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- Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The clandestine England-Fiji match thread
- Replies: 381
- Views: 6947
Re: The clandestine England-Fiji match thread
The Drua have been playing well all year.
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
- Replies: 37911
- Views: 2616110
Re: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
Well played Fiji! We won’t be over confident going into that match!
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
- Replies: 37911
- Views: 2616110
Re: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
The All Blacks even threw an intercept
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: RWC bingo
- Replies: 25
- Views: 475
Re: RWC bingo
A long touch finder, or a 50-22 comes from ‘the educated boot’ of x. Any scrum penalty that the commentators don’t understand is attributed to ‘the dark arts of the front row’ ‘You’re not going to stop a player like x when he gets the ball y metres from the line’ ‘He saved an inevitable try’ - it ca...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 3502
Re: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
My ev battery is guaranteed for 5 years, my wife’s for 7. Why would they do that if they were going to be useless at 2 years? They weren’t btw.
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 3502
Re: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
Has anyone mentioned sodium batteries, or silicon anode batteries yet? Or the very cheap evs being made in China?
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 3:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 3502
Re: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
The batteries are lasting much longer than 5 years, then they can be used as storage batteries then they can be recycled.
And the argument for electricity coming from fossil fuels is so obviously transparent.
And the argument for electricity coming from fossil fuels is so obviously transparent.
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 3502
Re: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
I hope that someone will confirm this for me, but don’t hydrogen fuel cells need a couple of fairly scarce metals as a catalyst? Also, isn’t it so that producing hydrogen by electrolysis (as opposed to extracting from fossil fuels for example) is not very efficient, such that it makes more sense to ...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Interesting Trivia
- Replies: 197
- Views: 10651
Re: Interesting Trivia
The earliest written records of Ireland come from classical Greco-Roman geographers. Ptolemy in his Almagest refers to Ireland as Mikra Brettania ("Little Britain"), in contrast to the larger island, which he called Megale Brettania ("Great Britain"). So the first written record of Ireland it is ca...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 6:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
- Replies: 202
- Views: 3502
Re: Are the great unwashed finally turning on the Green monster.?
There is so much anti green rhetoric, eg windmills need to work for 14 years to pay back their carbon footprint, when it is really about 5 months. It seems that the arguments run roughly along the lines of: Green energy, electric cars, etc are not nearly as green as they claim to be, therefore we wo...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Interesting Trivia
- Replies: 197
- Views: 10651
Re: Interesting Trivia
The earliest written records of Ireland come from classical Greco-Roman geographers. Ptolemy in his Almagest refers to Ireland as Mikra Brettania ("Little Britain"), in contrast to the larger island, which he called Megale Brettania ("Great Britain"). So the first written record of Ireland it is ca...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: No NH refs for the big games in pools A & B
- Replies: 32
- Views: 920
Re: No NH refs for the big games in pools A & B
Who's getting the georgian project ref? Good luck with that one I think he's been much better this year, still not a massive fan. I think that he’s OK - I remember his first game Italy v Ireland. He had to RC the Italian hooker, and when the replacement hooker was injured he had to send a second pl...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: A sense of foreboding, a first: No Jones in Welsh RWC squad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 508
Re: A sense of foreboding, a first: No Jones in Welsh RWC squad
Eddie Jones for Oz, and England, and Japan, and Oz etc etc
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What's the dumbest thing that happens in every rugby game?
- Replies: 151
- Views: 3106
Re: What's the dumbest thing that happens in every rugby game?
Players thinking that they can get away with tripping. 3 spring to mind: Martin Williams when we playing Ireland for the TC in 2008. We still managed to win that match amazingly. Alun-Wyn Jones against England. Tipuric against Oz last time we played them, helping turn a ‘winning’ lead into an embarr...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: A sense of foreboding, a first: No Jones in Welsh RWC squad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 508
Re: A sense of foreboding, a first: No Jones in Welsh RWC squad
Help from the Irish.lorcanoworms wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:13 am Why does he mention Costelow with Thomas and Williams.
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: A sense of foreboding, a first: No Jones in Welsh RWC squad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 508
Re: A sense of foreboding, a first: No Jones in Welsh RWC squad
We need an Ap Siôn.
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How long will Faz get?
- Replies: 849
- Views: 29922
Re: How long will Faz get?
Really does make you wonder what a player has to do to even get the full tariff, let alone additional matches for aggravating factors or deterrent. To get close, you need to be from a a low end 1st or 2nd tier nation. You get a few more weeks for having swarthy skin or not sounding like Little Lord...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How long will Faz get?
- Replies: 849
- Views: 29922
4 match ban for Farrell
According to Wales on line
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 4:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
- Replies: 37911
- Views: 2616110
Re: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
There is other options. I think a different coach could defeat Gatlands Wales with one or two completely different squads Lest we forget, the dregs have contributed the most players to this squad, the dregs who won 4 games this year. The good thing I guess with so many young players we could have t...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 1:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is there any benefit to naming your RWC squad early?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 310
Re: Is there any benefit to naming your RWC squad early?
I have just read that banned players can’t be replaced, unlike injured players. Therefore why name your squad before you’ve played all your warm up games? The squad can be changed right up until they land in France for the tournament. Well that makes more sense, so really nobody is committed at all...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 1:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is there any benefit to naming your RWC squad early?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 310
Is there any benefit to naming your RWC squad early?
I have just read that banned players can’t be replaced, unlike injured players. Therefore why name your squad before you’ve played all your warm up games?
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How long will brainless Billy get?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1646
Re: How long will brainless Billy get?
At one time the surname Farrell itself was enough to stir up establishment prejudice.Mog The Almighty wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:38 amFFS give it a rest.
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: I think we all need to have a chat about English rugby
- Replies: 12
- Views: 632
Re: I think we all need to have a chat about English rugby
We're so bad people aren't even putting the boot in. Borthwick and his merry band of rookie coaches have continued Eddie's trajectory nicely to get their contracts paid up. Blame Sweeney at the RFU. We knew they were the wrong people for the job and predictably they're picking the wrong players, wi...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How long will brainless Billy get?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1646
Re: How long will brainless Billy get?
He just needs to change his name to Owen Farrell
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Is bodybuilding the most absurd "sport" in history?
- Replies: 646
- Views: 8973
Re: Is bodybuilding the most absurd "sport" in history?
As opposed to only one being similar?Greenavenger wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:46 am Yes. Let’s see who can take the most steroids and not die. Competitive eating is up there too. Both are similar
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023 Autumn Nations Series R4 Wales vs Springboks
- Replies: 209
- Views: 5217
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeff's All New and Cromulent Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2233
Re: Jeff's All New and Cromulent Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 2
It was 4 min of actual play. Let's give the English something to cling onto though, hey? (Let's also ignore that the score while England were playing against 14 men with Reffell in the bin was 3-3) And When England scored their try it was 14 v 14 Nope, it was 12 v 15 when we scored It’s a fair cop!
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ntamack goooooone.
- Replies: 78
- Views: 4382
Re: Ntamack goooooone.
Merde. Poor sod.
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 8:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: How long will Faz get?
- Replies: 849
- Views: 29922
Re: How long will Faz get?
Does the fact that he may have put another player out of action for X weeks from failed hia have a bearing?
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wales v England
- Replies: 1006
- Views: 19451
Re: Wales v England
Any more insight into why the ref gave a penalty advantage to Wales, followed a few seconds later to a penalty to England - a technical offence, not foul play - which ultimately led to Englands’s 3rd penalty? Think I read, maybe on here, that at one point the assistant had called something, which t...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeff's All New and Cromulent Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 2
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2233
Re: Jeff's All New and Cromulent Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 2
The reason isn't difficult to find ... they were playing against 12 men. for about 3-4 minutes they were It was 4 min of actual play. Let's give the English something to cling onto though, hey? (Let's also ignore that the score while England were playing against 14 men with Reffell in the bin was 3...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wales v England
- Replies: 1006
- Views: 19451
Re: Wales v England
Any more insight into why the ref gave a penalty advantage to Wales, followed a few seconds later to a penalty to England - a technical offence, not foul play - which ultimately led to Englands’s 3rd penalty?
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wales v England
- Replies: 1006
- Views: 19451
Re: Wales v England
Bilateral shit show. Which team is in for a bigger bollocking?
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeff's All New and Satisfied Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 1
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1020
Re: Jeff's All New and Satisfied Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 1
I think that cock and a cigar tap tackled LRZ’s thigh and knocked him off balance.message #2527204 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 9:48 pm I'd like to see you give cuthbert 6/10 if he tripped over his own feet, against England, with the line at his mercy.
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Britain's wonkiest Pub burns down
- Replies: 14
- Views: 781
Re: Britain's wonkiest Pub burns down
Just arson about?
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 8:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Water is Woke
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1362
Re: Water is Woke
The answer to her question is ‘kidneys’ - there is no evidence base for the idea that you have to drink over 2 litres a day.
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 8:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeff's All New and Satisfied Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 1
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1020
Re: Jeff's All New and Satisfied Wales Ratings v England Pre WC Warmup Game 1
After some very lean times this seemed to sprout some shoots of positivity for me Few good forwards, competed well, looked fit, the lineout was peerless (not mentioned in your comments and worth noting given how usually shit our lineout is) Not sure Costelow is there yet as a potential internationa...
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: New laws for Rugby world cup 2023 including Orange card
- Replies: 250
- Views: 5016
Re: New laws for Rugby world cup 2023 including Orange card
Who is doing the usual TMO work during live play while the TMO is reviewing the yellow-possibly-red card offence? The TMO will need about 6 pairs of eyes. There is 1 TMO appointed to the game, and 1 FPRO (foul play review official) appointed. The FPRO judges the YC and sees if it’s an upgrade or no...
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: New laws for Rugby world cup 2023 including Orange card
- Replies: 250
- Views: 5016
Re: New laws for Rugby world cup 2023 including Orange card
Who is doing the usual TMO work during live play while the TMO is reviewing the yellow-possibly-red card offence? The TMO will need about 6 pairs of eyes.
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Medicinal Cannabis
- Replies: 119
- Views: 3182
Re: Medicinal Cannabis
I sympathise. However, whilst obviously aggravating any underlying mental health issues, is there a definitive study on causation? I don’t think so. All I can find is association studies with psychosis and anxiety, more pronounced in adolescents. And of course he might have been destined for his ad...