ioum, out of intrest what are your views based on? For example worse disiplinary record? Or non welsh? Faletau has lived in Wales all his life AFAIK and has a welsh accent, so does that not make him welsh? Who is a Saffa and who are the five english? You seem a little bitter are you sure its not you who is a bad loser?

oh and you forgot Shingler… him and his brother are Scotstish apparently.

You know,this country of birth thing raises it’s head thing quite often,I wonder who the first country to start taking the piss were?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Howarth

Oh, and Mrs CFH has much nicer legs than that!

Hora is on another thread saying as much….

Pigface,those are his household cavalry dress trews dontchaknow?

AB’s by 15
Convicts by 20

BlindMelon – Member
Osp Blues really is dire, IdleJon you should’ve stayed in the house!

Tell me about it. I still haven’t warmed up and have come to work, having scraped ice off the car, to find that the heating is faulty. Again!

duckman – Member
You know,this country of birth thing raises it’s head thing quite often,I wonder who the first country to start taking the piss were?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Howarth

Are we starting this again?

I’ve got a feeling that Howarth wasn’t the first non-native to play for a different country. Wales just took a stand and took the mick openly! 😉 But is it really an issue these days?

If you like! It was actually some exiled Russian Prince for England in the what? 1930’s or thereabouts that set the precedent. I am just bitter because we got Bendan Lainey

Brenden “chainsaw” Laney or Shane Howarth?!?! At least Howarth was good!!!

Might have been some of the players around Howarth at the time gave that impression A-A…Arwel Thomas and Neil Boobyer anybody? Dark,dark days eh… 😀

George Clancy from Ireland is refereeing the game, which is a good thing. He also refereed the opening game in the WC last year between NZ and Tonga.

duckman – Member
If you like! It was actually some exiled Russian Prince for England in the what? 1930’s or thereabouts that set the precedent. I am just bitter because we got Bendan Lainey

😆 Chainsaw Laney! What a legend!

sputnik – Member
George Clancy from Ireland is refereeing the game, which is a good thing. He also refereed the opening game in the WC last year between NZ and Tonga.

He’s been around a bit more than that surely? I remember him reffing a S14 game and the Aussie commentators pointed out that they could get crap referees locally, so why did they need to get a crapper one from the other side of the world?

duckman – Member
Might have been some of the players around Howarth at the time gave that impression A-A…Arwel Thomas and Neil Boobyer anybody? Dark,dark days eh…

Oh, and Arwel and Boobs were good solid players at club level. I watched Arwel for most of his career (at Swansea anyway) and he rarely let the side down. Pity that the Welsh management at the time couldn’t see how to use him properly. He was a far better OH than Neil Jenkins, only let down by being a few percent worse kicker. Not much worse though…

Ok I’ve thought about it.

If England win I will fall of the wagon 25 days early and gave a beer tonight.

That is all.

Ok I’ve thought about it.
If England win I will fall of the wagon 25 days early and gave a beer tonight.
That is all.

I’d get the Lime and soda in the fridge if I were you. NZ and Aus by 15 to 20 in each

‘Melon, that’s what I’m thinking, that my sobriety is safe. Sadly.

I will be happier if England &wales play a hours game and lose though. Lets see.

Girafferis off already!

Any tall Welshmen, please make your way to the stadium, thanks.

You beauty Cuthbert.

I say, Mods, would you be so kind as to fix this dashed glitch? It’s awfully annoying.

1/2p doesn’t half thump the ball!

The art of running. 😀

Yep, love that line from 1/2p then!

**** me, 12-0 at half time to England!

Blimey o reilly, I may have to get pished tonight 12 -0 England – C’MON!!!!

You can thank us later for softening them up last week. 😉

God please let the all-blacks win… we’ll never hear the end of it otherwise.

Or at least, if England have to win, can Wales win too please.

Oh well – hopefully my predictions of English failure will be hopelessly wrong. Surprised by how well we’ve competed although it’s a game of 80 minutes not 40.

**** me, 12-0 at half time to England!

Indeed! Looking at the text on the Beeb, sounds as if England are playing quite the game! Hope they can keep it up!

Wales look inventive and exciting when they can, but again, the breakdown is key here. Some lovely lines being run, though.

Its going to be a different AB’s that come out of the tunnel, lets hope England can keep the pressure up and don’t do anything stupid.

I will **** love it if aus and nz lose.

Watch it on Wiziwig

And…here come the Allblacks.

Wales look more likely to win this. Two very poor tens in this game too!

GAME ON!

And, just WTF is happening at the Cabbage Patch? England scoring tries? 😕

Would just love to see both Aus and NZ today. C’mon!

30-14 england omfg…

32-14!!!!! 3 tries in the last 10, what the hell is going on!!!

Get in!

Just realised its the AB female team they are playing.

Brian Moore – “Get up! Footballer!”

😆

Great win for england did a proper job on them

GET IN ENGLAND YEEEEES!!!

Woo Hoo.

*is pleased*