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Magpie26

Back From Jura mountains 3 cases of wine :lol: and some macvin + vin Jaune That was a light trip last time we stopped in Savigny les Baunes and that was 6 cases. Any recommendations most welcome. I live in Neuchatel so right on my doorstep 😁 I hope you play for NSRC .. Great club While I was there....

Magpie26

Back From Jura mountains 3 cases of wine :lol: and some macvin + vin Jaune That was a light trip last time we stopped in Savigny les Baunes and that was 6 cases. Any recommendations most welcome. I live in Neuchatel so right on my doorstep 😁 I hope you play for NSRC .. Great club While I was there....

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Watching the Wasps game; you have to wonder how the hell Shields got games for England - but Willis can't make the squad :? Shields tbf has been out injured for quite some time. In many ways he should have come on earlier, Wasps were crying out for some leadership in the pack to counter the Leicest...

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ovalball wrote:
Magpie26 wrote:Robson really is a poor 9
In this game - but not normally.

I'm being a bit harsh, he is a pretty good passer of the ball and very nippy but his usual faults kicking and game management have been really exposed today.
White on the other hand was just what Leicester needed.

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Robson really is a poor 9

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Well at least Leicester have a game plan. If only the same could be said of Wasps.

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Nabberuk wrote:
Magpie26 wrote:Watching the Leicester Wasps game
Trying conditions but what an unmitigated pile of crap rugby that 1st half was
Weather is woeful, I mean really woeful.

It's bad but it's bad for all the games going on over the weekend.

And more brain dead rugby going on

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Watching the Leicester Wasps game

Trying conditions but what an unmitigated pile of crap rugby that 1st half was

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Laurent wrote:Back From Jura mountains

3 cases of wine
and some macvin + vin Jaune

That was a light trip last time we stopped in Savigny les Baunes and that was 6 cases.

Any recommendations most welcome.

I live in Neuchatel so right on my doorstep

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Miguel Indurain wrote:France were the better team and deserve the win.

England will improve, wounded animal

Wounded animal? Would have thought they were wounded enough after their last game to come out firing but didn't happen.

Mentally they were all at sea.

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Seems he is out of ICU which is encouraging!

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Any nice bottles over the festive period so far? I opened some big guns a few nights ago: Wynns John Riddoch Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 1994 Wynns Michael Coonawarra Shiraz 1994 Penfolds Grange 1997 Te Mata Coleraine 2006 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EM-TUSuWoAAAOJR?format=jpg&name=small Ok, that...

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60 points scored in a shocker of a match

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2014 - Mark Hammett fired from Hurricanes coaching role
2016 - Hurricanes win Super Rugby title.

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Sad news

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... es-aged-63

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Who was it who claimed not to have been able to get a pint at midnight around Grafton Street? Seneca? Wasn't he a wino? Probably wouldn't serve him because he's a mouthy kiwi with piss down the front of his trousers. So they are racists as well in Dublin. From what I have seen, being a mouthy twat ...

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Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2019 No doubt it still commands a premium but there are plenty in the pack chasing it down these days. Have you tried the Te Koko? Very good. I've tried it several times over the years, but as it's quite a bit more expensive than the regular SB I think it's too expensive....

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Who was it who claimed not to have been able to get a pint at midnight around Grafton Street? Seneca? Wasn't he a wino? Probably wouldn't serve him because he's a mouthy kiwi with piss down the front of his trousers. So they are racists as well in Dublin. From what I have seen, being a mouthy twat ...

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Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2019 No doubt it still commands a premium but there are plenty in the pack chasing it down these days. Have you tried the Te Koko? Very good. I've tried it several times over the years, but as it's quite a bit more expensive than the regular SB I think it's too expensive....

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frankster wrote:Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2019

No doubt it still commands a premium but there are plenty in the pack chasing it down these days.

Have you tried the Te Koko? Very good.

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Just found this in youtube. Very well done.

https://youtu.be/vuz0BA3-_P0

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I think the problem for Brits is that Ireland and the UK are pretty similar. So when you go for a weekend to Dublin its not much different than going to Manchester or Leeds for example. Then compare that to a major capital city in Europe. Its just more exotic. For a Brit (not necessarily someone fr...

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I have not been yet but I have been told that the German cemeteries are worth visiting. There were many restrictions put on the Germans so they are very different from the Allied. The impact of the Allied cemeteries is the numbers, whereas the atmosphere at German cemeteries are apparently atmosphe...

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Two days of leave left this year and have a 3 day work trip in Northern France in December, seems as good a time as any to tick one off the bucket list and head to the Somme. Anyone been? If so any recomendations on sites to visit/places to stay/eat etc? Plan would be to hire a bike not a car. Many...

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Hurricanes squad is a bit crap You would have thought that they would have tried to recruit a decent replacement for Barrett but nooooo let's play an over-the-hill journeyman, a guy who hasn't yet found his level in the Mitre 10 Cup Championship, and a guy who's been a pro for years but still looks...

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massive_field_goal wrote:
le chat wrote:Surely will still be one of the best players in super league
maybe. wait and see.

an all time league great? get your hand off it.

NRL legends seem to think he rates pretty highly.

https://www.nrl.com/news/2019/08/19/nrl ... -greatest/

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colonel wrote:I'd take issue with the notion of him being an all time great but cant begrudge him a well paid swansong, we'd all take it if offered

In rugby sure but in league he must be right up there.

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England got off lightly, in '95 the whole AB changing room could be heard vomiting.

allegedly

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While there is obviously no player of Reads quality lining up at 8, overall I don't think we are too bad for next generation back row players. Frizell is looking better the more I see him play, some of his carrying into contact against Wales was very impressive. Jacobson is obviously in the reckonin...

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As a wise man once said: ‘Winning’s easy…[but] when you lose… you have to show humility, do it gracefully and be honest about it. Sometimes you have to bite down on your gumshield and suck it up.’ All sportspeople are dissapointed when they lose, but that is part of sport. I would be very p**ed off ...

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Blows a bit too hot and cold for mine. When he’s on fire he is fantastic. Other games he never finds the range of his kicks as in its not just one or two poor ones and often doesn’t clear quickly enough. He shut down Japan on his own for example but conversely when he struggles like vs Wales or the...

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We will have to see. A loss is a loss but the manner of the loss is the big worry, beaten physically is one thing but they were mentally beaten as well. Finals are typically close run things, with only one game in RWC finals history having a greater points differential. The way England were unable t...

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Lochore was the benchmark for me: tireless, superb ball carrier, excellent tackler, good in lineouts, the best cover defending 8 I've seen, superb captain, humble, an all-round good bloke. Buck and Zinny both had areas in which they excelled and were pretty damned good at the rest too. Read was alw...

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Epitomises the modern No. 8 for me.

Speed, mobility, devastating tackler, fantastic hands, key lineout target, massive engine.....simply could do it all.

Going to be very very hard to replace.

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It is understood that the protocol states that opponents must not cross the halfway line but at the two tips of England’s V formation, six players – Joe Marler, Billy Vunipola, Mark Wilson, Elliot Daly, Luke Cowan‑Dickie and Ben Youngs – appeared to be standing in the All Blacks’ half. Match offici...

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I don’t think the ABs would have beaten the English no matter what game plan we pulled out. Their unrelenting attack and pure desire to knock us over was just too much for us on the day, we got completely overwhelmed by it and had no answer. Some times it’s just not your day. That’s sport. Yep. Som...

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I don’t think the ABs would have beaten the English no matter what game plan we pulled out. Their unrelenting attack and pure desire to knock us over was just too much for us on the day, we got completely overwhelmed by it and had no answer. Some times it’s just not your day. That’s sport. Yep. Som...

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Womack wrote:
tc27 wrote:Nigel Owens to cancel England's winning try after deciding an earlier infraction was a penalty after all.
A lineout infraction, ideally

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May has developed his all round game magnificently over the last few years. That's why he's become such a mainstay of the side. Can't recall him making any particularly bad decisions lately. This is just our second test against you in 5 years. Are you seriously surprised that some AB fans are not v...

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Those combined sides are farcical. I think England have a chance, but these are joke-shop selections. If picking a team today to beat South Africa, I'd probably go. Moody Taylor Sinckler Retallick Whitelock Savea Read Cane Mo'unga Smith L-Brown Tuilagi Bridge Barrett Watson None of the three Englis...

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