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- Thu Jul 02, 2020 5:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2 weeks to go, let's thank the Band - PR Visitors Book
- Replies: 61
- Views: 5903
Re: 2 weeks to go, let's thank the Band - PR Visitors Book
Hello all. Thanks to those who have made this a great place to visit. I rather like the comment about the "lifeboat" given I'm a member of the RNLI and a Yachtmaster Ocean". I hope the new site will continue in the same vein as here. I wish you all well. God bless. I hope you'll be joining us on NPR?
- Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Swing Low goooonnnneee?
- Replies: 256
- Views: 21280
Re: Swing Low goooonnnneee?
Our bored brother Brian hates it. [quote]Former England international Brian Moore says he "hates" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as the Ruby Football Union reviews the historical context of a song which has been a Twickenham staple for years. With the ongoing focus on the Black Lives Matters protests, th...
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 4:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Swing Low goooonnnneee?
- Replies: 256
- Views: 21280
Re: Swing Low goooonnnneee?
I see Boris has come out in support of "Swing Low" now - given his midas touch that will surely be the final nail in its coffin https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/53096584 The whole thing seems rather overblown to be honest, they don't actually sing the song at Twickenham anyway, they just repe...
- Fri May 29, 2020 6:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best ice cream has to be
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15453
Re: The best ice cream has to be
You haven't missed anything, it's over-rated, over-priced garbageAnonymous. wrote:Never had Ben & Jerrys just sounds to stodgy sweet.BlackMac wrote:Ben & Jerrys Peanut Butter Cup.
- Thu May 28, 2020 6:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best ice cream has to be
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15453
Re: The best ice cream has to be
Yep - I'm not a fan of chocolate ice cream generally but pretty much anything movenpick does is the mutts nutsTrue Blue wrote:Chocolate movenpick is my favorite.
- Wed May 27, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The best ice cream has to be
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15453
Re: The best ice cream has to be
Movenpick is the correct answer
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Billie Joe Armstrong (Greenday) ft Susanna Hoffs
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6224
Re: Billie Joe Armstrong (Greenday) ft Susanna Hoffs
Seconded!True Blue wrote:That's a great cover of Manic Monday.
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 9:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
- Replies: 55698
- Views: 9443307
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 30187
- Views: 2499688
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Small win for my club, means they dont get relegated which was looking increasingly likely unless they had pretty much all results go their way through to the end of the season. We were in relegation free-fall for almost 3 seasons, thankfully we've finally found our level and are competitive again....
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 8:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 30187
- Views: 2499688
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
How is everyone coping during this shit. From a club perspective, we had to cancel our FP day which is usually one of our biggest fundraisers of the year. That plus the clubhouse being closed for the foreseeable future isn't exactly going to help, clubs could go to the wall because of this - many s...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 30187
- Views: 2499688
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
The Scottish domestic rugby season was declared null and void yesterday BBC link here and SRU link here
The Premiership trophy won't be contested, there will be no promotion and relegation and there won't be any cup finals.
The Premiership trophy won't be contested, there will be no promotion and relegation and there won't be any cup finals.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
- Replies: 55698
- Views: 9443307
Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte
Do you mean the building that has big, lit up letters that spell out "Caird Hall" on it?Winnie wrote:As did Idpedin wrote:Graduated there .... many years ago.
Is that the Caird Hall in that picture with Desperate Dan?
Did they teach reading at that Uni?
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How safe is your industry during this Crisis
- Replies: 208
- Views: 24653
Re: How safe is your industry during this Crisis
A lot of our income depends on events like Glastonbury, Euro 2020. One of our biggest jobs this year is the Olympics in Tokyo
It's not looking good!
It's not looking good!
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
- Replies: 55698
- Views: 9443307
Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW conte
Dundee really has scrubbed up wellTaranaki Snapper wrote:
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Twist In The Barani
- Replies: 485
- Views: 43454
Re: The PR "Commonsense-O-Meter"
just to be serious for a moment, (yeeb mode off ) I would normally give him the benefit of doubt and wish him well for the Management - mucking around on the forum with insults is one thing but nobody truly wants another posters family to be ill. HOWEVER, a year of so back, he was haranguing me and...
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Twist In The Barani
- Replies: 485
- Views: 43454
Re: The PR "Commonsense-O-Meter"
As I'm at work I have to admit I was very nervous about opening that.backrow wrote:Spoiler: show
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dear Jake
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5581
Re: Dear Jake
That would be "haud yer wheesht"backrow wrote:MacT, why you still whinging on about this ?
His Lordship Baron von Sausage is well known for capricious acts of bannage, you are back now so hold yer weesht !
Do try to get it right old chap.
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 1:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dear Jake
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5581
Re: Dear Jake
Actions which by any other poster would have resulted in a lengthy bandargotronV.1 wrote:He's a journo of top repute. Hence why he posted on here a rumour that Finn Russell was chucked out of Scotland camp for taking drugs. Quite the scoop! Totally without basis in fact, but a great scoop nevertheless.
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 30187
- Views: 2499688
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
We believe we are in a much better place following the tournament and review. We clearly didn’t perform on the field as well as we had planned and, off the field, felt certain standards of behaviour had slipped at times. Interesting... Definitely trying to subtly paint a Finn has a drink problem pi...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Finn Russell Gooooonnneee!
- Replies: 206
- Views: 21322
Re: Finn Russell Gooooonnneee!
If I was Russell's Dad I would've given him a clip round the ear and told him to stop being such a wee pratt. By all accounts (from within the SRU so take it whichever way you want) his Dad is a bigger twat than him. When the two of them get too close to each other there's a risk of implosion under...
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Culture Wars Mega Thread
- Replies: 3347
- Views: 289778
Re: The Culture Wars Mega Thread
Don't think this line got the recognition it deserves.Benthos wrote:Obviously the collective noun for sensitive little cünts that most blokes sensibly ignore is a ‘PR journalist’
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What does the manager in a rugby team do exactly?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1971
Re: What does the manager in a rugby team do exactly?
Pastoral care - of the whole squad, coaches and backroom team. This includes being their go-to person for every problem that group might have, be it organising tickets for friends and families or trying to keep their latest indiscretions out of the media Managing the relationship between the team a...
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Finn Russell Gooooonnneee!
- Replies: 206
- Views: 21322
Re: Finn Russell Gooooonnneee!
Irish humour eh?Nieghorn wrote:Some other potential reasons, as suggested by Three Red Kings: https://twitter.com/threeredkings/statu ... 95074?s=20
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Finn Russell Gooooonnneee!
- Replies: 206
- Views: 21322
Re: Finn Russell Gooooonnneee!
I've heard that Earl is rightOptimisticJock wrote:I've heard different.earl the beaver wrote:I've heard he's a knob but there must be something more than that if this is true.Steamin Beamin wrote:@thistlerugbypod Understand from two sources that Finn leaving camp driven by senior players group not Townsend
Can't believe I've just said that
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby has become a complete utter borefest.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4901
Re: Rugby has become a complete utter borefest.
There's an even simpler solution which is to bring back rucking. If players on their feet were allowed to kick f*ck out of anyone lying on the wrong side of the ruck or with their hands all over the ball, pretty much all the problems being described here would go away.
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 10:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The English Scrum.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3474
Re: The English Scrum.
I dunno either and I played a decent couple years at loosehead. Hardly a master of the art after 20 years as a flanker but got an introduction in my last years. There was one scrum in particular that went went against England just after Marler went on that I didnt understand. Apparently he stepped ...
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 12:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How big is RWC in your country right now (Finals)
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4632
Re: How big is RWC in your country right now (Finals)
It's a funny one for me, I'm inside a RWC bubble at the moment. I work for one of the suppliers so it's much talked about at work, with the TVs that we have in the office typically showing the matches that have been on during the week. Most of my social circle has a rugby background so I see a lot o...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Attn Scots, a quick poll
- Replies: 81
- Views: 8628
Re: Attn Scots, a quick poll
Yes, sorry I'm not going to give more detail than that (and I know what that looks like).Doc Rob wrote:Did you get it from a reliable source?
TBH it doesn't really matter now and I'm actually sorry I mentioned it. The perils of insomnia.
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Attn Scots, a quick poll
- Replies: 81
- Views: 8628
Re: Attn Scots, a quick poll
<snip> He didn't want a new deal. He was ready to leave and made that clear to the SRU when they tried to keep him on. That is the complete opposite if everything I heard at the time. I know which is why I questioned it several times when I first heard it too. The SRU had to pivot very quickly and ...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 4:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Attn Scots, a quick poll
- Replies: 81
- Views: 8628
Re: Attn Scots, a quick poll
Why was Vern given the boot anyway? Seems crazy. It was. He wasn't given the boot His contract wasn't renewed when he would have signed a new deal. He was binned. Regardless of the technicalities of it he was gotten rid of to appoint Townsend. He didn't want a new deal. He was ready to leave and ma...
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Attn Scots, a quick poll
- Replies: 81
- Views: 8628
Re: Attn Scots, a quick poll
He wasn't given the bootBiffer29 wrote:It was.True Blue wrote:Why was Vern given the boot anyway? Seems crazy.
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: WR Presser 4am: Games likely to be off
- Replies: 850
- Views: 62951
Re: WR Presser 4am: Games likely to be off
So if the games on Sunday do also get cancelled we would be looking at a world cup with 4 cancelled games and yet we ahve people on here defending this nonsense. Of course the games should be rearranged and that could even include delaying the next round of fixtures if need be. On the Irish 2023 bi...
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: WR Presser 4am: Games likely to be off
- Replies: 850
- Views: 62951
Re: WR Presser 4am: Games likely to be off
Who needs a stadium. Could be played on any pitch. It's the result that matters not nerd contrarian fúcks like Sewa. You have travel for teams refs management etc (I saw an article yesterday saying its 300 people approx), security, accommodation and a whole of other logistics. Plus this has to be a...
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Perhaps Jake is right
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4117
Re: Trouble in England - the real scandal?
I'm sure that's what the English will hope for, they don't want a light turning on their own dubious parcticesfatcat wrote:Half a page.
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Perhaps Jake is right
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4117
Trouble in England - the real scandal?
Is Jake trying to distract us from the truth?
England doctor "resigns" for "personal reasons" just before the RWC, signs an NDA with the RFU. He's one of more than 25 to have left in similarly murky conditions in the last 4 years.
Read all about it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49777559
England doctor "resigns" for "personal reasons" just before the RWC, signs an NDA with the RFU. He's one of more than 25 to have left in similarly murky conditions in the last 4 years.
Read all about it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49777559
- Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your Pre-Match Rituals
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5809
Re: Your Pre-Match Rituals
Mog The Almighty wrote:You sound like a spectator. Which is close to a back.
For the record I mostly played #6 but dabbled at #8 and LH prop.
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- Mon Sep 16, 2019 4:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your Pre-Match Rituals
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5809
Re: Your Pre-Match Rituals
I was team manager for u12s. It exactly the same as Traveller's post - plus picking players and dropping off. And constantly calling/texting parents/players each week about games and coming events. Mobile phones revolutionised team management! Before we had them I'd be up at the club after training...
- Mon Sep 16, 2019 3:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your Pre-Match Rituals
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5809
Re: Your Pre-Match Rituals
I was team manager for u12s. It exactly the same as Traveller's post - plus picking players and dropping off. And constantly calling/texting parents/players each week about games and coming events. Mobile phones revolutionised team management! Before we had them I'd be up at the club after training...
- Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your Pre-Match Rituals
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5809
Re: Your Pre-Match Rituals
Sounds like you played/coached at a high standard? What level did you play/coach? Not really, we set very high standards for ourselves as a collective (players, coaches, management, physios etc) but we were very much an amateur club. We had a goal of winning promotion by winning the league, somethi...
- Sun Sep 15, 2019 8:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your Pre-Match Rituals
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5809
Re: Your Pre-Match Rituals
I'd always strap up my wrists pretty heavily and used electrical tape to hold my socks up. Always used to ensure my shirt was tucked in to my shorts too until they started making them too small to tuck in. Want to look respectable out there. Guys running out with their shirts untucked and socks dow...