Yup
Glad to see Exeter win - my fave English side. Deserved the win too if for nothing else for that last kick to the corner
Stunning game - I was at Twickers last year when Sarries beat us, looking foward to next week 😆
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Are munster from new Zealand? cheap shot ****ers.
Lucky not to get a yellow for that.
Tense game, though. No one really impressing so far.
However, different now! Munster very good in attack now. Some lovely play. Game beyond the Os, sadly.
Really enjoyed that. 🙂
Rather less so here! 🙂
As elsewhere, a deserved win!
Munster are a difficult team to like. 18-3 up 10 to go and they are still trying to kick to the corner from just outside the opposition 22..did it twice.
Think they will be too strong for Scarlets.
Osprey really missed webb, leonard is shit
Enjoying Welsh Rugby Twitter this evening.
Munster are a difficult team to like
Percy Montgomery is difficult to like.
Munster were just better tonight. Agree that Webb was sorely missed, though.
I'm disappointed that Tigers lost today, but now at least the top two teams are left. With any luck, Wasps will win the premiership because they have already won the premiership. I'm not a massive fan of a season-long league ending with a mini knockout tournament. It makes good viewing and is now accepted, but it doesn't make sense to me.
I understand the play offs. Sarries lost a shed load of players to the 6N, wasps one or two? Chiefs one I think?
I'm not a massive fan of a season-long league ending with a mini knockout tournament. It makes good viewing and is now accepted, but it doesn't make sense to me.
Yep. A league is a league, a cup is a cup. Two different things.
Anyone been following the 7s? something very odd has happened. Scotland beat NZ in the semi from a 21 pt deficit and then beat England in the final! 😯
This was a Scotland team with Jack Cuthbet in it? The slowest winger in the world
I seem to have woken in an alternative universe where the laws of physics have been repealed
Billy V has withdrawn from the Lions. Thankfully just replaced with the Hask.
That's about as big a blow as could happen to the Lions.
I'm broken hearted for them. 🙂
Why you no like darce?
Got to feel for the guy must be gutted.
Fabulous win for Exeter: I was wrong not liking past then to win the AP. That kick by Slade was immense- even McCall said the same thing. Exeter from a driving maul are pretty damn effective (as Wasps have found out in the past).
Went to the Wasps game; it did feel like it may be Tigers day with Tom Youngs 100th appearance and everything happening with his wife. Wasps made hard work of it - Cipriani did sweet FA and Simpson was incapable of kicking to space etc. They forced a number of passes that led to knock one and their set piece was often second best. Tigers were much more abrasive at the breakdown too.
I think Exeter may well take the AP now because they've been a bogey team for Wasps. They mix a good powerful pack with some handy backs and have scored a lot of tries this season.
Billy V is surely a huge loss for the Lions.
Hope it isn't his drinking arm.
(Just for Wrecker!)
Agree with all of that mindmap3 (I was there too-cracking day out!!) Quite how Cipriani managed to be so anonymous is scary tbh, don't think I actually saw him with the ball once in the first half.....Gopperth looked pretty tidy though!
I seem to have woken in an alternative universe where the laws of physics have been repealed
Your mind could be blown in the next RWC given the pools drawn 🙂
Hope it isn't his drinking arm.
I'm sure he'll manage!
DanW - Member
I seem to have woken in an alternative universe where the laws of physics have been repealedYour mind could be blown in the next RWC given the pools drawn
beating NZ and then England at the cabbage patch is t5h estuff of alternate reality you must admit.
Kiwi goal posts will be trembling in fear!!
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I'm pleased for Haskell to get a place. He's deserved it over the last couple of years. Faletau to start, but Haskell will be handy on the bench.
Sadly I missed all the semis this weekend, but I wasn't at all surprised Exeter won. The ECC must have taken a lot out of Sarries.
Faletau, Stander, Warburton is not too shabby.
Gopperth looked pretty tidy though!
He's been bloody good for them this year.
Big week for Wasps in training - they need to work on a few things that's for sure. It would be a hell of a story though if Exeter do win the AP.
I'd love Exeter to win. For a few reasons my favourite English side. A few years ago I saw them play Glasgow in the european cup and their travelling fans were really nice and sporting, I like the way they play the game and IIRC they are not just built on buying the best players regardless of cost but on building a team.
deadlydarcy - Member
Billy V has withdrawn from the Lions. Thankfully just replaced with the Hask.
Is Lydiate injured too?
What about Max Boyce?
I saw Exeter in about 2008/2009 playing Northampton at Twickenham in what was then the rugby championship trophy or something (Spreys beat Leicester in the Anglo Welsh that day)
A year later Ex got promoted, and just look at them now!
beating NZ and then England at the cabbage patch is t5h estuff of alternate reality you must admit.
Hats off to the Jocks for an incredible display - winning three knockout matches from unpromising or improbable positions.
On that note, the Telegraph reporting that the Eng/Sco/Welsh 7s teams might be rolled into one GB squad from next year. Makes sense with it being an Olympic sport IMO. Apparently all three programmes make a loss. When you factor in how Wales have improved massively, Scotland have made the last 2 finals and England have mastered the BlitzBokke this year - a GB squad could be the business.
Documentary on BBC iplayer about Ruan Pienaar, very interesting show
On that note, the Telegraph reporting that the Eng/Sco/Welsh 7s teams might be rolled into one GB squad from next year. Makes sense with it being an Olympic sport IMO. Apparently all three programmes make a loss. When you factor in how Wales have improved massively, Scotland have made the last 2 finals and England have mastered the BlitzBokke this year - a GB squad could be the business.
Well, that came as a shock 🙄
The footballers had the right idea all along. I think if you're a Scottish 7s player you should probably resign yourself to never playing in a big match again.
I think if you're a Scottish 7s player you should probably resign yourself to never playing in a big match again.
Why? They just won the london 7's. Eng are pretty good, so if anyone should be worried it's the welsh!
Because if you squeeze three squads into one then most players are going to find themselves out of a job. How many Scots were involved in the Olympics?
You only have to look at the Lions to see the kind of representation Scotland can expect. It will be England by another name with a few honourary (ie Scottish and Welsh) English players allowed in if required.
The English will be able to support the GB team whilst looking down their noses at the Scots who are supporting ABGB.
GB olympic squad was pretty much just England with a few tokens. It would also add another level of confusion as who would the Northern Irish play for?
In other news I see the joke12 havent managed to book in impartial ref for the final..****ing shambles
How come the pro 12 final is always in Ireland? mind you I only remember when the ospreys won and this one being in Ireland,the others may have been out my back garden for all I know:),but that's besides the point,i'm outraged!!!
How come the pro 12 final is always in Ireland?
Was Edinburgh in Ireland during 2016?
It would also add another level of confusion as who would the Northern Irish play for?
No confusion. All Irish players are under the control of the IRFU and their Olympic body is the Irish Olympic committee. Therefore any Ulster players would play for Ireland - as they do now. That would have been the case at Rio 2016 had Ireland qualified.
I think 7s is now so specialized that's it no longer the stepping stone to XVs that it once was. This brings into question why Unions would continue funding it.
England have been very consistent this year and have been the only team to regularly beat SA. Although they would supply the largest quota, Scotland and Wales have both shown enough to be represented in more than just name alone.
As 7s shifts away from its rugby roots and morphs into an Olympic sport it's a no brainer to start running it like an Olympic sport right now.
So the 7's would be same as oylimpics? Makes sense. But who do northern irish athletes run for?
Was Edinburgh in Ireland during 2016?
Yeah brexshit or some shit
I suspect it's going to be one of those things where the English fans are fine with it while Scottish and Welsh fans are pissed off.
And the English fans simply can't understand what all the fuss is about.
