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I said it up thread - our players are better than this team. It feels as if our good moments (and they are GOOD moments) emerge despite the tactics rather than because of them. Someone said that it is like the Northampton team playing Leicester rugby, and that's the right analogy. That being said I...

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They were soooo much better than us, as were the French. I know. Fvck em, we won. Yes we won both games through the forwards. We were much better than the French forwards and had the edge on scotland in the scrums, driving mauls, and in defence. Our backs were well beaten, we're lucky Russell left ...

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I suspect what BB is saying here, beyond issues with women, is that Ireland have a union controlled structure that he/she likes and wants that model enforced elsewhere so as to protect what's working for Ireland. Disruptors emerging to challenge the status quo isn't welcome period, but then of cours...

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Weak. Never said that. In fact I am arguing for the proper growth in women's rugby that will be sustainable. Hope you got a good dopamine boost though with that vacuous post. For you as a man understand what they need for 'proper growth' never mind what these women involved want More dopamine hits....

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Electing an internationally recognised terrorist organisation as their leaders was completely within their control. Children don't vote, fu c kwit. Thanks for that very helpful contribution. People know that. People also know the average age is around 20, and the last elections were 20 odd years ag...

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We get it, you don't like women. Maybe go on Mumsnet and tell them not us, I'm sure they'll by sympathetic to your hurt privilege Weak. Never said that. In fact I am arguing for the proper growth in women's rugby that will be sustainable. Hope you got a good dopamine boost though with that vacuous ...

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We get it, you don't like women. Maybe go on Mumsnet and tell them not us, I'm sure they'll by sympathetic to your hurt privilege

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I'm just so doomer right now, of course morally, practically we should not be appeasing the Russian state but at the same time all this talk of cutting services to European countries already on the verge of a far right takeover, can't see that ending well. It's f**ked and I don't see a way out. I'v...

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I think you said it without perhaps actually saying it. Hopium for a regime change that isn't going happen is not the solution. Defending one's borders from a position of strength is. Actually able to stop Russia's ambitions by direct force. A problem is the historical perception and genuine threat...

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Wrong. Completely wrong. This is the wishy-washy uninformed vagueness that creates these problems in the first place. Hand wringers on the side-lines who won't supply heavy vehicles, and then they do. Who won't allow strikes into Russia, and then they do. Who won't give specific cruise missiles, un...

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Putin has stated what he wants... don't you pay attention? He is not stopping with Ukraine... he is rebuilding the old Soviet Union... and once he has those ex-Soviet countries back he'll feel empowered... he has to be stopped. And no I am not going to give you a link. Just listen to his speeches o...

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I dont want any of it, what Trump wants is to give Putin everything he wants while taking 500 billion of rare minerals from Ukraine and getting Europe to police the new border. Trump wants to make money and enfranchise himself and his Russian paymasters, nothing more or less. You literally have no ...

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Zakar wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:32 pm
However, when it comes to women's pro rugby, it would be great to see 1. Evidence pro women's rugby grows participation and 2. Evidence it's moving towards self funding.

When it comes to the men's game it'd be great to see it was moving towards self funding.

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So to summarise, a man earning around £500k per annum to lose every game thinks some women are taking too much money out of the game for not enough return.

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He's likely quite right. The amount of time people waste away on Social Media, message boards, etc from work is immense and I suspect far higher than any official measurements. In the public sector sure. Private not so much, their work systems would ban them in many places (certainly the finance in...

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Lack of work- projects mothballed or stopped. Spending too much time on the internet not actually working? Which is actually a thing, the internet in terms of time pissed away when we're supposed to be working has proved more damaging by a considerable margin than even say the 1970s strikes. If we ...

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Is that a thing these days? What are their managers doing? On their phones as well? It's been a thing for years, at all levels. And yet the various social media companies don't get taxed as a great plague on society, nor minor rugby forums come to that. Ban them all, they are a plague on society. N...

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Lack of work- projects mothballed or stopped. Spending too much time on the internet not actually working? Which is actually a thing, the internet in terms of time pissed away when we're supposed to be working has proved more damaging by a considerable margin than even say the 1970s strikes. If we ...

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it's also the sheer level of spite- People are losing their shit Frankly speaking domestically we have a lot of problems to discuss. Man alive construction is farked- I can't employ any more Mates, or I will have to stop paying myself. Things are not good at all. What is the problem? Lack of work- ...

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I suspect part of the idea we're supposed to take from the tale told in the Godfather revolves around clinging to things/power too tightly and in the process destroying the things we claim to love. Whereas I might fancy if Trump ever watched it, and I think we can rule out he's read it, he likely co...

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ManInTheBar wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:28 am
piquant wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:17 am Never go full Rassie
Unless you win the World Cup?

Still, such a high price

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:12 am I wonder how much of this incresse in inflation down to dumb government policies..

Brexit, Tories printing all that money and not balancing the books, not even being honest about the books. That sort of thing?

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Never go full Rassie

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So long story short Trump is looking to ban the speaking of truth unto power noting that as the power his fantasy is the truth.

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They are running a very large system covering many thousands of legacy systems. What do you think the challenges might be in trying to have 100% compliance in such a scenario and do you think no-one else thought of this before? How difficult? Christ back in the 80s at Uni I wrote code in Pascal and...

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If the UK did nothing, paid no 9 billion, just maintained status quo, what would happen? Every time you want to get onto an issue of discussion with another country that doesn't want the issue on the table or wants to shift the balance of power in the discussion they can pivot to asking when will y...

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Yes Buy velcro shoes If the UK did nothing, paid no 9 billion, just maintained status quo, what would happen? Every time you want to get onto an issue of discussion with another country that doesn't want the issue on the table or wants to shift the balance of power in the discussion they can pivot ...

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jambanja wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 12:12 am
piquant wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 11:51 pm
jambanja wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:34 pm
What would those drawbacks be
What's wrong with breaking the law and annoying just about all your allies and a good number of others besides, also allowing some far from allies to take the moral high ground into the bargain, is that the question?
Yes

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I'd prefer to keep the Chagos Is and spend the billions on defence right now. So bollocks to the law, and our allies. It is a position, it's not one without drawbacks itself. Also it's not freeing up billions 'right now', we'd in whatever fashion be splitting the costs with the USA over the next 99...

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Why did the US join the war? Either war would come with more than more reason. From support of European allies, wider geopolitics, money, sinking American ships, bombing of US naval bases... I am only noting it's not very often a nation has lost 250,000 in a European wars that wasn't a European nat...

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Uncle Sam will do as it has always done - look out for itself and itself only. There's an argument under Trump they're an inherently selfish nation, and one set to do significant damage on a number of fronts across the globe, but it would be rude in the extreme of us to ignore both WWI and WWII in ...

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I'd prefer to keep the Chagos Is and spend the billions on defence right now. So bollocks to the law, and our allies. It is a position, it's not one without drawbacks itself. Also it's not freeing up billions 'right now', we'd in whatever fashion be splitting the costs with the USA over the next 99...

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What legal basis does Mauritius have that's greater than ours? I'm sure Mexico has a greater claim on most of the southern and western states of America than Mauritius has on Chagos. It's not an unfair point, I tend to note of the Falklands if we don't have a claim then nor does Argentina. And in t...

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Oh, and for the record I think Farrell was a very good player, with some strengths people overlook, but I tended to think he was more the bench 10 option than a natural starter for England. And being rated in the top 20-30 players in the country is hardly a derogatory position, even if I thought som...

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He’s probably the most divisive or polarising player I can think of in the last 10 years It's a Trump line of thinking, or maybe an M&S one, not just a thing, but the biggest and bestest thing. However it's likely the award would go to Israel Folau or one of the NZ wife beaters How are those wife b...

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I'd prefer to keep the Chagos Is and spend the billions on defence right now. So bollocks to the law, and our allies. It is a position, it's not one without drawbacks itself. Also it's not freeing up billions 'right now', we'd in whatever fashion be splitting the costs with the USA over the next 99...

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Japan, India, I think pretty much everyone in the EU (probably not Orban, but who wants to be siding with Orban?), NZ, Australia, South Korea all think we should feck off, absent a more established legal foundation for the base, so... Go on, tell,is more about these countries objection to the UK pr...

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For those protesting the lease agreement for Diego Garcia are they proposing we not have a lease agreement, simply keep the base and maintain a claim to the islands? Okay the USA for now with the orange criminal at the helm might support that stance, but pretty much nobody else, including our own l...

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For those protesting the lease agreement for Diego Garcia are they proposing we not have a lease agreement, simply keep the base and maintain a claim to the islands? Okay the USA for now with the orange criminal at the helm might support that stance, but pretty much nobody else, including our own la...

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Hawk97 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:29 am

He’s probably the most divisive or polarising player I can think of in the last 10 years

It's a Trump line of thinking, or maybe an M&S one, not just a thing, but the biggest and bestest thing.

However it's likely the award would go to Israel Folau or one of the NZ wife beaters

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