Exeter v Leicester on Channel 5 Saturday, 1:45
Please can someone confiscate Billy V’s spade and tell to stop digging?
He’s not very good at interpreting the news is he. So here’s Eddie looking for the next big things in England’s back row and Mr breaky arms who’s admitted playing sub standard in the RWC now pops up and tells us he can’t support his colleagues because he’s a religious zealot.
oh well, good bye Billy.
I'm not sure what to make of Billy and all those south africans not taking a knee. I honestly cant work out what I think as someone who felt pressured to clap for the nhs...
In other news Dr Jaw has covid and is out of this sundays game for The Dregs.
Hope the games are better than last weeks bag of shite.
I'm struggling to tell whether Glasgow Edinburgh is being played in an empty stadium or not.
I’m struggling to tell whether Glasgow Edinburgh is being played in an empty stadium or not.
I'm watching Scarlets game on S4c. Pro14 match attendances seem much the same as pre covid 😉😉😜
Not sure😀I approve of Stef Evans lockdown hair cut, but I did just see him make a tackle so thats nice!
Johnny Williams looks like he could be a good player for Scarlets.
Normally the Edinburgh Glasgow games get over 20000
Normally the Edinburgh Glasgow games get over 20000
Normal the Edinburgh Scarlets games get about 6 blokes and a dog and the dog only goes because it has to
Exeter tonight...
2nd XV against a full strength Brizzle. Cracking game, and a deserved win.
4 match ban for North.
Pro 14 semi finals this weekend - and Edinburgh are in them! Also Cockerill has signed on for another two years. I cannot believe how much influence he has had on turning Edinburgh from mid table to one of the top teams. He also seems to be enjoying being the Edinburgh coach.
Ruck laws are confusing me. Back in the dark ages you tried to turn the man so your team tucked over and got the ball (obviously you got a shoeing). Now that would be penalised as you're on the wrong side and not rolling west/east. That's the ruck finished completely.
there is no change to the ruck laws and hasn't been for years. The refs have been asked to police rolling away more harshly because people not rolling away slows the game.
As a ref, there hasn't been a change to the laws around the ruck, it is being policed tighter in the professional game that's all and ensuring the slow rolling away players don't impede the 9. Include in that policing coming in at the side and off feet and it's being reffed as we would in the amateur game. The trial law changes around kicks in and out of the 22 are being done in the Australian games.
Farrell finally gets a red card that has been years coming.
Ooh we have a winner in the Farrell hating sweepstakes!!! My money was on a_a actually!
Yay I win, thanks mate, I would like to thank my family, God, the owners of STW for giving me this opportunity. I can’t believe it, I am lost for words, trained hard and stuck to my game plan. Really chuffed.
Was it for a no arms tackle?
Was it for a no arms tackle
For once, he actually used an arm.
For once, he actually used an arm.
Good lad, I actually quite like Faz for an Englandshire player!
I find Farrell a bit of an enigma. He is a dreadful bad tempered dirty player on the pitch but apparently a model professional as well and really good with young fans and so on
I am so glad he got the red tho - he should have had many by now and the WR website actually uses one "tackle" where he got away with it as an example of a red card
Not good is it, onder if his ban will be until the day before englands next game!!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1302231977987313664
should be a long ban for that .Swinging arm tackle. should be six weeks at least for that but being Farrell - the inheritor of McCaws invisibility cloak - I bet they find some way to let him play against Leinster
As an aside, whose commentary is that? BT Sport’s?
Well, will see where they see that challenge, given his history (good behaviour officially), guitly plea etc. The it goes on: 9.13 A player must not tackle an opponent early, late or dangerously. Dangerous tackling includes, but is not limited to, tackling or attempting to tackle an opponent above the line of the shoulders even if the tackle starts below the line of the shoulders.Low-end:2 weeks Mid-range:6 weeks Top-end:10+ weeks. Max:52 week
That should be top end - but it will be low end with suspension halved for bringing the biscuits so he can play against Leinster.
Thats a deliberate swinging arm to the head. Intended to injure. Never low enough, blindsided the man.
Agree TJ, no mitigation can cover it, clear line of sign, came across a long way to cover and arm always back and swinging.
Urgh. I agree with TJ.
Feels dirty.
He is a dirty player.
No, I meant it feels dirty agreeing with you!
When did McCaw ever do something like that?
Never. But he did have an invisibility cloak in that refs never saw him. Not a dirty player
The refs have always seen Farrell. They've just chosen to ignore him.
See McCaw did a 150 mile triathlon recently? Clearly not lost the fire in his belly. Oh yeah Farrell; screw that guy,but won't be missing any Engerland games.
Edinburgh revert to type. Lose a game they had all but won. I think I can hear Cockerill from here
Good, West is best, although I didn't think you got a single 50/50 decision during the game. End of an era because we will be back to put the tourist attraction 15 in their place properly next year in your wee 1/12 scale "stadium" (points arse in TJ's direction)
*splutters*
~who has the 1872 cup?
Who has won it the most?
This video seems to show it "better" can't see any mitigation. Comments about mis-timed seem clutching at straws.
I think as a hard playing professional he is up there but I still can't believe that his tackle technique hasn't bee sorted and also that he's got away with it so often. Lol is struggling to be kind.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1302248669677314048
Contact to the head is minimum six weeks,I suspect that the other factors looked at, time and clear line of sight would increase that ban for anybody except him.
Many people have commented that Atkinson drops as he changes direction so Farrels aim for his shoulders went tits up. I don't doubt it.
This and a billion previous crap tackles by Farrel only go to show that he needs to learn to tackle lower to ameliorate the risk of the player changing height just due to footwork, which happens pretty much every other step anyway. Tacklers responsibility, he should not be aiming for shoulder high tackles.
Shame as he is a great player otherwise. I guess its to do with training and muscle memory, he probably needs to be retrained..
Retrained or restrained?
Duck man at least we are pretty and clean
To be fair the most surprising part of that tackle was he avoided injury, every other cardable tackle seems to leave him writhing in agony.
10 weeks reduced to 5 due to testimonials from McCall, Eddie Jones and a charity.
