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blindcider

Great win by Pidcock at Amstel at the weekend. Really exciting race and showed that vdP is by no means invincible if there are other teams strong enough and with enough personnel to make Alpecin work harder. I'm not convinced MVDP wanted to put much effort in at Amstel, if he'd been in the mix at t...

blindcider

Boonen and Cancellara each won Roubaix with a 50km solo at different times, but to somehow that was a golden era of the cobbles while MvdP winning is boring. It’s unfortunate that Wout and Steven both crashed out, but vdP’s win was still brilliant. I dont think anyone argues against that it was bri...

blindcider

Funny that. Go back say 5-6 years and a solo attack 50+km out would have people going completely berserk. MVDP is set to race the amstel gold. He hasn't been there for a while. It to this day remains one of the most exciting finishes to a 1 day race in my memory (I am referring to THAT race). Long ...

blindcider

Funny that. Go back say 5-6 years and a solo attack 50+km out would have people going completely berserk. MVDP is set to race the amstel gold. He hasn't been there for a while. It to this day remains one of the most exciting finishes to a 1 day race in my memory (I am referring to THAT race). Long ...

blindcider

Women's roubaix again showing they belong at the top table. Gutted that the womens race started too late for Vos because I think she'd have dominated it MVDP has had absurd luck at this race the last few years with lack of punctures (I know you make your own luck etc.) but Alpecin utterly dominated ...

blindcider

The overnight ferry between Copenhagen and Oslo is well worth it - wake up to beautiful scenery coming into Oslo fjords. Though do cbeck whether it's seasonal, as I did it in spring. Helsinki and Tallin recommendation is also a good one. Did a booze cruise on the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki ma...

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It'll be between Gordon, Grealish and Rashford for the left wing spot, and Saka, Foden and Palmer on the right wing. All six will end up in the squad, I'd imagine No Sterling? One of Southgates faves Sterling hasn't played for England since the '22 World Cup - can't recall the last time he was even...

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openclashXX wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:17 am It'll be between Gordon, Grealish and Rashford for the left wing spot, and Saka, Foden and Palmer on the right wing. All six will end up in the squad, I'd imagine

No Sterling? One of Southgates faves

blindcider

Must be agent bullshit? Which French sides need a washed up scrum half who would be 3rd choice for the espoirs? Terrible business for Quins- proper sentiment over head stuff. Nah, care had been on rolling contracts with quins for ages, I can't believe he's on anything like that sort of wedge. Whate...

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:lol: :lol: :lol: Sheffield United have conceded 206 shots in 2024 so far. Man United have conceded 225 shots. That team is a joke. It is terrible. Trash. Pathetic! It is understated how bad they are. Cancerous players as well like Rashford and Bruno. Open heart surgery. Thats the thing. Fergies te...

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I don't know what we are seeing these days. When I started watching the sport in 1980s, such as the TDF, the stage winners looked tired, sweating, wrapped in towels. Riders were coughing and out of breath. In the past two decades, stage winners are barely breathing, not sweating, not looking tired....

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It's an era where a few riders are so superior to others than they attack 10s of km away from the finish line and manage to hold the chasers and win. A new way of racing. I don't know what we are seeing these days. When I started watching the sport in 1980s, such as the TDF, the stage winners looke...

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TheFrog wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:05 pm It's an era where a few riders are so superior to others than they attack 10s of km away from the finish line and manage to hold the chasers and win. A new way of racing.

It's also an era where riders won't work together to bring back a breakaway.

Not that that happened yesterday

blindcider

I don't know if it is just me but whenever I see someone use the word woke I automatically assume they are a really shit person. This. And I don't even sit comfortably on the political left or the right. I'm guessing the word has subtly different connotations in antipodea than it does oop north. Th...

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How is this even a question? Guscott and it's not even especially close right ? Tuilagi will forever be a case of 'what could have been'. Nay, that's way too harsh and imo inaccurate. He made a sizeable contribution during his test career, and left some phenomenal highlights. Injury did blight his ...

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Southgate is shit, can't wait till he fucks off. The squad currently compares to any team in the world but it's the manager holding us back. If we had Campbell, Terry and Ferdinand in the squad, I'd agree. But we don't. The best team at defending almost always wins international team sports tournam...

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Guscott was different class on the rugby field. Honestly if he'd worn any other colour than English White, he'd be touted as one of the best ever.

Tuilagi was always a "what if?" had all the potential and only ever really showed glimpses of it.

blindcider

Southgate is shit, can't wait till he fucks off. The squad currently compares to any team in the world but it's the manager holding us back. 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....

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Do people really dislike Sunak more than Johnson or Truss? have people forgotten how unpopular the delusional featherweight and the lying corrupt feckless delusional heavyweight were? Many Brits wont vote for a non-white PM. Particularly a lot of the Red Wall types who ditched labour to get Brexit ...

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Would have been better if that Walker kick that hit Maguire.. had gone in. Might have woke England up. England rarely look good in friendlies these days.. Possibly a good thing? They always looked shît hot in friendlies and quails, but then lay a massive turd in tournaments. Other way round, whilst...

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:34 pm
message #2527204 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:50 pm A purple and pink St George cross? That isn't ast George cross then. Fvcking football.
Too much time on their hands

I like it - but then I never have much time for flags and anthems and shit like that

blindcider

If the goal is to stop upright tackles then WR should look at the unintended consequences of their own past decisions. It used to be the side going forward in a maul got the put-in to the scrum if it became unplayable. Upright tackling started after some bright spark realised that if they could prev...

blindcider

Hawk97 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:38 am Oioi shanks!

I think Blindsider too?

Nope, not in about 5 years now. do you miss my reign of abject banality?

blindcider

That's two - count 'em - two unions. Then there's the rest of the world. Yeah nah. Risible bullshit. Two foundation unions. So the same vote as all tier 2 unions in the rest of the world. Seems the eight foundation unions (which include Straya and NZ) plus Argentina, Canada and Italy all have two s...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:34 am
blindcider wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:10 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:20 am

No, no he wasn't. Sorry to burst your bubble.
JGP was only 'good' against England so by Irish logic disqualifies him too
Two things.

No one has disqualified Earl.

JGP isn't nominated.

Crikey, you are a craic vaccuum, are you Father Austin Purcell?

blindcider

He was more recently brilliant after being previously good. Are you really this thick? He was better than the others listed (and jgp, for avoidance of doubt) from the start of the tournament and throughout. No, no he wasn't. Sorry to burst your bubble. JGP was only 'good' against England so by Iris...

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The default answer for England is to just pick the entire 2003 side I'll try a more hipster selection, without picking anyone from 2003 FR: Corbisiero, Hartley, Cole (2011-2013) Locks: Itoje, Kruis (2016-18) BR: Haskell, Robshaw, Vunipola (2016-17) 9-10: Hill, Andrew (1991-92) Centres: Guscott, Car...

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If Scotland and Ireland can continue to poach players from the likes of England, NZ and SA then they will continue to do well. They have poached far more effectively than Wales and the results speak for themselves. You've poached their biggest talent in decades. Ireland generally don't poach pigdog...

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So Ben Ryan (of 'teaching' Fijians to be good at 7s) is currently the best alternative that's been suggested? Just checking. As I said, it was a waaaaaaay left field suggestion on the basis that we need a shrink more than we need a coach. On a more sensible tack, I think that ROG is worth a look. T...

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Zakar wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:36 pm
earl the beaver wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:21 am Red cards do not ruin games.
What a load a shit. They do 95% of the time.

The players ruin the game not the cards.

There have been many excellent games with Red cards so your 95% is the biggest crock of sh1t

blindcider

Masterji wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:53 pm It will. Its the most sensible option. Too many games spoilt by Red cards

Nope, too many games spoilt by idiotic players.

blindcider

If WR want to improve the scrums IMO they should get rid of the current pat-a-cake nonsense and have the front rows fold together first before the rest of the pack bind on with no pre-bind to the front row. You then start with a far more stable base as you have removed the hit/momentum advantage com...

blindcider

Hawk97 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:33 pm I suppose he isn’t an out and out 8 in that he packs down at 7 in defensive scrums. Chessum goes to 8

Thats to cover Chessums inability in the backrow though.

blindcider

camroc1 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:22 pm I don't agree with the crooked LO being allowed.

thats just formalising the current ref practice - they rarely ping not straight if uncontested

blindcider

Its going to come dowm to a question of recency bias or not. Earl was not great at the start if the 6n , Aki wasn't great at the end. ? He was very good throughout. He was even better towards the end, but he won MOTM against Wales in Week 2 and was in the running against Italy in Week 1. Roots won ...

blindcider

Earl once again topped the tackles and meters stats. He’s outplayed both Doris and Aldritt two weeks in a row. Never let anyone say we don’t have a world class player. We do now. He’s awesome. Not a proper 8 apparently…….. TBF he's played as a hybrid 8 this tournament and packed down at 7 on defens...

blindcider

Huh? What are you talking about? It seems you want more arbitrary penalties that cancel tries for technicalities that had no bearing on play, and that you want to blame the sport’s inconsistency for your pedantry. I suggested it originally and I categorically dont want to see any penalties for it b...

blindcider

Oh no. Wales aren’t good atm. Better kick them out, eh?! Because that’s what makes the 6N great. It’s not the massive crowds or the history - it’s not the sense of occasion or the tv ratings. It’s……. Well, it’s something big, right? And Italy should have been farked off last year when they weren’t ...

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The disallowed tries for arbitrary reasons? Yes, I have seen this and I’m against it, but apparently some other people cannot get enough. I think it's just symptomatic of the mess the laws are in with particular areas of the game and the inconsistent application (or appearance thereof) of them. Huh...

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I think the dark horse narrative is bad for Scotland. They go into every tournament with a ready made excuse.

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