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Isn't there a law in rugby that there is no "touch" in goal. What I mean - as weird as it sounds - but by the lawbook, it's legal to have your body out, and reach in goal and ground a bouncing ball and it's still a try? I think they might have f-cked up there. If any part of his body put that ball ...

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Isn't there a law in rugby that there is no "touch" in goal. What I mean - as weird as it sounds - but by the lawbook, it's legal to have your body out, and reach in goal and ground a bouncing ball and it's still a try? I think they might have f-cked up there. If any part of his body put that ball ...

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Winnie wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 12:17 pm Pollock has gas

In a parallel universe, identical to this in every way but one, Pollock is the answer to England's perennial centre problem for the next 10 years, rather than being yet another back rower - a position where England have an embarrassment of riches.

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Don't know the fine print from the USCIS regarding behavior while here on a temporary visa. I'm sure that they make mistakes as well. Did anyone find the supposed examples of dictatorships from conservatives yet? They have some nefarious plan to make people get married, have 3 kids and start attend...

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Arrested? This isn't the UK. I expect it to get more difficult now after the Iran strike(s). You keep implying that people get arrested in the UK for saying mean things on social media, but have entirely failed to back it up. Give us one example where this has happened. There was a guy arrested for...

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Who were/are the US citizens that were/are in "trouble" for saying bad things about Trump. Specifically? For a start, the FBI agents who were involved in investigations into Trump's behaviours including keeping classified documents. There are more examples of suppression, direct or otherwise, of cr...

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A deluge of economic data released Thursday should have provided a clearer picture of how the US economy is faring in the face of President Donald Trump’s massive policy shifts. But the latest numbers were a mixed bag, leaving economists still scratching their heads. Gross domestic product, the bro...

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For someone that apparently wanted to know the facts before making assumptions you’re working very hard to paint a specific narrative with very little information at hand. Not painting. It's all I can find so far. That's all that the talking-point generating braincell for the right wing hive mind h...

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Nope. A collision that - in the softer version of rugby we have today - could feasibly be a penalty. Yellow card for that is simply insane. Yeah i mean you you could give a picky pen but a yellow is madness. The pen was all they needed Playing out the last 10 mins a man up was probably helpful.

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Deserved in the end - not just for today, but the season ss a whole - but that was so close that some of those calls will leave a bitter taste in the mouth. I'll just have to think about the disallowed Pepper try and the 'interesting' Leicester turnover on their own line before half time. And the fa...

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:48 pm I don't think Cole did much wrong there?

Nope. A collision that - in the softer version of rugby we have today - could feasibly be a penalty.

Yellow card for that is simply insane.

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Whilst Bath undoubtedly deserve the win, some of the reffing has been absolute nonsense.

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The fudge...?

Barely a penalty, let alone a yellow!

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Aside from one overcooked kick, de Glanville has been superb. Completely outplayed Steward. Must have had the worst game of his life. His only top quality skill is his aerial ability and he's lost everything. It's his greatest strength, and Bath didn't nullify it by avoiding him.- they specifically...

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Aside from one overcooked kick, de Glanville has been superb. Completely outplayed Steward.

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Big Joe is actually dreadful at rugby. He's like a white Johnny May. Great at running in space with the ball, shite at everything else. It’s moneyball billy bean. He so looks the part the assumption is he is. And he isn’t. He gives the vibes of the big lad at the gym who doesn't know anything about...

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Evidently the law is that you CAN win turnovers when you're off your feet, but NOT when you're on your feet.

Another tough call that one.

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This Spencer fellow looks very good. Shame he's not England-qualified, otherwise he'd have been a great 9 option for the last few years.... He's already played a few tests for England? Yes. I was being sarcastic. Noting his inability to get a regular spot for England, regardless of performances.

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Jun 14, 2025 3:41 pm Leicester player lucky there..

It's in line with the earlier Pepper turnover.

We've established the laws that this game will be reffed by. Which may or may not be in line with the IRB laws.

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This Spencer fellow looks very good. Shame he's not England-qualified, otherwise he'd have been a great 9 option for the last few years....

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Don't see Tigers getting through the next 10 mins without conceding at least one try. They were barely holding on with 15 v 15.

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That turnover by Pepper. Lie on the ground, roll around to Tigers side, grab the ball whilst still off feet and push it back to the half back.

McCaw-esque invisibility cloak.

Edit: And instead of a penalty and Tigers lineout in Bath's 22, it results in a Bath try.

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Nice little run by Radwan there. Doesn't need space to be a threat, does he?

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Crazy that Bath are targeting Steward under the high ball... and it's working for them!

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Harsh call against Cracknell, that. Some really good breakdown work.

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It's telling that Tigers' best players on the day were Liebenberg, Chessum, JvP and Pollard (with an honourable mention for two great finishes from Radwan). These are all positions where the strongest Sale side should have bested them. Curry x2, Warr and Ford are fundamentally better players with t...

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It's not the ideal solution, but the market has been pretty stingy this year. So a safe pair of hands needed, and keep our powder dry. Seems like we'll have JOC, Searle, Titcombe, Volavola, and a couple of teens in Threlfall and Talbot. I expect we'll see rotation. Is he really a safe pair of hands...

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I called this months ago. The Dems will burn cities this summer to do anything to stop the GOP agenda. It is just beginning. They have no message and all of the thugs are on board. An illustration of the propaganda machine in action. Huge smoke screen for everything else the administration had done...

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hell of a stop from steward. Not often you can say that. Not in open space against pace but sheesh that was a brick wall. Must be worth an off season and run at 12 pre season? It's not that he's a bad player but doing a Jamie Roberts 15 to 12 must be a goer? Trouble is that Tigers have Woodward, Pe...

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Benny The Ball wrote: ↑Sat Jun 07, 2025 5:26 pm Tigers deserved the win, can’t see them troubling Bath though

Yup. The table reflects the teams.

Bath, followed by a lot of sides who were all as good (and bad) as each other.

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Jun 07, 2025 5:24 pm hell of a stop from steward.

Not often you can say that.

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Teams for the other semi-final Bath Rugby Starting XV: 1 Beno Obano 2 Tom Dunn 3 Will Stuart 4 Quinn Roux 5 Charlie Ewels 6 Ted Hill 7 Guy Pepper 8 Alfie Barbeary 9 Ben Spencer © 10 Finn Russell 11 Will Muir 12 Cameron Redpath 13 Max Ojomoh 14 Joe Cokanasiga 15 Tom de Glanville Replacements: 16 Nial...

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LEICESTER TIGERS squad for the semi-final against Sale. Very impressive, given Tigers' usually relentless issues with injuries, that the only first choice player missing is George Martin. Shillcock and Wells would probably be in the 23 normally, but otherwise Tigers have managed to get to the tail e...

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Got an email from my erstwhile assemblyman regarding some more dodgy stuff in that bill regarding AI regulation: "provision in the bill that would invalidate any and all state laws that have been passed to regulate the AI industry and place a 10-year moratorium on future state-level AI regulations"...

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Us deficit shrinks by 56%. Not driven by industrialization of the US and record exports of course, but by how abruptly US businesses have stopped importing goods. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h-mIznyZvT0/sddefault.jpg That was to be expected. What I didn't expect was that US exports would actually increa...

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Trump then took to Truth Social, writing: "Elon was wearing thin, I asked him to leave, I took away his [electric vehicle] mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!" He added that the "easiest way ...

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:39 am Farkinell, when did mumsnet invade PR?

Worryingly similar vibes to the great Costs of Childcare in London shitfight of 2010 (ish).

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It looks like he’s actually selling pardons now. Apparently Trump has pardoned Paul Walczak after Paul's mother attended a Trump fundraiser (where she paid 1 million usd) Is the demented really out there only for the grab, after all? He was already selling pardons at the end of his last presidency....

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As for Furbanks, no, the knee to the face had nothing to do with his fitness, but I can't prevent myself from thinking that the way he positioned himself on this action, his reaction time and his recovery, well maybe... anyway, we won't know... but too bad for him... I guess he's done playing for t...

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Dr Banner and The Hulk on the left.

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