[Closed] STW 2014/15 Rugby Thread

Clancy is shit. I particularly enjoyed Matevasi not being tackled without the ball as he didnt get close enough to the ball. No wonder he didnt as three defenders were tackling him, but he still managed to knock it on!

Also Davies reminding him he couldnt kick for goal as he was a concussion replacement.

Enjoying this....SUFTUM!!!!!

anagallis_arvensis - Member
Clancy is shit. I particularly enjoyed Matevasi not being tackled without the ball as he didnt get close enough to the ball. No wonder he didnt as three defenders were tackling him, but he still managed to knock it on

Yeah that summed up his confused decision making. I also liked the two penalties against the Os for entering the ruck from the side. Not a thing was said when a Glasgow player flew through a ruck at ninety degrees while Clancy was watching. Or in reverse, Glasgow being awarded a reversed scrum after walking an O's round by ninety degrees, then being penalised for doing exactly the same 30minutes later. He's a total moron.

Exciting game.Sad to see some of the departures. As well as Cueto I think Hines is a big loss but we were lucky to get half a season and Cliff leaving leaves a hole. Mark Jones is a superb player but I think we have one or two who can step up. Wish Will Cliff luck at the end he seemed overcome by the adulation 🙂

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That was a nice touch from Brady to slow up & put Cueto in, and a very sporting gesture from the Newcastle players not to tackle Cueto once he was inside the in goal area.

That strip is damn bright though!

Newcastle players not to tackle Cueto once he was inside the in goal area.

Surfer junior and I noted that. He could have easily been pushed over the line. I cant understand why they didnt just take him out of play.

Gavin Henson's Bristol into playoff then!

Squeaky bum time again. Bristol played very badly today. They can manage a game and squeeze out a win, but the defence is shockingly bad. Maule gets skinned routinely and often rushes out of the line. Wouldn't surprise me if we don't get promoted again. We need a defence coach ASAP.

Yeah, watched it, not very impressive to be honest, though the real squeaky bum time was going so far behind at home in the first leg after going down to 14 men. As ordinary as they looked today, they didn't really look in danger apart from a few minutes after the intercept try by Rotherham.

My money would be on Wuss over two legs though. Will depend a lot on who's injured for the week of the two games.

Gavin Henson's Bristol into playoff then!

They are in shit street with the wage bill if they dont come up! As well as the orange one they have ex Sale players Will Cliff and Mark Jones.

They are in shit street with the wage bill if they dont come up!

Have a google for who owns Bristol Rugby. Makes Craig, Wray et al look like paupers! 😀

Th finals are a funny one. We beat wuss in both league games this season, they weren't the toughest games by far and Wuss have a lot of injuries. However, if we play like we did today then I'd be very surprised if we did win.

Tuilagi will not be selected for the RWC after pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer. What a knob.

tickets bought for the boy and I for the second leg at sixways, wrecker. Can't wait 🙂

Oi, darcy, hope youve got those tickets sorted for the first leg!

Tuilagi will not be selected for the RWC after pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer. What a knob.

Idiot. A shoe in for an international place and he throws it away.

Scott Gibbs robbed a taxi and he came back ok, hope the same can't be said of Tuilagi 😉 Why did he assault a constable?

If Bristol dont make it this year then they should give up, London Welsh and London Scottish might go to the Guiness as the Italians have got no money.

Why did he assault a constable?

Who knows? Or cares?

He's proven in the past that he's a dhead - Manu Overboard anyone? - but he managed to contain his dheadedness until AFTER the previous RWC.

Ah well, that's the end of that then.

Now SL has to ponder the fact that his main answer to the midfield conundrum is gone.

If Bristol dont make it this year then they should give up,

London Welsh and London Scottish might go to the Guiness as the Italians have got no money

I would say the Guinness is a lot better than the Championship 😆

I would say the Guinness is a lot better than the Championship

Welsh and Scottish are likely to be ring fenced out of the aviva though atent they? The italians dont have much other choice though do they. Its Pro12 or playing with yourself.... I know which I'd choose 😉

Appatently the two police officers were women.

Apparently he grabbed a taxi driver by the throat, kicked the wing mirror off the taxi (not something that would help a persistent groin injury I wouldn't have thought) and then pushed the two attending officers, both women, in the chest. But given this is tuilagi, his push in the chest probably sent them flying. This is all hearsay though but I fully support lancasters action to drop him if that is the case. Idiot.

Anyone think its a bit odd to say I wont pick him until January?
Shame though as he is a very good player. Joeseph gets broken and its back to Barrett and Burrel.
Looking forward to the World Cup. Wonder how Samsons achillies is. Wales screwed without him. Our current tighthead has been dropped by the ospreys!

Nicky Smith
Ken Owens
Samson Lee

would be a good front row.

God I hate Northampton scum bags, putting out there under 12's today meant Exeter had no chance of getting to final four.

Shame Ospreys didnt get a home play off semi. Blown chance.

God I hate Northampton scum bags, putting out there under 12's today meant Exeter had no chance of getting to final four.

God I hate Northampton scum bags, putting out there under 12's today meant Exeter had no chance of getting to final four.

dammit! If only there'd been, yerknow, some other opportunity over the season to get into the top 4! grrrr 😉

Wedgies dished out a pasting in front of 10,000 sell out.

In much the same way with possibly 2 play offs coming Glaws put out the Accadamy against Barth.

I'm quite happy about it. Went to Bath yesterday and it was a damn good show for the neutral, then came back to watch the recorded Leicester game. Very happy with both results!

I wonder if Glasgow will do as well when not playing the Ulster under 12's in a few weeks?

Ulster being smart - they obviously fancy beating Glasgow more than Munster or the Ospreys.

As for Northampton playing the reserve team - legitimate but distasteful when it affects other teams in a negative way. Surprise they did it as Leicester may pose a bigger threat on the play offs than Exeter would?

Saints lost to Exeter both games this season. They only lost to Tigers once in the premiership.

So ulster doing it is smart but northampton distasteful?

So ulster doing it is smart but northampton distasteful?

Aye - because Ulster resting players didn't affect the chances of another team progressing at the expense of the team they were playing.

I think the ospreys away game against Munster rather than a home tie suggests otherwise.

Did the Ospreys not just need one more try to secure a home tie?

Northampton effective decided who would qualify - Ulster merely determined where games would be played - not who would be playing them.

All 4 semi finals are hard to call IMHO

It's a tough trip for Ospreys, but they have a game to beat Munster at Thomond (IMO) - lots of Osprey fans on twitter already seem to have decided their season is over...far from it. it'll be a cracking tie I reckon (and hope).

Did the Ospreys not just need one more try to secure a home tie?

Or no bonus point for glasgow. I'm not bothered about Ulsters approach. Very sensible. Just think you view is odd.

Northampton were totally entitled to rest their players. They'd earned that right by winning enough games to be guaranteed to finish top.

However, looking at the semi-final draw, I can't but help thinking they've missed a trick. Exeter are a good team but surely Northampton would rather have faced them in a knock-out game than a somewhat more battle hardened Sarries side?

Bath are probably happier facing Leicester whom they've already caned at home this season.

Can hardly blame saints for playing the tactical game. They have finished top, and still have yet to play what area Are likely to be the hardest games of the season to win the league. They don't owe exeter anything but they do owe it to their fans to maximise their chances of success.
As expected, Baxter is blaming nobody but themselves for depending on the results of others. He is a top coach and a top bloke.

tiggs121 - Member
Did the Ospreys not just need one more try to secure a home tie?

Only one more try? Dammit, why didn't they realise! They could have just strolled over if they'd known. 🙄

They scored all the tries with the wind behind them, in the first half. In the second half they were lucky to get out of their 22, playing against a wind so strong it was bending passes.

Still, they've already won in Thomond Park this season, and it means I don't have to spend money on a ticket to the play-off. 😕

Btw, expecting a club to field a strong team to help out another team is just odd, as already said.

Have we done this yet?

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/32774755 ]Remember, kids, you only celebrate scoring a try AFTER you've scored it. You know, after you ground the ball. [/url]

Brilliant!

Wise words Jiffy

Nah sod Northampton team of scummers, I also don't like the whole playoff idea. Just drags out the season and if the team that finishes fourth wins then it is a bit shit really

Roberts to Quims confirmed.
Woodward on shortlist for France coach job. OMFG how funny would that be...

Woodward on shortlist for France coach job. OMFG how funny would that be...

@CFH I hadn't seen that, full back should have had a yellow though. JD was pretty funny in his comments. I couldn't find a video of the Dominici drop, that's still my favourite.

Which full back?
If they ran it on a bit you would see Barclay drive the nine face first into the ruck too which left him needing treatment for cuts

Woodward on shortlist for France coach job.

I read an article several weeks ago saying it was going to be Ibanez and that the rest of the "selection" process was just a big sham.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/50-hardest-welsh-rugby-players-9269077

😀 some interesting characters in this list, Does anyone know the story behind Chris Jones who was banned twice for life 😯

Stringer signs for Sale - 1yr contract apparently.

Stringer signs for Sale - 1yr contract apparently.

Stampy may have been quick a while ago but he isn't anymore.

He's looked good for b*** this year.

some interesting characters in this list

It might be my imagination but there seems a disproportionate number of Ponty players 😀

When are Bristol playing Worcester?

Tomorrow night (at bris) and the following wednesday (at wuss).

Cheers wrecker, they seem pretty evenly matched, so who goes up?

Bristol or Worcester

Worcs of course 😉

going down to Brizz tomorrow to watch the first leg with mr deadlydarcy.

Taking Jr to the second leg at Home next week.

Squad just announced for weds and worcs are at full strength more-or-less. Pennell back fit too. Should be a dinger of a game.

Pigface, from The Independent:

[i]His first stinging brush with the WRU came on Boxing Day in 1982 when he was dismissed for being what he describes as 'a complete idiot'. The lunacy included a brawl with any Treherbert opponent handy, pushing the referee when he refused to leave the field and then threatening to take on anyone in the crowd. For that he received a 28-week ban.
That inactivity was followed by a dozen games spread over three years during which he was twice banned indefinitely, the more notable dismissal being in a Welsh Cup match against Cardiff when he was one of four players sent off.
Jones got his third rugby life and second WRU reprieve just in time to quit with a trapped nerve in his back, a disappointment which added impetus to his indulging in excess alcohol and drugs. He went into coaching with his brother Clive, first at Pontypridd and then Treorchy but while he was a success in that field his life beyond rugby was a mess which culminated in his arrest at the Brecon Jazz Festival in 1990. Jones, wrongly identified, faced charges that could have led to a lengthy jail sentence and it was while he was pacing his police cell on the night before he faced his first appearance in court that his character underwent a radical alteration.[/i]

All while Treorchy was a small valleys side so a surprise that anyone still remembers him?

Cheers wrecker, they seem pretty evenly matched, so who goes up?

Bristol or Worcester

Pigface - Member
> http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/50-hardest-welsh-rugby-players-9269077

some interesting characters in this list,

Plenty missing as is always the case with these things. No Phil May (always guaranteed a punch-up with Dicky Moriarty), no Santa?

I don't remember Perego as a hard man, just famous for the interview on Scrum V (or whatever it was called then) where they filmed him running around a wood with an axe on his back. Good player, wasn't around for long enough.

They mention Stuart Evans and Mark Jones being sent off in Ebbw Vale -I'm sure I saw the same happen in Neath, when Evans played for Swansea, bur can't work out if I've imagined it or not.

And yes, plenty of Ponty players because basically in the 90s they were a bunch of thugs. The battle of Brive was not the only brawl involving them. I remember Steele Lewis clothes-lining a Swansea back off the ball in front of the ref at 'The House of Pain' and the ref not considering blowing for it. (I invaded the pitch at Ponty when Swansea won the league there and Stu Davies described it as the House of Fun. 🙂 )

Teams;
Briz
1 Traynor
2 Brooker
3Cortes
4 Townson
5 Sorenson
6 Jones
7 Lam
8 Eadie
9 Peel
10 Morgan
11 Amesbury
12 Henson
13 Maule
14 Lemi
15 Wallace

Wuss
15 Chris Pennell
14 Tom Biggs
13 Alex Grove
12 Ryan Mills
11 Cooper Vuna
10 Ryan Lamb
9 JB Bruzulier
1 Val Rapava Ruskin
2 Agustin Creevy
3 Nick Schonert
4 Jonathan Thomas
5 James Percival
6 Mike Williams
7 Sam Lewis
8 GJ van Velze (C)

last few games for the excellent Mike Williams before he disappears off to tigers unfortunately.

I saw Mark Jones dish out a thumping to a Crosskeys player and the ref just ignored it. 😆 that was Eugene Cross Park.

Heard a great tale from a Swansea flanker who had to sub at prop, they were playing Pooler and Bobby Windor was indulging in a bit of the dark arts. Apparently Geoff Wheel lamped in the next scrum and told him to knock it off, surprisingly he did.

Peregero was a fireman wasn't he?

Is Sam Lewis the ex ospreys 7? Hows he going?

Is Sam Lewis the ex ospreys 7? Hows he going?

Yep:
http://www.warriors.co.uk/rugby/players/index.php?player=98627&includeref=dynamic

I've not seen him play yet, he's only been there a few months, the London S games were the play off matches I didnt bother with. The other three were all away I think.

Pigface - Member

Peregero was a fireman wasn't he?

He was. Explains the axe, I guess!

And yes, plenty of Ponty players because basically in the 90s they were a bunch of thugs.

A prop who played for Ponty as a youngster and went on to play in the first Heineken Cup final for Cardiff described them as absolutely no different in training- if anything they were worse... to their own team mates 😯

Where might the non subscriber watch the brizzle game tonight? 😉

Dan W a mate of mine was invited to play at Brynmawr who at the time had ambitions, he went to train and halfway through training the forwards kicked off with each other, full of fists flying scrap. The coach just stood looking at them and said "every week its the same I just cant do anything with them" my mate decided it wasn't for him and went back to Newbridge United 😆

Where might the non subscriber watch the brizzle game tonight?

The coach just stood looking at them and said "every week its the same I just cant do anything with them"

😆

Alternatively:

[url= http://cricfree.tv/rugby-live-streaming ]http://cricfree.tv/rugby-live-streaming[/url]

*neatly folds Warriors scarf. packs motorbike.*

leaving for Brizzle in a bit. Good opportunity to pop into the spesh concept store for some new MTB shoes...

Looking forward to tonight. Come on you WARRIORS!

Be prepared to watch this bloke;
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He has been the difference so often this season, and if it weren't for injuries would have been the top champ player this year IMHO, certainly bristols most valued player.

He doesn't look happy does he??

Big Gav has let himself go!!

Gav has let himself go!