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Torq, not loving that last para - it reads as a bit anti-English (to avoid dropping the R-bomb)?! Rugby is a multi faceted game and if you expose a significant weakness in one or more of those it can be exploited by a well coached and proficient team. Turning up without a functioning scrum is going...

Torq, not loving that last para - it reads as a bit anti-English (to avoid dropping the R-bomb)?! Rugby is a multi faceted game and if you expose a significant weakness in one or more of those it can be exploited by a well coached and proficient team. Turning up without a functioning scrum is going ...

Problem is, it's designed for digital scaling on social media and will look terrible everywhere else. Exactly this - the original (well, prior) one is an absolute car crash on digital devices. You lose everything and unless you know the features in detail, it’s basically a pixel mash. I think Saint...

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 1:33 pm Fair play to Bracken for his hattrick, but player of the match for me is the England tighthead, a beast of a player.

Get him on a plane to NZ

Him and Vesty, both almost men. I think Vesty was quite different - he had consistent skills and talent, but a ceiling that topped out at club level. Great for that but couldn't bring it internationally. 36 was just a bag of elbows and made as many howlers as he did good stuff. Both for club and co...

Have had a Sage/Breville Sage Barista for quite a few years after our previous B2C machine eventually died. Since then I’ve properly fallen down the coffee rabbit hole (thanks James bloody Hoffman) and also have a manual lever espresso machine and a hand grinder. The difference (blind tasting) is no...

I watch far too many police police videos, guessing one of the leads didn't impact his body. But wonder if he did a dead weight flop like some do on the second attempt? That's a big body to go... https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/44/4b/a4444b024913926682b5673f6d50173c.gif That looks like his usual ...

Clicked on an Instagram post this morning about the tournament and quite depressing to see all the shit and agro comments, literally every one, was from men. The reason I really like the women's game is that there isn't any of this shit. Agree with this. Much the same with ladies international foot...

I see Jamie Heaslip is suggesting that Ireland can play with 13 players as England are so shit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68468207 I'm sure he speaks for all true Irish fans in saying so. When was last time Ireland got a red card? They're obviously due one, or maybe two. Valentine's D...

Win a few matches and start acting like the swarm. For shame. Spending a lot of time up there, after a couple of drinks the ‘I don’t actually hate England, but…’ conversation comes up a lot. ‘How you lot behave after you win’ being probably the most common follow up… Aye anybody coming away with th...

Given how few other nations seem interested in having an A team (Ireland and New Zealand are the only ones) these days, more tier 2 games definitely need to be sought out, but only if they're going to be full blooded affairs. More matches like this will simply be a waste of air fares and match fees...

Daley Slade midfield, possibly the worst combination he could have chosen....this is not a good side compared to what he could have done. Dingwall Slade, if I'm reading the quoted tweet correctly -or are you taking that from elsewhere? Daly on wing, because we're lacking any high-quality young tyro...

A few thoughts... occasionally constructive and also half-depressed. We do start slowly and as England have been playing a particular (-ly bad, boring way), so I can sort of see the logic with sticking with a simple gameplan. But, our teams in Europe have been playing (except Tigers) very differentl...

Love a mulled wine. Have tried various techniques to avoid it becoming "cooked wine", or - worse - boiling off too much alcohol, which defeats the purpose! As with most things food-related, Serious Eats is the best starting place: https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-mull-wine-for-the-holida...

I really hope one day scientists are able to find a way of harnessing the energy of a volcano to create copious amount of clean energy. They already do in Iceland; they've extensive geothermal power plants, & hydropower. The problem for them is it's hard to export it, so from what I remember, t...

Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 6:09 pm People being cunce...

(eruption continuing, tourists ignoring police and entering danger zones)

Can we send the armistice day protest march there instead then!?

Gumboot wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 7:54 am That shit's painful enough to pronounce, let alone suffer through. Commiserations!

First time I saw the phrase, I assumed it was something to do with alien Hitlers.

The missus has PF. It appeared first about 6-8 months ago in her left foot. Got better, now it's back but in her right foot, further towards (in) the heel. She's perimenapausal so thinks it's related to that and the general shit that comes with it. She's struggling to walk - has tried a bit of cocod...

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:15 pm Ok England time to assume the position, its reaming time, if you are lucky SA might use lube.

I think there’s a better than evens chance there is no lube in this match. But I keep my fingers crossed we push you out a few times before getting some tender lovin’…

Itoje playing his best half for some time. Good speed and couple of nice touches, lineout etc.

Too early to say he’s back but fingers crossed.

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 1:52 pm
tc27 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 9:13 pm We are through...not a given a few months ago.
Typical English arrogance, qualifying without a ball being kicked (repeatedly, for 80 minutes).

"England" and "without a ball being kicked" just doesn't parse right for me. It's the worst non-sequitur I've seen, in fact.

That's a good infographic. I'd argue the "need for deterrent" box now should be ticked - he's been given opportunity to fix it and failed to do so. I'd like to see 6-2+2 on principle but suspect we'll get 6-2+1, especially with the special mitigating circumstances of "RWC approaching&...

This conversation needs more Sexton

The Cavill nonsense is tiresome. The fanbois decided LHS was a bitch and piled into her & the showrunners but industry insiders indicate that Cavill was very difficult to work with. They are all relieved he's gone. He may have been but he was good in the role and the show was decent at one poin...

https://climate.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/custom-uploads/Page%20Uploads/June%2023%20CB/fig3a_plot_era5_daily_series_anomaly_stacked_bluered_sst_neatlantic.png This is what I mean by this year being way off historical norms. Massive deviation kicked in around May. Can't find one that also ha...

I'm quite enjoying Foundation on Apple TV. I don't remember whether I've read the books or not - if I did it was such a long time ago, I can't remember them.

Grandpa wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:03 pm

Yeah.. The American Pie girl...

Oh she played Russian Doll too... didn't know that... I remember she nearly died in the 2000s from a heart problem... was depressed and a heroin addict... it's amazing she came back from that to be so successful...

Band camp will do that.

Is that the first ever post by TOGA that didn't mention the greatness of Sarries or Owen Farrell??

Not sure of budget, but will share my experiences as a user and subsequently buyer of inflatable kayaks. "Normal" inflatables are ok for a bit of fun, cheap and easy to transport But they have limitations: they're crap in wind, harder to steer well and slow (too much drag) Drop stitch infl...

Nicely done, although a couple of those need reknotted :) Fat vs lean mix looks superb... I'll bet those will be delicious!

Also a great (and economical) way to eat decent quality food... shop and often even butcher-bought sausages are processed to f*ck.

Only Fiji and Japan have been getting tier 1 games recently though. Georgia played Uruguay, Samoa and Wales in 2022. :wink: I see what you did there. I was somewhat perplexed for a moment, I get it now. :grin: yeah sorry, couldn't resist. Didn't mean to sow confusion, just a bit of light heartednes...

It's shit and I hate it. Test rugby didn't need to be forced into a league structure to make it meaningful. Also seems to create a situation where only Fiji and Japan definitely get games against tier 1 opposition, which is a step down from our current international calendar where Georgia have been...

Dingwall is deceptively strong, he doesn't look massive but I've seen him put in a good number of reducers. Not that I'd advocate a meathead but a good physical defence would be a decent thing for England to have, going on last few showings. I've already written off the French game as a bad memory ...

The VERY best I can hope for next weekend is an absolute slugfest in the rain. Hopefully the Irish injuries will recover, but even with them down a few players, we need them to be making all the handling errors, rather than us for a change. Can someone get Dombrandt those sticky gloves you get? I re...

And to top off the domination on the field, Flament’s interview demonstrates he speaks better English than most of our pack (and Farrell)

I'm not sure anyone is arguing money was the cause, but lack of money now means the fix isn't to import so we're going to need to develop more 12s. No idea why 12 seems so patchy, I think it's mostly just luck of the draw but there may have been youth or academy 12s who opted to move to 10 or 13 or...

As a natural pessimist, I can definitely see England losing. I can see Wales being fired up rather than caught cold Yeah - what's the chance our team end up being more distracted by this than the Welsh team?! :lol: And with France & Ireland to come, this could end up being a horrible run in to ...

Really sad what's happening just now. From a neutral standpoint it's like watching with shock and horror at a trainwreck as it develops, in superslowmo. Does anyone know what's Wales worse score in a Test Match ? Having players attending meetings all week, instead of focusing on the match can't be ...

My first batch, bit of a cunt looking, but tasted fine..so they were named twats... So many mistakes made. Mostly to do with the temperature of the meat, next batch, on the weekend, anyone got tips? Apart from Jake... Didn't spot the last line when I read this on my phone :lol: I've made a couple o...

Willis, Ludlam and Dombrandt would be a pretty big backrow Almost as big as the one we fielded against Italy :shh: :lol: They've not got any smaller, cap'n smartarse :grin: sorry, couldn't resist. Yeah, maybe with Lawes back in, our back row stocks are pretty full (especially if Isiekwe is seen as ...

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