Forza Italia.
Better saying it before.
So chuffed; the Jocks take another pounding!
Woo-hoo :-bd
Must confess to being pleased to see Italy win ;D
Scrappy game.
Since the Jocks always cheer whoever play's England, i'm happy to see the Italians scrape the win.
Quote from: Luddite on 28 February 2015, 04:27:47 PM
Scrappy game.
Since the Jocks always cheer whoever play's England, i'm happy to see the Italians scrape the win.
That's why I cheer anyone playing em...
Andy Murray, William Wallace are you watching? Your boys took a hell of a beating :D
I have to say that both games today were a pretty poor spectacles - highlighting again the massive gulf between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere teams.
Avanti Azuri! :-bd
Just a shame Les Bleus couldn't smash the Lame Leeks :-q
After a great start by Scotland, I was suprised to hear that they lost. Can't say I'm upset by the news though :D. As for Wales' win over France, a scrappy affair which doesn't bode well for the World Cup for either team.
The current state of Northern Hemisphere is parlous!
Definitely not over impressed with either side...Very scrappy.
Like Nosher says above.....Massive gulf between the 'Northern and Southern' teams.
Hopefully a much better game tomorrow.
Cheers - Phil
As much as I like watching the rugby I do think they need to change some rules to make it more popular
Quote from: Fenton on 28 February 2015, 07:32:33 PM
As much as I like watching the rugby I do think they need to change some rules to make it more popular
Ban the Scottish? :D
I think I would ban Jonathan Davis. His voice is just irritating and just tends to whinge about everything
Quote from: Fenton on 28 February 2015, 07:39:59 PM
I think I would ban Jonathan Davis. His voice is just irritating and just tends to whinge about everything
Like +1
Quote from: Fenton on 28 February 2015, 07:39:59 PM
I think I would ban Jonathan Davis. His voice is just irritating and just tends to whinge about everything
You're not wrong there! At all!
I would like to see Ian Robertson back commentating on the TV
Quote from: getagrip on 28 February 2015, 04:20:30 PM
So chuffed; the Jocks take another pounding!
Woo-hoo :-bd
:Ph :P :Ph :P :Ph
Boo, hiss (we
gave it away wuz robbed)!
(P.S. ..... and I'm a quarter Irish .... c'mon the bhoys t'mawra!)
Hopefully we will beat England tomorrow. As usual we will lure out opponents into lethargy by making them stand through 2 national anthems for the Irish team
Quote from: Fenton on 28 February 2015, 08:48:27 PM
Hopefully we will beat England tomorrow. As usual we will lure out opponents into lethargy by making them stand through 2 national anthems for the Irish team
That should be illegal >:(
Why?
Quote from: Fenton on 28 February 2015, 07:50:45 PM
I would like to see Ian Robertson back commentating on the TV
Free anytime they ask :D :D :D
Cheers
Ian
Because the team is made up from two different countries...after that it gets complicated
Quote from: Fenton on 01 March 2015, 12:31:53 AM
Because the team is made up from two different countries...after that it gets complicated
Okay, England will have the English one, French, Viking, Italian and German ones :P
Get your point but do we really need to drag it out, get on with the bloody game :)
Thought at one point Ireland had three?
You could argue we have three
Series decider this afternoon for my money.
Definitely should be !
Now...Keep the noise down....I've got some judging to do. (Where are my headache pills ?)
Cheers - Phil
Arent you doing what you did every other year?
Claim you looked at the screen for 5 minutes then your eyes started to hurt when it all went blurry, your ears popped and you had to have a lie down. Three days later you just picked one at random? :D
Quote from: getagrip on 28 February 2015, 07:24:51 PM
The current state of Northern Hemisphere is parlous!
Yep: Putin, Isis. Greece - I could go on.
Going to watch the match. It may not be 'the decider' but should be one of the better games of the series. :)
Quote from: Leman on 01 March 2015, 02:12:10 PM
Yep: Putin, Isis. Greece - I could go on.
;D ;D ;D
More sophisticated sarcasm on this forum :P
Quote from: Fenton on 01 March 2015, 01:00:28 PM
Arent you doing what you did every other year?
Claim you looked at the screen for 5 minutes then your eyes started to hurt when it all went blurry, your ears popped and you had to have a lie down. Three days later you just picked one at random? :D
Don't start on ME, Steve !! ;) ;D ;D ;D
I genuinely HAVE got a headache now.....and I've been watching the entries, as they've come in, from day one....(as usual)...so I thought it would be relatively 'easy' to choose.....
It 'bloomin' wasn't !Yes...my eyes do hurt....But I've been grown up and haven't had a lie down
yet....But truthfully, one of the lenses in my glasses decided to drop out, before I'd finished. ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
;D ;D ;D ;D
It wasn't funny !
I said some very naughty words ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 01 March 2015, 02:45:24 PM
I said some very naughty words ! ;D ;D
I hope you didn't call anyone a Centurion ;)
Seriously though, you have to be a glasses wearer to know how bloody debilitating it is losing a lense >:(
Quote from: getagrip on 01 March 2015, 02:47:42 PM
I hope you didn't call anyone a Centurion ;)
Seriously though, you have to be a glasses wearer to know how bloody debilitating it is losing a lense >:(
I do and I cant wear contact lens...makes me feel queasy thinking about it
Quote from: Fenton on 01 March 2015, 02:56:20 PM
I do and I cant wear contact lens...makes me feel queasy thinking about it
NOTHING goes in my bloody eye :-&
Come on England!!!
Quote from: Fenton on 01 March 2015, 02:56:20 PM
I do and I cant wear contact lens...makes me feel queasy thinking about it
I had absolutely NO problem with the small. solid, plastic lenses.....Could pop them in, NO problem.....Pinging them out again was a piece of 'widdle'.
But the larger soft, 'sqidgy' lenses ?
No sweat putting them onto the surface of the eye......But I got into a complete panic trying to get the damn things out, as they don't 'ping' out like the old harder lenses.
You'd be surprised, Steve !....After you've put them in a few times, you don't even notice they're there.
True....At the
very beginning, your eyes flood with tears at the 'foreign object', and it feels SO wrong.....Blink, blink, blink...
Take them out, take them out !!
You'd be surprised how incredibly quickly you adjust, though.
If you don't have a complex prescription.....Worth a try....Honestly.
Cheers - Phil
Well I swear by my contacts, especially when I drop them.
Been there...Done that !! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Back on topic, Ireland have decided to play soccer again! Dull game, kick, kick, kick: dull, dull, dull!
RE-hijack - the drive - who without lenses is as blind as a bat, drops one into the foot well, just as we were heading to the Mersey Tunnel late on a Saturday afternoon.
IanS :'(
YEY!
[And now the post you've all been dreading waiting for]
I wonder. :-\ Did England lose? They did? 19 - 9 ? A full 10 points?
=O =O =O
... er ... I mean ... Oh my! What a shame. Never mind. :-* :P
Well done, Ireland! :-bd
(did I say I'm part Irish?)
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyeeeeeeesssssssss!
Go Ireland go!!! After all I support them and any other team playing England lol as do all the Celtic nations even if they won't admit it
The wheels didnt just come off. They are square.
Rugbys a simple game. You cant win if you dont have the ball. Dumb rugby played by a bunch of dullards. Well done Ireland for figuring that one out.
I didnt think the Northern Hemisphere game could sink.lower than yesterdays games.
The Kiwis and Wallabies must be pissing themselves laughing
As I read somewhere recently the Six Nations is a competition to see who is the best team in the Northern Hemisphere that is going to be defeated by the All Blacks
I really wish they would get rid of the rolling maul. Really slows down the game and is particularly dull to watch. Maybe time to just introduce uncontested scrums that should give us another 20 mins of game time where something might actually happen
Why don't we just kick the ball in the air and see who can catch it best? Oh, no, wait; that was today's game >:(
Quote from: getagrip on 01 March 2015, 08:21:06 PM
Why don't we just kick the ball in the air and see who can catch it best? Oh, no, wait; that was today's game >:(
Thats just every game these days
Quote from: Fenton on 01 March 2015, 08:36:17 PM
Thats just every game these days
Today's was really dull :(
Has the game changed that much. In 1995, England beat Scotland 24 - 12 . Not one try - all penalties and drops.
I thought the problem was that you can pick up the ball and that the ball's the wrong shape? :d
Congratulations to Ireland.
Commiserations to European rugby, where the only side who actually seem to have players who play with their hearts for 80 minutes and actually enjoy the game are Italy.
There's a video around of a Kiwi team fielding a woman player in a nude game. They won, possibly because of the mixed signals the opposition got when trying to tackle her.
Sounds like an improvement on the usual tedium of that damned game (it was the religion at my high school, so I beg the pardon of true afficionadi if I am being offensive).
Once played a mixed game in the Sixth form when I was at school.
The rule was the girls could tackle as hard as they liked, the boys had to touch tackle.
Long and the short was the girls tackled like demons and when we tried to touch tackle they wouldn't drop the ball. Ended up as a great big wrestling match...
Ah, happy days :)
During the game, the Italian commentator was talking about the death of the Rugby Champagne since the defense are now harder to move.
I don't know if I like it now.
I can see some of unfair-play (pretending being hurt to gain time) slowly creeping into the sport.
Well played, England. =D>
(cough ... splutter .... choke)
And well done, Wales! =D>
Ireland. I think you've blown it. :(
Scotland. WTF (again). X_X
France? Je ne sais pas. :-\
Italy? Non so cosa pensare di voi due. :-\
Quote from: Fenton on 01 March 2015, 08:19:16 PM
I really wish they would get rid of the rolling maul. Really slows down the game and is particularly dull to watch. Maybe time to just introduce uncontested scrums that should give us another 20 mins of game time where something might actually happen
Or just watch rugby league ;)
Quote from: Fenton on 01 March 2015, 08:19:16 PM
I really wish they would get rid of the rolling maul. Really slows down the game and is particularly dull to watch. Maybe time to just introduce uncontested scrums that should give us another 20 mins of game time where something might actually happen
Hear, hear.....Or, as Ian says....Watch Rugby League.
I used to enjoy watching 'Union'....But over the last few years, it's become (ahem) 'somewhat' tedious to watch.
Cheers - Phil
The Wales - Ireland game was brilliant IMHO, with Wales deserved winners in the end. Next week will be interesting to see who wins and all the fun (or not) of points differences...
Quote from: Sandinista on 15 March 2015, 11:11:38 PM
Or just watch rugby league ;)
Abso-frickin-lutely
Shame it doesn't get the coverage the posh version gets. you very rarely see dull matches and although kicking is an important aspect of the game and often a match winner, its not for penalties.
Quote from: Steve J on 16 March 2015, 07:04:00 AM
The Wales - Ireland game was brilliant IMHO, with Wales deserved winners in the end. Next week will be interesting to see who wins and all the fun (or not) of points differences...
Agree completely.
Saturday was a good day of rugby :)
Sunday was dire (:|
I think it was one of the worst game I saw (Italia-France)
I think I begin to like Rugby less than before.
"Nothing breaks the fun in a room quite like a scrum reset."
For once i agree with you Brian Moore ;)
Are the England fans supporting Italy and Scotland ( :o ) today? ;)
I suppose the problem with rugby is there isn't enough of this sort of beautiful play...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioyt2zzm530 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioyt2zzm530)
It's been a good tournament so far i think, but there are parts of the game that need a bit of attention. The way scrums work now is a problem i think... :-\
I can hardly believe it. Scotland hammered (well, I can believe that) but Ireland now in pole position! (I thought they had blown it against Wales.)
What a mountain now for England. :o
So long as the Jocks got hammered and the sheep botherers don't win the competition, I'm okay :)
Quote from: getagrip on 21 March 2015, 04:59:58 PM
. . .the sheep botherers . . .
Charming. Do you call black people 'jungle bunnies' as well?
Martyn
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Quote from: Nosher on 16 March 2015, 07:42:40 AM
Abso-frickin-lutely
Shame it doesn't get the coverage the posh version gets. you very rarely see dull matches and although kicking is an important aspect of the game and often a match winner, its not for penalties.
Couldn't agree more. These days I lose interest in union games quickly, there are so many stoppages and walking around.
How can anyone not love this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/31694225 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/31694225)
They should get rid of the rolling mauls. complete waste of time and just ruin the game
Though I do prefer Rugby League
Wow! What a conclusion to the Championship. Open down to the last seconds. Well done Ireland, an amazing and relentless performance against Scotland. But what a game at Twickenham - so much character, so much endeavour, a truly magnificent end to the 6 nations. Stuart Lancaster deserves a lot of credit for the way England play, and their sheer resilience. And what do you say about France, 35 points and on the losing side by 20! I cannot wait for the Wordl Cup. :o :o :o =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
A completely exhausted and exhilarated Mollinary
None of the 6 mation sides will be good enough for N.Zealand and South Africa come the world cup
Quote from: Fenton on 21 March 2015, 07:15:43 PM
None of the 6 mation sides will be good enough for N.Zealand and South Africa come the world cup
True, but a lovely day's rugby :-bd
I was surprised James Haskell wasnt sent off as tripping is a red card offence
It was a good day for Northern Hemisphere Egg Chasing. But as Fenton put it it will make little difference come RWC15.
If you haven't watched League yet, you should. 90% of matches are just as (if not more) exciting than today's game EVERY WEEK.
Well done Ireland. England certainly know how to make an uphill battle an everest-esque challenge!!
Haskell was having a monster game but should know better.
In fact some of Englands forwards have been overlooked this championship. Marler has been solid and Robshaw has really come of age in recent games.
Close, ond dim banana !
Quote from: mollinary on 21 March 2015, 07:09:39 PM
Wow! What a conclusion to the Championship. Open down to the last seconds. Well done Ireland, an amazing and relentless performance against Scotland. But what a game at Twickenham - so much character, so much endeavour, a truly magnificent end to the 6 nations. Stuart Lancaster deserves a lot of credit for the way England play, and their sheer resilience. And what do you say about France, 35 points and on the losing side by 20! I cannot wait for the Wordl Cup. :o :o :o =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
A completely exhausted and exhilarated Mollinary
Totally agree, Moll. A fantastic end to the tornament (say in an Irish accent).
Congratulations to Ireland - I was so wrong after the Wales defeat. :-bd (and, as a Scot, a little consolation to have some Irish blood in me!)
Commiserations to my English and Welsh friends - gallant efforts by both. You gave everything but not to be.
Quote from: getagrip on 21 March 2015, 04:59:58 PM
So long as the Jocks got hammered and the sheep botherers don't win the competition, I'm okay :)
;D =O ;D
We believe it. :^o Keep telling yourself that, Grip. We know you are hurting, pal. ;)
Quote from: Nosher on 21 March 2015, 07:26:51 PM
. . . and Robshaw has really come of age in recent games.
Playing very well, but he badly needs to stop the irritating habit he has of rushing up to the ref & whining every time the whistle is blown.
Cheers, Martyn
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Quote from: Raider4 on 21 March 2015, 07:45:42 PM
Playing very well, but he badly needs to stop the irritating habit he has of rushing up to the ref & whining every time the whistle is blown.
Cheers, Martyn
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I thought that was the Captain's job these days? :o ;) :-\
Mollinary
At least the last three games were rather more entertaining !! ;)
For me, the top three teams finished in the right order, so I've got no complaints.
Well done the Irish lads.
Still think the Southern hemisphere teams are streets ahead of the six nations bods.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Raider4 on 21 March 2015, 07:45:42 PM
Playing very well, but he badly needs to stop the irritating habit he has of rushing up to the ref & whining every time the whistle is blown.
Cheers, Martyn
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At least they dont respond like Kissballers.
I loved the way the welsh ref handled yesterdays game. spoke to the players and then told them to go away and discuss it with their teams - end of discussion. What was even better was that the skippers duly did what they were told without question.
I did like it yesterday at the end of the game when Robshaw was complaining and the ref just stuck his hand out to shake hands and all Robshaw could do was shake it and walk away...Its the way all sports should do it
Quote from: Fenton on 22 March 2015, 08:49:46 AM
I did like it yesterday at the end of the game when Robshaw was complaining and the ref just stuck his hand out to shake hands and all Robshaw could do was shake it and walk away...Its the way all sports should do it
Agree completely. Also, when Robshaw was pointing something out that happened and the Ref just said "Christopher ", raised his eyebrows and Robshaw walked away.
Game for gentlemen.
Cheating goes on in rugby, but I think the difference between the cheating in rugby and football is that the rugby players are a lot more subtle.
Where rugby is head and shoulders above football is as most have stated on here, the respect shown to the referee
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: Sandinista on 22 March 2015, 10:36:03 AM
Cheating goes on in rugby, but I think the difference between the cheating in rugby and football is that the rugby players are a lot more subtle.
Where rugby is head and shoulders above football is as most have stated on here, the respect shown to the referee
Cheers
Ian
Football should introduce the same rules ; argue with the ref, 10 metres further forward to the free kick.
I think yesterday had 3 good refs...I was surprised to here Steve Walsh had retired just before the game but was glad Wayne Barnes wasnt involved
to fenton but was glad Wayne Barnes wasnt involved.
found out that barnes is a barrister in other life that is why je sometimes interprets the laws of the game to suit his opinions
Quote from: Fenton on 22 March 2015, 10:40:37 AM
I think yesterday had 3 good refs...I was surprised to here Steve Walsh had retired just before the game but was glad Wayne Barnes wasnt involved
Steve Walsh was a disgrace >:(
Cracking games of rugby all round and I also thought that the refs had cracking games which makes a big difference.
I agree Steve, it was a good tournament and all the games on the final day were excellent.
And meanwhile in the world of real rugby, Leeds Rhinos are still on for the treble <:-P
Come on HULL KR - all White Rose Final ;)
Quote from: Nosher on 31 July 2015, 09:19:30 PM
And meanwhile in the world of real rugby, Leeds Rhinos are still on for the treble <:-P
Come on HULL KR - all White Rose Final ;)
That is not REAL rugby
Quote from: Sandinista on 31 July 2015, 10:58:23 PM
That is not REAL rugby
Last time I checked the definition of rugby was a game played by men with odd shaped balls who carry the ball and attempt to place it over their opponents goal line.
Unlike Union where they play arial ping pong pointlessly for two thirds of the game. :P
White Rose Final. Happy Days.
And another one in the eye for Tony Smith 8)
Meanwhile in Super League another Aussie is sent home crying into his beer.....
Rhinos 49 Wire 10. Trebles still on!