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He actually says in the interview that he only resigned because the report got leaked!

Dollar Bill Sweeney will be all over this like a virulent dose of jock rot. What a fantastic earner to finish off his pension pot.

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If anything, Pollock's hype train is struggling to keep up with his performances. Lions bolter? He wouldn't look out of place but no chance imho. Just in terms of English backrow options, I think Pollock would still be behind; Jack Willis Ben Earl Ben and Tom Curry Courtney Lawes Sam Underhill

Henry Pollock certainly looks very very gifted.

Born in Oxfordshire, schooled in Buckinghamshire, learned to play club rugby in Northamptonshire, capped for England Schools, England U18s, England U20s, England A, and England...

...and still the Jocks call him a Scottish poach.

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:04 pm
Heading to Tottenham for (hopefully) the annual beatdown of Quins?

I had the offer of tickets but my eldest has now reached that age where I inevitably have to drive her somewhere to play hockey on Saturdays and often on a Sunday as well.

Oxbow wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 9:36 pm That's right up there with the worst I've ever seen Saints play. I know they lost a lot of experience at the end of last season, but the transformation from brilliant to dogshit is remarkable.

Thought the Saints wingers were very poor and the backrow just out-worked. Stadium looked packed.

What is the worst ever league performance by a champion the season after they won the league?

Oxbow wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:56 pm My friend has managed to get it working after a bit of a struggle. I hear he's using Chrome with AdBlock. There were a few popups but once he got past them it's working fine. So I hear.

My friend asks which adblocker to use as there are flipping loads apparently.

My friend used to stream the occasional rugby match but none of the streams load any more on Brave browser and the streams are unwatchable with pop ups and new tabs opening using Chrome or Firefox.

Does anyone else have friends in need like I do?

I don't like Carley because I don't think he's very empathetic to the players and has a standoffish aura about him. However, he's actually considered as possibly the best referee in terms of his technical proficiency and strict adherence to the letter of the laws rather than an interpretation of the...

Blackmac wrote: ↑Wed Mar 19, 2025 11:21 pm Funnily enough there is suddenly a perfect overhead footage, all over Twitter, that shows it's a full headbutt directly to White's face.

In the overhead shot it still looks like Mauvaka's head goes to the left and under White's chin.

I'm only saying what I'm seeing.

Stadiums should be walkable from city centres and the associated pubs/bars/restaurants/public transport You mean like Stade de France , homebush , stadio Olympico , kings park , loftus versfeld … Basically it’s Principality stadium only that fully ticks your wish list , Murrayfield if you redefine ...

A better location would be where Vauxhall plant was in Luton: Shithole town that could do with the jobs Next to airport On a main line rail route On the m1 and near to Home Counties and m25 Luton. FFS. Don’t be a snob, it would be cheap, easier to get to for far more people , and probably self fund...

Bill Sweeney threatening to move the RFU to Birmingham or MK unless the licensing conditions at Twickenham are loosened. Says (probably correctly) that the £600m redevelopment is not viable without it. Said before but regardless of licence the RFU will not be able to successfully able to project ma...

I wish a city investment type could explain to me what CVC's angle in all this is. They paid £200m for 27% of something they are just watching go down the shitter.

Seems bizarre to me.

Yeah, it doesn't look good. The difference here I guess is some earlier warning of impending crisis. It's been clear for a while that they have been scaling back massively waiting for an investor (very wealthy hobbyist) to ride in to the rescue. Kurdi is clearly at the end of his tolerance for the ...

The Premiership will collapse and fail with fewer than 10 clubs. The other 9 clubs know this and are looking to bail them out (Lansdowne and Craig mostly).

McLaren win - Red Bull don't. F1 are not going to have that. FIA announce major rule change ahead of Chinese Grand Prix However, ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix, the distance has been reduced to 0.5mm. An official statement from the FIA read: "Having analysed footage from the rear wing deforma...

There's a slightly clearer view of it here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/videos/cqlygq419yko That it was a deliberate action from Mauvaka cannot be in dispute. There is nothing in that laws that I can see that says White has to be knocked out or has to suffer a broken jaw, on the contrar...

I don't think it was a headbutt. If you watch it, it looks like Mauvaka's head goes to the left and below the chin of White and it's the right shoulder that hits high on the chest. If there was contact with White's head then it happened in a glancing motion to his chin area. The optics of him then g...

sturginho wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:03 pm

Menoncello nominated again

No forwards?!

Raggs wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:52 pm
You're not allowed to do it deliberately. I think that's sufficient.

I didn't know that.

He came on around 55 minutes and the Welsh very much had the better of that inital 10 -15 after half time. They couldn't score, but they had us pinned in our third of the pitch. Ford's arrival seemed to coincide with lifting our game again. Jesus wept, you've gone full Quintard! If F Smith plays fo...

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 11:54 pm He came on around 55 minutes and the Welsh very much had the better of that inital 10 -15 after half time. They couldn't score, but they had us pinned in our third of the pitch. Ford's arrival seemed to coincide with lifting our game again.

Jesus wept, you've gone full Quintard!

Anyone who has watched England play with FS at 10 compared to how they play with MS at 10 and then can't see any discernible improvement is either a hopeless rugby observer and/or a pathetic Quin fanboy. The difference is night and day. There's just far more headroom for England to play with FS pul...

Anyone who has watched England play with FS at 10 compared to how they play with MS at 10 and then can't see any discernible improvement is either a hopeless rugby observer and/or a pathetic Quin fanboy. The difference is night and day. There's just far more headroom for England to play with FS pull...

Carley is a poor ref, & like we all knew would happen, the 20min RC & the bunker is a total cop out. The bunker will probably say that the little nudge from Lucu was the difference & Mauvaka wasn't in control, but fundamentally it was off the ball, the ref had already blown his whistle,...

Slick wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 7:27 pm
Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 6:36 pm Wales might be all over the shop, but Ford taking it to the line and releasing a runner is something I will miss when he's gone.
Still by a distance the best 10 in England

No he isn't.

Did Jiffy just say "never mind the Pollocks"?

Fin Smith is simply a better flyhalf than Marcus Smith. Very very impressive. Keeps the ball moving and in front of his pack. He stitches everything together.

I've often thought that heading the ball forward would be a good tactic.

Chessum looks injured...

Oxbow wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 5:03 pm Marcus made no difference whatsoever.

You could cut & paste this several times per match.

Any links to the U20s games that don't interminable popups?

Old links don't work on Brave anymore. Wankers have ruined it - unusable.

This is the England national team and the 6 Nations championship ffs. You don't use it to toss out caps to hit a quota number because a player is a nice bloke or near to 100 caps.

It's really quite difficult to see what this selection logic is supposed to be. Scenario 1. M. Smith gets injured then Daly will move to 15, but then who goes to the wing? If Freeman moves there then who plays 13? Scenario 2. Dingwall gets injured then who plays 12? Does Earl go there and Willis com...

[ There's a certain amount of truth to that and I could more readily accept that if people were also calling other teams for offside or off their feet*, but even when its as blatant as they come, there's rarely a comment. But it seems that most posters are viewing Ireland matches through a very sub...

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