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 
Tells us your friend is more refined than me with my Great Big Onion.
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Just a shame you couldn’t see how big my onions are.
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@thaum – OK let me know if that changes.
This site isn’t crap BTW š
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Just parking this here before bedtime:
BB – I will solve your onions problem via email (tomorrow).
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Thaum – is that a threat or a promise?!?!?!?!
Seriously, don’t worry about it. I’ve buggered plenty of things up before in the old site. I suspect I would need to be on some site such as Imgur or something in order to share stuff (and I had to even look that up) and I’m always a bit reluctant to start on a new thing like that (considering the fact that I’ve only just joined Facebook about 4 years after Mrs BB started).
Anyway, it’s good to keep folk guessing about some things…..
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BB – I’ve sent you an email. If you reply to it with the pic, I can upload it. We are obviously all gagging to see your huge onions (*ahem Karl*).
To post links to pics on here, it would need to be a site without authentication; probably I shouldn’t have said any old photo-sharing site.
Me, I’ve blocked Facebook at the OS level on my computer.
Now really GN.
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Sadly this year’s visit to Tayvallich was timed wrong for the village show. Tough gig for onions though as I think they go up against all comers in the any other vegetable category, the judging of which is opaque at best. Potatoes are where it’s really at of course with it being in Knapdale of the Great Potatoes.
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Judging at local shows is always a bit weird. And the prize was always something like 50p and a rosette.
Sorry to hear about your travels troubles when you were up. This summer’s just been a right bugger for bad weather. We were driving up Byres Road on Saturday and one side was like a river, completely flooded. When we drove back down a couple of hours later it was completely dry!
Kelso’s a nice wee toon, but there’s not really a huge amount there after you’ve seen the Abbey and Floors Castle. Some of the surrounding countryside is nice.
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Test:
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That must be a massive hand.
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That is correct. The bird was easily the size of St Paul’s.
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Good morning all! One day closer to the World Cup!
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I don’t mean to alarm anyone but Jack Nowell’s hair is surprisingly normal. For him anyway.
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Delighted as I was to see Dick Braine win the UKIP leadership contest, I’m over the m about Dick Swett coming out for Joe Biden.
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@Craigs – end of Nowell’s career I think it’s safe to say.
In other news, it’s Day 1 of the 2nd Ashes Test today! I shall be skiving off something awful from 12pm, possibly earlier.
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@Deebee – his hair is almost Craigsman esque. Circa 2002.
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My rugby ‘career’ was over by then. Although I could have walked into that England team.
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@deebee
the weather is looking very dodgy. You might be lucky to see any cricket today…..
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Jack Nowell looks like he has a touch of the Hensons in that pic
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In fascinating local Embra news, it poop / sewage appears to be dripping through the office ceiling making some lovely fragrant stains on the floor. Makes for a particularly pleasant working environment
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Hogg’s done something similar with his hair to Nowell. He’ll fit right in at Exeter.
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A hint of O’Driscoll as well.
Exciting news down Essex Way, OT:
https://westcliffrfc.co.uk/westcliff-rfc-announce-appointment-of-new-head-coach/
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Although I could have walked into that England team.
Me too. I once walked into Peter Winterbottom at a charity football day here in Joburg. Unfortunately for me, he was going full tilt for the ball and I took no further part. Mainly because I was too puffed and drunk to keep up, I hasten to add – he didn’t Bojo me. Nice guy. Stuck around in the pub afterwards with a load of the other rugby guys who were part of it and drank up a storm.
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Scotland squad for France game announced at 11.30am.
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@tomp
“Exciting news down Essex Way, OT”
That is fantastic. Appoint a 21 year old as coach with zero coaching experience. They must have heard his dad might have been coached by my uncle, mind, so are hoping some of his shouty motivational techniques have been passed on.
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@OT – I’ve just logged onto the Graun commentary and seen so. Amazes me how countries with such shit weather invent the most weather dependent sports: England and cricket, Scotland and golf, Saudi Arabia and white water rafting, the mind boggles!
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@deebee
“Amazes me how countries with such shit weather invent the most weather dependent sports”
to be fair the UK is also world class at darts and skittles.
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JF’ll be going up against Deebee’s own Peter Winterbottom this season as the Farming/Investment Banking legend’s Director of Rugby at Esher RFC – Inverdale’s club.
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I used to play for Esher as a wee nipper. We were pretty shit tbh.
Apart from me. Obvs.
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Peter Winterbottom vs Jacob Ford.
Not exactly McCaw vs Betsen.
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@Chek, I hope we have a good go at France, but also try out something with the centres. I’d like to see us looking at the squad likely to play Russia in our games against Georgia.
The Scotland centre debate is hotting up
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There they are, the boys to bring the glory.
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TomP did it second but did it bigger
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Josh Strauss is listed as a Blue Bulls player. Hmm, I might be going all in on Scotland.
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Bhatti, McInally, Berghan
Toolis, Gilchrist
Barclay, Ritchie, Strauss
Price, Hastings
Taylor, Jones
Graham, Hogg, McGuigan
Turner, Reid, Z Fagerson, Cummings, Matt Fagerson, G Horne, Hutchinson, Kinghorn
Pretty pacey team
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Hutchinson on the bench. Well played, Scotland.
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Decent enough, will be interested to see how they go. let’s hop SuperDunc lasts more than 5 minutes
Graham’s done something silly to his hair. Is this a back 3 thing?
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TomP, apparently his agent talked to Glasgow but they weren’t interested
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Chimpie, I think it’s a Hawick thing, at least in Scotland
Apart from Matt Scott right enough
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No Grays, anywhere.
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Bhatti and Reid will be in a shoot out for a seat on the plane, as will Cummings and Toolis. Ritchie, Matt Fagerson, Strauss likewise. The centres are pretty tough to call, Hoggy is the only back nailed on who is not a scrum half or stand off.
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Craigs, one is rested (I don’t think we’ll see much of Jonny in the next few weeks) and Big Richie didn’t make the cut. I thought he was going well down in Toulouse after coming back from injury, but obviously not well enough
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@OT – when you say the UK is ALSO world class at darts and skittles, what else were you referring to? I’ve scoured my post and can’t find anything?
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@Ticht
The Bulls have lost both Number 8s from this year – Liebenberg and the great Vermeulen – so it’ll be handy enough having one experienced guy there.
Now they just need to sign another 114 players to cover the other departures.
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Itās a less experimental team than I expected, but I like it. Looking forward to seeing Hutchinson and Cummings get a crack.
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I would have thought winning the world cup would probably qualify England as being world class at cricket
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@Deebee
Snooker. Only 4 World Championships in almost 100 years won by non-UK citizens.
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@deebee
“when you say the UK is ALSO world class at darts and skittles, what else were you referring to? ”
cribbage
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‘The centres are pretty tough to call, ‘
I’d have nailed Johnson on at the end of the 6N for IC, however if Taylor is back to peak form (big if) he’d be very hard to leave out. Would put Horne behind both of them. OC is a whole different kettle of barnacles.
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