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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 119
- Views: 2263
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
I watched the u20s hammering the army the other day. Impressed with some of the youngsters. Ella Cromack and Joia Bennett particularly. Bennett only just 18 I believe.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 543
Re: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
The utter wokerey of the English right crying about the change of colour on the flag of the England Soccer team is astounding. Stop being offended at everything you poundshop Enoch Powells. Pathetic especially given the fact that the butchers apron and the Union flag have been high jacked by racist...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 543
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 243
- Views: 11713
Re: LRZ
Louis Rees-Zammit signs with Roc Nation to boost NFL hopes
Former Welsh rugby union international aiming to land contract with NFL franchise after switching sports.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2024 U20 Rugby Championship
- Replies: 12
- Views: 314
Re: 2024 U20 Rugby Championship
Hippo pasture last time
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
Did I just read that kicking the ball away is the problem with test rugby? Difficult to say. Not too long ago the Aussies and Kiwis did complain that the Boks were kicking too much, we need to see ball in hand attacking rugby all the time. No time for any of the other shyte rugby stuff apparently. ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2500
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
Top right? I assume impact rises bottom to top of the matrix, possibility drops left to right. So the lowest possibility but highest impact. Edit I have been involved in risk planning where risks in that corner are mitigated on the basis that they may be incredibly unlikely, but if they do the impa...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 119
- Views: 2263
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Sarah Beckett will miss 3 6 nations matches. Next available for the france game. Have to say that's stupidly light and I hate mitigation. Especially when Sillari has a broken leg and will miss potentially the rest of the season minimum, maybe rest of the year and is one of Italy's best players. She...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Mathieu Raynal Gooooone.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 574
Re: Mathieu Raynal Gooooone.
Have been very impressed with ben breakspear when I've seen him on a couple of occasions.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2500
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
Top right?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45225
- Views: 2957902
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
IF England do win, it will probably be in spite of him. Heard this yesterday - under Southgate, England have won 6% of games against teams ranked around them. Not entirely sure what “around them” means, but it’s probably teams ranked a few positions either side of them. 6%. How are England ranked 3...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
When points for tries are disproportionately valued above points for penalty kicks, you get more penalties and yellow cards. I’m guessing you don’t have any evidence for that conclusion. But it sounded good all the same If only there was a basis for comparison, e.g. a similar game where points for ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
I am amazed that rugby was allowed to move beyond 3 point tries and to implement the card system. Oh, hang on ... no internet worriers(sic) back then. :thumbup: Yes. When penalties are worth the same as tries, you get better, more interesting rugby None of this dashing about, getting out of breath....
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
So you are saying the game has evolved. I'm thinking that what you think they were intended to be, and what they were actually intended to be are worlds apart I am thinking Lineouts and Scrums were intended to be was to restart the game. I think lineouts have managed to keep their original intent p...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
I'm thinking that what you think they were intended to be, and what they were actually intended to be are worlds apart
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
I can agree on this point. My assertion was the typical outcome. End of the day, I think held up is a good defensive play. But not worthy of the pressure let off. Others think differently, minds won’t be changed. So how would you reward this "good defensive play"? A 5m scrum, where they can kick th...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
The laws of rugby, and I read them the other day, specify differences in the amateur and professional games throughout the book. Really. Yep, there’s also a whole modified law set for “game on” to allow short sided contests without fielding a full team. So a different game then. There are modified ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
The waiting around for another scrum is what makes rugby, rugby? 15% of the game is spent forming scrums - is this what makes rugby, rugby? What is it that makes rugby, rugby, if it’s not one team attacking with the ball while the other defends and competes for possession? Scrums. Lineouts. Rucks. ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
No, at the professional level we want all those things to happen without delay. Sunday rugby is an entirely different conversation. It's the same fvcking laws, though. You can't change one without fundamentally changing the other. The laws of rugby, and I read them the other day, specify difference...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
The waiting around for another scrum is what makes rugby, rugby? 15% of the game is spent forming scrums - is this what makes rugby, rugby? What is it that makes rugby, rugby, if it’s not one team attacking with the ball while the other defends and competes for possession? Scrums. Lineouts. Rucks. ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
League is shit, though. They think that turning union to the same shit by fvcking with the laws will somehow miraculously make their rugby-lite appear superior. I would not say league is shit, it obviously has its popularity in Aus and NZ. But what annoys me is that we are moving away from what mak...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
What's this? Be nice to non-neurotypicals week?
ADHDers are perfectly capable of hyperfocussing on the same attacking strategy a zillion times in a row.
ADHDers are perfectly capable of hyperfocussing on the same attacking strategy a zillion times in a row.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 243
- Views: 11713
Re: LRZ
As an NFL fan, I’d be very happy if an English player was crushing their league. I know it’s not going to happen, but it would be cool, yeah. But you are a minority, NFL gets big crowds a couple of times a year but it's a tiny sport for the overwhelming majority of people in the UK. Earl, I’d say y...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
There is some very rose tinted views on the goal line dropout. It is supposed to stop pick and goes by forwards near the try line, but yet we still see tons of it. Teams are just getting better at recycling the ball if it is short. The game does not stop if we are near the try line. I thought that ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
No, it's been elevated way above where it was. As has the maul. It's also no surprise that fans whose teams play conservative, boring AF rugby will fight tooth and nail to keep their boring AF rugby. We get it, but we also recognise that there is a time and a place for everything. Those who enjoy s...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2655
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
I like scrums but don’t think we need any more of them. It’s good when the players aren’t just standing around for half the game. It is the game. No, it's been elevated way above where it was. As has the maul. It's also no surprise that fans whose teams play conservative, boring AF rugby will fight...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2500
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
'influencers'?Hawk97 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:35 amOn the bridge when it collapsed, I think?message #2527204 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:33 am UK car insurance hike on the way, then.
Beeb says it took a while to fall... How are multiple people dead/injured? Off the boat?
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2500
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
UK car insurance hike on the way, then.
Beeb says it took a while to fall... How are multiple people dead/injured? Off the boat?
Beeb says it took a while to fall... How are multiple people dead/injured? Off the boat?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why have Newcastle been so poor this season?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1092
Re: Why have Newcastle been so poor this season?
They don't really sell though. They just shed players at the end of contract or even mid contract recently. There's no windfall from it as there's not a transfer market to speak of in pro rugby. This too. It's not even good business to invest in youth as it is in Wendyball. You reduce costs by inve...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 112282
- Views: 7523886
Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
Raffi broke... But only once.DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:34 am I think he likes JVP- but the lad definitely needs to be less of a bomb scare. Quirke is good but too fragile.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: post 6N Lions
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1912
Re: post 6N Lions
that backline is basically all mercenaries/poaches- the lions should be british/irish players-do fans really want to see a backline of gibson-park,aki,lowe,vander merwe,tuipulotu ? would make the lions look ridiculous Europe has been a multicultural haven for many years. A team of w.a.s.p.s and gin...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: post 6N Lions
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1912
Re: post 6N Lions
Last time I got very hot and bothered this far out from the Lions was 2004 when Ireland had a good year and the rest of the home nations were average to poor. A lot can happen (and did back then) in the intervening period. Given some of the ages of our players, it's likely we'll have less represent...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53169
- Views: 2309948
Re: War in Ukraine...
I was listening to LBC radio last night. They had Philip Ingram who is an intelligence expert formerly with the British army. He said Trump won't pull the plug on NATO as the US has managed to create an environment where they are making and selling all these weapons to European countries and creati...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bath complete deal for Saffa lock.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 666
Re: Bath complete deal for Saffa lock.
Someone's bound to notice that Ba'ath are spending money like Saracens were a few seasons back... aren't they?
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 243
- Views: 11713
Re: LRZ
I bet jiffy is glad there was no social meeja or wailingonline when he moved to league...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why have Newcastle been so poor this season?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1092
Re: Why have Newcastle been so poor this season?
Ring fencing. They don't need to try.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: post 6N Lions
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1912
Re: post 6N Lions
Is be amazed if curry isn't in there. My selection was based on 6N.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 119
- Views: 2263
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
You'd love to say Italy are playing fantastically well.... But they're not
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 119
- Views: 2263
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Didn't think Ward was held there, she certainly wasn't stopped. That red seems shit. Hardly dangerous by Beckett. I disagree. There was no tackle but she didn't try and get to her feet as required... Seen them given though. And Beckett went all croc roll straight on to her leg... England just playi...