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- Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:13 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Anyone got a streaming link for France game?
- Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:02 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
- Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Globus is Back Home
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1978
Re: Globus is Back Home
Glad to hear you're alright!
- Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:05 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Braai Thread
- Replies: 2303
- Views: 68416
Re: The Official Braai Thread
Made a nice crying tiger steak salad the other night; steak marinated in oyster sauce, coriander and some soy, made a salad with papaya, chilli, mixed leaves etc and a fantastic dipping sauce for the steak consisting of lime juice, sweet chilli sauce, chilli, shallots coriander, thai basil etc. I u...
- Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:04 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Not sure what to make of the team for Sunday, the changes were expected but I'm still disappointed to see them.
Can someone who had the misfortune to play in the forwards give a technical explanation as to why you'd favour Turner over Cherry given how crucial the line out is going to be?
Can someone who had the misfortune to play in the forwards give a technical explanation as to why you'd favour Turner over Cherry given how crucial the line out is going to be?
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:52 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Braai Thread
- Replies: 2303
- Views: 68416
Re: The Official Braai Thread
Made a nice crying tiger steak salad the other night; steak marinated in oyster sauce, coriander and some soy, made a salad with papaya, chilli, mixed leaves etc and a fantastic dipping sauce for the steak consisting of lime juice, sweet chilli sauce, chilli, shallots coriander, thai basil etc. I us...
- Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:31 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
So having seen all the other games completed are there any different views now on the tournament? I think my view is softening a little from post-Ireland and, regardless of the France result it is probably an ok tournament on the whole. We gave England a bit of a shoeing, spanked Italy, pushed a Wa...
- Sun Mar 21, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
On today’s showing, you’d start Huw Jones on Friday. But Toony will start Harris for his defence, and TBH he’ll be right. France will be fired up to fuck, and they’ll smash us if our defence isn’t absolutely on point. Does Harris offer better defence than Jones? Good question. I think Toony thinks ...
- Sat Mar 20, 2021 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
I'm looking forward to a game with two teams willing to play rugby. Aye, I know winning is everything and it doesn't matter how you do it, hoisting the pill into the 22, getting it "in to the fakin mixer" is as valid a way to win as any, but I like to watch ball in hand rugby, and Scotlan...
- Sat Mar 20, 2021 11:14 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Our players need to watch that game and understand how to make sure you take opportunities. Case in point the last try. Fickou did two critical things. First he held on to the ball for a moment. That fixed two defenders, one on him and one on the man outside him. Second he understood that the ball ...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:53 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The end of budget flights (hopefully)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 1205
Re: The end of budget flights (hopefully)
Budget flights allow families and individuals on low incomes to visit places they wouldn't otherwise be able to visit, quite snobby wishing this away when these people are likely to have far lower per capita emissions than the population as a whole. You will not get democratic consent for green refo...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:32 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Won't be resigning would be my bet: authoritarians like Sturgeon always think the rules are there for others and not themeselves. Her response to the committee is straight out of the Trump playbook: deny and accuse committee of bias, at least in Trump's case US institutions held their own against h...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Future for NPR
- Replies: 83
- Views: 4726
Re: The Future for NPR
Hadn’t been on PR in ages. Just went and had a look. Bored looks awful now and all the Scots are on NPR. Counted a number of anti-Scotland threads, thought ‘no thanks’ and came back here. From my visit to the Calcutta cup thread, I see Edinburgh01 is still sticking it out, the lone ranger. PR confi...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Won't be resigning would be my bet: authoritarians like Sturgeon always think the rules are there for others and not themeselves. Her response to the committee is straight out of the Trump playbook: deny and accuse committee of bias, at least in Trump's case US institutions held their own against hi...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:10 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Was so depressed after the Ireland match that I've been avoiding here. However, I had to come back when I saw the XV, could really do with one of those popcorn gifs to express my mix of intrepidation and excitement! Personally, I think Hogg will do a better job than Jaco and could start cutting up t...
- Fri Mar 12, 2021 5:39 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Globus unwell
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2399
Re: Globus unwell
Get well, Globus, hope you can tune in for the crossword.
- Thu Mar 11, 2021 4:12 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Confucianism
- Replies: 10
- Views: 388
Re: Confucianism
A year or so ago, I listened to a pocast edition of 'In Our Time' about Confucius- I'd recommend getting it on Spotify (free) and listening to that. High brow but accessible.
- Wed Mar 10, 2021 3:49 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The last time you posted on PR?
- Replies: 197
- Views: 8283
Re: The last time you posted on PR?
:Bulldog: Who is that bloke in the smilies? A PR member passes away Friday 29th August 2008 Bulldog (AKA Simon Dickson): 1961-2008 The phrase 'Online Community' is often touted these days without people realising just how reliant we have become on the WWW for our social, professional and even love ...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:11 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The last time you posted on PR?
- Replies: 197
- Views: 8283
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:09 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: RWC draw 2023
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1033
Re: RWC draw 2023
THoughts on ticket prices to follow the teams or city packs? My google translator was getting a workout reading the french comments...but generally they said it was expensive. https://www.theoffsideline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screenshot-2021-03-04-at-22.27.20.png Italian fans having to pay ...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Pot kettle black alert. Murdo Fraser, an actual committee member, was happily tweeting his views too. Both wrong, so cool your Unionist froth. But actually, one argument against independence did gain traction yesterday: that the calibre of Scottish politicians is so poor, it would be madness to hav...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Ally Miller and Darge get shifted across to Glasgow. Makes sense as Glasgow need the bodies and Edinburgh have been surprisingly successful at hanging onto their high profile backrows. Darge obviously hasn't had much senior rugby but Miller has proven himself to be a useful squad option. Indeed loo...
- Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:18 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Ali Express
- Replies: 10
- Views: 368
Re: Ali Express
Ordered one thing from them in 2020, absolutely wouldn't recommend: the stuff never arrived despite it being updated in their system as being so. Took a while to get the money back and they retained a small portion of it! I read the trustpilot reviews; it seems that in disputes they often side with ...
- Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:14 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18196
- Views: 984685
Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
I haven't seen anything from Lang that suggests he is that big an upgrade. 50 games for Quins mostly as a squad player rather than 1st choice doesn't inspire that much confidence that he is the key signing to help the team move forward.Is he better than them, aye, but from what I have seen and once...
- Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:08 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
The more this inquiry goes on, the more it exposes the utter failure of the current devolution settlement: parliamentary privilege must be devolved to ensure that the crown office can't bully parliament again. I think a vote of no confidence in Sturgeon should happen irrespective of green (confirmed...
- Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:02 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Biffer - Not sure quoting bombastic statements from the white paper or SNP manifesto's is the clincher you think it is. There was no legal route to retaining membership - the treaties of the EU specified a country would have to join under article 48. This was stated by the commission at the time: h...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 7:17 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: TRANS-TASMAN Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
- Replies: 685
- Views: 14060
Re: Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
Great kick pass for that Clarke try
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:15 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: TRANS-TASMAN Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
- Replies: 685
- Views: 14060
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:11 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: TRANS-TASMAN Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
- Replies: 685
- Views: 14060
Re: Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
How was that pass from the Blues 10 to Clarke; farcical try in the end but great work on the left hand side in the build up.
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:10 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: TRANS-TASMAN Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
- Replies: 685
- Views: 14060
Re: Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
Great bosh from Savea there
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:54 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Looking like France C to play the Sweaties
- Replies: 167
- Views: 4720
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:52 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: TRANS-TASMAN Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
- Replies: 685
- Views: 14060
Re: Super Rugby 2021 - ITS AUNZ!
Looking forward to the this afternoon's rugby, be interested to see how Savea goes today: was dire in France.
Very impressed by Stan's coverage so far, good team from Fox Sports plus Cheika and no adverts!
Very impressed by Stan's coverage so far, good team from Fox Sports plus Cheika and no adverts!
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:49 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Well, it wasn't utter madness to go ahead with Brexit under current economic turmoil, was it? Though that in itself is not a reason to go ahead with independence, but really, Scotland has no voice of its own in any of this, as things stand The two cannot be compared; if Britain was in the euro and ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Why is it interesting? I've never made any attempt to hide my opinion that people who live in Scotland should determine their own future, and I choose that definition carefully because it does not exclude people who were not born within the borders, despite how Scottish nationalism is portrayed by ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:45 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Looking like France C to play the Sweaties
- Replies: 167
- Views: 4720
- Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:44 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
That's rather presumptuous. It is. Interesting that you chose not to embolden the following 6 words though. Why is it interesting? I've never made any attempt to hide my opinion that people who live in Scotland should determine their own future, and I choose that definition carefully because it doe...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Let me answer your question for you : you support independence at all costs so you will assert anything that is likely to maintain sturgeon in power as there's no viable alternative in the SNP ; and, the fact that her departure will damage the cause electorally. That's rather presumptuous. It is. I...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Do you honestly think it's a malicious campaign concoted by Salmond to bring down the exec or do you think that his assertion is correct? Would be an amazing testament to make up on the fly with the sole intention of bringing down Sturgeon, wouldn't you think? It's Friday night, I've had a few, do ...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4126
- Views: 140260
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Anyway, the bottom line seems to be the same thing that has been discussed here - was it a party matter or a SG matter when they met? He says SG, she says party/friend. Did she mislead parliament? He says yes, she says no, she made written submission correcting an earlier one. I'll be surprised if ...
- Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:34 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Looking like France C to play the Sweaties
- Replies: 167
- Views: 4720
Re: Looking like France C to play the Sweaties
If it went to July and we were still in the hunt for championship then no one should be going on lions. I personally don't support the lions but even if I did, a potential 6N champ is far more important! I'm not sure the players would feel that way, the Lions is still the pinnacle for them. True bu...