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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1426
- Views: 70611
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Just watched the Toulouse game. Thought the referee did them no favor in the opening moments of the game, but fair play to them, they kept their heads down and went back to work. Willis is an absolute monster and England are wasting him. He can still learn at Toulouse, for example looking up for th...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45743
- Views: 3028952
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Didn't watch the game, but this is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. :lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLijRBhtOq8 WTF are these lads doing? Palmer's your penalty taker. He's the best player at the club, going for the golden boot. As Dele suggests a little more politely. Get fud...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
- Replies: 201
- Views: 6174
Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
Blindsided.
Never heard of J. O'Barrett tbf.
Never heard of J. O'Barrett tbf.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Bang on. She’s awful and gets a lot wrong. Her refereeing may have been a distance off the standards of Davison or Cox but there's no such thing as infallibility in any referee. She's been a stalwart of pretty much my whole Women's 6N viewing, sometimes incomprehensible to non English speakers but ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Joy Neville's last game apparently. :thumbup: Congrats too to Ireland women yesterday (and Leinster!) I hate to say it, Joy Neville has often been a terrible referee. Bang on. She’s awful and gets a lot wrong. Her refereeing may have been a distance off the standards of Davison or Cox but there's n...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter
- Replies: 115
- Views: 1548
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter
- Replies: 115
- Views: 1548
Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter
Bordeaux, not unlike Quins tbf, massively inconsistent. Toulouse, much less so.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter
- Replies: 115
- Views: 1548
Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter
Referee needs to stop this.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Joy Neville's last game apparently.
Congrats too to Ireland women yesterday (and Leinster!)
Congrats too to Ireland women yesterday (and Leinster!)
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Fre replacements not accurate enough. Riffoneau chucking pies sees Fra lose 4 consec. lineouts and momentum.
Italian 3 quarters making good runs but constantly turned over. Except for now when high ball bottler, D'Inca shows again what a good runner she is with her 2nd try!
Looking like 38-15 FT
Italian 3 quarters making good runs but constantly turned over. Except for now when high ball bottler, D'Inca shows again what a good runner she is with her 2nd try!
Looking like 38-15 FT
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Sochat's 50th cap and throwing like a dream after her shocker v Scotland. Sunshine, artificial pitch and mainly easy for Fra. Italy unable to capitalise on their few periods in the Fre 22. 26-3 at HT.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
One team not mentioned above, Italy, are due on any minute v fading France at Stade Jean Bouin this pm. Really like the Italian backline (diminished thanks to Sarah Beckett). Hoping for an improvement in the French game but fear a surprise against, imo, the best of the contestants for 3rd place.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Britain in recession - so much winning by Tories
- Replies: 439
- Views: 31223
Re: Britain in recession - so much winning by Tories
Our friends laughed at us under Johnson, the Markets laughed at us under Truss and now our enemies must be pissing themselves...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1778026417382400503
https://twitter.com/i/status/1778026417382400503
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers
- Replies: 425
- Views: 5652
Re: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers
This no silverware line is a load of bollox because we all know that we could have won the URC but we correctly targeted the Heineken Cup, and the fact is that we have come up short time and again when it counted. We are a very good team but we aren’t a great team. A great team would have gone all ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1426
- Views: 70611
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Enjoyable game. Sarries did well to contain Bordeaux in the first half but the pressure from the breakdown and an intelligent game from Lucu with judicious kicking and passing, eventually allowed Bordeaux's backs to cut beautifully loose.
Quins next weekend should be a spectacle.
Quins next weekend should be a spectacle.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1426
- Views: 70611
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Hastoy wasted a conversion and penalty also.
La Rochelle too powerful but Stormers played all the rugby. With a weakened side too?
A grind in Dublin next week, whatever the outcome.
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La Rochelle too powerful but Stormers played all the rugby. With a weakened side too?
A grind in Dublin next week, whatever the outcome.
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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Cricket Thread
- Replies: 7812
- Views: 304398
Re: The Cricket Thread
Sam Northeast hits 335* for Glamorgan in County Championship at Lords for the highest first class score there ever. The asterisk is for "Not Out" but it could also signify that it was "only" against laughing-stock Middx. Mike Atherton's son (a decent young County prospect, tbf) ends up with 0-147 .
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Good patient forward play by Eng. earns respite and a deserved try. For me, it's difficult to assess forwards at this age as so much depends on eventual strength later on.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Missed the start. Poor handling and ball retention indeed. Windy conditions not helping. HT 25-14 Fra.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Under 18s 6N de facto "final": England v France at 12 noon today , 6 April. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb7rFfC58Ig Other nations later this pm. ***** Kelly Arbey has stepped up from French U18s flanker in last year's U18s festival to wing for the senior team this year. Who might we see in next ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1426
- Views: 70611
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Is du Pont back? Think so? Ntamack back too. Not sure he will play a full game, but he played 30min last week. On Dupont, my understanding is that Toulouse has first call on Dupont for the rest of the season and, accordingly, that he will be available for the duration of Toulouse's participation in...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
What do you mean when you say identikit? That they have a physical template for each position; if you conform, or have the potential to conform, you're good, if not you're gone. It's not like this doesn't exist in the men's game either - it's more the clashing of amateur era standards with a profes...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Abysmal lineout throwing from Sochat. This is now tense. Officially? Officially tense, indeed. Debutant Bigot at least managed a couple of decent lineout throws. Mwayembe, Escudero adding spine towards the end. Romane WOM. Coaching "offloading" as an actual tactic is madness and does no favours to ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Abysmal lineout throwing from Sochat. This is now tense.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
France naive in running ball deep in own half instead of kicking. Boulard I'm looking at you. Only Romane Menager performing optimally.
Scotland tactical kicking helpful by contrast and defence rock solid when called upon. Easily worthy of their lead. Cox solid so far.
Scotland tactical kicking helpful by contrast and defence rock solid when called upon. Easily worthy of their lead. Cox solid so far.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2299
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Reform Party UK
- Replies: 446
- Views: 60826
Re: The Reform Party UK
They all voted on typical. Conservative policy, of course the whip will account for a lot of that. But 'dyed in the wool' is a high bar. You don't try and bring down your own party if you are 'dyed in the wool'. He's a wet, not dyed in the wool. Johnson, Truss, Sunak and the various leadership runn...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Reform Party UK
- Replies: 446
- Views: 60826
Re: The Reform Party UK
What is true "Conservatism"? The confused spoutings of post-pimply, mid-ranking toffs who never needed student loans and who are now engaged in research or think tank "pretend" jobs that they can afford to do for free or in exchange for remuneration (funded where possible by the taxpayer, if not by ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
A smaller, more dynamic Axelle Berthomieu returns straight in at flanker in place of the taller, heavier Charlotte Escudero who drops to the bench. Escudero is likely to replace Fall in the 2nd half, as newbie 2nd rower Kiara Zago drops clean out of the 23. The only other change is a likely debut ca...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 5883
Re: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
Why not start by "including" proponents in fights with no weight distinctions against heavyweight males?danny_fitz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:14 am "Tolerable unfairness"
The term coined recently by those wanting men to be included in women sports as they argue that inclusion should be the starting point as opposed to fairness.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Not really. (Unless you mean losing bonus points?) Having said that, France only scraped home away to Italy last year. And yesterday, Scotland moved the ball about better. France rely on an inexperienced, young captain, so would they cope with the adversity of an early red card and negative early s...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Scotland France… is there half a chance of an upset there? Not really. (Unless you mean losing bonus points?) Having said that, France only scraped home away to Italy last year. And yesterday, Scotland moved the ball about better. France rely on an inexperienced, young captain, so would they cope w...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Kildunne's try was surely the individual one of the w/e. By then, Italy had been well softened up however by England's front 7. Ward and Botterman were outstanding in a depleted pack with Ward's full 80' worthy of my WOM by a long chalk. A stuttering first half behind the magnificent 7, with Scarrat...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Kick the ball off after 80 minutes when losing. Seen it a few times now I'm both mens and womens game. What sort of brain freeze needs to happen to compel a player to do this. A French-style brain freeze? Fair to recall this happens in the men's game also. Two creditable performances from today's u...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Well played Irish women. :thumbup: A 3 try deficit was a massive turnaround and deserved on the afternoon. Fre lineout and scrum did improve but handling and attacking combinations behind 9 were unimaginative. Queyroi solid (unlike newbie Tuy) but lacks Drouin's ability to animate attacking play. Bo...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
Not a great 5 min debut for Lina Tuy
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
The Irish Andy Foode is playing really intelligently. Ireland really solid in defence and no nonsense in possession. Hoping France will start to get it more together in scrum and lineout. If so, it will come. Ireland's defensive system is good, but twice the player in 15 has been poor in that one o...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 544
- Views: 34305
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
The Irish Andy Foode is playing really intelligently. Ireland really solid in defence and no nonsense in possession. Hoping France will start to get it more together in scrum and lineout. If so, it will come.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Waterboys crossing the line
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1632
Re: Waterboys crossing the line
Just don't allow them to 'warm up' at either end of the field, that would pretty much stop it I think. The French subs came over to congratulate while the ball was being grounded last night. Would be funny if it was chalked off for them obstructing England from attempting to stop the try being scor...