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Fantastic win

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South Africa Rugby has revealed the cost of a ticket to watch the world champion Springboks take on the British and Irish Lions next year. Prime seats at Soccer City (Soweto), Cape Town Stadium and Ellis Park (Johannesburg) will set the man in the street back a lofty ZAR3000, while the same ticket ...

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Ile de Re, next to La Rochelle is beautiful

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I'm sure that Australia is not alone. I was living in HK during the handover and then Canada was the prefferred destination to anyone leaving. The very rich had already made their own arrangements for themselves and their money secreted in London and and into accounts around the world, and I have li...

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Myself and a few others drifted onto PF from kiwirugby when it started wInding down about 2002/3.
At the time there weren’t that many rugby forums to choose from. Some of those posters still post on here which is nice

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Hate seeing litter anywhere. Until recently we had a problem with flytippers dumping stuff from vans on the side of country lanes, however local farmers caught a few a while back and we no longer have that problem.

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Hate seeing litter anywhere. Until recently we had a problem with flytippers dumping stuff from vans on the side of country lanes, however local farmers caught a few a while back and we no longer have that problem.

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^Might be talking about the mowing kind, not the one for shunting? We don't use couch grass so I have no idea what the bitter twisted git is going on about. Nice, Im talking about the fact you dont think one positive thing came out of the WC, your words. Im not the bitter one. I'm pissed off at the...

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If the players (especially the black players) have an issue with it, ban it. If not, tell the PC brigade to piss off. I don't think that's how it should work. Presumably they want rugby to be inclusive. Having this repeated controversy over this song can't help. It feels like when in the spirit of ...

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Good show with Sam Burgess.
No surprise about Mike Ford.
Does any have any ideas who the disruptive player in the 2015 WC squad was ?

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Italian, French spoken Spanish .
Did classes in Cantonese for 2 years when I lived in HK

Currently learning Bengali

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Tainted Love by SoftCell was an excellent cover
Handbags and Gladrags by Stereophonics
Oranges and Lemons by Suggs
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Nirvana- Man who sold the world
Dont fear the reaper - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

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Anonymous. wrote:Haagen-Dazs Pralines & Cream

Nailed it

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As I stated before, money/jobs/business will be the priority on most people/govts minds after this pandemic. The backlash vs China will be very limited. I agree. With many countries likely to be in recession after I don’t see much backlash towards China at all. Perhaps from Trump if he gets re-elec...

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I’ve only recently started listening to his show and I think they are hit or miss depending on the guest. I just finished the Eddie Izzard episode which was quite good . The Ted Nugent episode was just as I expected. He does seem to get a hard on with ex Navy Seals, who I have found pretty dull. Apa...

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March 2003

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Nah, I'm going more for ordinary* players who had a ridiculous performance or set of performances before dropping away for whatever reason. Henry was a hard toiler and made the absolute most of his talents. Very good player to have in the team, but he didn't have an abberation high in performance t...

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Apart from organising the RWC every 4 years , what does World Rugby do ? Are they in charge of laws of the game as well ?

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For me the two pods they did with Ben Ryan were the most interesting. He talked about his time coaching Fiji 7s to the Olympics. The highs and lows he faced, from typhoons to funding with the Fijian refugees. I was most struck by the personal stories he told and the regard he had for his players as ...

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I'm not convinced there really is much blame to push on China or the WHO. I'm not sure who gets to pull the trigger and say "OK, shut down China". Looking back at it the warnings were there clear and obvious. The entire globe just stood gawking at it on tele saying "well, this looks bad" but not ac...

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American talk show hosts are appalling.
Bill Maher is the worst by far

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I can't be arsed to look back through all of the virus threads, however I'm sure that it's been mentioned previously, but what's opinion on China feeling the heat when it comes to future trade etc? I'm in an industry that does zero business with them, so just scoping what other sectors consider wil...

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I think I will be ok, I run the UK for a large Japanese technology company , we have just won several national infrastructure tenders which will keep us busy over next five years. My neighbour has just been laid off and my brother who runs several coffee shops has been forced lay off a lot of his st...

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eldanielfire wrote:
45jumper wrote:I feel like we aren't talking enough about Itoje tackling and stripping the ball in the same motion - that was pure poetry.
Agreed! It was pure sex.

It was glorious to watch

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DragsterDriver wrote:If opposition packs dig in we’re screwed. Again, flattering stuff from Ireland.

Ireland were surprisingly poor today

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High tackle on Larmour. That’s a professional foul. Clear penalty against May. Peyper is having a mare. peyper is an excellent ref. We' re very proud of him He’s a poes. Looked like a push in the back. That’s a tackle without the ball. Nope He played the man without the ball. Clear penalty. Finally...

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Ulsters Red Hand wrote:Farrell channelling his inner Dan Biggar

Perfectly justified by Stander

Brainless Stander gets nothing out of it

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Toulon's Not Toulouse wrote:
JM2K6 wrote:Itoje taking the ball off a front rower like it ain't no thing
He's on a roll today.

That was superb. Itoje has been fantastic do far

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Prem rugby releasing a little more in the way of Opta stats than they usually do this week https://media-cdn.incrowdsports.com/3780c8c7-adf1-4c76-bf6a-7001976c4a4c.pdf No per 80 stats, so always going to be dominated by non internationals. Some interesting stuff in there all the same though Very in...

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happyhooker wrote:Yes

Thanks I was hoping for a more informative reply
Bangladesh is only now starting to develop its tourism so it’s not surprising relativity few people have visited there

Did you go to both ? What was your impression ?
Did you go to St Martins Island ?

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Will be doing some work in Dhakar most of September and plan to take 2 weeks off in October before coming home and visit the beach at Cox Bazar and then head to the Sundarban. Have any posters been there ?

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We just had a few trees fallen on our road here in Raglan, neighbouring farmers cleared them pretty quickly. Monmouth is still looking pretty bad, although they are slowly reopening most of the roads

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Just drove from Raglan to Cardiff. Fun times. Yes it's pretty wet and windy in Raglan. I popped into the village for some shopping this morning and it was deserted :shock: I didn't think I met anyone who had been to Raglan even when I lived there. :lol: euhm, *cough*? Of course, sorry Sal :lol:

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AND-y wrote:Just drove from Raglan to Cardiff. Fun times.

Yes it's pretty wet and windy in Raglan. I popped into the village for some shopping this morning and it was deserted

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Does anyone know when Jack Nowell is likely to back playing

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I would really recommend visiting Franschhoek and Hermanus. I would also research car hire as I have been stung every time for deposits and avoid driving at night as I was told there was s serious problem with drunk lorry drivers.
It's a beautiful place, I hope you have a great time

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Da iawn diolch wrote:I've been around a long time, and I'll never understand why people take this place so seriously.

Totally agree

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The North vs NZ 1979 - Otley

Still have the cornerflag ! School trip, minibus broke down on the way home , we didn't care

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New guy wrote:Thought Parkes was very good actually. Some massive kicks. Nick Tompkins was outstanding when he came on. Josh Adams scores tries for fun.

Overall, pleased with that

Tomkins had a great debut . My highlight was Dan Bigger passing the ball between his legs for Adam’s to score. Fantastic

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