The Official English Rugby Thread

[duke]

Rugby fans in the North can be grateful to the absolute shitshow and incompetence displayed by their governments in relation to Covid 19. Imagine being fleeced a pound of flesh to watch the turgid dross that will be served up during English v Wales. Soul destroying. No wonder you are all so angry and depressed. Should be Bleaky not Blighty.

Thanks for your best wishes. Now fuck off twat!

And when you've finished fucking off, fuck off some more

[Paddington Bear]

Now we can get crowds in, should they start the Championship? I reckon with a country starved of entertainment there's a good chance a lot of clubs could fill the 2,000 max capacity, more than most usually get...

[Longshanks]

Now we can get crowds in, should they start the Championship? I reckon with a country starved of entertainment there's a good chance a lot of clubs could fill the 2,000 max capacity, more than most usually get...

That's a very good point. Could be a real boost for the smaller clubs.

[Kawazaki]

Now we can get crowds in, should they start the Championship? I reckon with a country starved of entertainment there's a good chance a lot of clubs could fill the 2,000 max capacity, more than most usually get...

Eh?

What news have I missed?

[JM2K6]

I think the limits are related to % of available seats - having 2k people packed together isn't the idea

[SaintK]

Now we can get crowds in, should they start the Championship? I reckon with a country starved of entertainment there's a good chance a lot of clubs could fill the 2,000 max capacity, more than most usually get...

That's a very good point. Could be a real boost for the smaller clubs.

I don't think there will be any competetive rugby below the Premiership until the start of the 21/22 season!

[Longshanks]

I think the limits are related to % of available seats - having 2k people packed together isn't the idea

Yes
But my local club gets about 80 at best
Double that would be great. They could easily take 1000

[Paddington Bear]

Most championship grounds have a capacity of c.4,000. Could get viable crowds in

[Hal Jordan]

750 - 1,000 would probably be just enough to keep the wolf from the door long enough to see it through to "normality".

Christ, I went to the England vs Wales 6N match this year and there is no way you would get me in those conditions without proper vaccination having been carried out. Thousands of drunken people screaming at the top of their lungs, jammed together like cattle. And that was just the queue for the toilets.

[Green light echo]

Rugby fans in the North can be grateful to the absolute shitshow and incompetence displayed by their governments in relation to Covid 19. Imagine being fleeced a pound of flesh to watch the turgid dross that will be served up during English v Wales. Soul destroying. No wonder you are all so angry and depressed. Should be Bleaky not Blighty.

Thanks for your best wishes. Now fuck off twat!

And when you've finished fucking off, fuck off some

Best wishes

[SaintK]

Thanks for your best wishes. Now fuck off twat!

And when you've finished fucking off, fuck off some more

Best wishes

Please re-read the post from Duke
When you've done that please run along and look up the words irony and sarcasm.

[sockwithaticket]

Teams for Wasps v Glaws tomorrow.

Second half clashes with the England game, but England have been so dull I'm contemplating watching this instead.



Basically the same team as last week allowing for Umaga and Shields' injuries. Slightly surprised to see Vellacott benched for young Wolstenholme, huge vote of confidence for the lad. Gopperth hasn't played 10 in a while, will be interesting to see how he gets on. It'll be nice to see Atkinson get some minutes and this time hopefully avoid any senior England internationals attempting to decapitate him.

[sockwithaticket]

And when you've finished fucking off, fuck off some more

Best wishes

Please re-read the post from Duke
When you've done that please run along and look up the words irony and sarcasm.

Please re-read the post from Duke
When you've done that please run along and look up the words irony and sarcasm.

Fixed the quote and would echo the message.

@Green light echo - once you've followed the instructions, continue to fuck off until you make it back to your starting position and then start to fuck off all over again. Ta.

[Green light echo]

And when you've finished fucking off, fuck off some more

Best wishes

Please re-read the post from Duke
When you've done that please run along and look up the words irony and sarcasm.

Irony that's good. Yes a fading star. Well what did Eden say? We will play Greece to your Rome. Size. Still playing it out. Pathetic really.

[sockwithaticket]

Falcons - Sale is a horrible game to watch. Geordies with a healthy lead, though, which is nice to see.

[Tichtheid]

Falcons - Sale is a horrible game to watch. Geordies with a healthy lead, though, which is nice to see.

Bit of bosh between penalties, that’s been about the size of it so far

[notfatcat]

What are those things on the Newc players' necks?

Not their heads - those little patch things.

[sockwithaticket]

What are those things on the Newc players' necks?

Not their heads - those little patch things.

Impact sensors, volunteered to be part of a study.

[Tichtheid]

What are those things on the Newc players' necks?

Not their heads - those little patch things.

Sensors for a concussion study

[sockwithaticket]

Does sending the backs into a maul ever actually pay off? Most of the time it just seems to make the momentum weird and complicate get the ball back to the scrum half when needed.

[sockwithaticket]

Toby Flood is the most ungainly rugby player ever. He's just scored the winning try for Falcons and it was indistinguishable from a face plant.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Does sending the backs into a maul ever actually pay off? Most of the time it just seems to make the momentum weird and complicate get the ball back to the scrum half when needed.

Ever? Yes.

Often. No :)

[Kawazaki]

Micky Young looks like the best English 9 in the league at the moment.

[sockwithaticket]

Does sending the backs into a maul ever actually pay off? Most of the time it just seems to make the momentum weird and complicate get the ball back to the scrum half when needed.

Ever? Yes.

Often. No :)

I'm really struggling to recall the last occasion.

[Raggs]

Does sending the backs into a maul ever actually pay off? Most of the time it just seems to make the momentum weird and complicate get the ball back to the scrum half when needed.

Ever? Yes.

Often. No :)

I'm really struggling to recall the last occasion.

I reckon Barritt was useful. Gopperth is useful in as much as he'd take the ball off the last forward, which frees the forward up to actually do some useful pushing, but mostly, no.

[Oxbow]

I refer you to last week where Tom Collins scored off a Saints rolling maul. That's all the evidence I need.

[Hal Jordan]

Toby Flood is the most ungainly rugby player ever. He's just scored the winning try for Falcons and it was indistinguishable from a face plant.

I believe JMK described him as being made out of elbows.

[Tichtheid]

Flood was/is alright, he had big boots to fill

There have been a few exceptions of course, but overall, number 10 seems to me to have been the most difficult shirt to fill in the pro era. Yeah we've had some really great players, but we used to have lots of great tens every year in every international team, like really good 7s.

The flankers have survived the transition to professionalism, perhaps because of the predominance of the pro defence - it's easier to do.

But I think we are still catching up on attack, and on really great 10s, a hard flat pass is what counts as great stand off play now, for the most part.

[sockwithaticket]

Flood was/is alright, he had big boots to fill

Don't get me wrong I have a lot of love for Toby Flood, he was unfairly maligned by a lot of England fans back when he was gracing the test stage and managed to work minor miracles with some of the dross outside him then.

He does have the uncanny knack of looking like a baby giraffe taking its first steps even when making stellar contributions, though.

[sockwithaticket]

Toby Flood is the most ungainly rugby player ever. He's just scored the winning try for Falcons and it was indistinguishable from a face plant.

I believe JMK described him as being made out of elbows.

Quite right.

[ASMO]

It was an awful, awful game to watch, rugby seems to have taken a fairly significant step backwards. I cant say in all honesty i have seen one domestic game this season (or Nations cup/6N) that has shown any real attacking intent or skill. Kick and chase and defend, defend, defend seems to be the only tactic employed.

[Line6 HXFX]

It was an awful, awful game to watch, rugby seems to have taken a fairly significant step backwards. I cant say in all honesty i have seen one domestic game this season (or Nations cup/6N) that has shown any real attacking intent or skill. Kick and chase and defend, defend, defend seems to be the only tactic employed.

The all blacks kick about as much as anyone, but they seem to have the players that can really really use it as a weopen.

See for me this Wales England game isn't about entertainment.
It isn't even about Rugby.
Wales only picked Rugby Union because of the English.
We sometimes need reminding of this.
When the game split and went professional, the Welsh could have all have given up our extremely dangerous day jobs, working in the mines and steelworks and headed north, got paid lots to play rugby league.
Instead we decided on mass to work in heavy industry, down the mines in dangerous conditions etc, just so we could kick the crap out of the English public school tw3ts every week, even if it went unpaid. It was it's own reward.
See rugby isn't a sport here, it is class war. It is how us working classes rise up and give the posh, overpriviledged English cunts a bloody nose.
This is what it means to us.
Frankly, if I was a working class English kid, I would support Wales.
The English Rugby Union team doesn't represent you.
They Represent Boris, Cameron, Osborne, and every single posho, arrogant English overprviledged knob, throughout history who despises, hates and wants to punish you.
English supporters think they are nice people, what the English Rugby Union team represents isn't nice at all.
Not to many people and certainly not to the Welsh.

We will probably lose today, the posh who has been given everything in life and who look down on us with utter contempt may win this one..but hopecully we will be back stronger and give the English Rugby Union side, a bloody nose, on behalf of mankind, in the future.

[ScarfaceClaw]

No mention of Thatcher? You’ve mellowed man.

[Kawazaki]

The all blacks kick about as much as anyone, but they seem to have the players that can really really use it as a weopen.

See for me this Wales England game isn't about entertainment.
It isn't even about Rugby.
Wales only picked Rugby Union because of the English.
We sometimes need reminding of this.
When the game split and went professional, the Welsh could have all have given up our extremely dangerous day jobs, working in the mines and steelworks and headed north, got paid lots to play rugby league.
Instead we decided on mass to work in heavy industry, down the mines in dangerous conditions etc, just so we could kick the crap out of the English public school tw3ts every week, even if it went unpaid. It was it's own reward.
See rugby isn't a sport here, it is class war. It is how us working classes rise up and give the posh, overpriviledged English cunts a bloody nose.
This is what it means to us.
Frankly, if I was a working class English kid, I would support Wales.
The English Rugby Union team doesn't represent you.
They Represent Boris, Cameron, Osborne, and every single posho, arrogant English overprviledged knob, throughout history who despises, hates and wants to punish you.
English supporters think they are nice people, what the English Rugby Union team represents isn't nice at all.
Not to many people and certainly not to the Welsh.

We will probably lose today, the posh who has been given everything in life and who look down on us with utter contempt may win this one..but hopecully we will be back stronger and give the English Rugby Union side, a bloody nose, on behalf of mankind, in the future.

Those English kids don't just support the Welsh, they play for them as well. This fixture is becoming an England v England 'B' fixture.

HTH

[Hells Bells]

I’m English and I don’t want to represent Boris, Cameron, Thatcher etc. Ffs

Great win for the Falcons, only 3 new signings in the starting 15 from the start of last season, everyone else was there when we got relegated. In that time we lost Green, J Williams, Harris, Dunbar, Nagusa, Sinoti, Takalua, Witty, G Young, Goneva and others and didn’t play for 250 days yet we’re competing, it’s a bloody miracle.

[Ymx]

Please re-read the post from Duke
When you've done that please run along and look up the words irony and sarcasm.

Please re-read the post from Duke
When you've done that please run along and look up the words irony and sarcasm.

Fixed the quote and would echo the message.

@Green light echo - once you've followed the instructions, continue to fuck off until you make it back to your starting position and then start to fuck off all over again. Ta.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!

[SaintK]

I’m English and I don’t want to represent Boris, Cameron, Thatcher etc. Ffs

Great win for the Falcons, only 3 new signings in the starting 15 from the start of last season, everyone else was there when we got relegated. In that time we lost Green, J Williams, Harris, Dunbar, Nagusa, Sinoti, Takalua, Witty, G Young, Goneva and others and didn’t play for 250 days yet we’re competing, it’s a bloody miracle.

Yes, well played Falcons
Have to say it was one of the worst matches I've seen in a long time. The amount of kicking was utterly ridiculous and appallingly inaccurate from both teams
Even Wayne Barnes had a poor match
Just as well there were no spectators watching the 80 minutes of dross!

[Dinsdale Piranha]

I’m English and I don’t want to represent Boris, Cameron, Thatcher etc. Ffs

Great win for the Falcons, only 3 new signings in the starting 15 from the start of last season, everyone else was there when we got relegated. In that time we lost Green, J Williams, Harris, Dunbar, Nagusa, Sinoti, Takalua, Witty, G Young, Goneva and others and didn’t play for 250 days yet we’re competing, it’s a bloody miracle.

Yes, well played Falcons
Have to say it was one of the worst matches I've seen in a long time. The amount of kicking was utterly ridiculous and appallingly inaccurate from both teams
Even Wayne Barnes had a poor match
Just as well there were no spectators watching the 80 minutes of dross!

Yes, it was dire to watch.

There was an inordinate amount of kicking and very little chasing. It's usually called kick-chase for a reason.

Wayne Barnes spent most of the match ignoring forward passes. I think the reason is that he had forgotten what a pass looked like due to the aforementioned kicking

Also Faf had an off day and didn't get much going.

[Saint]

Saints vs Quins. Not expecting much from us tbh

[Oxbow]

Not getting much so far.