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He should go with the 20s.

They have a tough set of fixtures and he'll get a lot out of it. It is important that they try and avoid relegation.

I’ve just looked at our pool fixtures. F***ing hell. Hopefully there is at least one team there we can beat. Spain?

Unlikely to be Spain. Their ...

SaintK wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 8:26 am
Dogbert wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 8:16 am
SaintK wrote: Fri May 09, 2025 7:23 am
No they don't, the "club" from Northampton do
Northampton 4 & Glasgow 4 - lets call it a draw

Good to see the champions of the two leagues honoured like that.

Pre-latching is legal, as long as it's just one player who's not in front of the ball carrier.

Pollock is brilliant, no doubt, but until his wonder try he was a weak link in the Saints team against Leinster. Then he scored that try, found his groove, and was amazing.

Daly, Hansen, M Smith are rubbish picks

Pollock doesn’t deserve it, but to be honest I like the idea of a young gun on the Lions tour so well done to him.

From a parochial point of view, sad for Gilchrist, Ritchie and Darcy

I'm totally amazed Cummings is touring. Not because he doesn't ...

Jock42 wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 1:39 pm Gutted for Graham and Ritchie

Hansen over Graham is an interesting choice.

White the victim of needing a token Welsh.

A phone call with no signal and a Captains' dinner in a dark dodgy conference centre room. So far this is the rugby version of Spinal Tap.

Ah, the Qatar Airways Lions and a mural commissioned by Howden. It really is beyond shameless.

Yup, fair comment. But haven't you lot been moaning about him in England shirt for ages?

Think most of the moaning was with the coaches who we’re proscribing the way he should play
Difference when F Smith and Dingwall were selected was amazing

If I'm picking the squad it's Williams that ...

Saw a news report that the lions management were a bit bleak that the ‘sea of red’ at the o2 arena wasn’t going to happen and fans were not rushing to pay £40 to see the team announced in person

Haha, is that real? A 40 quid event just ot see some names read out? The Lions really is a shameless ...

Tonight's Leinster result is objectively funny of course, but it might also be a blessing for Glasgow.

Leinster played like a team with the arrogance of certainty that they would win. Despite now being proved wrong three seasons in a row, that won't change in the next month.

They beat Glasgow 52-0 ...

Amazing game. Northampton a very different team in the Champions Cup. Leinster very sloppy. Sweet sweet result.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GpS2TSJXwAALltf?format=jpg&name=large

Big, big game for Glasgow. Home semi on the line.

Some interesting choices, and Scott Cummings back on the bench. Still no sign of Huwipolotou, unfortunately.

The big call is Ollie Smith over Josh Mckay at fullback, and ...

Big, big game for Glasgow. Home semi on the line.

Some interesting choices, and Scott Cummings back on the bench. Still no sign of Huwipolotou, unfortunately.

I don't care about your nominations, all I know is when I have the misfortune to hear this one, I'm desperate for a baseball bat to bash my own head in with, to stop the torment.

It's horrendous.

It's understandable the team went along with his wish to win this for himself. Given what's happened to him in the last year, it would have been a ruthless call by the team to play it the normal way and have any of the three win. But WvA messed up badly.

Imagine on Sunday, there's a lead group with ...

One of the lesser Flemish classics today, but it may turn out to be the most talked about race of the lot. Flanders' favourite son cast as the villain in this one...

Tim Visser in court on a domestic abuse charge.

Ex-Scotland rugby star in court accused of domestic abuse

https://www.thetimes.com/article/b41eeee9-e028-4ec3-94ab-ca43d0e7ebb0?shareToken=c8edbe823764876893dc270f0e787838

It's well known he's a wrong 'un (an arrogant twat, essentially), but I'm ...

Paddington Bear wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:36 pm Drums, drums in the deep

They have a cave troll!

Time difference means I didn't watch the race live, but I've just watched a clip of the last kms of Milan San Remo...

and I've got a man crush for the winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tPE7ZlQtMM

Legendary racing. Mano a mano.

Yeah but possibly the least deserving winner of the ...

Guy Smiley wrote: Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:08 pm Time difference means I didn't watch the race live, but I've just watched a clip of the last kms of Milan San Remo...

and I've got a man crush for the winner.

Legendary racing. Mano a mano.

If I was a Munster fan I'd be seething at that result. But I'm a Glasgow fan so it's funny as hell to get a BP win in a game we should have lost comfortably.

Glasgow v Munster is a proper game, grudges all over the place and famous wins against each other for both sides in knock outs and finals. It's a shame it's the first week after the 6N so neither team will be at full strength.

Belgium have looked good in this year's REC - not far off Portugal / Romania level. Depending on which team comes to the Repechage from the Americas, Belgium might well make it to the RWC.

Rejoice folks, best bit of the rugby season coming up - Champions Cup KOs and URC business end. Where a Scottish team might actually achieve something of note (not winning it again, don't be daft, but an heroic defeat in the Dublin final is well within reach).

Ireland by 20
England by 1
France by 8

https://scontent-ams4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/484085746_1186079500193528_2531058246248465000_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=m9HXgtJnBf0Q7kNvgERrf9q&_nc_oc=Adj1Oi8nTDlCduxBCyzcehboxn8VjRBcM6rheifZVjHEOPvHojYLfFISRpzaw4ntAyo&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent ...

That is the Lions, the British Isles Lions. But then some people had their Trump Gulf of America moment and decided it needed to be the British and Irish Lions for convenience

I honestly don’t understand why they don’t have a ‘SA pro teams’ moment, drop the British/Isles/B&I tag ...

For the love of hopeless causes...

Ireland by 4
Scotland by 9
England by 11

I’m still unclear how you test Finn Russell for concussion.

Drool or no drool is the only discernible difference

In medicine we talk about how far someone is off their baseline. No idea whether the return to play protocols take Finn’s intellectual baseline into account.

His HIA ...

Ireland by 37
England by 8 (bastards)
France by 2

So Georgia, Spain, Portugal and Romania the 4 Europe RWC qualifiers. Deservedly so, they have ruled Tier 2 European rugby for ages.

5th place gives a ticket to the repechage tournament. Last two seasons it was the Dutch who took 5th place, but Belgium look good this year and The Netherlands ...

It may reflect even more poorly on England than Scotland, but it's a well-crafted hatchet job. I actually enjoyed reading it.

Netherlands v Germany and Belgium v Swirzerland in the play-offs for 5th place, which should mean a proper Low Countries derby to decide who goes to the Final Qualifier Tournament for the 2027 RWC.

Every match it seems that Ulster hit a new low of shitness.

Regardless of whatever talent they may possess, they must be the dumbest team in professional sport. I can't imagine another group of individuals that are paid to do a task, manage to be as incompetent as Ulster Rugby.

That 2nd ...

Is that the Benetton 2nds that cuffed Ulster? They normally struggle during the international periods.

It's not like Ulster are missing any players due to the internationals.

Every match it seems that Ulster hit a new low of shitness.

Regardless of whatever talent they may possess ...

Big kudos to the Scotland medical team for making that call btw.

So Georgia, Spain, Portugal and Romania the 4 Europe RWC qualifiers. Deservedly so, they have ruled Tier 2 European rugby for ages.

5th place gives a ticket to the repechage tournament. Last two seasons it was the Dutch who took 5th place, but Belgium look good this year and The Netherlands are ...

So with the minnow games out of the way, it's on to the main event tomorrow. I believe it's 2017 since the Scots got a win in this fixture and a few of those were down to them shooting themselves in the foot. Our luck will run out at some stage.

Could it be tomorrow with the home advantage ...

Our games against Ireland since Toonie took over have been either complete blowouts (RWC x2) or lots of honest toil without a second of anyone believing we'd win.

I'm not seeing it going any differently today, so here's to lots of honest toil and congrats Ireland. Unless Edinburgh council go for ...

It's rugby heartland and all, but Perpignan haven't been involved at the business end since 2010.

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