God, Scotland matches are so fun. Absolutely infuriating majority of the time because using their heads and doing the simple things just doesn’t quite compute
God, Scotland matches are so fun. Absolutely infuriating majority of the time because using their heads and doing the simple things just doesn’t quite compute
Bloody hell, England are absolutely tragic.
He might well have run his course by 2019, but Eddie Jones made a lot of these players look better than they are, so we should have just written this cycle off and kept him.
Would be class if Scotland managed to play well in the first half compared to how they are in the second.
Ireland and South Africa ain’t gonna let them back in the match
The best sport in the world.
Proper amusing, that. It’s like when you were a kid and the ball hit the “post” (went over a grid/pile of coats/bags) and everyone had to pause in the position they were in, for the goalkeeper to throw it out as if it had bounced massively off the post.
I'm a twit
France at home, Ireland top ranked, "The Best Scotland Ever", are we to expect three southern hemispheres and [somehow] England in the semis before South Africa win again or are one of the bottlers going to break ranks?
I'm certainly going to break ranks, all in on France. Allez allez. Let's have Macron poncing in the stands by month end.
One wonders why New Zealand even bother with an anthem. So little enthusiasm for it, just get to the haka.
I take it back, they've somehow managed to fuck up the French anthem as well. How is that even possible?
Haka-mania, now with sticks. South Africa will win the tournament, and Eddie Jones [mate] will have his revenge.
The haka is such a load of old wank. France should be allowed to force them to sit through Les Misérables in return.
Thinking it was a spear before realising it was an oar was the most interesting bit of that.
Instant Maginot line.
Modern union commentary is so hard to listen to for the casual watcher. I don't want to hear about decoy runners and second phase ball. I want to hear Bill McLaren exclaiming WHAT A SCORE FOR THE ALL BLACKS.
I always think - from league doing it as well, and now football saturating us with referee commentary - that if you're having to explain the rules every five minutes then you're already losing.
Particularly in Union where the rules are entirely arbitrary and beyond logical explanation.
Great advert this. Absolute dreck from start to finish.
Can't wait to hear what Jonny Wilkinson thought of it all.
Personality botox, although maybe that suggests he ever had one.
Mr zero expression.
Well, that under armour advert has lowered the tone.
Saw a headline the other day along the lines of ‘is Makinson the best winger ever’ and scoffed. But my god, he’s good.
Is he?
I'm a twit
Flat pass.
Just stop all forms of this.
If that's flat then so is my stomach.
This Jalavert is one of the Frenchest players I've seen for a while. Very promising for my enjoyment.
EDIT: Jalibert. I prefer my version.
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Pool C and D are genuinely tragic. Bloody hell guvnor
It's still Lesley Vainikolo as far as Super League goes.Originally Posted by Baz
New Zealand look terrible.
All northern semis. One of England or Wales can probably drag themselves out of their part of the draw to join the others.
Ever other pass from NZ has been forward.
Good to see that this sport is still all about trying to land on your own head after having Harry Kane'd some 'contact in the air'.
Pools C and D need a couple of upsets to liven things up a bit or it's going to be a real drag.
Who thought these weird lecterns were a good idea?
What on earth is he meant to do there? Disappear?
This sport is gone.
What is he meant to do there?
lol
"I agree"
Watch England's turning into a red and the [more] clear red staying yellow. Not that either should be any more than a penalty.
There you go.
And there you go.
I'm sure The Merse will be along shortly to explain how a guy having someone basically land on him head to head [whilst being on the ground] is worse than someone putting their full weight into a late 'tackle' and making contact with the head whilst completely off the ground. Seems a bit incongruous to the uninitiated observer.
At this rate rugby will lose the right to belittle football players as soft, at which point half its support disappears.
You can't half nothing.
English rugby is just fucked isn't it?
Union certainly appears to be, although that's probably been a long time coming. They have certainly struggled to adapt to 'modern rugby', as reflected by their horrendous disciplinary record over god knows how many years.
We have twice as many registered players as the next country. It's just embarrassing we can't get it together.
If Argentina lose this they should be sent home.
The week-to-week club game is basically shit, on a rinky-dink par with rugby league if you take a couple of wealthy backers out, and what talent there is at the underage levels (not so much in more recent years, but we were dominant quite recently) just gets dispersed and/or not used for whatever reasons. We should probably have big regional teams like the Irish and New Zealanders do.
Keep nailing the drop goals lads. Let's sludge our way through like it's 2007.
It just probably suffers from sport saturation, whereby if you're really good at sport [and therefore probably really good at quite lot of sports] it must rank as one of the least appealing, and probably least accessible, routes into professionalism. That might be changing as it seems to have become more mainstream at younger ages than when I was young [I never played it at the private school I went to and it was a running theme that by 5th form/Year11 or whatever it is that the 1st XI football team would probably beat the 1st XV rugby team as they were mostly the people who were too fat/useless to have ever been good at any other sport] but there must be half a dozen better uses of your time as a high level sports prospect at least. Getting every kid into touch is clearly the way to go, but I don't see how that ever overcomes the all consuming pull of football, and then there's the myriad other sports all readily accessible where you don't risk being a vegetable by 45.
Argentina look great.
The colonials don't play football so rugby gets first pick, but surely Ireland, Scotland, France, and possibly Wales would be every bit as shit man-for-man if it was this simple?
Tuilagi.
Not really.
Scotland maybe, but all of those other countries have rugby as a more primary sport than football. The French probably benefit across most sports from not really liking them, but maybe that's been the cause of their suffering in the one they actually do like.
I bet every little fucker in Wales and Ireland play rugby [or some sort of physical equivalent] whereas, as far as I can tell, in England all forms of organised sport are essentially now expunged from the school curriculum [in favour of dodgeball, or random weeks of x, y or z].
Also, yeah, Argentina should probably just be sent home now. This is ridiculous.
Almost perfect timing for the last night of the proms and this.
It’s a shame Hogg retired because him over Kinghorn has that Scotland attack looking absolutely scrumptious.
No doubt start the game stupidly slow again and give themselves a massive hurdle to climb to get back in the game.
I remember the organisation around the Stade Velodrome being fairly shambolic at the Euro 2016 semi-final so good to see the French authorities still haven't found a way to make it less shit. Seem to recall being made to walk round the entire stadium outside of the fenced/secure area and the entrance to that bit was opposite side to the main road you walked down to get there.
Rugby is extremely low participation compared to soccer here. It's almost exclusively a private school game.
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