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Post by zephro on Sept 8, 2024 14:25:48 GMT
The Lions tour next year is on course to be absolute carnage at this rate.
The news is the Rugby Championship is going to happen every other year. Then in the gap years South Africa and New Zealand will do full tours of each other's country (e.g. clubs, A teams etc.) So Australia will get even more cut out of things. It really is a League country.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 8, 2024 16:17:16 GMT
Seems massively unfair for the Wobs and the Pumas, unless they're going to undertake similar tours of their own.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 10, 2024 20:10:48 GMT
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Post by Danno on Sept 11, 2024 4:53:34 GMT
"Wobs" feels like a massive slur
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Post by alastair on Sept 14, 2024 16:20:25 GMT
Red Roses had a good game against NZ.
Abby Dow is awesome on the wing!
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Post by zephro on Sept 16, 2024 15:31:51 GMT
Scotland had a couple of tidy tests against Wales and Fiji. They're now up to 5th in the rankings going into a WXV2 title defence.
Women's rugby just seems so much more positive at the moment.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 20, 2024 20:51:36 GMT
Bath vs. Northampton - a repeat of last season's final - made for a great start to the new season, with Bath ending up comfortable winners.
Also, Newcastle were pumped by Bristol. 'Twas ever thus.
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Post by zephro on Sept 20, 2024 23:15:57 GMT
Was Finn good? Edinburgh went down but surprisingly closely to Leinster having scored 4 tries.
I tried watching highlights on Twitter but it was Danny Care and Sam Warburton and I wanted to punch something. Why's Warburton not doing the URC FFS? Quisling.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 20, 2024 23:40:48 GMT
Finn had a good game, yeah - kicked accurately, tackled more than I'd expected, and generally ran the game well (alongside Ben Spencer, his captain and scrum-half, who got the Player of the Match nod).
If those two can stay fit, I think Bath will be serious contenders this year.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 21, 2024 18:21:44 GMT
Exeter vs. Leicester was another good game. Gloucester vs. Saracens was less fun - two former Saracens players on comms, alongside Nick Mullins, and all of them having a "Sarries" love-in for 80 straight minutes. Danno Where you at? |
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Post by zephro on Sept 22, 2024 9:32:55 GMT
Gah Glasgow also pipped at the death by Ulster. Honestly a bit wasteful we were on top all game but for a few stray forward passes and stuff like that marginally chalking off attacks. Also a yellow that seemed a penalty to me. But you can't be that wasteful!
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Post by Danno on Sept 24, 2024 22:26:01 GMT
Exeter vs. Leicester was another good game. Gloucester vs. Saracens was less fun - two former Saracens players on comms, alongside Nick Mullins, and all of them having a "Sarries" love-in for 80 straight minutes. Danno Where you at? Sorry, bit distracted. Good first weekend in the Prem I thought. Frustrating from my point of view because Quins don't often win an arm wrestle and we shoulda |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 24, 2024 23:04:10 GMT
The Sale vs. Quins game was a bit of a turgid one, but that was due to the conditions more than anything else (and the rain probably suited Sale more than Quins).
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 27, 2024 20:43:55 GMT
Bristol vs. Gloucester proved to be a great game for the neutral viewer - it ended 41-44!
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Post by zephro on Sept 28, 2024 13:34:05 GMT
Gah WXV2 Scotland v Italy clashes with Edinburgh vs The Bulls. I've elected to watch Scotland as international > club.
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Post by zephro on Sept 28, 2024 13:47:14 GMT
And we're up 14-0 before it started pissing it down in cape town. Woop woop.
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 29, 2024 16:03:18 GMT
Tigers had a nightmarish time against Bath this afternoon. A losing bonus point must be scant consolation (and they wouldn't even have had that much, were it not for Finn Russell having the mother of all off days).
Quins fared better against Newcastle yesterday, but... well, it's Newcastle. They didn't give up, and kudos to them for that, but they're still the league's whipping boys.
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 11, 2024 16:37:27 GMT
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Post by Danno on Oct 11, 2024 17:48:59 GMT
Yeah fuck that. Division for the sake of division
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Post by zephro on Oct 19, 2024 14:13:46 GMT
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 28, 2024 17:00:15 GMT
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Post by zephro on Oct 28, 2024 19:22:18 GMT
Phwoar. Whenever he's in a Scotland shirt he's great. Not sure why he doesn't get more game time. I mean he's competing with Tuipulotu, Huw Jones, Cam Redpath, Stafford McDowell etc. If only he was a tight head prop. |
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Post by zephro on Oct 28, 2024 19:28:06 GMT
Oh and British and Irish Lion Chris Harris. Of course there was also that time we played Hastings at 10 and Finn at 12 against Fiji, purely for the mad laughs.
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Post by Ulythium on Oct 29, 2024 18:15:52 GMT
Henry Slade to start against the All Blacks on Saturday, despite having played less than an hour's worth of rugby this season.
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Post by Dougs on Nov 2, 2024 15:31:43 GMT
Good game this. England doing well but the All Blacks are always threatening to break quickly.
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Post by f00b_inc on Nov 2, 2024 15:45:09 GMT
Good game this. England doing well but the All Blacks are always threatening to break quickly. This! At least I've got the house to myself to enjoy it. |
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Post by askew on Nov 2, 2024 17:03:15 GMT
oof
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Nov 2, 2024 17:07:49 GMT
Final minute drama!
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Post by Dougs on Nov 2, 2024 17:19:30 GMT
Cracking game.
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Post by Ulythium on Nov 2, 2024 18:47:48 GMT
Bugger!
Still, I really enjoyed that - nice to have an England team/coach for whom I can root, without feeling a need to jump in the shower at the final whistle.
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