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Luke Pearce RIP

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It was pretty clear from the discussions between Pearce and the TMO that Pearce thought it was forward and was looking to the TMO to provide him with enough evidence to overturn the on-field ...

Automatic gates appears to be basically at the discretion of the nation you enter since Brexit. I’ve used them in Greece, Spain and Denmark and haven’t in France and Ireland.

Ireland and UK have a Common Travel Area agreement that predates both countries' entry into the EU. There is ...

Automatic gates appears to be basically at the discretion of the nation you enter since Brexit. I’ve used them in Greece, Spain and Denmark and haven’t in France and Ireland.

Ireland and UK have a Common Travel Area agreement that predates both countries' entry into the EU. There is complete ...

Hollie Davidson to take charge of European Challenge Cup Final.
“European rugby is the pinnacle of the professional game and to be named as the Challenge Cup final referee is something that I never thought was possible when I was starting out."

Excellent, :thumbup:

Bets on Torq's head ...

Most Brexiters (but not Yeeb tbf, it was always "pool shitters" with him) would argue the point if you said it was about immigration. They would say you were calling them racist or whatever and it was actually about sovereignty (aka bendy bananas). They would take it as an insult if you said ...

Doddie Weir - a fun loving guy who lit up any room, always getting up to mischief of some sort. When he got over the shock of his diagnosis he immediately set about dedicating his remaining time to finding a cure for those who would come after him.

Jerry Collins, his Nice Guy personality is ...

For balance from the Indian debacle, the government have done well on first review of the US deal and deserve a lot of credit for how they’ve navigated a very sticky wicket with the Trump administration full stop

The Indian one isn't a debacle. Don't eat up the Reform/Telegraph/DailyMail BS ...

I repeat, James Ryan is a clear homer selection. He can only play at lock, he can't play anywhere else. And for some reason Farrell had picked 6 locks in a 38-man squad. He's just not at the same level and offers nothing extraordinary. Meanwhile, in the row behind, there are no specialist no.8s in ...

Cometh the hour, cometh the man

You just know there will be an outrage at too many English being selected & not enough worlds best team World Cup winning Irish selected.

I suspect the most wailing and gnashing of teeth about too many English (at least on this bored) will come from the Scots, who 6 months ago were ...

You just know there will be an outrage at too many English being selected & not enough worlds best team World Cup winning Irish selected.

I suspect the most wailing and gnashing of teeth about too many English (at least on this bored) will come from the Scots, who 6 months ago were ...

You just know there will be an outrage at too many English being selected & not enough worlds best team World Cup winning Irish selected.

I suspect the most wailing and gnashing of teeth about too many English (at least on this bored) will come from the Scots, who 6 months ago were expecting ...

Uncle fester wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 9:27 am D day is tomorrow yeah?

Haven't you got your tickets yet?

Saw a news report that the lions management were a bit bleak that the ‘sea of red’ at the o2 arena wasn’t going to happen and fans were not rushing to pay £40 to see the team announced in person

Haha, is that real? A 40 quid event just ot see some names read out? The Lions really is a ...

well, at least that should be the end of bad enoch.

you'd have thunk it...she is useless, can't put the ball in the net even when Starmer leaves an open goal, now these results seeing the Tories vote eaten away by the scum, if they don't get rid of her then they are going to get annihilated ...

I'm sure someone in our reliable, unbiased media will be asking Robert Jenrick if the Canadian conservatives, and Pierre Poilievre in particular, are 'an apt lodestar' for UK conservatives.

Depends what you mean. Poilievre ran on a far more moderate platform that Jenrick would if given a ...

Meanwhile the Lib Dems are proposing a fine of £1000 for playing music out loud on public transport, has my vote

Me too. I'm always surprised that the twats listening to their Youtube videos at maximum volume on their phone seem so completely oblivious to everyone around them. At the very least ...

Jo Maugham loses yet again and declares himself shocked as he found another barrister who thought he had a good case. What a grifter

I know Guido likes to mock Jolyon Maugham at every possible opportunity, but Maugham wasn't really involved in this case. The case was between For Women Scotland ...

If anyone wants a grim, hollow laugh - Liz Truss says Trump is right about everything and that the likes of Farrage aren't hardline enough

oh and it was the deep state Bank of England wot fucked the markets, not her

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Deluded salad brained idiot

That's an ...

It's a bit depressing watching social media and seeing that literally 100% of negative comments about refs, players, teams etc are from men.

I did wonder after the England game yesterday if the male TMOs would have intervened to the same extent and at such tedious length if the referees had ...

I think you are wrong twice there. There is nothing in the law 9.12 or directives I have seen that talks about mitigation, that only applies to tackles. This is not a "view" it's a fact.

Saying the game would be very different with fourteen playing for an hour isn't too controversial ...

Genuinely, if you don't think Carley is shit, you've not watched him much.

He is certainly the worst competence wise in the NH. Brace is simply an outright cheat.

Brace doesn't deliberately cheat he is just hugely inconsistent as is Fank Murphy.
I don't think Carley is anywhere near the ...

Correct me. If I'm wrong. In 1990,punxhing someone was a red card. Is that right

Genuine question.

Pretty much yes. Was it not Scott Murray who was sent off for swinging a boot at an opponents leg and barely made contact.

Murray was sent off because he kicked Ian Gough's head. It was a ...

Funnily enough there is suddenly a perfect overhead footage, all over Twitter, that shows it's a full headbutt directly to White's face.

I don't actually remember seeing White go off for an HIA, which presumably is why it wasn't upgraded to a red as there simply wasn't much contact ...

Richard Cockerill's not wasted any time in asking for Georgia to be given the opportunity to play Wales with the winner then playing in the next 6N.

Wales won 43 -19 the last time they met (in the World Cup in 2023), but Georgia have beaten Wales in Cardiff before. Wales are also significantly ...

After yesterday's matches I fail to see any reason or argument for including a single Welshman in the Lions squad ... apart from trying to get some coverage on SC4? I have no idea why folk still think Williams is a better 9 than White who was excellent for Scotland yesterday.

It is hard to make ...

That’s a good reminder, if anyone needed one before tomorrow, of why every England side has to respect a trip to Wales. The mini Welsh showed superb character and defended like Trojans, it felt like so many England Wales games where we have failed to find a plan B.

Ref was utterly appalling ...

That’s a good reminder, if anyone needed one before tomorrow, of why every England side has to respect a trip to Wales. The mini Welsh showed superb character and defended like Trojans, it felt like so many England Wales games where we have failed to find a plan B.

Ref was utterly appalling, it ...

It's really quite difficult to see what this selection logic is supposed to be.

Scenario 1.
M. Smith gets injured then Daly will move to 15, but then who goes to the wing?

If Freeman moves there then who plays 13?

Scenario 2.
Dingwall gets injured then who plays 12? Does Earl go there and ...

That is the Lions, the British Isles Lions. But then some people had their Trump Gulf of America moment and decided it needed to be the British and Irish Lions for convenience

I honestly don’t understand why they don’t have a ‘SA pro teams’ moment, drop the British/Isles/B&I tag ...

Some odd selections for Saturday's game

M Smith; Roebuck, Freeman, Dingwall, Daly; F Smith, Mitchell; Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Stuart, Itoje (capt), Chessum, T Curry, B Curry, Earl.

Replacements: George, Baxter, Heyes, Cunningham-South, Pollock, Willis, Van Poortvliet, Ford.

I can't see the point of ...

Ireland - 28
England - 16
France - 23

I agree but not for the reason you think. Farrell likes "busy" wingers hence why he's ignored our more "traditional"-type wingers in Stockdale and Baloucoune.

Farrell might well look at DVDM and ask "what else does he do (or not do) besides run with the ball?"

Graham is significantly ...

why not pick Kinghorn on the wing and Keenan at 15? then you've a shootout between VDM, Feyi-Waboso and Lowe, maybe Hansen for the final starting spot.

That depends on when and how quickly Feyi-Waboso recovers from his recent shoulder surgery. Its quite possible that he will miss Lions ...

Funny how on social media, every male in Wales either never knew that jumping a tackle was illegal or now thinks it's a stupid law.

Shane Williams spent his entire career jumping tackles but was hardly ever penalised for it, so it shouldn't really be a surprise that the Welsh are unaware that ...

Just out of interest, and so I can put Firewater's entertaining gibberish in the right box, can anyone sane tell me what MIC actually stands for? The only conspiracy theory I could find was about information being fed to Presidential candidates during debates.

Military Industrial Complex I ...

Ireland by 5
England by 18
Scotland by 12

Does anyone remember the Kiwi art snob at the other place who used to regularly post pictures of his latest acquisition of some appallingly ugly and inept, but reassuringly expensive, piece of modern art?

There was a rather odd piece in the Guardian yesterday, which acknowledged that Vettriano was ...

Can anyone recall another Test where one team scored three tries to one and still lost?

I think SA won the try count 2-0 when we last beat them at MF. The first game that sprang to mind was the infamous QF when Australia won the count 5-3, but of course they didn’t lose, thanks to the ref.

In ...

The Welsh walrus thought England and the atmosphere at Twickenham were shit!
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Will Greenwood wasn't overly impressed either

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/02/22/england-played-so-little-rugby-i-almost-want-to-be-scottish/

"England were outscored by ...

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