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WMain00 posted:A good amount of the Scotland lads need to sort their heads out, otherwise there's no way we're going to win the championship. Of course you won't, it's going down to an Edinburgh vs Glasgow Final which we will win easily.
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slothrop posted:I’m a little surprised not to have heard anything from Pocock about Folau Yeah, same. I'd say he was told to pull his head in by the ARU after the Australian Story episode aired and he was outed as a bleeding heart conversationalist who actively protested against CSG mining. I mean, if he'd just limited himself to being an avid bible basher who had the common sense to stay within the biblical lines, he'd be fine right now.
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Nick Phipps got thrown out of a bar because he dressed up like a cow and peed all over the place. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/waratahs-phipps-thrown-out-of-pub-for-urinating-on-bar-20180430-p4zcfq.html
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Apr 30, 2018 22:22
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Apr 30, 2018 22:40
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That rainbow AB jersey is brilliant.Vagabundo posted:Nick Phipps got thrown out of a bar because he dressed up like a cow and peed all over the place. Mr Chips fucked around with this message at 12:21 on May 1, 2018 |
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May 1, 2018 02:01
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The SRU have are setting up a new six tram semi pro league, to bridge the gap between the club game and the pro districts. In their infinite wisdom they have chosen three Edinburgh based franchises, and none in Glasgow. Jesus wept.
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HappyCamperGL posted:The SRU have are setting up a new six tram semi pro league, to bridge the gap between the club game and the pro districts. Typical SRU elitism really, it's of absolutely no surprise whatsoever. I suspect the Super 6 will largely become an irrelevancy anyway, but failing to include a Glasgow team into it makes it even more so.
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Do you want power tries? Because you're getting power tries... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/03/flashing-lights-seven-point-tries-and-rolling-subs-its-world-series-rugby
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New squidge video for those who haven't subscribed already (subscribe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxBqQWZRlU
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stavros880 posted:Do you want power tries? Because you're getting power tries... Exclusive live coverage of Power Rugby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SuUFl0tj94&t=51s
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/103656982/irish-rugby-player-tadhg-furlong-addicted-to-the-most-irish-thing-ever-potatoes
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HappyCamperGL posted:The SRU have are setting up a new six tram semi pro league, to bridge the gap between the club game and the pro districts. How is that even possible?
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Mister Chief posted:https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/103656982/irish-rugby-player-tadhg-furlong-addicted-to-the-most-irish-thing-ever-potatoes Potatoes are loving delicious though.
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bessantj posted:How is that even possible? Money. Or rather the lack of it in Scottish Rugby. Ideally the SRU would organise new franchises so they are geographically balanced and provide a clear pathway from the amateur/schools/university rugby to the two pro districts (Something like Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Stirling, Borders, and Dundee). But they can't afford to do that so they instead opened it to a competitive tendering process amongst extant clubs - rather then based on an holistic view of what is required for Sottish Rugby to survive/grow There are four historic regions (Edinburgh, Glasgow, The South, and North & Midlands), and the original SRU guidance was that no region would have more then two of the six franchises, but they chose to ignore/change that at some point. Indeed two of the successful clubs (Bouroughmuir, and Watsonians) are less than ten minutes walk from each other.
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It's worth noting that some of the clubs from the east have better facilities and a larger supporter base than the Edinburgh Pro 12 team. The Tyma fucked around with this message at 13:49 on May 6, 2018 |
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Unimpressed posted:Why does this sound eerily similar to the Waratahs? It's the George Smith story all over again. For those that don't know this little parable, back in like, 98 or 99, Scott Johnson was coaching at the club level in the NSW competition. His team, Manly, went up against Penrith, who were a largely unheralded, unfancied outfit, and Manly were expected to win with ease. Instead, a Tongan teenager playing at 7 for Penrith tore them apart in the breakdown, stealing the ball away like a thief in the night, and Manly were swept aside. An excited Johnson immediately got in touch with Waratahs scouts, telling them about this "George Smith kid," and how he was something special, and "holy poo poo, get him into the Waratahs!" He was told by an unimpressed Waratahs scout that yes, they knew who George Smith was, but they only rated him the 6th best openside in New South Wales so they weren't interested. Meanwhile, a Brumbies scout had also heard about him, went to check him out, and got him a contract for the 2000 Super Rugby season. With Smith at 7, the Brumbies would go on to make 5 straight play-off appearances during 2000~2004, making 4 finals and winning 2 titles. The Waratahs only made the play-offs once during this period, where they were soundly defeated by the Brumbies at home.
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Looks like Cam Redpath, son of former Scotland captain Bryan Redpath is going to get capped for England. That's three promising players Scotland have missed out on now with Gary Graham, Ben Vellecott, and now Redpath. Bugger.
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Vagabundo posted:It's the George Smith story all over again. STOP STOP I CAN ONLY GET SO ERECT. The early Brumbies teams were literally just castoffs from the Reds and Waratahs systems that had no other options other than to go to
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lol, after all the kerfuffle around dodgy romanian referees both spain and romania have been kicked out of rwc for fielding ineligible players. so russia will be 'europe 1' and portugal/germany will play-off for the right to be beaten by samoa. this also means that romania will drop off the list of teams who have been at every world cup.
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That's a pretty lame gently caress up someone made in each camp.
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Meanwhile, Hong Kong are looking good to potentially make the Repechage play-off against Oceania 4 (which has turned out to be the Cook Islands). Hong Kong, South Korea and Malaysia are competing in the Asia Rugby Championship for 2018, where the winner advances to the repechage round. Hong Kong have won 2 of the 4 fixtures they play, with 1 Bonus Point, putting them 4 points ahead of South Korea. Malaysia, who are 0 from 2, will be unlikely to qualify, having soundly lost their 2 home fixtures, with games in Incheon and Hong Kong to look forward to. If South Korea will need several things to go their way. They must 1. Win with a margin large enough in Incheon against Malaysia that it both wipes out Hong Kong's current lead in PD (+68 to +16) and keep Hong Kong within striking distance and 2. Beat Hong Kong in an away fixture with a bonus point and a large enough margin to overcome any Points Differential lead that HK may take into the game. They also need Hong Kong to either lose to Malyasia (which probably isn't going to happen), or get complacent and fail to win with a bonus point against them.
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goatface posted:That's a pretty lame gently caress up someone made in each camp. I'm sure the IRB were relieved to have found other grounds to deem the match invalid.
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The Crusaders-Waratahs match this weekend was loving mental and I encourage you to seek out the highlights.
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bigfoot again posted:The Crusaders-Waratahs match this weekend was loving mental and I encourage you to seek out the highlights. Does someone just repeatedly slap the taste out of Folau's mouth for being a dick? If so, I'll watch that.
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Vaders Jester posted:Does someone just repeatedly slap the taste out of Folau's mouth for being a dick? If so, I'll watch that. It’s funnier than that in many ways. Waratahs scored four tries and were up 29-0 after half an hour. And still managed to lose. And the ref missed the most blatant sending off I’ve seen in a while. https://youtu.be/uyzEhluOKN8
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Excellent highlights - was the blatant sending off not in there? What happened?
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fallingdownjoe posted:Excellent highlights - was the blatant sending off not in there? What happened? It wasn't picked up. He got 2 weeks for a clothesline to Kurtley Beale.
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Good. gently caress that guy.
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bigfoot again posted:It’s funnier than that in many ways. Waratahs scored four tries and were up 29-0 after half an hour. And still managed to lose. And the ref missed the most blatant sending off I’ve seen in a while. I like to think games like this is just God styling on Folau for being a massive tool.
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My club (Gloucester) changed the club badge this week and so many people threw a hissy fit about it on facebook they've agreed to pay for a tattoo of the new badge to anyone who currently has a tattoo of the old one
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I hope it's a really poo poo looking new badge.
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It looks a bit like the (old) UKIP logo
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Yeah, it's a bit Britain First looking.
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Well Gloucester voted 58% for Leave so
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Hmm Glasgow seem to be trying a 'tackling is optional' strategy against Scarlets. It is not going well so far...
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What the gently caress is going on with Glasgow at the moment? 
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Vaders Jester posted:Glasgow bad. Scarlets better. John Lacey terrible. Sums it up really. What is it about ireland that produces such terrible referees? Clancy, lacey, Wilkinson et al are just shite; they should not be in charge of professional rugby matches.
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