Great win for Chiefs - epic game!
Bindmelon - hiding behind the sofa! Looks like the trials and tribulations of being and Edinburgh fan continues in style
Really good game Scarlets v Leinster. Thought Leinster would nick it at the end again but Scarlets hung on...everyone injured though 🙁
Ospreys win again but have to wonder how long the South African teams are going to last.
Problem is the SA teams in Pro14 are just a shop window. Being positive though the games I've seen have been pretty good.
Another try for North I see, hopefully the kryptonite he left in Northampton doesnt affect Biggar!
Another angle here...
https://twitter.com/AndyGoode10/status/1038842167777734657?s=19
FatMat Bastardo should be in a lot of trouble for this.
Ospreys B humped by Daecys men.
Glos second half sees off Bristol
interesting in NZ
Watching, RSA looking good so far...
Wow didn’t expect that result
Crikey, the ABs - SA game was a cracker. You wouldn't think Barrett was worth umpteen million based on tonight's performance. The post-match commentary here in NZ was typically one-sided, praising the SA defence against the mighty AB offence, rather than acknowledging the fact that they looked pretty handy at the other end.
Didn't see the game - just followed on twitter. Sounded amazing. These Autumn tests v England, Scotland and Wales just got a bit more interesting. Owens was getting a lot of grief on twitter - justified?
I thought Owens was pretty solid, although the last pass on one of the early SA tries looked suspiciously forward. I think the ABs weren't too worried to be behind at 60 minutes, that's when the boks normally tire and the ABs step up a gear. SA pulled an extra 20 mins from somewhere, they just didn't let up for the full 80.
NZ will be wishing they'd given it to McKenzie for a drop attempt in the dying seconds though, was the obvious choice given how many handling errors the boks' defence had forced.
Looks interesting across the ditch too, Argentina on with an excellent chance here.
Ospreys B humped by Daecys men.
Yeah, Ospreys threw the game really.
The Ospreys team selection was ridiculously poor.
As an aside, I’m not sure if Premier Sports is included in my TV package or not - I keep getting a pop-up saying to subscribe if not already done, as the month free will finish soon. Nothing so far in the Pro14 is making me think of subscribing. Possibly the first season in my life where I won’t watch Welsh rugby. 🤔
Spreys put out a dire team, but Munster were really rather good!
Maybe, just maybe, SA will now have learnt who to start at 10.
and England have got SA and NZ next... blimey, I'd be worried if they were facing the Argies, the way they've been playing!
Scarlets tried really hard to lose to 14 man Treviso but failed!
and England have got SA and NZ next… blimey, I’d be worried if they were facing the Argies, the way they’ve been playing!
Theyll be fine against SA if they score plenty of tries in the first 20 minutes. It seems to take SA that long to remember to defend. And stop NZ from scoring three tries around half time and you’ve won that match. Easy! 😁
Funnily enough, my post was more from the point of view of how good Argentina are at the moment. And I typed it [i]before[/i] I knew the Australia result! 🙂
Just watching tigers wasps unsure about the basset try at 15mins. No problems with the try but surely he was tackled in the air.
Wasps (and the AP) need to sort their defence out big time. Everyone is raving about the number of tries being scored but there’s been some truly woeful defence.
The red card in the Tigers game was harsh. Correct by the letter of the law but didn’t really take into account stuff like Taylor ducking etc. Tigers in all fairness have looked a different team since O’Conner was given his P45.
cole should have had yellow for his late hit.
Ref had nowhere to go with Spencer's red, and whilst wasp might have ducked *a bit* spencer was never anything but upright all the way through the tackle. No one would accuse the big gentle love muffin of doing anything malicious but, as they say, the game has changed and you just have to approach the tackle differently despite what the big ol rufty tufty hulks like Genge have to say on it.
AT least tigers look like they want to win a game or two this season...
And we're not talking about Wuss for a little bit longer. We'll take a few decent losing bonuses, but its not good enough really.
Away from the top tiers...
I played my first ever (well apart from a little bit at school) game of rugby at the weekend..... Aged 43 !
Have been training with a local team over the summer and came on at half time to play the second half.
Did alright .... I'm unsurprisingly stuck out on the wing but made an early tackle (to get that monkey off my back) took the ball into contact a couple of times and would have had a couple of tries, if not for greedy centres 🙂 ... But my best bit of play came from catching a 22 dropout that didn't make touch. Took the high ball well under pressure, fought to kept out of touch, made the ball available and think we scored off that.... to be fair at that stage we were scoring with pretty much every possession..... Mavericks 2nd XV 69 .... Rochford iV 7
Couple of pints after .... Loved it.... The only down side...... we don't have a game this week.
good stuff Ro5ey
Can you move today?
Ive missed most of our touch rugby sessions this summer, back on the pitch on Thursday night though, cant wait. Coaching 11yr olds at the club and at the local high school at the moment. Great fun.
BTW Any brizzolians want to come and watch Wuss ream the bears at Sixways on 7th Oct? I can get some discounted tickets £21 adult/£10 child.
Oh...Are Wuss signing an entire new team between now and the start of October then?
arf arf arf.
*thrrrrprppppp*
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wuss-stats-tastics:
No team has conceded fewer tries than Wuss (6 - equal with Chiefs)
3rd fewest pts conceeded behind Chiefs and Glaws
Best pts difference outside the top 6.
While I am delighted Irish and not Wuss went down I am afraid that even as a Glasgow supporter I can point and laugh at them. Love the stats by the way...Are you sure you aren't related to TJ? :O)
ouch
But then my English team is Bristol, so not feeling THAT confident tbh. Bit crap that there is a relegation decider at the start of October.
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FatMattBastardo only got five weeks.
Vraiment des biscuits magnifique!
What is it wiuth Scotland and centres.; ~We have a really good crop- of them but they seem perpetually broken. Bennett just back from injury halfway thru last season and finding some form. Out for 6 months with a ruptured hamstring. Taylor - out for a year with cruciate ligaments. I fear he may never play again at the top level. Is it just cos they have 13 on their back?
Its ruddy cruel. For the first time in decades we should have choice at centre. Instead they keep getting crocked and its casting around for someone to actually play
Anyone ( English fans?) want to swop- one of our excellent crop of 9s for a 13? Come on we have half a dozen 9s all better than yours. Gies a centre -please?
New Scarlets 6/8 Thompson on Scotlands poach list apparently. Looks a decent player tbh shame he doesnt have a welsh nan!!
Yep, how the hell fat bastardano got 5 weeks compared to Spencers 4 I'll never know. Somethings wrong when a slightly high tackle into a ducking opponent is considered virtually the same as a deliberate smash to the back of the head I'll never know. On top of which, George Smith got no ban for at least as bad a tackle as Spencer the week before. OK, I'm a Tigers fan so clearly I think it's too harsh / shouldn't have been a red however it's the inconsistencies that seem ridiculous. Is the IRB looking after player welfare or not?.
Cipriani dropped.
Cipriani dropped.
Indeed. Jones said it was purely based on form. I think Cips was MoM on 2 of his 3 Glaws performances so far - so kinda hard to fathom.
If he (or the RFU) want to leave him out based on his off-field misbehaviour then so be it. The form argument makes little sense. He said they had 2 fly halfs in the squad and wanted to work with them and Cipriani was behind them in the pecking order. I assume that's Ford and Farrell (as Smith isn't in) although he's played Farrell almost exclusively at 12.
If he's picking on form(?) then hard to account for Ashton as he's banned and hasn't played although I'm glad he's in.
I think Jones is being a little disingenuous here. I can't see England bringing anything different in attack to what Ford/Farrell have brought before. With a year to the RWC it's a dismal scenario for England.
I agree with the above ^^. Cips should be in, arguably Englands current best form 10 is in the wilderness, while players like Slade and Robshaw who have proved ineffective and uncapped players are in the squad.
Makes no sense, neither does the decision to employ a defence coach who lives overseas.
Its As You Were for England when i feel we need to change/step up our momentum.
Looks to me like England are still going to be playing 2015 style - no breakdown specialists and a stodgy midfield. Still - its good for the rest of us watching England tie one hand behind their back
I predict a dismal autumn internationals for England followed by the RFU declaring their support for Eddie Jones before firing him 2 days later and then expecting a PE teacher to take the reins through the world cup and to be disappointed when we go out at the group stage...
