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Traveller

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?

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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...

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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...

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Anonymous. wrote:
BlackMac wrote:Ben & Jerrys Peanut Butter Cup.
Never had Ben & Jerrys just sounds to stodgy sweet.

You haven't missed anything, it's over-rated, over-priced garbage

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True Blue wrote:Chocolate movenpick is my favorite.

Yep - I'm not a fan of chocolate ice cream generally but pretty much anything movenpick does is the mutts nuts

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Movenpick is the correct answer

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True Blue wrote:That's a great cover of Manic Monday.

Seconded!

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Topical

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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....

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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...

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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.

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Winnie wrote:
dpedin wrote:Graduated there .... many years ago.
As did I
Is that the Caird Hall in that picture with Desperate Dan?

Do you mean the building that has big, lit up letters that spell out "Caird Hall" on it?

Did they teach reading at that Uni?

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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!

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Taranaki Snapper wrote:

Dundee really has scrubbed up well

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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...

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backrow wrote:
Spoiler: show
admit it, you were expecting an ASCII jizzing cock weren't you ?!

As I'm at work I have to admit I was very nervous about opening that.

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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 !

That would be "haud yer wheesht"

Do try to get it right old chap.

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dargotronV.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.

Actions which by any other poster would have resulted in a lengthy ban

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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...

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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...

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Benthos wrote:Obviously the collective noun for sensitive little cünts that most blokes sensibly ignore is a ‘PR journalist’

Don't think this line got the recognition it deserves.

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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...

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Nieghorn wrote:Some other potential reasons, as suggested by Three Red Kings: https://twitter.com/threeredkings/statu ... 95074?s=20

Irish humour eh?

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OptimisticJock wrote:
earl the beaver wrote:
Steamin Beamin wrote:@thistlerugbypod Understand from two sources that Finn leaving camp driven by senior players group not Townsend
I've heard he's a knob but there must be something more than that if this is true.
I've heard different.

I've heard that Earl is right

Can't believe I've just said that

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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Doc Rob wrote:Did you get it from a reliable source?

Yes, sorry I'm not going to give more detail than that (and I know what that looks like).

TBH it doesn't really matter now and I'm actually sorry I mentioned it. The perils of insomnia.

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<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 ...

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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...

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Biffer29 wrote:
True Blue wrote:Why was Vern given the boot anyway? Seems crazy.
It was.

He wasn't given the boot

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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...

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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...

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fatcat wrote:Half a page.

I'm sure that's what the English will hope for, they don't want a light turning on their own dubious parctices

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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

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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.

cnut

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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