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Sounds like the UBB players acted like a bunch of graceless wankers after the final whistle

I can't wait for the broad range of opinions being expressed on this thread.

Crow on the Orient Express

Kramer

Shocking yellow for alleged deliberate knock on, when he was clearly trying to catch the ball. That law really needs some proper guidance as it’s basically chaos.

Shocking yellow for alleged deliberate knock on, when he was clearly trying to catch the ball. That law really needs some proper ...

Partly an age thing I think. I've fallen out of love with pro sports. It is too analytical, clinical and cynical these days. Also the availability of high quality replays doesn't help the refs who probably get more correct than ever before, which means more scrutiny on the mistakes they do make ...

Park life

Raggs wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:46 pm Weird one in the Bristol game. If he's lost that ball backwards, he's in the ground and can't play it anymore.

Personally I think he's just scored it.

Doesn't apply in-goal

Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:01 pm Anyway, Happy New Year all, I’m sure in 2024 someone will change their mind on an issue as a result of a post in this thread

If I were a floating voter I think the sheer weight of preening piety in this thread would make me plump for the Tories.

Do folk reckon you’re in worse or better shape than you would have been under Eddie J?

He needed to go, but seeing as we'd contracted him until after the WC then we should have held out until then. There was bound to be a dip, but the dip is made much worse by the fact he new coach can't ...

Give Borthwick his due, he's managed to retain an attack coach for three games in a row. Unfortunately it's Richard fucking Wigglesworth.

Thick and lazy, a killer combination

How long is Steve Borthwick's contract?

I'm fine with it, but I draw the line at BP subsidising tickets for the theatre

My mates would probably prefer I check up on them personally to make sure they're okay than make a public gesture of support, but then I could be wrong. I don't have any high profile politician mates who have been arrested, after all. But if I did then I"d probably be scrupulous, especially if I ...

Personally I wouldn't be making gestures of support to a colleague arrested on suspicion of a criminal offence, but maybe I'm old fashioned. I might check up privately to make sure they're okay, but that's about it.

Noisy families on the beach

RIP

He and Joel Dume are the French refs I remember from that era.

Right on, sisters

Not in a great place at the moment but even if there was a more union controlled or consolidated model that we'd somehow adopted in 1995, that would be no guarantee of success, as the basket cases in our nearest neighbours testify.

Wales?

They're not Union led. That's part of their problem ...

Not in a great place at the moment but even if there was a more union controlled or consolidated model that we'd somehow adopted in 1995, that would be no guarantee of success, as the basket cases in our nearest neighbours testify.

Some of the Cov City fans were consistently knobbish when it came to anything Wasps throughout our time up there, but they were particularly unbearable when everything was going down earlier in the season.

I might be wrong here but I recall reading that Cov City had basically been fucked ...

Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 3:08 am I think I know more than most as, as a young, mutant ninja hero guitar player music student, I actually toured South Wales Schools..with an anti bullying rock opera back in 1991 for 3 months, doing 3 shows a day.

Hasn't Hepher been leading Exeter this season while Baxter takes more of a back seat?

I'm getting bored with all this. Either side could argue for ever and a day and not agree
He will receive a 4 week ban reduced to 3 weeks for good previous and agreeing to attend the WR tackling course.

He really needs to attend the WR evasive action course, since that seems to be what he was ...

Red cards for high tackles are there in part to make players change their behaviour so that there is less risk of head shots.

Accidental head contact is always going to be part of the game.

So for me it comes down to, could Steward reasonably be expected to have done something different in ...

Ireland 40 England 18
France 32 Wales 15
Scotland 21 Italy 15

Still waiting for the ex-wingers with their harrowing tales of getting cold and breaking fingernails

What the hell...

Italy 27 Wales 18
England 28 France 22
Scotland 18 Ireland 30

clydecloggie wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 3:15 pm
Prembore wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 3:13 pm
clydecloggie wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:11 pm

Bold predictions for a league leader.
I might copy them
Well, then you are 100% sure you won't make any ground on him

At the moment I don't need to

clydecloggie wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:11 pm
PCPhil wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:19 am Italy 28 Wales 14
England 25 France 28
Scotland 16 Ireland 31
Bold predictions for a league leader.

I might copy them

Italy 17 - Ireland 40
Wales 20 - England 30
France 36 - Scotland 26

So does Ashton have an official role with the U20s or is he merely an adviser?

Is that Brian Ashton I see?

charltom wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 8:05 pm
Prembore wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:44 pm In the old days it was easy to identify the intelligent players, they were the ones who flew through their Land Economy courses at Oxford.
They'd have to be utterly brilliant to do that, given it was a course at Cambridge not Oxford!

Doh

I flunked

In the old days it was easy to identify the intelligent players, they were the ones who flew through their Land Economy courses at Oxford.

Agree with the above though, we don't seem to produce many thinking players...as far as I can tell from their occasional utterances, anyway.

Line6 HXFX wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:53 pm
Am I going to spend the weeks after miserable as fuck

Yes

I can take kicking as a tactical choice generally but doing it in the oppo 22 unless there's absolutely nothing else on is crazy. It's like they're constantly trying to recreate that match against France a few years ago

Ludlam's a grafter but I want to see Willis, Earl, Dombrandt for the next match.

Getting sloppy now, Dombrandt at the scrum, vP at the maul

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