Leicester Tigers

Yes Ford,Burns,Henry makes way more sense than Ford,Burns,Bonilla Agreed but apparently Henry is off at the end of the season and a new contract is being discussed with Bonilla, so most likely it will be Ford, Burns and Bonilla, if Burns were to re-join. Pretty vague rumour with Henry allegedly unh...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/18/rugby-union-saracens-lucy-wray-interview Sounds like a sales pitch to potential sponsors. Am I alone in thinking that no sides should be playing friendly matches during lockdown? Professional, competitive matches are one thing but these are meaningless ...

Old Hob wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:45 pm

Vee; Aye Vee; Aye Aye Aye; Aye Aye; Aye.

Geordie chat up line?

voice of the crumbie wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:08 am

Old Hob wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:51 pm

Perhaps, when crowds are allowed back, we can help the referee by giving a very loud count-down to encourage the laggards.

Maybe the scoreboard can help us by putting up a countdown clock

Perhaps Rachel Riley could be brought in as an enforcer too!

Montoya will be a good addition to the squad imo. Does anyone know if he has a 'non-overseas player' qualification? Thinking of the PRL overseas player rule, he joins what is now quite a list of potential 'overseas players'. This, you would assume, is considered carefully before signings are made, ...

Not a lot of options, to be honest. Abandon the home and away nature of the pools and move on.

And the French game may not be trying to distance itself from this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55615893

Elite sport is all getting lumped together over here, much more of this and you can kiss goodbye to the rest of the season, never mind 2 weeks!

Maybe Premiership Rugby felt that, in light of the growing criticism of the behaviour of elite sportsmen and their fans at the weekend (i.e. football), it might be a good idea to keep their heads down for a couple of weeks.

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Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:24 am

Scott1 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:28 am

Rumours on Twitter that elite sport will be cancelled for four weeks to roll the vaccine out.

Pointless (in more ways than one) given that it will make zero difference one way or the other. Will also lead to loss of media revenue.

Yep, several reasons not to take that too seriously.

Still nothing definitive on this. Watching Rugby Tonight, it would seem the clubs, French league and government keep batting this around. Testing has been altered to suit their demands, but there still seems to be a problem for the clubs. It seems to me they can't afford to just make the decision on...

We still haven’t been allocated our 4 points. A long shot, I know, but if the European games get canned for next week, might we see the local derby played then?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/55587044

French government now involved

I would think so, and a hefty fine.

Started a seperate thread on this game. Seems early enough with all the shenanigans.

So, a bit early to start this thread I know, but I thought it'd be worth getting one going.

Basically, what is going on? Multiple reports around, that Bayonne have pulled out of European games but nothing on EPCR and now we have a ref! What the flippin' heck!