Brace yourselves for maudlin renditions of Kumbaya all day Saturday.
International rugby on the telly this weekend
Saturday 17th August
- New Zealand v Australia 08:35 Sky Sports Action
- Wales v England 14:15 Sky Sports Action & Channel 4
- South Africa v Argentina 16:05 Sky Sports Action & Sky Sports Arena
- France v Scotland 20:00 Premier Sports 1
Ovally Balls 
France/Scotland (French comms): http://cricfree.live/watchfeeds/demand/216
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Well, I’ve seen Scotland have better starts to matches. Get a lineout from the kickoff, then over throw. France truck it up a few times, before Raka jinks through the line to score under the posts.
7-0
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Well Toonie said the guys were fit and raring to go. Think McInally might have been over-hyped with that through?
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‘Sigh’
Throw. He threw the throw through the hands.
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Yellow card for Fikou, shirely? ;-)
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Shock, horror. A French pitch is “bad for scrummaging” (Nige’s words).
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They should really lay the pitch more than 5mins before a match.
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I’d rather we didn’t go down the “Let’s Be Losing By A Lot Of Points Before We Start Playing” route in every game.
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I’d like to see the hit on Barclay again
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Early days and all that, but given France are pish, we are much pisher
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This is going well
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For France
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Totally bullied up front
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Think we need another half-time argument in the dressing room…..
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Scotland seem to be wearing Coventry City’s 198990 kit.
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Just lulling them, making it easy. Highly effectively it has to be said
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We’ve shown one or two things in attack, but it’s painful to watch as a Scotland supporter, all the momentum is one way
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Getting stuffed, up our holes, ticht
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Duncan Taylor seems to have survived a rugby match. Good for him.
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The commentators didn’t pick up on what was unusual about that scrum
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We didn’t concede a penalty?
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Simon Berghan was playing loosehead
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Fair play, that was a lovely try
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Has anything been happening, because the BBC ‘Live Reporting’ hasn’t updated for the last 12 minutes – missing the substitutions. And another French try apparently.
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Nige is having some issues with the kits: “Leave it blue, I mean white”.
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Massacre
Good by penaud
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Well gubbed
We could take a bp off Russia by the sounds of things
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Nice try by Dupont. 30-3
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Chipping the ball to Raka probably isn’t the best idea.
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This is our U20s side, Horne, Hastings, Graham, Hutchinson, Kinghorn, Ritchie, cummings
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Serin on.
*swoons*
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Ooh, head to hip for Fofaaaanaaaaa.
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*tries to find positives*
Errr
France look good?
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We just can’t cope with an in your face defence and fizzicality
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Ugh. Couldn’t even cross the line. Guff
France way better
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Same old same old, we think we are better than we actually are. We get suffocated up front far too easily.
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Ah well…. Well done France.
Still. Australia beat New Zealand at home. The following week New Zealand beat Australia at home. England beat Wales at home. The following week Wales beat England at home. France beat Scotland at home….
Mind you, there’s always one result that breaks the sequence – I’m just hoping that was South Africa beating Argentina home and away.
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The clearout on Barclay:
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I thought at the time it looked bad, Refit. That is worth a review, it could end Barclay’s world cup before it has begun, he was stuffed after that
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This is how I feel at the moment
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@CMW, not ignoring you – it was bedtime. Have been golfing right through. Not very well or successfully but have to be resilient and keep coming back when in the midst of a ‘bad patch’. Handicap has drifted out to 17, so nowhere near Flair’s standard, but still enjoying the challenges it presents.
During the Great Hiatus I flirted with an addiction to Wordscapes but can take it or leave it now. Having this place to lurk (thanks Thaum) obviates the need for such inferior distractions.
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@Els – On the cricket front I always think that the lower my standard the greater the challenge each game presents. Today looks challenging, not played this lot before and they have a proper name i.e. the name of their village rather than “Useless Old Bastards” or some such. Sounds suspiciously leaguey to me anyway. Glad to hear you’ve been gowfing, must have conflated you with Brookter – worse things can happen to someone I guess.
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Real cricket update.
Before The Great Hiatus I mentioned my lad made his debut as a demon right arm fast bowler for both the U9 and U8 teams. Am pleased to say this has continued over the summer. What we didn’t expect was his 6 year old brother emerging as a similar talent.
What started as him helping out fielding now and then if the team was a player short ended up with him bowling for the opposition the other week in the U9 competition. It quickly became obvious he was their best bowler. 4ft 3 inches of relentless left arm pace tied our best batter up in knots. CMW would approve.
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@OT – Sounds like someone might be heading for Serious Cricket. Real Cricket will hopefully still be waiting for them when they’re old and crocked. I must make more effort to get my girls involved in the game as there are opportunities around.
We’ve had a nine/ten year old turning out for us occasionally this season with his dad. Good bowler and the trajectory is tricky for some batsmen especially on our low and slow pitch. We’ll miss his bowling today, but not as much as we’ll miss his dad.
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Not that anything’s happened to his dad, they’re away on holiday I think – we’ll just miss his enormous sixes and left arm spin that’s quicker than any of our seam bowlers.
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Conor O’Shea’s named his challengers:
Forwards: Simone Ferrari (Benetton), Andrea Lovotti (Zebre), Tiziano Pasquali (Benetton), Nicola Quaglio (Benetton), Marco Riccioni (Benetton), Federico Zani (Benetton), Luca Bigi (Zebre), Oliviero Fabiani (Zebre), Leonardo Ghiraldini (without team), Dean Budd (Benetton), Federico Ruzza (Benetton), David Sisi (Zebre), Alessandro Zanni (Benetton), Maxime Mbanda (Zebre), Sebastian Negri (Benetton), Sergio Parisse (Toulon – captain), Jake Polledri (Gloucester), Abraham Steyn (Benetton)
Backs: Callum Braley (Gloucester), Guglielmo Palazzani (Zebre), Tito Tebaldi (Benetton), Tommaso Allan (Benetton), Carlo Canna (Zebre), Tommaso Benvenuti (Benetton), Michele Campagnaro (Harlequins), Luca Morisi (Benetton), Mattia Bellini (Zebre), Giulio Bisegni (Zebre), Jayden Hayward (Benetton), Matteo Minozzi (Wasps), Edoardo Padovani (Zebre)
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Hmm……..Parisse at Toulon now – I missed that!
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Good news everyone!
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