Always thought he looked a little pudgy for the position and this might be the reason why.Blackmac wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 1:08 am I've never mentioned this before but after the 2018 win I was on call on the Saturday night and decided to take a drive around Edinburgh. I saw Russell standing absolutely out of his face on the corner of George Street and St Andrews Square about 3 in the morning. I stopped to have a word and realised he was absolutely out of his tits, easily the drunkest lad on the street and hadn't a clue where he was. If he had been a normal punter he would have been sobering up in the cells till the morning and leaving with a D&I ticket in his pocket but I made arrangements for a uniform car to get him back to the team hotel. I've seen and been many a drunk rugby player but I recall thinking at the time that it was a shocking condition for such a high profile pro sportsman to be in and getting the impression that there might be a problem he had to get a grip of. Not quite sure he has.
Has GT lost the dressing room?
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You can perhaps give the players a pass for the 2018 Calcutta Cup. They didn’t just win, they won in style, and that off the back of the nightmare at Twickenham the previous year. Seem to recall a video of Greig Laidlaw utterly steaming as well. The problem is that you get the impression that for Russell it might be more of a regular thing.
In France, though, the culture is different and going out on the lash will be frowned upon in a way it isn’t here. So maybe he is taking the opportunity of a trip home to get wankered.
In France, though, the culture is different and going out on the lash will be frowned upon in a way it isn’t here. So maybe he is taking the opportunity of a trip home to get wankered.
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You have a team of great players, who are constantly told how great they are, and don't really have anything to prove. They are riding a grousdswell of Scottish cock and swimming in a sea of Scottish sex wee, afloat a nation of Andy Nicols.
In Wales, when we were great and winning, ranked 1 on Earth. we had nobodies, just grafters. Zero star power. They were Llke the fucking Borg. Alun Wyn Jones is admired, but the last thing that guy wants is to be admired, or get drunk be popular, or respected..He just wants to win. Win ugly, win by scapping, cheating, kicking his mother down the stairs, just winning.
The Scottish want to win too, but you know, no fucking Welsh player has a hair transplant.
In Wales, when we were great and winning, ranked 1 on Earth. we had nobodies, just grafters. Zero star power. They were Llke the fucking Borg. Alun Wyn Jones is admired, but the last thing that guy wants is to be admired, or get drunk be popular, or respected..He just wants to win. Win ugly, win by scapping, cheating, kicking his mother down the stairs, just winning.
The Scottish want to win too, but you know, no fucking Welsh player has a hair transplant.
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Keep reading the thread title as Has Gerry Thornley lost the dressing room.