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If there is need for litter pickers then train them and pay them the going rate, which is probably minimum wage, so they will need UC top ups too. This is absolutely nuts to me. Why should benefits pay more than the minimum wage? Ah, well here's the nub of the thing. Minimum wage, even with the rec...

The last time the RWC was held in England the only two rugby grounds used were Twickenham and the Millennium Stadium. On that basis Scotland could host it - three large (50k+) stadiums in Glasgow, Murrayfield (67k) plus two more 20k+ in Edinburgh, Aberdeen 20k, Dundee 15k, Kilmarnock, 15k, We could...

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 11:33 am It needs to come to Ireland you bunch of scaldy pricks

Let the record show that I was the FIRST to support a Saudi Arabian world cup

If there is need for litter pickers then train them and pay them the going rate, which is probably minimum wage, so they will need UC top ups too. This is absolutely nuts to me. Why should benefits pay more than the minimum wage? On a GP sub-reddit a junior GP worked out that a number of his patien...

Sorry you’ve had a bad experience recently on it, location really is a lottery, my little part of SW London is pretty fucking amazing tbf when we’ve had to use it for A&E (rugby days then more recently kids inc my middle one who has allergies and can get seriously ill seriously quickly as we’ve...

By Europe we really mean France and England, and anyway, if it was actually a World Cup it's not an odd thing Europe would have to wait. For myself at least I'm sanguine about the event going outside Europe, less so somewhere that's an autocracy with a series of rules setting out how much they hate...

That’ll be a long time without a world cup in Europe… By Europe we really mean France and England, and anyway, if it was actually a World Cup it's not an odd thing Europe would have to wait. For myself at least I'm sanguine about the event going outside Europe, less so somewhere that's an autocracy...

I can imagine Starmer being better at the bureaucratic dogfighting than the Tory spivs we had to put up with for 14 years. He does appear to have taken that tough step 1 that eluded the Conservative Party - ‘trying’. Telling the Sentencing Council that they’d legislate was the killer, a Tory Lord C...

There was an article in the Times about it this week, which featured some World Rugby fuckwit justifying it on the basis that they sell loads of All Blacks shirts in Malaysia and Thailand, and they're in Asia as well so it's bound to be hugely popular and attended by loads of locals. On the basis o...

The sport sold out years ago, we can and should hate this but it has an air of inevitability to it and an air of ‘what on earth did we expect’. Qatar in the end ran a really quite impressive football world cup and the timezone isn’t a disaster. Rugby will struggle far more than football without a fa...

So Le Pen and her associates don't have plausible deniability, whereas the leaders of the other parties doing the exact same thing are more akin to our Post Office management and had no idea what was happening in the organisation they run? Brussels pundits seem to agree that parties from just about...

Interestingly the government are fighting and winning battles with ‘the blob’, first abolishing NHS England and now having forced the scrapping of two tier sentencing guidelines. I can imagine Starmer being better at the bureaucratic dogfighting than the Tory spivs we had to put up with for 14 year...

What is distinct about what was done in this case Vs other parties who've on the face of it similarly (miss)used such funds and not received a similar sanction? One doesn't want to rush to the defence of Team Racist but it certainly has an air of establishment convenience about the sentence. Thus t...

Interestingly the government are fighting and winning battles with ‘the blob’, first abolishing NHS England and now having forced the scrapping of two tier sentencing guidelines.

Reeves is staggeringly out of her depth, has no real ideas for growth beyond a few hail marys like Heathrow expansion (not that this is a bad thing in itself), and looks more miserable by the day. Never get your dream job…

I believe the RFU insurance policy covers any and all rugby activity at any affiliated club, someone like SaintK who is heavily involved in running a club is probably best placed to say how the RFU recoups some of this. In my own sphere in cricket the ECB’s now mandatory public liability insurance s...

Huge win. Dan’s lineout horror show made that a tough one to close out but otherwise a brilliant team performance. Excellent game of rugby played by both sides, good standards and great entertainment. An upset Crumbie Terrace really is one of the great sounds in English rugby Sarries deserved that....

Huge win. Dan’s lineout horror show made that a tough one to close out but otherwise a brilliant team performance.

Excellent game of rugby played by both sides, good standards and great entertainment.

An upset Crumbie Terrace really is one of the great sounds in English rugby

Is Austin trying to influence the TMO again ? He’s not a happy bunny at Leicester being denied a try for a fairly blatant offside, shockingly Wasn't that obvious considering the scrum half buggering around with it dribbling out. Considering how many closing down players are not onside when you free...

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 3:22 pm Is Austin trying to influence the TMO again ?

He’s not a happy bunny at Leicester being denied a try for a fairly blatant offside, shockingly

Montoya has had a shocker all day at the line out and it has finally cost them dear. Go ahead score and a BP for Sarries.

Steward being skinned repeatedly as per, for all his skills he is simply too slow to play back 3

Excellent game of rugby with some serious stuff from both sides. 14-10

Sarries starting exceptionally brightly with the season on the line. 14-0 after 10

There is a certain proprietary tone some Scots seem to take on as soon as they find out a player is Scotland qualified. Even if it's a grandparent qualification and the player has never been to Scotland it's assume he's their player and if he chooses to play for someone else then he's been poached....

His resignation speech in the Lords where he cracked jokes and talked about his PA being the real victim of the scandal should have seen him drummed out of public life and just about everywhere else. Was happy to tell the world his opinion on just about everything bar a scandal he could have actuall...

Fun game to watch as a neutral with a loud crowd. No one’s fault but if Northampton had had a kicker/10 they’d have won. Pollock really is exceptional, an arrogant see you whatever but he can back it up. Ford squaring up to people was good fun. Well worth watching on catch up

Problem is if you are going to get rid of him you do need a plan of what happens next, and that always seemed suitably vague.

What happened? Never ending vitriol to English people, beer thrown at my wife and others who were not Welsh, some really unsavoury singing that was against English (assume these were from clubs?), a couple of drunken twats being overtly sexual to women, a couple of roughing up of fans (who were Eng...

Drums, drums in the deep

Ovals wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 12:16 am
Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 10:02 pm Anyone else struggle to get too excited?
I'd be more excited if it was an England tour.

Likewise. Talking about who’s in the squad is good fun, I think I watched 20/30 mins of the last tour

Anyone else struggle to get too excited?

Haven’t seen a chargedown under the posts since Thomas Castaignede, and before that Thomas Castaignede, and before that…

Thought the Saints wingers were very poor and the backrow just out-worked. Stadium looked packed. Until 60 minutes or so when there appeared to be a fire drill. Northampton were appalling, must have been 30ish handling errors and some disgraceful defensive lapses. Felt a bit flat that the Northampt...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/03/21/onyeama-christie-talks-about-horror-ankle-injury/ Hope we see him back to his best soon. That was a very moving story. I wish him the very best. Good on Maro Itoje and Ben Earl, I give them pelters for the over the top celebrations, but they are go...

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. Until 60...

My friend can't get the rugby streams to play but the women's soccer links his other friend watches always seem to work. :problem: This dovetails with the recent news that Premier Sport is hoovering up Rugby contracts all over. Probably putting effort into stopping illegal streams at the same time....

On the subject of two shits and a shower whilst you wait, Heathrow closed all day after a fire at a sub-station. For all we talk about troop deployments in eastern Europe, our resilience at home is atrocious and we surely have to work on the assumption that if anything were to kick off it’s likely j...

It's Carley. He's been so shit, for so long, and absolutely not up to international rugby in any way, that hanging out to dry is a very fair punishment. People keep saying this but fact of the matter is that these are the best refs out there. It is a serious serious process to get to that level and...

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 what’s walkable & edible nearby, and then lansdowne Appreciate that a not insubstantial cohort of ru...

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 Stadiums should be walkable from city centres and the associated pubs/bars/restaurants/public transport You m...

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