Hello and welcome to a hastily-created blog to serve former followers of AoD and any other random rugby union fanatics as well.
Now that rugby season is upon us, it seemed intolerable not to have somewhere to share our pain, our hopes and our squabbles.
Please pile in BTL! There will no doubt be much tinkering with the site. Suggestions for improvements are welcome but may be discarded out of hand. We do not possess Sag-like wizardry.
thaumaturge
Ovally Balls 
@Chimpie
AJ McGinty went off injured for the US just before HT.
Without him the US drop around 5 places in the rankings in terms of performance.
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@OT – still four Ashes Tests to go…
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If England beat Wales away and then Ireland, no matter the scores, and even if NZ thump Australia, they’ll go number 1 in the rankings
This is very odd
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Testing…
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Having a lot of buggerage with WordPress, passwords, user names and persistently having to try to re-log in when trying to comment. Count your blessings.
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How are the activities at the line, mister iks?
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That should say pond
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I hoped England would sneak it yesterday and was surprised / pleased by the scoreline.
What was nice is that when Wales did mount a comeback we kept the scoreboard ticking over. Getting those 3 pointers was crucial.
I heard Anscombe was left on whilst injured. If so it’s appalling injury and man management.
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Rumours abound about our man Cippers.
Apparently he’s not with Glaws squad but in America for a rest, Glaws supposedly in the market for a ten, tweets about getting inspiration from friends (Christian Wade’s TD), Toronto Wolfpack alluded to.
Haven’t looked at Shedweb but it doesn’t look good.
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Mad goose has been absent for about 3 weeks. I’ve been feeding one bedraggled duck for about a month, and her plumage has recovered. We are on first quack terms now, which is nice because she comes to be fed if I call her. She’s also had a female companion these last days, who is still learning the feeding ropes.
Well, you did ask UF!
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Ah, think I’ve sorted the account problem.
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To continue the birdy theme, the blog being down means that you all missed the ‘raising a wren chick from tiny’ saga.
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Apparently Eddie has capped 70 players since 2016 for England. That’s almost French.
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Fuck I’ve missed this. I actually went through a period of personal grief in May.
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@beadle
A pigeon flew into my kitchen and couldn’t get out despite the door being open. I had to walk outside to show it was the exit. It got the message eventually.
You could have cut the tension with a knife, etc.
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My loan cat had fleas. Now he’s gone home but left the fleas.
I realise that’s not as feelgood as Iksy’s pond tales.
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I killed numerous wasps over the weekend.
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@yosoy
“My loan cat had fleas. Now he’s gone home but left the fleas.”
So it was a flea transfer.
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Met Craigs on the train home a few times this summer. Looked lost, bleary eyed, working his way through a 6 pack of tinnies.
Glad the blog is back to get him back on the straight and narrow. The commuters of Kent will be very pleased.
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I always put on a brave face for Chek.
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@ourterry. Yes but how many flies did you have to seek out and swat for the voracious little critter?*
* obviously none as a pigeon wouldn’t eat them
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@beadle
If I had a baby wren I’d have bought mealworms from the fishing shop and fed it that instead.
hashtag smartarse
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What time is The Larrikin naming his squad?
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@ourterry we did that too, snipping the mealworms in two as we’d read (on the internet, therefore true obvs) that they could eat their way out of the chick’s stomach.
There was a great moment when we didn’t quite close the lid and had to contend with a mass breakout.
Chick massively preferred the flies as it happened.
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1pm England squad announced
I will live blog it
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Forwards
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers, 86 caps)
Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 12 caps)
Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 11 caps)
Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 10 caps)
Jamie George (Saracens, 37 caps)
Maro Itoje (Saracens, 27 caps)
George Kruis (Saracens, 32 caps)
Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 59 caps)
Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints, 72 caps)
Lewis Ludlam (Northampton Saints, 1 cap)
Joe Marler (Harlequins, 58 caps)
Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins, 22 caps)
Jack Singleton (Saracens, 1 cap)
Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby, 9 caps)
Billy Vunipola (Saracens, 42 caps)
Mako Vunipola (Saracens, 53 caps)
Mark Wilson (Newcastle Falcons / Sale Sharks, 13 caps)
Backs
Joe Cokanasiga (Bath Rugby, 5 caps)
Elliot Daly (Saracens, 31 caps)
Owen Farrell (Saracens, 70 caps)
George Ford (Leicester Tigers, 56 caps)
Piers Francis (Northampton Saints, 5 caps)
Willi Heinz (Gloucester Rugby, 1 cap)
Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby, 41 caps)
Jonny May (Leicester Tigers, 45 caps)
Ruaridh McConnochie (Bath Rugby, uncapped)
Jack Nowell (Exeter Chiefs, 33 caps)
Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 22 caps)
Manu Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers, 33 caps)
Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby, 34 caps)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers, 86 caps)
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No Spencer, Te’o, Shields
Nowell in despite injury
Ludlam and mcconnochie bolters
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No Sam Burgess
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Only 2 tight heads, Harry Williams out
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Only 2 scrum halves?
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Two tightheads and three looseheads is a bit of a risk, normally you’d have it t’other way round and spend a lot of time with one of the tightheads getting him up to speed on playing the other side in an emergency
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Looks Weak
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No Hask
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Thanks Thaum for getting a blog up and running and thanks also for the redirect on twatter too.
Was watching a recorded version of the Ireland Italy game and my sky box stopped just after the first Italian try, maybe it was just trying to save me the pain of watching any more!!
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Anscombe out of the RWC: ACL gone pop, mun
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That’s a shame, yosoy. It looked like he was in trouble early on, he should have been hooked a lot earlier
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@ticht
Real shame. Chance for Patchell to step up. I just hope he’s over last season’s problems.
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That is a bummer. The last thing you want out of a warm up is to lose a player to injury.
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Seems a bit early for Eddie to name his squad with a load of upcoming warm ups & potential for form changes / injury.
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Patch could be Priest mk2 as Wales launch themselves towards the last 4 in heroic fashion.
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Cometh the hour, cometh Dan Biggar.
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That’s Sir Dan of Biggar to you, mate
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Hello everyone! It’s so great to have somewhere to catch up again.
Am not unhappy with England squad. Am unhappy with having shaved off my beard last week due to kids having headlice (they apparently don’t live in beards but I got paranoid). Since I last shaved my beard I appear to have grown an extra bollock below my chin. Not a good look.
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Piers Francis is the pick that surprised me most. Just don’t get it, although admittedly I didn’t get to see the game properly yesterday. Think EJ has done it just to make sure that the new blog gets going with an England centres debate. Shirley we’ve all been craving those these last few months?
Anyway. We’ll look ok until Billy V breaks, and then we’ll be rubbish.
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@dab
“Since I last shaved my beard I appear to have grown an extra bollock below my chin.”
How many chin bollocks did you have before?
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WordPress changed my name on that last one……
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*updates mental image of Dab*
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England nearly beat new Zealand with Mark Wilson at 8
Mako, Manu and big Joe for go forward if Billy does break
Would really like to see Tony given a shot at full back in the next few games
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Pretty sure that Dab is now Peter Griffin.
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