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I genuinely don't think Ridley knows what the ruck laws are.

So what we are saying is that anyone who actually lived in London thought it was a great time to be there during his tenure. That being a Tory Mayor is easy with a Tory government, but he got voted in under a Labour government, then re elected under a Tory government, in a traditionally Labour city...

I thought Boris was a good Mayor to be honest, or at least London felt a great place to be when he was in charge. What! With all the cronyism, cash spaffed vanity projects and lack of attention to detail for 8 years? It may well have felt good (for a while) but he certainly sowed the seeds where we...

Yup until that moment, O'Flaherty looked possibly the sharpest winger on the pitch. Twice during the game Quins allowed poor high balls to end up in Sale hands - it's almost as if they have a great plan for when it's a good kick but if it's far too short no one knows what to do. Quite a funny examp...

He's looked pretty slow this season. Did he get an injury? The Sale v Quins game started off looking like another hiding and ended up being a classic. Some superb tries by both sides and credit to Quins for showing a huge amount of heart to scrap their way back into that game. Could have won it at ...

Did anyone else see 'Ukraine: Enemy in the woods' last night. Quite incredible, no holds barred, body cam footage from the front line. A very hard watch. Yes, very surprising what they showed, even with faces blurred out. Was striking that for all the advances in comms and technology, it's not that...

Being reported that three seafarers are missing and four are seriously injured after a missile strike against a bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden. Horrible news.

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:30 am
Brazil wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:09 am Started Shogun last night. Seriously good, though not for the faint-hearted.
Bit mad to see an 18+ programme on Disney.

Indeed. Mind, some of the scenes are a tad near the knuckle, particularly the poor bastard in the pot...

Started Shogun last night. Seriously good, though not for the faint-hearted.

Louis Armstrong I remember the day he died... I'd come in from school and mum had the radio on, it was covered on the news. I distinctly remember her telling me to remind her to tell my father when he got home. Dan's list of blues and jazz artists got me thinking about who most people would recogni...

Louis Armstrong

Elvis, surely? Good call! Elvis arrived and blew everyone's doors off, just absolutely reset the world... and kinda stopped there. Bowie went genre hopping and bending for 50 years. I've been getting back into some older Prince stuff every now and then and he was / is some stupendously talented fre...

Elvis, surely?

In Europe only Germany, France, Italy and Poland, have that type of infrastructure and human capital. The UK will have to rebuild it, or rather Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land will. And while it's nice to be in a common defense community where you can draw upon resources in other members; you're a fuc...

Well if the British Philosophy of Sport Association say it, it must be true.

Not seen a team deserve to win less than Leicester tonight

NATO obviously spanks Russia in a long war. In a short war? I’m not convinced European armies have the ammunition and equipment to hold their ground. And we don’t know what China might do that may distract the Americans. Our current defence posture seems like a massive gamble Given how much Poland ...

I suspect my Bunions would render me hors de combat, but I'd be up for some sort of POLAD role with one-to-two star level perks.

We'd need a big army to replace losses incurred during a land war in Europe that had invoked treaty obligations. It's likely that our current army would be BEF'd pretty early on given what we've seen in Ukraine, where both sides have had to reconstitute their armies one and half times since the star...

Disappointing to go in this far behind, having played some really positive rugby. There have been some absolutely baffling reffing calls, the non-deliberate knock on being most obvious, but the penalty for not rolling away was a shocker, and letting a maul collapse onto a seriously injured player is...

Dan Cole is just immortal. For sure. Shows how desperate the situation is at TH in Eng. There just aren't any elite EQP options there and we are praying for one of the youngsters like Opoku-Fordjour to come through and take away the front row misery. Apparently the genius plan is to convert him to ...

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:08 pm

I love the extent that these wankers will go to to excuse the inexcusable. Talk to a Philippino AB or an Indian Master going through there about how non-violent your "Death to Israel" pals are you cretinous cunt.

It does look like 2024 will be the hardest year yet for Ukraine. Logistics of keeping the war going, the need to rotate men who've been constantly fighting which means recruiting those who haven't volunteered. I can't see them attempting another offensive this year, could easily be a year of Ukrain...

Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:31 am Who is the most carded test captain to date?

Farrell has to be in contention. As does Sam Cane...

STOP BULLYING HIM YOU BEAST

ASMO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:40 pm Sale shit the bed against Brizzle, Brazil will be incandescant

Fuck you man

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Excellent second half for Saints. Can't remember last time they topped the table? Langdon has been an excellent signing. Could see him in the frame rfor an England squad call up. I was gutted when he left us. We gambled on Ashman and it's not really paid off. Langdon really should be in the England...

Good phase play from Saints to get their second try. Just Ford's drop goal separating the two teams with 15 to play. Having heard an awful lot of hype about Opoku-Fordjour all I've really seen him do so far in the game is concede a couple of scrum penalties. Not his best game, mind, Northampton &qu...

at what stage do we think Sanderson realised he could have gotten something from this game if he hadn't changed 12 players ? I suspect he'll be very pleased.with the result, because our second string stood up to one of the best club teams in the world. I very much doubt Europe is out objective this...

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:03 pm Sale B taking it to Leinster st the moment.

Ref doing his best to help out the coddle-munchers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rchaeology

Kemi Bad Enoch remains a fucking moron I see.

Good win for Sale over Stade. Some very very good prospects amongst our kids.

Again, interpretation. If you know exactly what's going on in that opening sequence, fair play. All that's certain is Mother wakes up and wakes the crew up. Alternative is plausible as I said but hugely risky for something major going wrong. And I still don't have an answer for Ash helping them kil...

He will be remembered for a lot of things, his songwriting foremost. Everyone knows he was a waster, but it's ridiculous to suggest he wasted his talent. He wasted his talent! Just think what he might have achieved in writing and performing if he wasn't off his head on drugs and alcohol for almost ...

He's deluded... what's his personality type, he's mildly autistic or something similar, yeah? EDIT... he's admitted to Aspberger's Syndrome He doesn't have Asperger's, he just says he has Asperger's; there's a big difference ! He lies as much as George Santos about himself, & this is just anoth...

NO! ach that is a shame. What an extraordinarily gifted man he was. I remember Nick Cave telling a story about a visit he paid to Shane and there were crumples of paper in the bin and lying on the floor near it. Cave said that every one was a gem, a piece of lyrical genius and McGowan had discarded...

NO! ach that is a shame. What an extraordinarily gifted man he was. I remember Nick Cave telling a story about a visit he paid to Shane and there were crumples of paper in the bin and lying on the floor near it. Cave said that every one was a gem, a piece of lyrical genius and McGowan had discarded...

This would be the absolute worst thing that could happen to rugby in terms of broadcasting. If we also discount the other terrestrial broadcasters picking up the slack then yes, but losing the BBC is not all bad. If the Beeb can't afford it I'd be surprised if other terrestrial broadcasters could, ...

Raggs wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:15 pm Just realised that the UN doesn't recognise Hamas as a terrorist organisation.

Wonder if it's because they're also a government, or if a resolution failed to pass etc. They do recognise terrorist organisations in general.

The Houthi Movement isn't either, so probably a combination of the two.

Blackmac wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:26 pm Probably more Irish than half the players in the current squad. And the same for us.

Are you usually disappointed in the lack of Irish players in the Scotland squad?

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