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by Bill W (2)
Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:43 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Lancster to coach Lions ??!!
Replies: 14
Views: 3482

Re: Lancster to coach Lions ??!!

sjm wrote:You must have some bad nightmares going by that comment
Faslet at 10 for Lions and Robshaw at 7? Hartley of course will Captain!!!!

:smt043
by Bill W (2)
Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:12 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Lancster to coach Lions ??!!
Replies: 14
Views: 3482

Re: Lancster to coach Lions ??!!

I read this in The Times this morning!

I assumed it was a joke!

:smt026
by Bill W (2)
Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:46 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Gouging
Replies: 84
Views: 17466

Re: Gouging

TomWeston wrote:
Why would the useless ref have issued any red cards? According to Remy and the other monocular frogs no offences were committed.
Dusciplinary panel deemed he should have issued red cards,

:smt027
by Bill W (2)
Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:22 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Gouging
Replies: 84
Views: 17466

Re: Gouging

Is there any sanction against a clearly incompetent ref? He could be removed from the panel. The disciplinary hearings ruled he should have issued three red cards. Did this alter the outcome of the game? What's more - if he had issued the first red for gauging he would not have needed to issue the ...
by Bill W (2)
Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:58 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Gouging
Replies: 84
Views: 17466

Re: Gouging

kingol22 wrote:They really need to stop this rubbish about reducing bans because a player says sorry and behaves at the hearing. Its an absolute joke.
Of itself reducing the sentence for a guilty plea is fair enough.

The amount of the reduction is questionable.
by Bill W (2)
Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:55 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Gouging
Replies: 84
Views: 17466

Re: Gouging

drc_007 wrote:Is there any sanction against a clearly incompetent ref?
He could be removed from the panel.

The disciplinary hearings ruled he should have issued three red cards.

Did this alter the outcome of the game?
by Bill W (2)
Tue Jan 26, 2016 6:10 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Gouging
Replies: 84
Views: 17466

Re: Gouging

Noggs wrote: Can't understand the Maselino Paulino citing. I always thought you got a bonus point for hitting Courtney Lawes :smt003
Perhaps the citing is for not hitting him hard enough?

:smt026
by Bill W (2)
Tue Jan 26, 2016 5:47 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Gouging
Replies: 84
Views: 17466

Re: Gouging

If Tom pleads guilty and wears a white shirt two weeks at most.

If the French Props plead not guilty 12 weeks minimum.

Ashton sentence will stand.
by Bill W (2)
Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:34 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Captain Hartley
Replies: 99
Views: 14924

Re: Captain Hartley

Stu_F wrote:
G.K wrote:Dullan is a liability and the week after next it could well be a case of:

Tae send him homewards tae think again (again)
Let's hope :smt002
Will EJ be capable of admitting such a big mistake so early in his tenure?

Or is it a stroke of genious?
by Bill W (2)
Mon Jan 25, 2016 6:22 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Bad results for Pro 12.
Replies: 13
Views: 2905

Re: Bad results for Pro 12.

Could this be the first step to an Anglo-French club super league, i.e. excluding the Celtic franchises? There is a separate thread on this. Where I am on record on saying that I regard this as inevitable - although not before much screaming and shouting. But with regard to the European Knock Out C...
by Bill W (2)
Sun Jan 24, 2016 10:53 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Home advantage to the final?
Replies: 18
Views: 4490

Re: Home advantage to the final?

Iain wrote:I've been told ours is looking like it would be Pride Park or the City Ground.

I doubt the organisers would fancy a Twickenham semi final after last year, when about 14 people watched Saracens.
THEY SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED DOGS IN!

:smt003
by Bill W (2)
Sun Jan 24, 2016 10:17 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Bad results for Pro 12.
Replies: 13
Views: 2905

Bad results for Pro 12.

Following their poor performance in both competitons should their representation be reduced?
by Bill W (2)
Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:22 am
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Euro Superleague thoughts
Replies: 23
Views: 3909

Re: Euro Superleague thoughts

But we digress:

A Euro superleague. 12 clubs. Home and away. 66 matches. Mininimum attendance 20K Average ticket price £100. TV Revenue. Sponsorship. Associated hospitality. Add in play offs. No brainer!!!
by Bill W (2)
Sun Jan 24, 2016 12:00 am
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Euro Superleague thoughts
Replies: 23
Views: 3909

Re: Euro Superleague thoughts

Escaped my attention? I am clearly too dim to notice we have been bought out? Who are these people with disquiet, I don't seem to have heard from them? Clearly so. The son of one of Peter Tom's friends bought a majority interest in Tigers some months ago. just read the forum (particularly the cater...
by Bill W (2)
Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:31 pm
Forum: Fans Forum
Topic: Euro Superleague thoughts
Replies: 23
Views: 3909

Re: Euro Superleague thoughts

Is that a problem then? Punters paying more and helping the clubs finances? Engineering profit to help us compete without a sugar daddy.... I'll wait for the new Holland and Barrett before passing judgement on facilities It may have escaped your attention but we have a sugar daddy. Not a problem fo...