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epwc wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 1:52 pm Matthew Tait! I'd forgotten all about him

He made Henson.

May was fantastic when he still had express pace and I think being thick as mince (allegedly) might have helped: if he didn't know where was running, nor did the defenders. Could score tries out of nowhere, rather like Robinson, albeit in a different style. Remember 2 he scored against France, beat...

When he started to play for England May's main (only?) attribute was his pace. However, unlike some others he worked really hard on improving all his weaknesses. At his best he was lethal in attack and could score tries from nowhere. Even when he started to lose his pace, he continued trying to imp...

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 10:50 am
Woddy wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 10:29 am Croft

Glad that someone's awake!

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...

On his day, Watson could be Rolls Royce, but he's in the layer of wingers below May, along with Ashton, Cohen, Sinbad, Daly (for all his annoyances, a good utility left wing), Usain and Croft.

May was fantastic when he still had express pace and I think being thick as mince (allegedly) might have helped: if he didn't know where was running, nor did the defenders. Could score tries out of nowhere, rather like Robinson, albeit in a different style. Remember 2 he scored against France, beati...

Not if you had boats. The Ancient Egyptians circumnavigated the whole of Africa, and the Phoenicians went quite a way down the west coast, so it was doable from early on. It's just that sub-Saharan Africa, which was very largely not desert on the western side, was impenetrable and rather life-limiti...

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...

Every single bit. What, all the bits since 1948? Why don't we go back to the start, like Jews living in the area a Millenia before the opposing cult was created? A whole bunch of people have been living in the area for several millenia. All their various descendants should be able to live there now...

That's great news - well done Paddington. Most clubs are going the other way, sadly. We could do with you coming down to ours and giving an assessment. Stagnating (at best), and the harder we work at it, the worse it gets - or so it feels. Our only general excuse is being in the highest density of c...

Holy land is in the news these days. Gets me thinking, was there ever a realistic chance of any of the Crusader states lasting longer than they did? They were always living on borrowed time but certainly didn't help their cause picking fights when they didn't need to or their disunity. Yeah, defini...

Kinghorn being fit should probably see him start, but Darcy Graham's injury means we'll probably see Steyn on the wing, though Rowe has done well. Paterson will be back, probably in the summer. Another point about Kinghorn is whether or not it means Healy drops off the bench, allowing a 6:2 split. ...

Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:28 am Reserve players limited to warming up on the sideline, nowhere near the in goal.

Yes, both of them; and the same applies to the mandatory reserve prop.

All kicks worth 2 points. Restart after a successful penalty kick is a scrum to the team that scored at the point where the penalty was conceded. © OB.. 50:22 can only happen if you took the ball into the previous ruck / maul (or on 1st phase if you had the put in at the scrum / lineout). i.e. no 5...

I've had it a few times, or varying strengths and lengths of time. In my view, the underlying issue is always one of stretching out certain nerves, muscles and tendons/ligaments, which will be different from case to case. For me, it always involved the long nerve down the outside of your leg (using ...

PS. Hope it all something about nothing. I can see why Curry misinterpreted what he heard if it is as suggested.

This has sent me down a language rabbit hole. As far as I can tell 'kant' for 'side' is related to the Latin 'contra' - against. This is from an etymology website: contra- word-forming element meaning "against, in opposition," from Latin adverb and preposition contra "against" (...

Gumboot wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:44 am RWC head to head:

1999 QF - South Africa 44 - England 21

2007 Final - South Africa 15 - England 6

2019 Final - South Africa 32 - England 12

You forgot the 36-0 drubbing by SA at the start of the 2007 WC.

Now reported that the debt is £2.6billion. The council area has just over 100,000 people. So £26,000 for each person. At least, unlike Thurrock, they were borrowing to make genuine investments in the area’s infrastructure, rather than gambling on dodgy get rich schemes. Still no excuse for the moro...

Yes, I'd be in the "your fault you dopey twat" group on that. Speaking as someone who has been stumped after a not out LBW call batting out of his crease who held the pose for a little too long. Like about 10 seconds too long before it occurred to the keeper that he could take the bails o...

Woddy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:35 pm The Sting
Spirited Away
Casino Royale
The Mission
Love Actually

Sorry, I meant to start with Independence Day

The Sting
Spirited Away
Casino Royale
The Mission
Love Actually

Kind of related, I recently saw a clip of an American couple in their 90s interviewed in 1930. Couldn't help but think their accent was closer to something 'British' than typical Americans today. (They could have been immigrants from, of course...) Sorry to be vague about this, but it was a long ti...

Mate's club selection. Basically. And Zac Crawley's relative success* this series after sticking with him through a loooong rough patch will only make them more stubborn. It's mad that Bairstow gets to hold on to his spot. He's not just been poor, he's been an unmitigated disaster. A complete shits...

Mate's club selection. Basically. And Zac Crawley's relative success* this series after sticking with him through a loooong rough patch will only make them more stubborn. It's mad that Bairstow gets to hold on to his spot. He's not just been poor, he's been an unmitigated disaster. A complete shits...

Three in the S/SE and none north of Nottingham? Headingly gets a Women's Ashes test though. Also has Chester-le-Street been abandoned as an option? In 2027, England Men will play Tests against Australia at Lord's, The Kia Oval, Edgbaston, Trent Bridge and The Ageas Bowl I think Durham was removed a...

Is the answer 'Owen'? Well yeah, he can (should I suppose) only pick one fly half and the other will struggle for game time. Had he plumped the other way around there's a very good chance Faz would be playing in Manchester this weekend. Small point but I don't think he would be - I think Faz would ...

It's a little one-sided, but unlike most Aussies, Jared doesn't automatically go for needling the Poms so this article deserves a read: https://wickets.substack.com/p/englands-luck-caught-down-the-legside He's not wrong that we've had some streaks of luck. It doesn't really diminish what England ha...

It's a little one-sided, but unlike most Aussies, Jared doesn't automatically go for needling the Poms so this article deserves a read: https://wickets.substack.com/p/englands-luck-caught-down-the-legside He's not wrong that we've had some streaks of luck. It doesn't really diminish what England ha...

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Have to work out 8 5-letter words in 13 goes. Sounds harder than it is.

I agree with Owens. If something merits a red card, it does so in the 2nd minute just as much as the 75th. Match-management of cards, to the extent it matters at all, should be the players’ responsibility not the ref’s. And I also agree that fewer subs would help sort out the side/impact issue, whic...

Whatever about old school mauls, we need to go back to old school rucks!!! (and I don't actually mean 'rucking' as in dancing on someone's back either - though that too) When I played at school you weren't allowed put your hands on the ball unless it was at the feet of one of your players who were ...

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Wordle 282 X/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 My first ever fail, and it just doesn’t seem fair. As you can see, I had 4 letters correct in the very first line. Aside from the actual answer there is at least one other possibility, so at least 8 possible first letters. Seriously p’d off to fail ...

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