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The top ten attendances this season: 1. 49,246 (Leinster v Munster, Round Six) 2. 24,515 (Bulls v Sharks, Round Seven) 3. 15,664 (Leinster v Scarlets, Round Five) 4. 15,045 (Munster v DHL Stormers, Round Five) 5. 14,960 (Ulster v Munster, Round Four) 6. 14,434 (Leinster v Edinburgh Rugby, Round Thr...

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Decent pension planning.

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It's a shame that Wales are unlikely to have any sides in the Champions cup next season. I thought the Cardiff side showed a fair bit of promise against Bath (who are playing well this season). Either they or the Ospreys will have to have a stellar 2nd half of the season to make it into the top 8. ...

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The SRU are having to recruit two people to replace Dr James Robson MBE who is retiring after over 30 years with Scotland, as well as being team doctor on 6 Lions tours. He has been a leading advocate of research into concussion, and he has been instrumental in not just saving many careers, but also...

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Does anyone have any insight on this? I have not seen anything elsewhere. Is this Planet Rugby putting two and two together to get five, or are Newcastle really in trouble? Alex Codling’s post-match interview after Newcastle had been soundly beaten by Leicester Tigers on Sunday was disturbing. It’s ...

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I know nothing about watches, and I read recently that people who do turn their noses up at Tag Heuer a bit, but the day my pissing around money exceeds my responsibilities by enough, I want one of these for myself: https://i.imgur.com/JzjZtvG.jpg As I understand it, the issue with Tag, Breitling a...

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I bought my wife a Cartier when our first son was born. She has worn it every day since, including when mucking out the horses ec. It still looks great. Mind you, the clasp is a known weakness, and when it broke after 20 years constant wear it was £600 to fix. Taking into account inflation it is wor...

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Pretty dire from Glasgow especially... Northampton frequently feature as Leinster's Christmas whipping boy opponents. Glasgow have scored a lot from mauls. I have argued they have more in the locker but injuries to key players have made tham rely on that. They were still missing some key players la...

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The barrier to entry is the 5 million pounds of thrust to get it off of earth in the first place. That’s why people still have to go through Musk to get their stuff up there. I’m sure there’s also some sort of agency regulating what/how much shite can be thrown up there. NASA et al are apparently t...

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The first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil has ended in failure. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64218883.amp Disappointing end to UK space mission as satellites fail to reach orbit https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/09/uks-first-orbital-rocket-mission-takes-off-f...

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The barrier to entry is the 5 million pounds of thrust to get it off of earth in the first place. That’s why people still have to go through Musk to get their stuff up there. I’m sure there’s also some sort of agency regulating what/how much shite can be thrown up there. NASA et al are apparently t...

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This was a university project. Given that the period between something being cutting edge and mundane seems to be getting shorter and shorter, are we approaching the day when the proverbial 'man in a shed' can do things like this?

Edit, that is not a slight on this achievement.

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I think the equivalence is a bit more of taking a few branches from a woodpile that has been left to rot. Probably be waved straight on through. If nobody valued them at all why did he have to pay (or pay bribes, whatever)? Why would you say no-one valued them? He paid the equivalent of £5m for the...

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FT: Ulster 24-27 Edinburgh FT: Benetton 18-13 Ospreys FT: Connacht 22-24 Leinster Typical Edinburgh. Lose at home to Benetton in a match they should have won, then should have beaten Ulster by more away. This year all the teams is closer. Even Zebre look much better then last year. I still don't pa...

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Jensrsa wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:44 pm FT: Ulster 24-27 Edinburgh
FT: Benetton 18-13 Ospreys
FT: Connacht 22-24 Leinster

Typical Edinburgh.

Lose at home to Benetton in a match they should have won, then should have beaten Ulster by more away.

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In other words, it was Greek property in Greece before the Brits took it without asking. Well they did ask the rulers of Athens at the time. Did he? Really? Or did he just bribe his way to taking them? Of course he bribed people, the Ottoman Empire ran on bribes. To go back to my previous point, El...

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Clarkson's Farm 4 just been announced. Which is interesting given the claims that he'd pissed Amazon off so much they were cancelling. I am married to a farmer's daughter, have a farmer as a brother in law and many friends who are farmers. They all love this and it has nothing to do with the average...

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Without the maul they look fairly bereft of anything else. No real incision or super hard carrying or anything to really worry a decent defence. Without the maul I reckon the Ospreys would have beaten them the other week. It really is a great maul, but it's all, they have. Nonsense. Glasgow are and...

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So what was actually said that was racist by KC3? I mean I have mixed race kids and comment on their skin tone from time to time. That's not racist. When I throw white paint on them, my wife says it is but I'm not so sure. :?: The royal familly's crime was that (it is claimed) they wondered how dar...

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There are few things like a grievance to help create a sense of national pride. Greece as we know it came into being because it suited the great powers of Britain, France and Russia to diminish the Ottoman empire. There had been sporadic failed rebellions by the Greeks, but it was the military and d...

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Context is everything. And it's the one thing we don't have on this issue, apart from a book written by a nobody who wasn't there. The article linked to makes no mention of the comments about the baby. It relates to Prince Charles calling a polo chum Sooty, and in terms of context it does state. La...

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I know you (and sooty) are from a different generation but when you’re justifying casual racism it’s probably time to take a step back and have a think Or maybe I live in the real world where friends say things to each other, and take the piss out of each other for all sorts of reasons that would c...

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Context is everything. And it's the one thing we don't have on this issue, apart from a book written by a nobody who wasn't there. The article linked to makes no mention of the comments about the baby. It relates to Prince Charles calling a polo chum Sooty, and in terms of context it does state. La...

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Named by the ghastly uber creep Piers Morgan as Charles and Waity allegedly allegedly. Piers once thought he had a shot with Meghan. Ever since she had the temerity to spurn his advances he has mounted a fairly unhinged hate campaign against her - not that he’s alone in that to be fair - likely in ...

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They weren’t stolen though , the legal ruling entity at the time gave permission for the sale and transport , those agreements proof still exist - the Greek side of the argument documents somehow don’t exist any more. Would have expected an Aussie to be a bit more clued up on what stolen means tbf ...

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Watched this ref handle cardiff last year and she did a fine job. I actually like her style Good match this. She was the first woman to ref a 6N side in a non 6N match, and it really is time she got a full 6N. She is head and shoulders better than some of the refs at that level, specifically her fe...

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AlanBengio wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:03 pm Great game Treviso! Crazy game - fun to watch
(Just seen it now)

It really wasn't!

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Between 100 and 165 million deaths in India alone due to British rule. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians#:~:text=While%20the%20precise%20number%20of,mortality%20crises%20in%20human%20history. Famine was endemic in India before the br...

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The race for the top 8 spots is like a competition in a competition. Assuming Leinster, Ulster, Munster, Bulls, Stormers and Glasgow make the top 8 the main contenders for the other 2 spots are: Connacht Edinburgh Benetton Lions Early days yet but the Sharks look out of the running unless they have...

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The BBC may no longer be able to afford to keep its share of the Six Nations because of the spiralling costs of broadcast rights and a fall in its income, its outgoing director of sport has warned MPs. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/21/bbc-admits-it-may-not-be-able-to-afford-to-keep-six...

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Does Scotland have the same divorce laws as England, or do they have some mad Caledonian/Dutch rule where the Procurator Fiscal has to throw the wife in the sea or something? It is different, though I'd struggle to cover all the details. It can be done more quickly, and the financial side of things...

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On the 'sources say' element of the article, logically if it WASN'T an error you'd imagine WR would have said so to defuse that particular whinge but who really knows? Adding logic to WR is like dividing by zero. World Rugby have recently confirmed that they said before the RWC they would not comme...

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Ted. wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:45 pm
RandomNavigat0r wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:04 am I prefer the Planet Rugby article on this:

https://www.planetrugby.com/news/world- ... nal-report
So, we have ratification from another source. I must admit, I hadn't checked beyond Stuff.

They are literally quoting Stuff.

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Is the 'all 4' actually correct though? The AR's on the sideline aren't involved in the review. Barnes may not have even been aware how far back it was given the TMO just played the incident for him - it's not like Barnes would have been counting the phases during live play. Fair point, I was just ...

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Half a dozen examples of these many people taking it as clear and unambiguous proof would be good. I'll concede the 'clear and obvious' phrase was a touch hypberbolic to fit in with the rest of my post. But you need to have wee think about what 'we may have a different perspective' means if you thi...

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Who are these many people? I don't see many on here. Many people are rightly asking how 4 top officials could have got something so wrong. We may have a different perspective. Half a dozen examples of these many people taking it as clear and unambiguous proof would be good. I'll concede the 'clear ...

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If I understand this correctly.......... A New Zealand publication claims to have heard from an unidentified person, that an unidentified person in World Rugby said something, the wording of which is not known, which an unidentified person in New Zealand rugby took to mean that a mistake was made. ...

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If I understand this correctly.......... A New Zealand publication claims to have heard from an unidentified person, that an unidentified person in World Rugby said something, the wording of which is not known, which an unidentified person in New Zealand rugby took to mean that a mistake was made. M...

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I knew Welsh Rugby had some issues to address, but had not realised the issues were as deep as this BBC article suggests. Does it paint an accurate picture? An independent review has found aspects of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) culture were sexist, misogynistic, racist and homophobic and not properl...

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Not a bad little match between Edinburgh and Connacht. Connacht did well against a strong team. I don't rate Whitehouse very highly as a ref, but he is at least consistent. There were a couple of things in the game he seemed to have decided to just not bother reffing unless it was blatant, which me...

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