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terryfinch

English and French clubs will go from getting £10M this year from HEC/Amlin to £30M next year. That will help. Not sure why BT wouldn't just play a little bit of hardball if they only ended up with half the competition they were looking for. The English/French clubs would have to take what they wer...

terryfinch

English and French clubs will go from getting £10M this year from HEC/Amlin to £30M next year. That will help. Not sure why BT wouldn't just play a little bit of hardball if they only ended up with half the competition they were looking for. The English/French clubs would have to take what they wer...

terryfinch

English and French clubs will go from getting £10M this year from HEC/Amlin to £30M next year. That will help.

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"ERC would have to be wound up and we would be left high and dry," said one delegate. "The unions have dragged their feet on this and if it backfires on them, it would be irresponsible to then deny their professional sides to play in a new tournament. They have to recognise how serious this is. Perh...

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It will happen. Wales and Italy will join too. Irish and Scots will have to follow in a year.

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AND-y wrote:Well obviously but I think viewing figures would take a big hit in England without the Celtic teams. Just my opinion.

It would do just fine.

terryfinch

Team for AIs I hope:

Foden

Wade
Tuilagi
12T
Yarde

Farrell
Youngs

Morgan
Kvesic
Croft
Parling (c)
Launchbury
Cole
Youngs
Corbisiero

Subs

Hartley
Marler
Vunipola
Atwood
Wood
Burns
Care
Brown

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Thomas wrote:
rusted wrote:Chavball fans, classy as ever.
I bet no Lions fans acted like that when Kurtley Beale fell over.

Oh, wait.

I did sing "there's only one Kurtley Beale" after the game I am ashamed to admit.

terryfinch

BlackMac wrote:Second hand Concept2. You should get a good quality model C for the money.

+1

terryfinch

Road up to Dent Station. You poor fucker. I presume the route took you past Ribblehead (I was walking round there on Sunday - fantastic view), and down through Cowgill first before climbing up and over to Garsdale. I'd have been tempted to go ever so slightly awol at the viaduct, and get on the tra...

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I'm doing the Wicklow 200 tomorrow. 200kms over cycling over and through the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. Official event time limit is 14 hrs. I'm aiming for 9 hours maximum. And here was me feeling good about my 40 miles yesterday... Just finished cycling Lands End to John O'Groats. Absolutely awesom...

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I'm doing the Wicklow 200 tomorrow. 200kms over cycling over and through the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. Official event time limit is 14 hrs. I'm aiming for 9 hours maximum. And here was me feeling good about my 40 miles yesterday... Just finished cycling Lands End to John O'Groats. Absolutely awesom...

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Just finished cycling Lands End to John O'Groats. Absolutely awesome! Took the roads less travelled and scenery was incredible. Would recommend it to anyone.

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Anyone else find dogs to be a total nightmare when you are on your bike? They move randomly and just don't seem to be able to see bikes coming.

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Got a Specialized Secteur Sport racing bike for Christmas. Absolutely love it and doing Lands End to John O'Groats in 2 weeks time.

Been doing lots of 30-40 mile rides with one tough hill climbs. I have lost half a stone and feel fitter than I have for years.

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First day out on my bike in f**king ages yesterday and I got a puncture. f**king potholes. What tyres are you 'running'? Since I splashed out on some Gatorskins I've not had a puncture, despite my route to work resembling downtown Kabul most of the way. Pricy, but worth it IMO. Utterly shit entry l...

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Apparently, the squad is due to be announced on Wednesday. reported to be a 32 man squad, but for a two-test tour that seems a little excessive. possibly: 5 props - corbs, marler, thomas, wilson, can see it being PDJ but would prefer shaun knight 3 hookers - gray, buchanan, webber 3 second rowers -...

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Birmingham. His dad was a good rider. His mother is Stephen's sister. He's been cycling for Ireland throughout. He'd probably fail the Norman Tebbit cricket test. He was British Junior Road Race Champion in 2004. His dad was a former British Olympic Cyclist. How good was his mum? I'm aware of his f...

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Just a random comment from watching the games this weekend but is it me or are a lot of the locks in the AP a bit shit? A bit too like NZ locks; fast and athletic but lightweight. We need some modern day Simon Shaws and Martin Johnsons. The rolling maul and scrum are becoming such important weapons...

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England would have won by miles with a half decent ref. We wos robbed!!!!

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I am not comfortable with the apparent dismissal of Italy in the press. We can't experiment in a critical match like this. Let's play our best team, win and move on.

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Fair play to your track cyclist. He was awesome in winning first world championship gold for Ireland in ages.

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Does Hartley's play in the loose still consist of flopping straight to the ground and knocking every other ball on, or has he managed to turn it around this season? Hartley is poor in the loose. Brown did have one maybe two games where he was slower than death, but he's completely redeemed himself ...

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So are roids endemic in South African sport too?

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We have some great strength in depth now. This weekend Flood, Care, Tuilagi, Lawes, Hartley, Kitchener, Kvesic all looked classy players and yet can't make the 1st XV.

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I was also pondering on which other 6N teams players would SIGNIFICANTLY strengthen England and can't think of many:

France - Picamoles
Italy - Parisse
Wales - Halfpenny, North
Scotland - Hogg
Ireland - no-one?

We are in a pretty good place right now. I like the coaches too, very solid.

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Just watching the game again and I like our back 3 and disagree with the people braying for Goode out. In test match rugby field position is everything and having these three is helping us win the kicking battle which we never used to do.

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Incredibly composed performance in those conditions.

+ves. B Youngs, Robshaw, Goode, Brown (again), Farrell, Marler

-ves None really.

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crapbackrow wrote:tl;dr thread

pretty obvious anabolic use is rife in pro rugby. saint pocock is juiced to the gills, for example

Careful cbr!

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Does this Centre on the Australian Institute for Sport?

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This is all over the news here in UK today, saying Australian sport riddled with drug taking but no names yet.

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openclashXX wrote:If Morgan is out then a straight swap between him and Waldrom/Vunipola is the only real option.

Haskell?

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Tony McGahan wrote:Well done Deccie. All your calls came off well today

bar the Earls thing

Kidney In.

What is it with Earls? He is clearly out of his depth and always has been. He is the worst Lion ever picked. Why is he anywhere near the Ireland team?

terryfinch

Quite a squad emerging to be fair. Add Corbs, Manu, Burns, Wade, Foden, into the mix and there is strength in depth.

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hairyweapon wrote:
ID2 wrote:
AD345 wrote:
Why does Ireland have an asterisk?
youre irish, arent you IQ2?

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It's USACycling who have the bigger problem. Rumours back then were that Weisel and Stapeltons' money was basically funding it, and they were its biggest power-bloc. The one protecting Lance. If Lance rolls on those two things could get ugly. What would be in it for him ? No idea. An overturn of th...

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JM2K6 wrote:Nicole Cooke's announced her retirement, interesting statement too:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/ja ... -statement

Wow! Great article. I have always admired Nicole as a very tough competitor.

terryfinch

Cycling friends, my misses has offered to buy me a road bike for Xmas. I have a hybrid already which I love. How much should I spend and what brands shoud I choose/avoid. Any buying tips?

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Ireland's Call wrote:Brazil World Cup 2014
Rio Olympics 2016

Imagine how many times we'll have to put up with Pele??

Did he ever play in the Olympics?

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jj's last brain cekk wrote:Seb Coe - What a great job He's done

+1

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