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by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

And the English cricket tour of Sri Lanka is now cancelled Online streaming services will be off the charts winners out of all of this. Netflix could be a good place to park your money...... Steam and the console vidjo game services are gonna be hammered as well. I can imagine people clocking up 18...
by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

DrSnow wrote:
sturginho wrote:
Saint wrote:Not sure how the Premier League can't suspend the league - clubs are going into isolation left right and centre
£££
:thumbup:

Teams in the rest of the divisions are going to be financially obliterated.
It will probably hit them worse than the ITV Digital collapse
by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:22 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Saint wrote:Not sure how the Premier League can't suspend the league - clubs are going into isolation left right and centre
£££
by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236957

Re: Greta Thunberg

New guy wrote:
eldanielfire wrote:Fake Greta gets the informationw e all wnat out:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... a-thunberg
Harry is so thick it's unbelievable.
Is what Megan said last night
by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

DOB wrote:
sturginho wrote:
alliswell wrote:
zzzz wrote:What is all this "succeed" crap? We are weeks into something that will take many months and likely have successive waves.
My cracked phone screen made me read that as successive wanks.
What else are we going to do for 14 days?
The hand sanitizer burns, though.
Don't use it as lube then
by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:11 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

alliswell wrote:
zzzz wrote:What is all this "succeed" crap? We are weeks into something that will take many months and likely have successive waves.
My cracked phone screen made me read that as successive wanks.
What else are we going to do for 14 days?
by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Sir Patrick Vallance says at least 60% of the population needs to contract COVID-19 in order to develop "herd immunity" to prevent further transmission in the future 60% is 40m people which it they're correct in 1% is 400,000 people and if they're wrong it's a lot more. Not a decision I'd want to m...
by sturginho
Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Good day people, hope you are all doing well! Here we are doing ok – despite the complicate environment we are in Few good takes from the last two days for you, today Situation in hospitals did improve since the convulsions we observed before (albeit it is still critical): a big effort was made to ...
by sturginho
Tue Mar 10, 2020 11:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Here we are.. A warm "good day" to you all, from a country that woke up in a situation that no one would have ever imagined to be into - a month ago. I mentioned yesterday this comment I heard on TV, where (purely Italian spirit I would say) someone stated that "The Government ordered my granddad t...
by sturginho
Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: CVC and the battle for the Soul of 6 Nations Rugby
Replies: 145
Views: 16569

Re: CVC and the battle for the Soul of 6 Nations Rugby

It's not the government querying it anyway. It's a parliamentary committee. Boris et al would be perfectly happy for Sky to get the deal i suspect. The government would happily kill the 6 nations if it meant another nail in the BBC coffin Actually I don't think Boris wants to end the BBC. He does w...
by sturginho
Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: CVC and the battle for the Soul of 6 Nations Rugby
Replies: 145
Views: 16569

Re: CVC and the battle for the Soul of 6 Nations Rugby

https://twitter.com/simonrug/status/1237335158707179520 Simon Thomas @simonrug The BBC have announced that 17.7 million people have watched their live TV coverage of this year’s Six Nations so far. A peak audience of 8.4m tuned in for the Calcutta Cup game between Scotland and England, while Wales ...
by sturginho
Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: CVC and the battle for the Soul of 6 Nations Rugby
Replies: 145
Views: 16569

Re: CVC and the battle for the Soul of 6 Nations Rugby

RoseGarden wrote:It's not the government querying it anyway. It's a parliamentary committee. Boris et al would be perfectly happy for Sky to get the deal i suspect.
The government would happily kill the 6 nations if it meant another nail in the BBC coffin
by sturginho
Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3359843

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Dude in work here took advantage of the situation and booked a last minute trip to Venice. He is now looking to be paid to self isolate as he's "feeling unwell", this is the type of cúnt you have to deal with. Should be taken out the back and shot Slowly and painfully :nod: How can you be shot slow...
by sturginho
Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:08 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby in Spain (do they have more potential than Georgia)
Replies: 30
Views: 3913

Re: Rugby in Spain (do they have more potential than Georgia

I think the Rugby Europe championship has the possibility of becoming a fantastic commercial tournament in its own right, if run correctly. I agree. I enjoy it a lot. For it to work, they have to embrace the internal rivalries, as well as developing rivalries with the 6N comp. I'd start by automati...
by sturginho
Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL 2020 Democratic presidential nominee thread
Replies: 5706
Views: 453169

Re: OFFICIAL 2020 Democratic presidential nominee thread

BetterByBoat wrote:Have faith in the thing ...

https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1 ... 9652554753
As per the orange one, it was the republicans that did the thing
https://youtu.be/ZTzM5MjGV-0
by sturginho
Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236957

Re: Greta Thunberg

Imagine caring about the f u cking grass. :lol: Yeah, let’s be environmentally friendly and make everything look like shit. It is a patch of grass and will grow back, as indeed it is already doing. People are trying to make it sounds as if a mob swarmed to the grass with the deliberate intent of te...
by sturginho
Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:20 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Let's start at the very beginning
Replies: 104
Views: 9319

Re: Let's start at the very beginning

A very good place to start As Julie Andrews sang in A Sound of Music Before the universe existed what was there and who/what started everything? And "Nothing" is not an answer as "Nothing" has to exist inside something It wasn’t nothing! In fact it was the very opposite of nothing - it was a LOT! I...
by sturginho
Wed Feb 26, 2020 2:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Italian Rugby Thread
Replies: 223
Views: 46651

Re: Official Italian Rugby Thread

Short Man Syndrome wrote:wanted to post this try which just popped up on my twatter feed just now, it’s a beaut: https://twitter.com/therugbypaper/statu ... 14309?s=21
Oh hello, fancy seeing you here :thumbup:

The days when the likes of Michael Lynagh used to play in Italy :thumbup: :thumbup:
by sturginho
Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The out of position XV
Replies: 91
Views: 8326

Re: The out of position XV

Wendigo7 wrote:Mauro Bergamasco /thread
Mauro could be in the team twice, as he also played on the wing at the 2003 world cup
by sturginho
Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ireland V Italy - Postponed?
Replies: 191
Views: 17891

Re: Ireland V Italy - Postponed?

As the closest thing to an Italian thread we have, wanted to post this try which just popped up on my twatterfeed just now, it’s a beaut: https://twitter.com/therugbypaper/status/1232321956617314309?s=21 You wot? Hey, I looked back 7 pages and did a search for threads with Italia in the title - tha...
by sturginho
Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:33 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Italian Rugby Thread
Replies: 223
Views: 46651

Re: Official Italian Rugby Thread

Bump for short men who can't search :P
by sturginho
Wed Feb 26, 2020 12:12 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ireland V Italy - Postponed?
Replies: 191
Views: 17891

Re: Ireland V Italy - Postponed?

Short Man Syndrome wrote:As the closest thing to an Italian thread we have, wanted to post this try which just popped up on my twatterfeed just now, it’s a beaut: https://twitter.com/therugbypaper/statu ... 14309?s=21
You wot?
by sturginho
Tue Feb 25, 2020 12:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ireland V Italy - Postponed?
Replies: 191
Views: 17891

Re: Ireland V Italy - Postponed?

The women's 6N match on sunday got postponed as that was due to be played in Legnano which is in the affected area (https://www.onrugby.it/2020/02/23/sei-nazioni-femminile-coronavirus-sospesa-italia-scozia/) . From what I gather all sports fixtures in Veneto and Lombardy have been canned for the tim...
by sturginho
Sun Feb 23, 2020 3:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Italy - piss-off
Replies: 360
Views: 46352

Re: Italy - piss-off

lemonhead wrote:Never went in for this sorta shit but being nilled at home in the spoon decider's not good for the tournament.

A breakdown/kicking game and some brains please, Franco. :thumbup:
Can't really blame this shit on Franco, he's been thrown in at the deep end with weights tied to his ankles
by sturginho
Sat Feb 22, 2020 5:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

If Italy could give Polledri the ball at anything other than a standstill, he'd be through. It's impressive watchig him shrug off multiple tackles and make some really hard yards, but it's not really getting them anywhere. f**king hell, Watson. Trim the back of your hair, lad, it's well on the way ...
by sturginho
Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

AlanBengio wrote:Canna adesso che dovevi tirarlo fuori il pallone no.... ma che caxxo
Spento la TV, non ho nessuna intenzione di fare ulteriori danni al cuore guardando questa merda
by sturginho
Fri Feb 21, 2020 8:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

Scotland's u20s have just won 29-30!
by sturginho
Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Why wont the coach select that player??
Replies: 18
Views: 2642

Re: Why won't the coach select that player??

It's a common question on the Bored (and everywhere else probably that team selection is debated), but here's one from one of our midst today: I hate it when coaches do this. They have guys in the squad that they've no intention of playing even when there's an opening in their position, so instead ...
by sturginho
Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

Rugby2023 wrote:
sturginho wrote:
Steamin Beamin wrote:Italy must really fancy their chances in this one. Home advantage, farewell game for a legend, Scotland are shit. They'll be smelling blood.
If you mean Parisse, he's not in the team
Is he getting a capped 6N farewell at some point then, no?
Presumably against England
by sturginho
Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

dargotronV.1 wrote:Hope your team this weekend are as poor as your match thread.
Better?
by sturginho
Thu Feb 20, 2020 4:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

15 Jayden HAYWARD (Benetton Rugby, 25 caps) 14 Mattia BELLINI (Zebre Rugby Club, 24 caps) 13 Luca MORISI (Benetton Rugby, 31 caps)* 12 Carlo CANNA (Zebre Rugby Club, 41 caps) 11 Matteo MINOZZI (Wasps Rugby, 17 caps)* 10 Tommaso ALLAN (Benetton Rugby, 56 caps) 9 Callum BRALEY (Gloucester Rugby, 7 cap...
by sturginho
Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

AlanBengio wrote:Italy to win with Scotland and England.
Go to the betting shop now; there is no time to lose!!!
Cos' hai bevuto? :P
by sturginho
Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL 2020 Democratic presidential nominee thread
Replies: 5706
Views: 453169

Re: OFFICIAL 2020 Democratic presidential nominee thread

eldanielfire wrote:
Bowens wrote:...aaaaand Warren ended Mini Mike a minute in :lol:

https://mobile.twitter.com/PodSaveAmeri ... 6129532928
YES! BOOM! :lol:
Ouch! :lol: :lol:
by sturginho
Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Nonce teacher - edição lesbo especial
Replies: 20
Views: 2761

Re: Nonce teacher - edição lesbo especial

crapbackrow wrote:The relationship is legal so doesn't seem an appropriate matter for the courts or even really a professional body
The relationship was legal, but the images on her phone were not
by sturginho
Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

dargotronV.1 wrote:Hope your team this weekend are as poor as your match thread.
I get the feeling the quality of the match will befit the quality of the match thread
by sturginho
Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Re: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

Steamin Beamin wrote:Italy must really fancy their chances in this one. Home advantage, farewell game for a legend, Scotland are shit. They'll be smelling blood.
If you mean Parisse, he's not in the team
by sturginho
Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread
Replies: 440
Views: 26686

Cotechino vs Haggis - Lazy Italy v Scotland Thread

What will happen when the resistible force meets the movable object? Where : https://www.irishexaminer.com/remote/media.central.ie/media/images/s/StadioOlimpicoFeb15_large.jpg Who: https://newsgo.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Federazione-Italiana-Rugby.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/glf...
by sturginho
Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boris Johnson: gammon primus inter pares
Replies: 3050
Views: 164132

Re: Boris Johnson: gammon primus inter pares

No one wants to point out the hilarity that a "superforecaster" didn't see this coming?
by sturginho
Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Star Trek - Picard
Replies: 259
Views: 26139

Re: Star Trek - Picard

Warrior monks is such a tired trope and of limited utility in a universe where ranged weaponry is presumably quite widespread. Picard almost unrecognisable from the TNG era - now just a shouty old man doing silly things. Will stick with it because TNG was a huge part of growing up but but not hopef...