and rather him than me) how many syllables are involved in counting up to one million (presumably in English). I didn't pick up many words in Setswana when I was working in Botswana, but I do remember that the word for...

Fenman

I'd be interested to know (well not really, but somebody is bound to work it out and rather him than me) how many syllables are involved in counting up to one million (presumably in English). I didn't pick up many words in Setswana when I was working in Botswana, but I do remember that the word for ...

Fenman

Tyre pressure warning light staying on wifes soon to be 3 years old Toyota Yaris, tried setting the pressure and doing the reset. The little info I can gather tells me it can be sensor battery or sensor itself. Do you for example change all four sensors? Couple of weeks left on the guarantee but I ...

Fenman

Has happened frequently on my wife's Kia Sportage. Had to get a new sensor (not cheap). Happened recently for the first time on the VW Polo used by the kids. Have checked tyre pressure regularly and it is correct, so may not do anything about it in a hurry

Fenman

Loved the story from Derek Nimmo on the radio about how Nicholas Parsons was still driving at 93 and someone commented about taking a test to be told that he never had! Derek Nimmo died when Parsons was in his 70s. Unless Nimmo was talking about Parsons driving in 1993 your story doesn't make sense...

Search found 3063 matches