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Last edited by Ray de Galles; 31-10-2018, 23:54.
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Try of the season for Jersey in the Championship?
https://twitter.com/russellearnshaw/status/1058803119755329538?s=21
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How on earth did that cunt Farrell get away with this cheap shot yesterday?:
https://twitter.com/rugbylad7/status/1058767238839369728?s=21
A disgusting decision that decided the game.
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Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View PostGethin Jenkins has announced his retirement, he'll play his last game on Sunday. When the dust settles I think we'll come to realise what an immense player he was.
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- Aug 2008
- 25231
- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostHow on earth did that cunt Farrell get away with this cheap shot yesterday?:
https://twitter.com/rugbylad7/status/1058767238839369728?s=21
A disgusting decision that decided the game.
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A peculiar but welcome win for Wales against Australia today, finally! No tries but tense, absorbing stuff with defences on top and the breakdown being (unsurprisingly with the personnel in the two back rows) the key battle.
The other sub-plot was the penalties not scored. The usually metronomic Halfpenny missed two eminently kickable ones for Wales while Australia spurned two of their own for kicking to the corner and screwing up the resulting line-out. It all felt more like our recent meetings with South Africa than our usual matches against the Aussies.
Funny to see non rugby player Courtney Lawes twice cost England victory against the All Blacks, firstly by not knowing the offside law and then in the final passage of play throwing a pass you’d be ashamed of from an 11 year old. It could have only been funnier if a Glasgow player appeared at Itoje’s shoulder while he celebrated the “winning” try and pointed at the video screens.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 12-11-2018, 12:58.
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostAny US posters see their game (and first win) against Samoa? Sounds like quite a match.
A win against Samoa was a long time coming. The USA's lost five Test matches to Samoa, none of them by more than nine points, and several of them were winnable.
I hadn't really expected this, because I am a lifelong Eagle sceptic (probably a reaction to the people who say "The US would dominate rugby if they just got some NFL cast offs!*") but in retrospect, basically professionalizing the US team through Major League Rugby is paying some serious dividends in Year 1. We actually won this game without Samu Manoa and Aj McGinty, which would have meant game over for us a few years ago.
* The only person that has ever worked with was Dan Lyle. Who is just a great athlete and a real smart guy.
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- Aug 2008
- 25231
- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
England providing ‘public service’ to other nations, says Eddie Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...y_to_clipboard
Time for Uncle Eddie to deflect away from his team by spouting shite. He riles me and it's designed to do that. Ok, so I'll bite.
Shields, Hughes, Vunipola brothers, Teo'o and Solomona to name six. Hartley is seven.
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- Mar 2008
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
Originally posted by Flynnie View PostAlso, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought Wales-Oz was gripping stuff as the media opinion seems to be it was awful.
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Very intense first half in Dublin - if anything, Ireland unlucky to only lead 9-6, dominating line-outs and general play so far.Last edited by Diable Rouge; 17-11-2018, 21:06.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see a commentator retire as I am with that old monkey felcher Ian Robertson sodding off today.
A truly terrible radio voice, an awful reader of the game as well as having a real dearth of wider knowledge about it. He’s also rugby’s Alan Green in his slavish Stockholm Syndrome support of England.
Good riddance.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 24-11-2018, 12:18.
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Exactly, not fit to carry Bill McLaren’s notes. A commentating pigmy.
Good to see Wales get the clean sweep of AIs but personally frustrating not to make it to any. Not sure we’ve really cut loose on anyone except Tonga and the schedule meant we didn’t face the acid test of the All Blacks but defence was outstanding and the strength in depth is as good as I can recall in a long while.
Devastating to see MOTM Ellis Jenkins stretchered off with a knee ligament injury that must mean he’s out of the 6N which is terrible timing for him.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 24-11-2018, 21:49.
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Farrelll breaking the laws with a blatant cheap shot and gets away with it yet again :
https://twitter.com/stirproftip/status/1066588089773117440?s=21
Last edited by Ray de Galles; 25-11-2018, 10:01.
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostI don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see a commentator retire as I am with that old monkey felcher Ian Robertson sodding off today.
A truly terrible radio voice, an awful reader of the game as well as having a real dearth of wider knowledge about it. He’s also rugby’s Alan Green in his slavish Stockholm Syndrome support of England.
Good riddance.
Robertson is even worse than Green because he actually *played* for Scotland. The absolute delight in his voice when England would score even in Calcutta Cup games was fucking risible.
Rugby is a little short on great commentators, in my book. Obviously McLaren laps the field as the greatest ever, nobody anywhere denies this. Second best? I don't know...well before my time but Cliff Morgan probably. Third best? God knows. The Kiwis would probably argue for Keith Quinn but it's slim pickings.
I always liked John Taylor (mega fucking giveaway) but he seems to have only done World Cups and not even that anymore sadly.Last edited by Flynnie; 26-11-2018, 10:25.
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I still love Butler, much as he's firmly in to the self-parody stage that every commentator reaches eventually. You're right in that Taylor has always been criminally under-used (I'm sure I've heard him more often as a stadium announcer, didn't he do that job at Twickenham during RWC 2015).
I've never posted on Gwlad! and haven't even looked at it for years but an old friend was very active on it and I follow a few other major contributors on social media via him. I think the distaste for Monkey Felcher goes much wider than that site too.
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