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Fully agree with your second paragraph.

Taking some anecdotal examples from my own circle, a few people I know have fairly recently missed out on big promotions due to company ‘positive’ discrimination programmes and it has to a man turned their politics from very middle of the road to ...

Is it? Wasn't our last game against them the one in summer 23 when we hammered them by 25 points in Spain? I think that was only a friendly but it's the best reference point we have...

They’ve been a lot more competitive against the big sides at u18 than we were. Spain gave England a game ...

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 youth set up is stronger than our s. Wales maybe?

Is it? Wasn't our last game against them the one in summer 23 when we hammered them by 25 ...

westport wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 3:13 pm Jamie Ritchie, Mark Bennett, Dave Cherry, Matt Scott, Jamie Hodgson, Ali Price, Emiliano Boffelli, Robin Hislop, Javan Sebastian, Jake Henry, Nathan Sweeney and Jack Hocking will all move on at the end of the current campaign.

Have they said where Sebastian is going?

Hollie Davidson to take charge of European Challenge Cup Final.
“European rugby is the pinnacle of the professional game and to be named as the Challenge Cup final referee is something that I never thought was possible when I was starting out."

Well done her.

Now, get her a feckin 6Ns game ...

KingBlairhorn wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 6:49 pm Glasgow must have been nilled in 5 or 6 halves of rugby over the last couple of months. Very unlike them.

We’ve been crap and getting worse each game

Jock42 wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 4:59 pm
Simian wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 4:58 pm
Biffer wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 4:51 pm This is starting to look like 'let's deliberately fuck Edinburgh over'
it's jock42's fault

Jock42 wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 3:38 pm Good for embra, not so good for the weegies but fuck them.

Clearly read that out in the pre match talk.

pinned on the changing room wall

Jesus we've been dreadful

Biffer wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 4:51 pm This is starting to look like 'let's deliberately fuck Edinburgh over'

it's jock42's fault

Jock42 wrote: Sat May 10, 2025 3:38 pm Good for embra, not so good for the weegies but fuck them.

Graham and Ritchie paying the price of playing for Edinburgh.

Both will be in their 30's by the time of the next BIL tour

Both deserve to be tourists

I’m not sure who I’d drop to create a spot for JR, tbh. Graham is desperately unlucky tho.

Delighted for all those going tho.

That’s ...

Biffer wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 5:22 pm Looks like Kemi put the offer of the NI exemption on the table when she was business secretary, according to Indian officials speaking to the FT.

That’s hilarious

I’m slightly disappointed that we don’t get the epic shit show we’d have got if he’d selected his son. Guess that’s going to have to wait until injury forces a call up at 10 or 12.

Dogbert wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 2:46 pm Graham and Ritchie paying the price of playing for Edinburgh.

Both will be in their 30's by the time of the next BIL tour

Both deserve to be tourists

I’m not sure who I’d drop to create a spot for JR, tbh. Graham is desperately unlucky tho.

Delighted for all those going tho.

I wasn’t getting excited about it. As you say, the last one didn’t turn out all that well

seems a bit odd to refer to a guy who played more than fifty times for munster (including appearing in finals) as a fringe player for them. Or were you not referring to Healy?

It's wild that it's ...

Just seen a story on FB that Jack Oliver (Greig Oliver’s son) is going to sign for Glasgow and ‘switch allegiance’ to Scotland.

Now, I accept Jack has grown up in Ireland and represented their U20s. But he is a Scottish-born player whose dad played for Scotland. Given how much crap we get ...

great game. quality from saints

Divey O'Divey

One of the things that I admire in sportsmen/women in sports like Golf & Snooker is their ability to put absolutely horrific shots in a box, & just treat the next shot as a completely different thing; a lot of Rugby players seem to not be able to compartmentalize it that way, & when they screw ...

That number seems a reach even if you intended that number in toto across all the clubs. Most of the Prem teams play at old grounds that have been tinkered with (I'm ignoring the peripatetics like Wasps and Lirish who can't have spent a penny) bar Andy Bell spending something like £25m to ...

Uncle fester wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 1:18 pm
Punter15 wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 1:12 pm When you need to unify four different nations, not sure that picking someone with a high degree of animosity towards three of them is a sound move.
He has plenty of animosity for Irish players too.

True! I suppose it’s possible everyone will be united by their shared disdain for him.

If you’ve never been to a game at Toulon I’d say that’s a must. And very easy to get along the coast by train too.

Begbie wrote: Thu Apr 17, 2025 10:00 am https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/a ... 5dqy32dl0o

Interesting

Worst pick since Alastair Campbell

The worst part was that, if this is all true, Trump dispatched his son in law to find him an economics policy that made him look tough. Kushner apparently browsed Amazon and saw a book title he liked - Death By China. This was written by Navarro and in it are the multiple citings of this ...

Now I think about it, clogging up Edinburgh with NSQ 9s might be the best thing the SRU can do to develop SQ 9s

With Chapman apparently signing for Exeter, it takes another potential SQ 9 for Edinburgh off the table.

With Price going and Shiel OOC and not really doing much to merit a new one that leaves Vellacott as the only 9 under contract for next year. Most/all the decent SQ 9s are under contract ...

Cited

https://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-un ... ie-5071738

I’m guessing it will be deemed reckless rather than deliberate. But the video does look really bad.

I’ve always thought a remake of a clockwork orange could be good.

ASMO wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:02 am Jason and the Argonauts

One of my favourite films. If they do ever remake it, I hope it’s better than the awful TV miniseries versions. Despite a decent cast, it was astonishingly terrible.

I’d love to see a good remake of it tho!

Leicester have put in a complaint about Venter

much more engaging game than I expected

can they not just use a different ball?

Glasgow have never beaten Leinster in a knock out game.

It would be fucking monumental if they did it.

Yeah would be the best result in Scottish rugby for the last twenty odd years easily.

Not even close, even if Glasgow beat Leinster in Dublin , it's just one game, you don't get a ...

Tichtheid wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:37 pm Munster incredibly lucky

yeah, very!!

Wikipedia thinks this is correct. Residency is 60 months immediately leading up to when you play, or 10 years of continuous residence, which doesn’t have to be immediately prior. I suppose this is to avoid a player accidentally becoming ineligible for a country they legitimately grew up in ...

Torquemada 1420 wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:38 am But his Fre club was quite happy to off him and given the amount of money sloshing around in T14, no other Fre club picked up his contract?

When he moved to Bath it was reported that he was the highest paid player in Europe.

He's subsequently been overtaken by Farrell, so.....

Potentially.

Lots of young SQ back rows kicking about and doubt the SRU/Glasgow would match the salary of Brive given Venter is 33 very soon..

Agree on the age profile. I think my surprise was mostly due to Mann moving on too - Venter and Mann are the two hard carriers at the moment in ...

Biffer wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:49 am As ever, no mention of reckless, only deliberate. Fucking journalists need to start trying to understand the game.

it's bizarre

It's not just Ireland who are ruck goblins.

No, it's not... and many of us have bemoaned the state of the ruck for years. There's a pretty clearly set out Law framework for managing it that the sport turns a blind eye to. Now we're at a juncture that a champion player is seriously ...

It's not clear to me how this incident is different from the ones in the Ulster Munster game, England Japan game, Scotland SA game. All of those were reviewed at the time, led to reds and bans.

ETA: He coulda doid

fantastique

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