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Johann van Graan at Bath as well

Leicester confirm the players leaving at the end of the season: Phil Cokanasiga Nic Dolly Guy Porter Joe Powell Dan Richardson Matt Scott Jasper Wiese Mike Williams Ben Woollett Francois van Wyk Van Wyk signed up at Bath for 2 years. Van Graan is very keen to get a powerful tight 5 and dynamic back...

Tough news but sounds like you’re on the right track. I had chemo and radiotherapy as treatment for Lymphoma a couple of years ago. Key point for me is that there is no “standard” reaction, some people get flattened by it and others sail through almost unaffected. My own experience was that I got pr...

There’s a fair amount of chat about Erne Herbst coming back on before his 10 minutes in the bin was up - I didn’t catch it entirely whilst watching the game- was there a cock up from the 4th match official?

Mike Procter gone aged 77, another of the greats from my youth passed away. I remember him performing great deeds for Gloucestershire (or Proctershire as it became known) back in the 1970s.

I noticed Slade was lining up at inside centre for part of the second half- haven’t seen the TV rerun to confirm whether it was throughout or just a couple of occasions (both in attack and defence).

Jarrod Evans is straight back from a long injury layoff and barely had time to develop any partnerships before he got injured anyway. He did not look fit. Max Green was an emergency signing and some way off Porter's standard. Played like twats and should have won regardless. Far too many unforced e...

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:10 pm Bath come to Cape Town

Bath are travelling to Exeter according to BBC, Stormers have La Rochelle

I assume George Martin is injured?

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:21 pm Much like Christian Wade, a great opportunity to pick up a decent amount of money and take a lot of supplements without anything as gauche as appearing in competitive matches or getting drug tested

Last seen at the Rec on Sunday as a travelling reserve for Racing

Bath are away at Toulouse in the last round, La Rochelle travel to Sale.

Thanks folks. Sometimes I feel a bit of a fraud, yes I have a form of cancer, Multiple Myeloma and as yet it's one of the ones they they can't cure, they can only 'manage' it. At the moment mine is 'smouldering', as the doc says it'll do what it wants, either smouldering in the background or become...

Per Sky Sports Sale forward Rodd is out for the rest of this season after undergoing toe surgery and Gloucester's Rapava-Ruskin, who was part of England's World Cup training squad last year, is another long-term absentee following a knee operation. So we are looking very bare in the prop department,...

It's funny, we (I), tend to think that this moaning about refs is a fairly new thing but I've been re reading a book called Band of Brothers about the French team of the 80's (a must read for anyone with a passing interest) and was struck last night by the section on a lunch/interview with Blanco. ...

Looks like Jonny May’s in strife for this clean out on Ollie Lawrence https://x.com/rugbycollective/status/1724456436359401605?s=46&t=NLUEM7WC4F99xXnhCiOf8A I really like May as a person and as a personality in the game, but he is comically fucking useless at just about everything except runnin...

Looks like Jonny May’s in strife for this clean out on Ollie Lawrence
https://x.com/rugbycollective/status/1 ... xXnhCiOf8A

Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:44 am RWC head to head:

1999 QF - South Africa 44 - England 21

2007 Final - South Africa 15 - England 6

2019 Final - South Africa 32 - England 12

2003 and 2007 pool stages as well (one apiece)

You might want to check the draw again - pools C& D play each other in the quarter finals……

The kick off times for recent internationals at Twickenham haven't helped either - 4.45 is a crap time for any chance of a sensible post match debrief in Richmond before getting the train back West

I was just in Matera (Southern Italy) for a week - work not holiday unfortunately. If your idea of a holiday is wandering little narrow streets, stopping for coffee or a glass of wine occasionally, and good food from small restaurants, then I'd thoroughly recommend it. It's beautiful. Add Puglia on...

PCPhil wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 2:00 pm Aussies are renowned for being unwilling to, ahem, bend the rules in any circumstances

It just wouldn’t be cricket, would it?

Team's up https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/369877021_837620584700310_2544904163810252174_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s960x960&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=N2BOhRCft98AX9F7NTx&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=00_AfDIX8W3ZH1fAvBIQ5DGNnu9t-2W6BR1phR3p4M2rtg8Tg&...

inactionman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:08 am
Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:01 am Word is they might try Smith at full back...
You haven't been listening to Stuart Barnes again, have you

Telegraph is running the story as well

My main hope at the moment is that people voting with their feet will force the RFU's hand. Unfortunately, most of the Council appear to be clad with Rhino hide.

I think England may score a couple of tries and will concede no more than 6 to 8. Seems reasonable, and the couple of tries will no doubt be the positives that Scab will focus on at the post game presser, conveniently forgetting the 6-8 conceded and the utter reaming his team just took First game f...

England team announced for Saturday England squad to face Ireland 15. Freddie Steward (Leicester Tigers, 24 caps) 14. Anthony Watson (unattached, 55 caps) 13. Joe Marchant (Stade Francais, 17 caps) 12. Manu Tuilagi (Sale Sharks, 51 caps) 11. Elliot Daly (Saracens, 58 caps) 10. George Ford – vice-cap...

Have just seen that the SRU are going to award retrospective caps to 40-odd players who played in internationals that weren’t given full cap status. One of them is Craig Redpath of Melrose (Bryan’s brother and Cam’s uncle?) who gets a cap for a game v Tonga in 1993. I’ve never met the guy and I hav...

Is there any possibility of an appeal against this decision? I can't see how this can possibly be correct given what we have seen recently.

Matthieu Van Der Poel firing up Montrose Street in training

inactionman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 11:49 am States the obvious perhaps, but the new ball looks to be pretty important on this pitch.

Makes you wonder why the Aussies didn't take it immediately?

Can someone set me right on a law question whilst we wait for Crawley to give his wicket away? This stems from once being called for a short run in a village cricket match (where I was clearly in but never mind that) and subsequent stupid beery discussions afterwards. If the law says that, should a...

Wordle 749 6/6

Phew

Two stumpings off Lyon, Bairstow and Ali forcing it much too much 323-7 on a 450+ wicket!! Australia will b e well happy I’m finding all this Bazball stuff increasingly cringy. Play positive Test cricket without all the nonsense - although in fairness it was mainly the commentators that were contin...

I have been a club cyclist and road racer/time trial trihard for 25 years. The roads are really dicey these days. Full of potholes and impatient dangerous drivers in massive cars that they can’t gauge how wide they are. I have taken up gravel riding to minimise my road exposure as I feel very unsaf...

Kelly Brown was very badly hurt last summer, an oncoming car turned in front of his bike, he smashed both his knees and had bad facial injuries. He's still doing physio. A mate of mine had to get airlifted to hospital from a B road in the Scottish Borders after being run off the road by a car. Ther...

Starts Friday but otherwise on much the same page as you. I worry for Ali - hasn't had a good test performance in ages, hasn't played first class in ages, and I think the Aussies will go hammer and tongs at him to force us to bowl our seamers into the ground. Getting Jimmy and Broad through five te...

I can get most of them but recognise some faces but I can't remember the name. Starting FR: Pierce/Brain/Chilcott SR: Dooley/Bainbridge BR: ? Recognise his face?/Winterbottom/Richards HB: ?Youngs?/Andrew Centres: ? No idea?/Clough Wings: Harrison/Underwood FB: ?O'Neil? Subs (L to R): Hill/Barnes/??...

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/101562549/photo/the-england-rugby-union-team-prior-to-their-international-match-against-ireland-held-at.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=S9GVYp8RginzMEOt4BHxR2y8PBWfIlZdaDu8m0LUmTc= How many of these England players can you name? Got the lot bar 2 subs on the ri...

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I'm going back to my childhood and the Thanet coast in Kent Booked a very nice looking house in Whitstable in June and will visit the old places I remember from 60 years ago which I should imagine are startlingly different now Have booked a number of excellent looking restaurants including one I ha...

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