Most league fans can't be doing with 'Jiffy' (even though he refers to England as 'we'), but I think he's alright. What is the union view?
The utter national bias in all the rugby co-commentators is funny. The Irish and Scottish ones tend to be more of the slow, rumbling seethe variety.
I've taken a dislike to Brian Moore since some sad cunt grass tagged him in those lol Eric Bristow nonce tweets and he failed to call him a sad cunt grass.
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Good game this, if nothing else the Stade France should be a shoe in for the most obnoxious PA system ever conceived.
Maitland is frustrating. Has serious gas and ability to finish from a distance but rarely uses it. He shirks backing himself in the foot race and takes the inside line too often.
I hope they lose by a point after that lol conversion.
I like a good hired hand as much as the next man, but these Fijian wingers that France have are annoying me. Find your own players.
I'm not sure which was better, that conversion or that England lineout last week.
Somebody shoot the French brass band.
If France refuse the three points twice in row then I'm officially rooting for the scotch.
That's a try every day of the week.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha.
It's the Fijian import they have on 2nd trumpet that's making the difference.
Just seen that missed conversion from today. If he even takes a couple of steps back then then the ball falls before he tries to kick it and he can reset it. What a pleb.
The ref told him to hurry up when in fact he had loads of time left so he rushed it.
If Scotland have any players left then it should be a good game against Wales.
Whitewash.
'Flanno' is seething.
Any potential NRL blokes that should remember?
From today, Joe Burgess will go back at some point, Oliver Gildart is going to be class in a couple of years, George Williams probably could become good enough (but lol at an Australian side signing an English half), and John Bateman is a case of when not if. From yesterday, Rhys Evans maybe, Daryl Clark definitely (Wayne Bennett should have taken him back for this season), and he didn't play yesterday but Ben Currie should be interesting NRL clubs.
'Flanno' was blaming us only using one referee in his 'I don't want to take anything away from Wigan but...' SEETHE, but 1) lol at thinking that NRL referees always enforce the ten metres (Cameron Smith lives offside); and 2) peptides mate peptides.
Transatlantic sport getting up-and-running with Toronto beating Siddal (who are basically the best amateur team in the country) 14-6 on their atrocious pitch is the sort of thing that would give Roger Goodell brain damage he doesn't believe in.
That would have been the most Scottish way of throwing away a lead.
I think Scotland's backs have done more exciting stuff in this game than in the last 20 years combined.
No Loblaw this week but I like the full back and the wingers, they've been great. Flattered a bit by Wales being garbage.
lol at Wales, but lol also at those celebrations.
Does that little leprechaun bloke just love a freebie? Nobody else seems to wheel out the top man for so many things.
Surprising amount of French people have turned up to watch Ireland vs Fiji.
I watched that Waterloo film earlier, this is basically the same thing again.
Scotland are actually going to win this. Hark hark hark.
Italy by far the superior side in the first 20 minutes. Sigh.
And yet nothing to show for it.
Surely if there's no ruck then you just get back up again and keep going.
They're having a proper meltdown because like all English sportsmen they can only respond to PLANS and have no ability to think for themselves.
There we go, at least Hughes has a brain.
lol. They should be minimum 10 points ahead. By far the better team.
What an absolute rabble we've looked so far. Properly awful.
Ironic that if their kicker could kick they'd have less points out of that.
Professional players not even slightly knowing the rules is something that is hugely widespread in all sports, it's always funny to behold.
Nice from Care but there are at least a couple of Italians there who might've given some thought to tackling him.
As if looking like a massive toddler wasn't bad enough, Joe Launchbury is sporting some bald patch. Watch his confidence slowly vanish.
'That was much harder than it should have been' could be the tagline for the entire game.
BBC live text for the game showed Matt Dawson having a good old seethe about the Italians ignoring rucks and evading offsides.
i don't even understand what they were doing?