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Saints and Sarries are nailed on for 1 and 2, could be that they swap depending on how today goes, but that's fairly immaterial. Exeter or Quins for the fourth spot seems most likely. Leaning Quins since Exeter are away at Welford Road. This aged well..... Welp, that's why I don't play the lottery....

Yet again, this Tory government knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. £250m across several years (report seems to indicate at least 5) is spit in the ocean as regards the social care budget and I would guarantee that allowing these overpayments would deliver far more value to the p...

Saints and Sarries are nailed on for 1 and 2, could be that they swap depending on how today goes, but that's fairly immaterial.

Exeter or Quins for the fourth spot seems most likely. Leaning Quins since Exeter are away at Welford Road.

Cohen was gone by 2004, I think, although he had fallen off badly even by the 2003 Final. Last capped in '06, but in and out of squads for the couple of years before that. The way his form fell off a cliff and never got close to reaching the peak again should be studied. Lots of personal life issue...

I thought the rest of it was quite interesting...

Meanwhile, the water quality crisis:

You seem to want to replace parents with the state? I'm all for sex education, covering all of the bases at a suitable age, say 13. Not at 7. So I see you decided not to follow the link I posted as to what RSHE lessons actually cover for primary school. No one is teaching 7 year olds about sex. Tel...

I hope those lads with small willys get just as much support. :thumbup: It's been almost a decade since I last delivered a lesson, but we did try and get the message across that all body-shaming is wrong. You can't help but notice in popular culture, though, that insulting men's penis size and hair...

A seven your old doesn't give a shit about two men holding hands. They give a shit about Paw Patrol. There is a time and a place for talking about people's sexual preferences and it isn't age 7. Kids are observant and incessantly ask questions about all sorts of things, especially things that are n...

I'm specifically talking about sex education in primary school children, it's age 7 in Wales, kids that age do not need or require to know about the alphabet people. Only perverts and people who think the government should control all aspects of our lives think that. The parent excuse is just that,...

I hope those lads with small willys get just as much support. :thumbup: It's been almost a decade since I last delivered a lesson, but we did try and get the message across that all body-shaming is wrong. You can't help but notice in popular culture, though, that insulting men's penis size and hair...

Furthermore, you should be teaching your kids about sex and all that it entails and not leaving it to the fucking school. Of course part of the reason the school has to step into so many issues is because you can't rely on parents to even broach a topic, let alone provide accurate information. You ...

Well, quite, but even if we restrict to specifically what DAC posted above - teaching kids about sex. Give an average adult a diagram of a vagina and ask them to fill in the labels, how many are going to accurately distinguish between the labia majora and minora. Would they think to acknowledge tha...

epwc wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 12:49 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 12:37 pmThe way his form fell off a cliff and never got close to reaching the peak again should be studied.
Who by, DAC?

Well if it keeps him from screeching about the Illuminati or whatever, then sure.

Furthermore, you should be teaching your kids about sex and all that it entails and not leaving it to the fucking school. Of course part of the reason the school has to step into so many issues is because you can't rely on parents to even broach a topic, let alone provide accurate information. How ...

Furthermore, you should be teaching your kids about sex and all that it entails and not leaving it to the fucking school. Of course part of the reason the school has to step into so many issues is because you can't rely on parents to even broach a topic, let alone provide accurate information. You ...

That was Mark 'Usain' Cueto. Ah yes. Thank-you. Cohen was gone by 2004, I think, although he had fallen off badly even by the 2003 Final. Last capped in '06, but in and out of squads for the couple of years before that. The way his form fell off a cliff and never got close to reaching the peak agai...

Cohen? Nah, he had a purple patch but he wasn't a great wing. Shit on the Lions tour It was an important purple patch. And Lions form complicates things: Daly was excellent on the wing against the ABs, whereas I can't remember May even playing for the Lions. Struggling to remember many properly goo...

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 10:50 am
epwc wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 10:36 am Cohen? Nah, he had a purple patch but he wasn't a great wing. Shit on the Lions tour
2007 RWC Final

That was Mark 'Usain' Cueto.

Random historical thought - I wonder why Europeans were so slow to colonise sub-Saharan Africa? The Berlin conference took place in 1884 and 1885 - very late in the day when you consider how it was centuries earlier that European powers established colonies in the Americas. I mean the Aztecs were c...

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 9:13 am Outrageous

iirc Steve Hansen wondered after the game why we never really gave May the ball again. Shrewd man that world cup winning All Black's coach.

Personally I'd be asking any potential defectors where they've been for the last fourteen years through all they've done to the UK, (I started listing the failures and the deceit and the corruption, but decided it would be too long a post) By all means desert the sinking ship, but sit as an indepen...

FT reporter, so not just speculation of some random... https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1790463443306176635 2 in 2 weeks, Streeting briefing that they're holding discussions with more, party morale and discipline perenially on the decline - it's definitely something that can't be ruled out. For...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c72pp70l373o England great May to leave Gloucester "Great" really? He is second on England's all time try scorers list , that puts him ahead of players like Guscott and Robinson. Having checked the table again to verify that, its crazy how ...

As indicated, Mako and Billy are leaving Sarries at the end of the season, a little more surprised to hear Manu is leaving as well. Although can't have been good news to have Louie Johnson and Fergus Burke signed just as Farrell heads off. Is it a case of Manu just not kicking on? Not yet confirmed...

You've got a lot in place for you at Bath. Hooper's underperformance was really stark and it ill be interesting to see how far they can go under Van Graan I think Blackett has made a big difference since he joined the coaching set up. I think he's better suited to being the attack/backs coach than ...

Bath skirted with it a few seasons back. Ironically to Gloucester. 64 - 0 They still managed to keep the margin tighter by a full 26 points though We lost 71-17 to Sarries, 71-10 to Gloucester and 48-3 to Bristol in 2021. There were far too many hammerings over that period. Not 90-0, but still pret...

Brian Moore has apparently opined in the Telegraph that Gloucester might be getting grief now, but it'll all be forgiven if they win the Challenge Cup. I don't particularly agree, even that abysmal 14/15 London Welsh side didn't lose by 90 points. 71 was their biggest margin. It's an epochally terri...

Not sure why any fair minded MP would vote against this anyway. https://www.instagram.com/p/C68WSERMt2x/?hl=en To play devil's advocate, I suppose some might object on the basis of an arrest alone being insufficient for a ban. Perhaps they'd be amenable if it were changed to a conviction. I don't s...

What the hell happened in Northampton? Gloucester had a B team out but they still should have put up more of a fight than they did. Why are they putting out such a weak team? Because of the Euro final? It's two weeks away. They have absolutely nothing to play for in the Prem at this point, so I gue...

Biggest home win in Prem history.

Is Skivington's job under threat? This is his 4th season and they look likely to be saved from last place only by Newcastle, same as last season.

Oxbow wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 3:39 pm Shouldn't, but

Oh it's very funny. Salt really rubbed into the wound with such a spectacular try swiftly following.

66 minutes and the best Clock RFC can achieve is a draw.

Gloucester

Glaws are broken and being cut to shreds. There's no cohesion, no desire and there's no worse team to play like that against than Saints.

Northampton 68 - 57 Clock and there's still more than a quarter left to play! 100 isn't beyond the realm of possibility with their current score rate.

BP on 27 minutes. Saints vs. the clock atm.

Saints handling Gloucester with ease in the opening quarter.

Even if that were to continue between now and the last possible moment they can call an election, surely it wouldn't fix anything with voters? What would be the lead time on growth actually making people feel better off? Wealth inequality and public services are the worst they've been in aeons to sa...

This looks like a pretty extreme worst case scenario for Tories, very unlikely IMO but delicious to imagine the blood-letting if it actually happened... https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1788475768663617896 I no longer live in that neck of the woods, but I'll be glad to see the back of Rees Mo...

Because king Macron said he’s thinking about sending troops to Ukraine? I was assuming, particularly with the context of the other names on the list, that it's because France haven't actually given all that much to assist Ukraine thus far and Macron's recent tough guy language about boots on the gr...

I remember back in the 00s when he picked up Zao off the back of their cleanest, most melodic album, seemingly in a bid to chase the melodic metalcore trend that was becoming so popular, and gave them possibly their scuzziest, nastiest production on an album. He didn't work with them again, but you ...

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