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This game is going to introduce the concept of Christoph Ridley’s refereeing to a non-Premiership audience. Never a try Looked fine to me, I thought it was one of the first correct decisions Ridley made. As usual the commentary is awful. Apart from the knock on, the offside and the double movement ...

Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:14 pm This game is going to introduce the concept of Christoph Ridley’s refereeing to a non-Premiership audience. Never a try

Looked fine to me, I thought it was one of the first correct decisions Ridley made.

As usual the commentary is awful.

Wembley is a nice stadium in a shit part of town. Twickenham is a shit stadium in a nice part of town.

It's easier to fix the stadium than the neighbourhood.

With car insurance it's also impacted by theft as well as increasing repair costs. A friend with a Land Rover can't get ANY insurance for his vehicle parked on the street (London) This has only become an issue in the last 6 months. I have also been unable to get insurance for my VW van parked on the...

I wonder if the RFU have taken a leaf out of the Imperial Romans book by employing a flunkie to walk behind Borethick whispering in his ear " thou art a fantastic coach, England are really making huge strides forwards, they are a top 3 side, don't listen to the critics". There can be no o...

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:15 pm Definitely double movement on first view.

Credit to Pearce for that one. Focusing on whether the tackle is complete and after seeing the replay, changes his mind.

Actually mean to say, it was a bit odd at the end in the stadium. You couldn’t really pick out what was being shown on the big screen so lots of pantomime ooo’ing and ahh’ing but no one seemed to really know what was going on. After the whistle there was just a resigned sign, no real anger or frust...

Hal Jordan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:13 pm When was the last time England didn’t give away eight million stupid penalties by half time?

England have a long and glorious tradition of picking single digit IQ second row players who do dumb stuff.

TB63 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:04 am Second half resurgence by Wales to squeak a win..

Yeah right....

Wales coming back from a significant deficit to beat an England teams out of ideas at Twickenham was what made me start watching club rugby.

Ymx wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:25 pm I’ve been catching up on Fargo. Watching season 5 now

I skipped season 4, due to bad reviews. Am I correct to do so? Or worth watching ?

Probably correct, unless you are a completionist.

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:09 pm Watching the replays of the second Italy try, Stewards glacial pace really stands out.

He outpaced Marler.

Just.
<edit> TBF he's played well and his lack of pace is well known so should be factored in to the makeup of the defensive line. </edit>

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:46 pm That was so shit from England. They had an age to sort there numbers out there

They had put a lot of effort into ensuring all the slowest players in the team were in the defensive line.

Ben Botica's probably available for the right price I was having a discussion the other day along the lines of ‘who was that dogshit ten Quins had between Evans and Smith’. Now I have my answer, thank you Never forget... https://youtu.be/z2RsKSP05mw?t=114 And the Challenge cup final kick as well. :...

Bump. Not sure if this is the correct thread to use (just did a search) hope so....... Going to Hanoi in November for a week..... It was a coin toss between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city but we opted for the former given it is more of the traditional, old world Vietnamese city. If we are there for sev...

Bump. Not sure if this is the correct thread to use (just did a search) hope so....... Going to Hanoi in November for a week..... It was a coin toss between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city but we opted for the former given it is more of the traditional, old world Vietnamese city. If we are there for sev...

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:12 am The Knights Hospitaller air force story is hilarious as well.

That's genuinely interesting! I'm off to Malta in April so it's time to brush up on my Maltese history - of which there's quite a bit it seems.

Q. We're moving house in a few months and I'm looking at broadband/tv alternatives. Currently I have Virgin broadband and tv, it all works very well. I also have a USB Firestick for streaming services. The quality of picture from the Virgin Tivo box is far superior to that from the Firestick. I'm c...

How England go will be an interesting one. Our games get progressively harder each week, if we get through the first two weeks OK we might see some confidence build, more of a coherent game etc. Pretty important for Borthwick to show some progress. I'm giving him a pass for the moment due to the sh...

Dogbert wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:13 pm Glasgow off to The Stoop ( at least its a lot easier to get to than Exeter )

Last time I saw Glasgow play Quins - Glasgow ran out easy winners 50 - 17 , with am eight try fest

Same result would be fine

I went to that game. Decent day out.

How England go will be an interesting one. Our games get progressively harder each week, if we get through the first two weeks OK we might see some confidence build, more of a coherent game etc. Pretty important for Borthwick to show some progress. I'm giving him a pass for the moment due to the sh...

After several years of dealing with local and central government, It became clear that one of the core skills for surviving was the ability to slopey shoulder everything and find somebody to blame. The Post Office are a government department. ICL were effectively a government department. Not taking...

After several years of dealing with local and central government, It became clear that one of the core skills for surviving was the ability to slopey shoulder everything and find somebody to blame. The Post Office are a government department. ICL were effectively a government department. Not taking ...

ASMO wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:39 pm

Magnificent

TBH most of Sinéad O'Connor's stuff will sound better sung by somebody else.

What's incredible was that people were getting convicted of fraud when it was quite obvious there had been no financial gain and the Post Office investigators didn't seem to be required by the court to prove there was. A close friend who is a Fiscal in the Crown Office made the decision that the ev...

IMG_20240107_165357_216.jpg As far as I know, they have been investigating it since 2020. This is not directed at you but this whole debacle has been pretty well publicised for at least 5 years now to anyone who has been paying attention, but it's amazing how many people who hadn't given it a passi...

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:41 pm Oh my goodness, what a dreadful flub from Hastings. That's the game barring something spectacular that Glaws have thus far seemed incapable of.

Gloucester's inability to reliably execute what should be basic passes has been a problem all game.

I don't know anyone who uses 'My Documents' within windows. Microsoft are cunts and will eventually fuck around with whatever standard set up they have in place for their own benefit. So I don't use their drive structures or anything like that. There's a broader thing here about our entire culture ...

Good on him! Been playing well for them this season Former England full-back Mike Brown has agreed a new deal with Leicester Tigers to run "beyond the 2023-24 season". https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67891281 Ditching Brown and the way it happened was not one of Quins' greatest mo...

Trying to go 3 months without any alcohol and get a wee bit fitter. Almost did it last year but my resolve broke half way through March. Day 4 and going ok so far, even with a half empty bottle of NB Navy strength gin sitting teasing me in the fridge door. Already feel sleep has improved. Wish me l...

Slick wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 1:21 pm https://x.com/apsmrugby/status/17428962 ... tSNBueE4mg

25 years ago

Ah, the good old 'wave them through' school of tackling

TEXAS! A woman in TX, 12 weeks pregnant, Just found out the fetus has died. There is no heartbeat. They are making her continue to carry her dead baby until she goes into labor and delivers her dead baby. This is mental and emotional trauma. Examples like this might sway a few votes.. So the right ...

TB63 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 11:51 am

Fake, obviously.

Absolutely the best piece of TV that has been on the British screen recently was " Mr Bates vs The Post Office" - If you have not seen it I cannot recommend it enough I've followed this story for the last 10 years through Private Eye / Computer Weekly/ Panorama & the BBC Radio documen...

Martin may be a bellend but he isn't the worst honours recipient I've ever seen. That speaks more to how low standards have become than anything. Exactly my point. I would abolish the whole system, it's as anachronistic as the HOL. IIRC Lloyd George's price list started at about half a million at c...

During the last Lions tour Gatland & Rassie served up quite the worst rugby I've ever seen. The sort or Rugby that actively shrinks the game globally.

My suggestion is to do the opposite of what either of them suggest.

https://twitter.com/colinrtalbot/status/1739616918141550609?t=RfnFYM49wNZF68KePijTCQ&s=19 This can not be serious ? One of the main reasons for the revision of the TEN-T corridors, is exactly because the UK has left the EU. That's up there with Nadine Dorries complaining that the Brexit deal wi...

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 8:40 am That’s a crazy situation!

It really is. If you are importing something that's >90% water and can be made locally then you're being fucked.

p.s. I buy imported German beer all the time, but it's not coming quite as far.

No overtime and you're not automatically entitled to time in lieu. I get time in lieu if I work holidays or weekends. But if I have to stay up until 2am sorting a problem on a Tuesday....that's just expected as part of the job. Really? I always make sure my guys get time like that back and I always...

Non-competes as a rule are unenforceable unless they meet strict criteria and are limited in scope. I am blue in the face from telling people this, on the other hand getting someone to sign on the dotted line does tend to have some moral weight and change behaviour. If you opt out from the working ...

I understand why it's there, especially for more senior people whose input might be particularly necessary if something hits the fan. One summer when I was with an exam board a van with an exam paper in it got nicked a couple of days before it was due to be sat, so there was an all hours scramble t...

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