And don't get me started on crossing in the 3/4s
Aaaaaaaarrrrgh! That does my head in! Anyone hanging about in midfield ahead of the back line is obstructing - penalize them.
England had a better run that the rest of us the next time round too let's not forget.
How could we Cueto still hasnt stopped whining!!
My pet hate with rugby currently is the scrum. Refs say if you keep ****ing anout I'm going to award pens. THATS WHAT THEY WANT YOU DAFT ****. Stop awarding pens and all the ****ing about will stop.
Scotland have disappointed me the most as at the WC they seemed to have finally made some progress but have failed to bring that to the 6N.
People especially the media keep saying this, but Scotland were nothing special at the world cup. One good game against a complacent and half disinterested Australia does not suddenly make you good.
Wales were the best NH team at the world cup; very, very closely followed by England and funnily enough only 4 months later they'll be contesting the 6N title.
You can't stop crossig in the midfield as the SH would have a hissy fit.
People especially the media keep saying this, but Scotland were nothing special at the world cup. One good game against a complacent and half disinterested Australia does not suddenly make you good.
How do you judge special or successful? They scored more points and tries than any other home Nation, got the equal furthest in the tournament, made massive leaps compared to the rugby they've played in recent years... and they must have set some sort of record for number of intercept tries 😀
Stop awarding pens and all the **** about will stop.
Amen!
Also, it would stop the utterly irritating habit of backs sprinting the length of the pitch to congratulate the front row for winning a penalty. If I was a coach, I'd kick anyone who did that. Hard. And several times.
The problem is any scrum that gets driven back is penalised as its impossible to stay bound and straight with your head being shoved up your arse so they mightvas well drop it as soon as the pressure comes on.
Good point C'pn and the last thing you want as a front row forward is a pretty boy in his clean shirt and shorts coming and patting you on the head. They can have the headlines for putting the ball down - leave the real men alone 😉
would stop the utterly irritating habit of backs sprinting the length of the pitch to congratulate the front row for winning a penalty
Easy rule change. Any player congratulating team mates for winning a penalty shall result in an immediate scrum with the congratulating player exchanging positions with the player congratulated. Put in to the non-congratulating side.
Mike Brown at hooker and Dylan at full back anyone.
Horrible practice congratulating penalty awards if you think about it. It makes it seem like the team achieved a goal, as if they were playing for a penalty, and that's akin to diving. Perhaps even a yellow is in order - but seeing Brown in a front row would be funnier.
What irritates me is following a collapsed scrum I can make a cup of tea before it resets, get a move on fat lads
as if they were playing for a penalty,
[b]as if[/b]? I thought it was blatantly obvious they are playing for a penalty half the time?
The one that boils my piss is the subs who just happen to be behind the oppo line piling into scorers. Or " entering the field of play without informing a match official."
Still its not as good as the irish times is not a national paper on the last page!
I think you probably know what I meant and are just being an arse for the sake of it. Irish Indy btw - if the circulation is the same as the UK Indy then it gets read by no-one.
think you probably know what I meant and are just being an arse for the sake of it. Irish Indy btw - if the circulation is the same as the UK Indy then it gets read by no-one.
Nice to see you come out swinging keep digging fella!
I'm pretty sure everyone knows what you meant by it dont worry about that!
Horrible practice congratulating penalty awards if you think about it.
Indeed - applauding the ref for giving your side a decision is equally distasteful.
Lots of these things surely fall under "ungentlemanly conduct" or whatever it's called in the rules?
In some areas, I reckon english rugby is quite a difficult thing to like. The tweed, the hunter wellies, the posh hamper of scran in the twickers car park. I get it.
Do you realise how difficult it is to get a ticket for the West Car Park nowadays now there are a load of bars for the general public? The Cardinal Vaughn is social death.
Do you realise how difficult it is to get a ticket for the West Car Park nowadays now there are a load of bars for the general public? The Cardinal Vaughn is social death.
Fantastic 😀
There is nothing posh about eating in a car park on a February day. Funny isn't it how bbq-ing game is okay at Newlands but Twickenham is too posh. Too many chips on shoulders I think.
Funny isn't it how bbq-ing game is okay at Newlands but Twickenham is too posh.
To be fair, it is against the rules to bbq at Twickenham.
Too many chips on shoulders I think.
Jamba. A pretty good friend of mine (likely the poshest friend I have) put some piccies up of the west stand car park the weekend. They were head to foot in tweed, sipping fizzy wine and cutting up bits of very expensive looking beef to put with very expensive looking cheese in very expensive looking bread in the back of a Range rover. I may not be the best judge of posh, but it looked pretty bloody posh to me.
Don't think you can get chips in the West car park, maybe sweet potato briquettes or somesuch 😆
Fizzy wine - how common 😉
A nice Pulingy-Montrachet with the salmon, some claret or even TEA with the beef and melton mowbries and a quick nip of port with the cheese. What a wonderful way to start the afternoon
(a dream of course, as never has a CP ticket or the required R Rover!)
Back in the 80s we did have a work "tent" in the CP serving bacon rolls and beer. Avoided the lengthy hospitality (and clichéd coronation chicken) and was very popular.
A lot of the West car park tickets go to sponsors now, we used a get one because a friend's father played for England but, for other car parks they are not that difficult to get, a friend gets one just by applying. The scarce resource is someone who is willing not to drink or to give up his Sunday morning to pick up his car.
applauding the ref for giving your side a decision is equally distasteful.
Can't see the big deal myself, this is pro sport, the amateur era ended 20 years ago.
Can't see the big deal myself, this is pro sport, the amateur era ended 20 years ago.
Manly congratulations like a solid pat on the back or firm handshake are of course ok 😉 Whoever it was in the English pack squeaking like a two year old with every scrum penalty needs the pen reversed + 10 meters... could have been a decent reception on the refs mic picking up the incoming Brown I suppose as it wasn't a noise I'd expect from a forward 🙂
Easy rule change. Any player congratulating team mates for winning a penalty shall result in an immediate scrum with the congratulating player exchanging positions with the player congratulated. Put in to the non-congratulating side.
Brilliant!
CaptainFlashheart - MemberEasy rule change. Any player congratulating team mates for winning a penalty shall result in an immediate scrum with the congratulating player exchanging positions with the player congratulated. Put in to the non-congratulating side.Brilliant!
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It falls down in that glory hunting back rowers would be fighting to congratulate the 10 after a penalty for even something like a dropped scrum. May as well cut out the middle Man "Today at 10 for Exeter,Thomas Waldrom."
Actually thinking about it, if far enough ahead I could see the entire front row sprinting after Brown to congratulate him after the pack won a penalty. 8)
EDIT: "sprinting"-ish
Manly congratulations like a solid pat on the back or firm handshake are of course ok Whoever it was in the English pack squeaking like a two year old with every scrum penalty needs the pen reversed + 10 meters... could have been a decent reception on the refs mic picking up the incoming Brown I suppose as it wasn't a noise I'd expect from a forward
Just made me laugh a lot.
Chapeau sir
Hopefully he'll be cited and receive a lengthy ban. I don't care whether he's innocent or not - I just don't like him.
this'll upset you then 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
Great stuff. Hope he has a great game against wales.
Is the correct answer.
Great stuff. Hope he has a great game against Wales.
Sam Warburton is looking forward to the game too. 😀
IMO, he [Brown] was lucky to have escaped yellow during the game but there wasn't enough there for a citing.
(As for the Irish Independent article, it's just one article by someone who's pretty sore about it. Despite it suiting the agendas of some posters, please don't attribute a similar opinion to a whole nation of supporters. Plenty I've spoken to are as "un-disappointed" with that result as they could be - given that losing has to incur at least [i]some[/i] disappointment. I think everybody in Ireland was also a bit riled about the General Election held there a few days previous anyway...you think the election here was a bit bitter? 😆 )
Sam Warburton is looking forward to the game too.
Somehow I doubt Mr Brown is concerned.
Somehow I doubt Mr Brown is concerned.
Like he (and his three mates) wasn't bothered before? 😆 I love the image when he realised he'd bitten off more than he could chew, but I'm sure you'll say that he wasn't crapping his pants. #HardAsPutty
Like he (and his three mates) wasn't bothered before?
Well they weren't, quite clearly, as Mike was being Mike and not giving an inch, so yes it is exactly like that.
but I'm sure you'll say that he was crapping his pants.
Nobody was crapping their pants, certainly not Mike. I have no idea what you were watching.
What about his parents?
[Good points DD - interesting how little coverage and analysis the result had over here. Fascinating stuff not least for "big" political parties everywhere]
[Belongs on another thread thm, but you have to bear in mind that the STV PR system allows the electorate to give the big boys a kicking when they feel like it and after the last decade or so, boy do they feel like it. 😀 ]
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DD - I think most of us on here a wise enough to distinguish between banter and hatred. I really enjoyed watching the game as the sole englishman in an American Irish bar. The atmosphere/craic was brilliant, and there was very little "one eyed" spectating. There were deep intakes of breath whenever Billy got on the ball, reminiscent of Lomu all those years ago - not that he's in that class yet.
I do think its sad that England are getting a slagging after performing well above expectations this year so far. Scotland were favourites for the opening game.
Yeah looks petrified doesn't he? 🙄
I think most of us on here a wise enough to distinguish between banter and hatred
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Has someone photoshoped Tango Gav into that photo?
You would think that pros would be smart enough not to get involved too much, but was interesting to hear St Johnny admitting that he went looking for retribution and then Sir Clive noting that he had bollocked him for trying to get Betson!!
Yeah looks petrified, doesn't he?
I can't find the image where his eyes are like saucers the moment just before letting go. But yeah, he backed off. 😉
But yeah, he backed off.
What? It dissolved, as all handbags in (high level) modern rugby do. Why on earth would he be worried? Warbs isn't an aggressive/dirty or particularly scary player and the chances of it coming to blows are non-existent but never mind, you carry on trying to score cheap points based on something that didn't happen.
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But yeah, he backed off.but never mind, you carry on trying to score cheap points based on something that didn't happen
While you enjoy some sort of moral high ground I presume? 🙄
