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by mos_eisely_
Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:26 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

by mos_eisely_
Tue Aug 08, 2023 8:51 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Zander can be available for all of the RWC Having acknowledged mitigating factors including the player’s admission at the earliest opportunity, his remorse which was conveyed to the French player as well as shown during the hearing, and accepting that there were no aggravating factors to consider, t...
by mos_eisely_
Mon Jul 24, 2023 7:59 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Three hours in london
Replies: 25
Views: 826

Re: Three hours in london

Visit the Roman Mithraic temple? It's free

https://www.londonmithraeum.com/
by mos_eisely_
Thu Jul 20, 2023 5:26 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Official United Rugby Championship thread
Replies: 10034
Views: 283111

Re: Official United Rugby Championship thread

Apparently they're still going to broadcast URC till 2025
by mos_eisely_
Thu Jul 20, 2023 5:20 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Beginning of the end for the Commonwealth Games
Replies: 70
Views: 2838

Re: Beginning of the end for the Commonwealth Games

I did read it. Have you read the minutes of the war cabinet meetings? Because I have. Yes, but your description of "Churchill sending tanks" is really stretching it - as the article clearly demonstrates. The author of the piece I linked to, Gordon Barclay, got such a pile on by cybernats ...
by mos_eisely_
Thu Jul 13, 2023 8:51 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Replies: 21132
Views: 903739

Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories

So the school that Badenoch directed Ofsted to inspect has been found to have no serious concerns and has a culture of kindness and mutual support. I wonder if that's her advancement in tatters now

by mos_eisely_
Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:17 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Stuart Hogg has announced his immediate retirement from rugby and won't be going to the RWC

https://scottishrugby.org/stuart-hogg-a ... rom-rugby/
by mos_eisely_
Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:31 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Global Game 2.0
Replies: 11
Views: 653

Global Game 2.0

Six Nations Rugby and SANZAAR set to launch new international rugby competition Six Nations Rugby and SANZAAR are working in partnership to establish a new international rugby competition due to start in 2026 The new competition will take place in the existing July and November international rugby ...
by mos_eisely_
Thu Jun 29, 2023 8:20 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Cricket Thread
Replies: 8489
Views: 272166

Re: The Official Cricket Thread

by mos_eisely_
Fri Jun 23, 2023 7:19 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Being reported that Mike Blair is off to join Dave Rennie at Kobe Steelers
by mos_eisely_
Fri Jun 16, 2023 6:53 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Mark Palmer saying that Kieran Crowley is not a candidate for the Edinburgh job after his departure from Italy. Has anyone seen anybody actually being linked with it? The timing isn't exactly great, imagine a number of candidates could be waiting to see fallout from RWC and see what vacancies appea...
by mos_eisely_
Fri Jun 16, 2023 6:50 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Mallinder is no longer a Director of SRU LTD but retains oversight of performance
by mos_eisely_
Wed May 17, 2023 1:19 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Jock42 wrote: Wed May 17, 2023 10:47 am FB_IMG_1684320269483.jpg

If anyone was in doubt about Kinghorn's first choice position moving forward.
Let's see what a new Head Coach thinks
by mos_eisely_
Tue May 02, 2023 9:20 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

That's Lee Blackett out the running as he's just signed with Bath.
by mos_eisely_
Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:51 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Speaking of Edinburgh coaches, anyone any thoughts on who might be next in the Ejection seat? I'm hoping it's not Steve Diamond as it was pointedly called a consultancy when he started. I can't say I have an opinion on who it should be, but I agree it should not be Diamond. Diamond seems to be spen...
by mos_eisely_
Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:55 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
Replies: 4373
Views: 179937

Re: The Scottish Politics Thread

Released without charge Doesn't mean anything. Questioned, released pending further investigation. They will now examine everything they have recovered during their searches and if necessary he will be arrested again, either for further questioning or charges to be brought. Thanks for the explainer...
by mos_eisely_
Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:39 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
Replies: 4373
Views: 179937

Re: The Scottish Politics Thread

Released without charge
by mos_eisely_
Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:25 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Blair is one of those players that you play. I don't care if its 10, wing or FB just have him playing.
by mos_eisely_
Fri Mar 03, 2023 9:52 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

westport wrote: Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:45 pm Have they forgotten about Gilcho's sending off?
Apparently he's been training with the international squad today so who knows that that means
by mos_eisely_
Mon Feb 27, 2023 8:42 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Ben Cairns brings in John Hardie as Defence and Collision coach for Heriot's. Quite a formidable coaching line up they have for the season
by mos_eisely_
Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:32 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: 2023 Six Nations
Replies: 3230
Views: 89121

Re: 2023 Six Nations

C69 wrote: Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:29 pm News I am hearing about Gats post March contract is errr interesting
Care to spill the beans
by mos_eisely_
Sat Feb 18, 2023 6:55 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Awful, awful stuff. And then for the kick off not to go 10 is just the icing on the cake (and by cake I mean turd)
by mos_eisely_
Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:31 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

KingBlairhorn wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 4:02 pm
Biffer wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:03 pm Edinburgh sign Robin Hislop on a two year deal.
Good signing. Eliot Milar Mils has signed for tighthead cover for the rest of this year.
Was with us in the 2017-18 season, from memory he even played in an 1872 Cup match
by mos_eisely_
Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:52 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
Replies: 19088
Views: 704996

Re: The Official English Rugby Thread

el capitan wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:25 pm A discussion for another day, but too many players are coming in from the Prem and looking not ready for the test arena. The spotlight needs to be on why this is….
I think a lot of the answer there is Eddie
by mos_eisely_
Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:33 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

He's been a dammed good fixture, and never looks slow to me! The alternatives are each defensively suspect in my book, until DvM is back. Duhan is one of the worst defenders, apically slow turn and doesn't look that interested in putting his body on the line. Yeah sorry, that was REALLY badly writt...
by mos_eisely_
Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:54 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Wales Rugby in Racism/Sexism/Homophobia SHOCKER
Replies: 11
Views: 971

Re: Wales Rugby in Racism/Sexism/Homophobia SHOCKER

I see the CEO has resigned. Now for the board to follow of change is going to be meaningful
by mos_eisely_
Mon Jan 23, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Women's Rugby Thread
Replies: 1089
Views: 49492

Re: Women's Rugby Thread

And landing on the same day, a women's team in Liberton has been disbanded by the

by mos_eisely_
Fri Jan 20, 2023 2:15 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Rufus McLean plead guilty to domestic abuse
Replies: 56
Views: 2323

Re: Rufus McLean plead guilty to domestic abuse

First time offender. Scottish justice system. Unlikely. I bow to your local Scottish justice knowledge But for coercive behaviour and assault and battery of your girlfriend surely that's a custodial sentence even for a first time offender Newspaper already has some horseshit in it: "with a bur...
by mos_eisely_
Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:31 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Wonder why they didn't suspend him after the arrest? Or the guilty plea in December. The details are horrendous. What a c*nt. Or when the police started being "alerted" to incidents years ago. Someone at the Warriors would have known. Scumbag. Has to be sacked. I think it's possible that ...
by mos_eisely_
Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:57 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Yeah the details are really bad. There's no comeback from that.

London Irish might be interested though
by mos_eisely_
Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

This explains why McLean wasn't selected

by mos_eisely_
Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:51 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

I think I’m about 5 mins behind everyone here but they need to move BK to 10 sharpish, Savala miles off it today and something needs to happen I think he's been pish today, back to not concentrating Which one? It's actually pathetic how little metres his kicks to touch made. Plus his poor chip in t...
by mos_eisely_
Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:25 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
Replies: 19088
Views: 704996

Re: The Official English Rugby Thread

Confirmed that Evans joins England for the 6N

by mos_eisely_
Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread
Replies: 20156
Views: 1187670

Re: The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

Tichtheid wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 12:08 pm
The Kinghorn move to the back three has started ;-)
by mos_eisely_
Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:34 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
Replies: 19088
Views: 704996

Re: The Official English Rugby Thread

Marler is one of a number of players who seems chronically addicted to trying to be the Archbishop of Banterbury He's harmless. As for wanting more from him than an apology...Well its the total emasculation of society. Telling some lad you rode his ma or she is a whore is just the way. It's so norm...
by mos_eisely_
Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:09 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official Cricket Thread
Replies: 8489
Views: 272166

Re: The Official Cricket Thread

Three wickets left now, with a highly dodgy out from the TMO on the last wicket. Soft signal was out so he would have struggled to overturn the call. A bit like the try in our test with England TMS was saying that the rules have recently been changed and the soft signal has no bearing on the decisi...
by mos_eisely_
Sun Dec 04, 2022 4:37 pm
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
Replies: 19088
Views: 704996

Re: The Official English Rugby Thread

Weird. Geech I can understand but it's fair to say he's not been a relevant force in rugby for decades. Then you have two guys in there who are there purely because they were internationals a very long time ago. Listening to him as a pundit and reading some of his columns it would appear McGeechan ...
by mos_eisely_
Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:03 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
Replies: 19088
Views: 704996

Re: The Official English Rugby Thread

Yeah it's a strange one for sure. Geech at least understands the modern game, he was Lions coach in 2009 (although it's dawned on me that was 13.5 years ago)
by mos_eisely_
Sun Dec 04, 2022 10:18 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
Replies: 19088
Views: 704996

Re: The Official English Rugby Thread

Eddie's future will be settled on Tuesday, apparently. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/dec/02/eddie-jones-future-as-england-head-coach-to-be-decided-next-week-rugby-union What's the betting he'll come out of it with a pay rise. https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/1599206883658809345?t=G2Cyn...
by mos_eisely_
Sun Nov 20, 2022 1:12 am
Forum: The Bear Pit
Topic: Week 4 : England v New Zealand
Replies: 333
Views: 10894

Re: Week 4 : England v New Zealand

What a totally fucking weird match that was. One question: is anyone going to ask TJP what the fuck he was thinking when he put up the box kick at the end, with not a single AB chasing it? To be fair that allowed Young's to dodge the question as why he box kicked possession away with no-one chasing