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- Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:07 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Anyone seen MOC
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8495
Re: Anyone seen MOC
Did read he was waiting for his work permit.
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:20 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Kickers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3744
Re: Kickers
As with the fly-half thread - don'the forget Harrison
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 8:47 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Scrum half feeding!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2955
Re: Scrum half feeding!
Wardy - don't blame you for raising the matter again - it's a silly situation. Silly because refs could nip it in the bud if they penalised it twice at the beginning of a game: once 9s know it will be penalised then the practice will cease. Also once hookers have to hook then the scrums will sort th...
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:01 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: England play the All Blacks - a question
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4223
Re: England play the All Blacks - a question
Whilst I really want to see the ABs play England this is a stupid fixture. 1. A goodly percentage of the England team will have had no summer off because of the Lions. 2. Eddie Jones had already said that he wasn't going to consider English Lions for the AIs to let them recover. EJ is therefore in a...
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:49 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Toby Flood red carded - not happy!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5175
Re: Toby Flood red carded - not happy!!
If the report I read is correct (always debateable) then the Red Card or not dispute is irrelevant as he got it for a 2nd Yellow!
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:30 am
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Fly Halves for next season
- Replies: 89
- Views: 21748
Re: Fly Halves for next season
Well according to Rugby paper we've got one back-up to George Ford next season - his brother Joe!
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:27 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: England vs Italy
- Replies: 89
- Views: 12589
Re: England vs Italy
Pity the IRB completely re-wrote the Laws in a 'snazzier' format! In my old paper copy from the 1970s it is states that Rugby Union is an 'onside' game and it's clear that the Italian tactics are illegal. Just because the offside line is not the base of the ruck, if no ruck forms, that doesn't mean ...
- Sun Dec 04, 2016 12:50 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: 6N to trial bonus points in 2017
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6418
Re: 6N to trial bonus points in 2017
All the arguments above are true in their own ways but pretty much irrelevant. I'm all in favour of encouraging a more exciting game but that doesn't have an exact correlation with numbers of tries scored. Competitiveness makes for excitement not tries: if the latter were the case we'd enjoy watchin...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 5:12 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Sky v BT TV coverage
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5010
Re: Sky v BT TV coverage
I just don't understand where the posters above are coming from - BT rugby presentation has always been and remains patronizing and infantile, with random and haphazard camera work. At least the Sky commentators appear to understand the laws of the game!
I much, much prefer Sky's presentation.
I much, much prefer Sky's presentation.
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:49 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: A real problem
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5607
Re: A real problem
If you read the rules for the Salary Cap and Injury dispensations it is not a simple matter of amount of money, which could make the Tigers 'unable to afford' replacements. Premiership Rugby Salary Regulations: Salary Year 2016-17 - See Clause 5 on page 20. Things will be even worse in 2017/18 when ...
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 4:41 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: George Ford or Burns - threads merged
- Replies: 341
- Views: 66786
Re: George Ford
Saw this rumour a couple of weeks back as well - seen it twice so it must be true. Who's off? Williams back to Wales?
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 4:39 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Have we ever sold out the 'new' ground
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5681
Re: Have we ever sold out the 'new' ground
You only have to look back at the last couple of season to see that Sat 15:00 kick-offs consistently bring in between 2,00 and 3,500 more than Sundays. Friday evenings, being rarer are harder to judge but still seem to be less popular than the Saturday ones. When relative minnows like Worcester on a...
- Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:25 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Mike Williams
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6561
Re: Mike Williams
Also confirmed tonight by Richard Cockerill on EMT.
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:09 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Just a hint of....a forward pass?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5611
Re: Just a hint of....a forward pass?
It's all so much sophistry - I can see there is a problem (perhaps) when passer and recipient are running at high speed towards the try line and they ball may actually go forward but both players have moved on and relatively it is still behind the passer: this is, however, seldom the case. Normally ...
- Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:27 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Emasculated Manu
- Replies: 78
- Views: 14570
Re: Emasculated Manu
I'm more concerned that since Ant Allen stopped playing there's no one seeming to control him on defence.