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Everyone knows Pepsi and Coke are from the US but still buy them. But they're not made and bottled in the USA, then shipped here. They are made in EU/UK under EU rules. Not true for all of their products , and the syrup comes straight from the US. Still undeniably US brands though , the argument of...

Yes, they should. Credit to Leinster C. They were in the Sharks faces all game long and played with a lot of passion. Can see NieNaber's defensive poison in full flight. Glasgow were all over the Lions. It's going to be a special team to beat Leinster A or Glasgow. Leinster were offside all game. R...

This have a bit of everything in the extreme. https://x.com/URCOfficial_RSA/status/1903471381481758813?t=aw9tBq7ot81ovAWO2K49hg&s=19 I know its kind of close due to the speed it all happens, but that's definitely playing the ball off the deck. He's tackled and immediately places the ball, playe...

Sorry Biffer, going to lower the fun quotient. Does anyone else here run their own business? If so, have you noticed a massive increase in late payment of invoices? It has been insane over the last few months and absolutely killing me. I've spoken to a few people and they are all saying the same. T...

Sorry Biffer, going to lower the fun quotient. Does anyone else here run their own business? If so, have you noticed a massive increase in late payment of invoices? It has been insane over the last few months and absolutely killing me. I've spoken to a few people and they are all saying the same. T...

PCPhil wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 7:59 pm Can we make it that new members must be vetted?

Oh, and anyone's name that starts with 'b' and ends with 'man' is automatically barred ...

What have you got against Bananaman?

FHHD

POM's "dirtyness" is way overstated. He's an annoying bollocks to play against and rubs the opposition up the wrong way but half the footage of him in these "dirtiest players Eva" videos is holding an opposition players jersey and saying mean things to them. But you keep going T...

I think that's a perfectly fair attitude, I was just disagreeing with the notion that he deliberately set out to injure, which I think is nonsense! Like I said, more Farrell than Hartley or Clarke. This is the thing though, no one will address his recklessness with other players safety. All we hear...

I think that's a perfectly fair attitude, I was just disagreeing with the notion that he deliberately set out to injure, which I think is nonsense!

Like I said, more Farrell than Hartley or Clarke.

Bielle-Biarrey wasn't injured!?

He's absolutely trying to take the man out of the play (as he should - I was very disappointed that Beirne? didn't take out Penaud for his wonder try two years ago). A little too close to borderline late and couldn't complain if it was a penalty, but that sort of thing is absolutely what all players...

A Representative calling out the thinly veiled attempt to privatise... (auto playing reddit video) https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1j9v3c1/rep_john_larson_calls_out_elon_musk_on_doge_scam/ https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNjEyZ2puendicHZ4bml2amU5MmluNGE0eDllbmI3dW9kcG1lcH...

Go back through any of the threads during an Irish/Provincial game and its full of people seeing only one team offside, or one team off their feet. This place largely is not viewing through an objective lens*! *I'm as partial as most during a game, and tend to notice the other teams infractions mor...

Go back through any of the threads during an Irish/Provincial game and its full of people seeing only one team offside, or one team off their feet. This place largely is not viewing through an objective lens*! *I'm as partial as most during a game, and tend to notice the other teams infractions more...

Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 3:12 pm only Ire has gone as far at it has.

Utter bollox - open the other eye! Every team is at it!

We might be better at it than most, but that's only because, right now, we're a better rugby team than most, and WR have decided that this farce should be a major part of the game!

As for 1-4............ perleeaassssse. WR has consistently shown itself to - have no serious regard for player safety except when driven by expedience (maybe have a chat with Mr Thompson et al) - and consequently, that same expedience imperative immediately results in digging out the Pontious Pilat...

To boil the point down - it's wrong to harangue the players in situations like this due to the outcome, when the majority of players are doing something very similar in practically every ruck. If they didn't their team would be at a disadvantage. It is World Rugby's failures that are responsible. Th...

Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:14 pm Imagine for a sec how the game could work if refs immediately penalised any player going off their feet at a ruck.

Oh ffs, this is painful with you guys. The referee explained to the player that he was sending him off for landing on the lower limb, as per the world rugby laws. I said all this in a previous post. I don't understand what is to be gained by a point blank refusal to accept there was any wrong doing...

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 11:33 am
PornDog wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 11:29 am Just like with the tackle, only pure lip service is being paid to protecting players.
Head injury leads to end of career & dementia at 40 = bad.
Knee injury leads to end of career & pain getting out of bed = okay

What colour is the grass in imagination land?

Remember when WR changed the sanctions for tackling in the air to an automatic card and there was an outcry defending defending players who were 'just trying to play the ball'... but it's reckless and putting yourself in that position is universally accepted now as a card unless the circumstances a...

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Sun Mar 09, 2025 8:24 pm Blame this on McAwe.

There's actually some truth to this. Well actually, himself, Smith and Waugh were just the original proponent once the then IRB decided that hands in the ruck should no longer be a penalty offence.

The ruck has become an absolute shit show and needs to be radically overhauled. Rucks should be a contest of strength and technique, not mass and velocity. It should also be contested between players on their feet. This is very rarely the case and World Rugby are entirely responsible for it! Both ru...

I hope the Putin propagandists are reading this; Ukrainian opposition leaders have dismissed the idea of holding a wartime election, after a media report of contacts between them and US officials and in the wake of President Donald Trump calling his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dict...

I don’t understand how these billionaires who support Trump will still be rich when the US economy shrinks and millions of people lose their jobs. The stock market will drop and so will the value of their stock profiles. What am I missing? Shock doctrine/disaster capitalism - chaos is an opportunit...

:lol: Maureen Dowd nails the futility of stroking an uber-fragile ego like Trump's... Everyone is so obsequious around Trump that he now gets huffy at the least pushback. He can make any claim, no matter how outrageous — that Ukraine started the war with Russia, that Zelensky is a “dictator.” But i...

Ringrose’s ban farcically includes a URC game, once again the disciplinary randomiser whirs into motion Par for the course these days. Also reduced from 3. Except if you are French (Ntamack Toulouse game was not counted) TBF, Ntamack should have gotten a 3 month ban, not a 3 week one! Filthy delibe...

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:47 pm Oh look, Space Karen is fucking someone new !

In what Universe is using a satellite based comms solution for ATC viable ??????????

I would assume that is going to result in a massive lawsuit by Verizon.

POM, Healy and Murray (almost forgot he was still playing) to retire after 6N https://www.irishrugby.ie/2025/02/27/omahony-healy-and-murray-to-call-time-on-decorated-ireland-careers/ All three have had very good careers, and good luck to them in what comes next. At an Ireland team level that's a lo...

POM, Healy and Murray (almost forgot he was still playing) to retire after 6N https://www.irishrugby.ie/2025/02/27/omahony-healy-and-murray-to-call-time-on-decorated-ireland-careers/ All three have had very good careers, and good luck to them in what comes next. At an Ireland team level that's a lo...

That's quite the list of "Shithole countries" the US is keeping company with

or you could have gotten real carrier and aircrafts, instead you have huge helicopter carriers and Fat Amy . Eh? Genuinely don’t know what you mean there, desole There was a partnership with France to develop a carrier (CATOBAR) after the Charles de Gaulle. It was dropped for the Queen Elizabeth cl...

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 8:44 am 3.5k for the ospreys v Leinster.
That's not great really, is it.

I'm surprised it was that many. Seemed like less.

You know the world must really have gone to shit if you find yourself on the same side as, and agreeing with, John Bolton

With sales tanking, and presumably there's a Board, could they kick him out? I think the problem with that is that a huge amount of their stock price is over inflated because of The Cult of Elon. I think they're damned if they do and damned if they don't - at least in the short to medium term. Long...

Yeah I don't think it was a penalty try either - could have been had the bounce been more favourable, but it wasn't. At best it was a 50/50 chance he would have gotten there and that by definition isn't a probable try scoring opportunity.

A four year old Dan Sheehan with some other bloke -

Quite! I don't usually look at players individual stats though do look at the general match stats themselves. If what you say is true Mitchell was reponsible for a 25% of Englands missed tackles on his own!!!! I actually like Mitchel as a 9 and think he has a strong chance to be on the Lions Tour. ...

He shouldn't be anywhere near it if still employed by France. :?: Does that reasoning extend to Willis and Kinghorn as well? Having said that, I'd imagine he'd be needed (and under contract) with the French team for their Summer tour. Curious counter point. Neither are employed by the French rugby ...

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