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Well, what a shitty weekend.

Just had the two worst phone calls of my entire life.

My dad on the phone to say my younger brother's chemo is being ended and he's being moved onto palliative care, followed by my desperately weak younger brother on the phone crying his eyes out and apologising he ...

Bath clearing the bench Vs Quins and have gone from 28-7 down to 34-28 up

The guy asking Zelensky why he doesn't wear a suit is MTG's boyfriend.

Russian state media nearly got access and had to be escorted out once they realised who they were.

MTG?

This utter horror show

https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-2151379233.jpg ...

Felix Jones back with South Africa. I thought it was supposed to be Munster but who knows what any more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union ... dee4ey6qjo

Not a wonderful story, and all very tabloid so apologies in advance, but the England rugby player who was investigated for rape has been exonerated.

A woman in Manchester fabricated stories about Marland Yarde raping a 16 year old, and sold the rape story to the press. She's just been found guilty ...

Loosehead is an issue. It's great that we do have some very good young scrummies coming through - it's always been Ireland's greatest weak spot.

Much as I think Porter gets away with a lot in the scrums, he's no bad option. No idea who comes after him though?

Porter is a great option ...

POM, Healy and Murray (almost forgot he was still playing) to retire after 6N

https://www.irishrugby.ie/2025/02/27/omahony-healy-and-murray-to-call-time-on-decorated-ireland-careers/

All three have had very good careers, and good luck to them in what comes next. At an Ireland team level that ...

Ahh, that ref again!

Well yes. Just before half time Dave Cherry carried into contact and one of the Currys did a bear crawl forward in the ruck, placed his hands on the ground either side of the ball, then moved his hands on to the ball before picking it up and placing it behind him. No ...

POM, Healy and Murray (almost forgot he was still playing) to retire after 6N

https://www.irishrugby.ie/2025/02/27/omahony-healy-and-murray-to-call-time-on-decorated-ireland-careers/

All three have had very good careers, and good luck to them in what comes next. At an Ireland team level that's a ...

sockwithaticket wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:10 am What a great time to be on the outside of the massive trading block on our doorstep with no leverage or backup against a predatory, far wealthier trade partner.

There's no way he'll do anything to hurt his golf courses.

Will that be the end of Buttler's captaincy?

Marylandolorian wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 5:02 pm
Guy Smiley wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:35 pm It's not unbelievable though.

It's the reality. When someone tells you who they are so clearly, you have to believe it.
Like this one ?

Needs a bigger gut

Bath are top of the league and he's (usually) our kicker - I'd bloody well hope he's scored a lot of points with the boot. The metric is a bit meaningless.

Glasgow's kickers are usually very low in term of penalties scored because they very seldom go for the posts - their game plan is ...

Russell's kicking has deserted him completely at times - it's happened for Bath, so much so that Spencer and others have taken on kicking at times - but he's in pole position as the best distributor at 10. That hasn't changed.

As I say, he's the top goal kicker in the league. PR has this ...

Russell's kicking has deserted him completely at times - it's happened for Bath, so much so that Spencer and others have taken on kicking at times - but he's in pole position as the best distributor at 10. That hasn't changed.

Salt goes cheaply again, not looking in great nick

I've often seen it said that the US is a great place to be well off and a dreadful place to be anything other than upper middle class.

They may perform well on a lot of raw metrics, but so many states have essentially zero worker protections and benefits on the statute books, it's all at the ...

Prendergast's defence is even more comically inept than Sir Charles of Hodgson's

Lolz, fucked up that edit didn’t I ?

Yeeb
The figures can say what they like but they are utterly divorced from the reality on the ground. Majority of septics are pretty poor.

Well, the UK is hardly thriving and prosperous.

The UK doesn't have 80-odd thousand annual opioid deaths, and ...

Going on the reports it sounds like a flat pitch, but we've been abject against decent spinners so this probably won't go well.

How?

USA doesn't get $500bn. Doesn't get the money from the fund since that goes to Ukrainian projects. It doesn't have security guarantees.

It's literally Ukraine gets the revenue and reinvests 50% back into it's own projects...

It's solely a deal so trump can say he got the deal done ...

Maybe China will be next with an offer...

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1894287235844800832

I'm waiting for the Taliban to step in. Afghanistan is sitting on trillions in useable rocks.

It's petty of me, but I'd hope this goes through just to give Trump and Co a black eye.

Of ...

Tichtheid wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 11:08 am Netflix's Zero Day is great fun, a bit silly in parts but we're really enjoying it.

It's quite apposite in the current climate.

I think this role suits an aged De Niro better than that nonsense in the Irishman.

Exeter Chiefs giving the salary cap a bashing
Australian centre Len Ikitau to join them imidiately after the Lions tests
Joseph Dweba, Springbok hooker to join for the start of next season. Which is probably why Frost is moving on.

I'd assumed Chiefs are a way off the cap at the moment? They ...

Started on Reacher Season 3. Hopefully it's more like Season 1 and less like Season 2.

Season 2 was poor. The supporting characters - not necessarily the cast, they were just following the script - were awful.

I quite like the books as a bit of daft light reading, not really got into the ...

My Scottish family seemed to have taken the defeat in good grace as has in here from what I can tell - faceybook seems to be quite different though with lots of whinging about the ref and non grounding and bias toward England. If Scotland had won, wouldn’t there have been as much red whinging ...

I found some decisions at the breakdown a bit peculiar, but it went for both sides.

I view complaints about 'the ball wasn't grounded' in the same way I view the 'Mark Cueto foot in touch to lose a WC final' and the 'conceding Saffa scrum penalty to lose a WC semi'. The ref was probably right, not ...

It’s a team that wants to win and play for each other as well, which we shouldn’t take for granted. Excellently led by Itoje who seems to be hitting a better balance of risk reward (and getting the final kicked moved was a phenomenal bit of shithousing).

It wouldn’t change the fact that the ...

Could well be. It’s quite surprising that’s Englands defence is still so awful

Because Slade leads it!!!!!

To be fair Lawrenxlce missed 3 apparently.

He missed one on Van Der Merve for (I think) the first try. Was grasping and a bit of an arms only tackle and didn't get a full wrap ...

BBC really are horrendous at rugby highlights, didn’t even show the England try for some reason 😳

Are you talking about the 5 min highlights on iplayer? They showed the try.

Is this some weird whoosh I'm not getting?

No, the highlights on the news this morning !

:lol:

It's no ...

SomersetJock wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:38 am BBC really are horrendous at rugby highlights, didn’t even show the England try for some reason

Are you talking about the 5 min highlights on iplayer? They showed the try.

Is this some weird whoosh I'm not getting?

Amazon are taking creative control of James Bond.

They’re bound to do the whole ‘Universe’ thing with spin offs and tv series. Will probably end up in the same creative hole that Star Wars and Marvel are in.

Don't click spoiler if you give a shit but haven't seen the last Bond film

Is he ...

Our lack of second rows is really starting to get to me.

Not convinced papering over the cracks with tall back rowers will cut it.

Assume you mean the bench replacement of Martin with Hill? The balance of the bench does seem a little off, happy enough for someone to cover lock and back row ...

I noted the replacement scrumhalf for Sarries is the offspring of Kyran Bracken.

Any good?

Yes, very good. His baby brother came on as a replacement as well and literally ran straight through a Quins defender to score the winning try.

The Brackens pictured last week.

https://i ...

Maybe Chessum is a better lineout option than Martin and should help improve the Lineout when LCD is throwing.

Appears to be more athletic than Martin

Martin out
Hill to the bench

I like Martin so I'm disappointed in one sense, but chuffed Hill's going to - hopefully - get a go. His ...

Let’s be honest, the average English fan, journalist and ex player couldn’t give a toss about non Scottish born players pulling on a Scotland shirt.

What they really object to is when there are ones who run through them and around them to score time and again !

I object to us making Van Der ...

Wow. That’s fantastic. We might finally be on the route to achieving proper fusion generation.

It feels almost too good to be true. A 22 minute reaction is an amazing result.

Something I follow with great interest. I worked at JET in the early nineties, a 1/2 second pulse was celebrated ...

I look at my dad's experience - he met my mum on a rugby team night out, his best man was scrum-half at his club, most of his business customers were themselves small businessmen at his rugby club, they went on tours, he meets his old mates whenever our old club plays in Norfolk.

I think there ...

I think this is exactly the case, and whatever they say I don’t think they really mind players becoming consumers

And clubs being just facilities.

It's not a good thing at all.

Again though I don’t think this is just the suits being malevolent. A club as we know it requires give and ...

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