Winters coming;all inclusive rugby thread.

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What about scored try by Scott Hamilton
mentally suppressed it

LOL !!

Tigers v Harlequins for the final I reckon

I only caught the second half, but thought the Warriors scrum looked pretty weak-it’s such a contentious part of the game at the moment though-so much law breaking goes on all the time etc.

So anyway the six nations is a month away and England have 3 home games so I’m tipping them to win. Wales have ireland at home first up lose that, then its off to france… Er shit, followed by italy away on the back of 2 losses… Shit. Then scotland away it’ll be a must win for scotland. Lastly england back in cardiff. Expect england to be looking for a slam and wales looking to avoid a whitewash, should be a cracker. Of course if wales beat ireland first up what then? Given the form of the welsh players not currently injured thats a hige if!!!

Idle jon, I think the ulsterman passed to “a” man in his peripheral vision running alongside him, fully expecting it to be Ian Henderson. He was drawing his man and gave a no-look pass to whatever shape he saw out of the corner of his eye. Had the scarlets player not been there retiring, I’d have thought the pass would have gone to the next “shape” ie Henderson and it was a bolt on try. But I’m an Ulsterman, so may be slightly biased, but I agree, Henderson would never have taken that pass, as the pass was directed at the scarlets player.

andyl, I’d agree with that and that would make it a penalty at best. It’s an interesting one…

clear yellow card, not so convinced about the pen try, although on balance I’d like to see more pen tries rather than less so cant really complain.

Was he even offside when he took the pass?

must have been retreating from the ruck prior to the one at the start of the clip, way offside. I wonder if he called for the pass too!!!

a_a ^ yep, he’d need to have got back behind the offside line of the ruck to be back on side and able to interfere in the game again.

Another match missed, this is getting silly. Someone has now lost my season ticket. But I still love her 😆

Fair enough – I’m in work and can’t see the vid.

Once the ball carrier got in front of the breakdown was it not open play?

11.8 Putting onside a player retiring during a ruck, maul, scrum or lineout
When a ruck, maul, scrum or lineout forms, a player who is offside and is retiring as required by Law remains offside even when the opposing team wins possession and the ruck, maul, scrum or lineout has ended. The player is put onside by retiring behind the applicable offside line. No other action of the offside player and no action of that player’s team mates can put the offside player onside.

It doesnt look to me like the ball carrier has got past the offside line of the original maul.

Scamper, I can call round and help with the patio if needs be 🙂

Hartley just tackled an Exeter player, ended up on the wrong side and didn’t release-Exeter forwards come in and start stamping on him. Ref stops play gives Exeter the penalty and sends Hartley to the bin for ten minutes…..like the good old days 😀

Still gutted that you missed it Scamper? 😯 That does Sale no favours.

Shows what I know. Will be interesting to read the match report.

Fuckity **** Reading Samoa won… Not good news for Welsh.

That was a yellow all day and twice on a Sunday,fair call for pen try as well,clear scoring chance.

Righty, a_a has done a 6N prediction so I’ll have a pop. France, England, Ireland in that order. Hard to see any of Wales, Scotland or Italy winning a game 🙂

England France Wales*

* long ball 😉

France have ireland and england away which is tough. Englands game in dublin will be crucial. Its going to be betweeen ireland, england and france with england and ireland having the easier fixtures.

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Thanks for all the messages. I’m ok, bit of a neck injury. Should be fine all precautionary!

Are we going to talk about the Scarlets card and penalty try near the end of the game? Do the Ulster fans think that it was deserved?

IdleJon I think it was a card and a pen. He was offside and it was a clear scoring opportunity. The Scarlets should have had someone in the bin a lot earlier, they were constantly infringing at the ruck.

In terms of the 6N Ireland have the big teams at home and are away to the third tier nations so I think we will do very well. We are starting to get a good mix of youth coming through to blend with the experience and BOD is back which always gives the squad a lift. If we start with a win in Cardiff, a game we should win easily, then I think we can win the tournament overall.

Gloucester were awful today, a really flat performance.

Glasgow go second in the league. If this continues I may have to take back some of the things I said about Gregor Townsend at the start of the season 🙂

Lets see if Johnson can cast his eye westward when it comes to Scotland selections.

Glasgow second in Rabo just goes to show how poor that league is imo. Ulster are one of the form teams in Europe and the one game they lost was because they fielded the reserves. Munster seem to be focusing on the Heineken again this year rather than the league-everyone else is average at best.

Wasps in bother, they failed to pay players in December.Not good,and perhaps the indicator of how some teams have overstretched themselves in the pro era?

. If we start with a win in Cardiff, a game we should win easily

yeah because ireland have such a good recent set of results against wales!!!!

3 apiece in the past six years. Given Wales’ dismal autumn and Ireland’s recent performancesI think Ireland can travel to Cardiff with confidence.

Glasgow second in Rabo just goes to show how poor that league is imo. Ulster are one of the form teams in Europe and the one game they lost was because they fielded the reserves. Munster seem to be focusing on the Heineken again this year rather than the league-everyone else is average at best.

I think there are very few teams in the league who can compete with Ulsters strength in depth at the moment. Ulster gained an advantage over the AI’s as even with 9 or 10 players in intl duty they could still win games and create a bit of space at the top of the league.

As for Munster I don’t think they are not focusing on the league as well but they just aren’t the force they were 3/4 seasons ago. An ageing squad and coaches reluctant to blood younger players earlier has left them in a bit of a mess at the mo

Wales have beaten ireland last three times they have played them havent they? Maybe four last six nations in dublin, world cup 1/4 final, in cardiff with the wrong ball cant remember before that but having a feling it would have been a slam?? I will concede that wales are currently not playing well and have a lot of players injured but it can hardly be a game you should expect to win.

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Raises a glass of Arran Blonde to the Captain and buys a t shirt…. 😀

Yawn!!

Another great result for Welsh, they just might do it you know!!!

They got a bonus point didn’t they?

yep, losing bonus against quins is a result!!! I thought they would struggle to win a game this season.

Excellent though I heard the score, Sale drew a blank again.

Lyn the lip is doing a good job.

Shame Glaws **** it up for us!!

Not that bad really this tackle is it? On the other hand its at least a Warburton (3 weeks) but maybe not quite a Lloyd Willams (5 weeks). With this in mind I expect 3 weeks with a week off for dressing nicely, saying sorry and not eating any biscuits.