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 
Ticht – should think so too, but presumably still available for the WC ( I’ve not checked my calendar!).
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*Takes goat glare in his stride*
El Rayo, no guarantee they’ll get over that line and they simply don’t have the firepower to mix it with England for 80 minutes in any case. You’re safe.
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Slade, he’d miss the first two pool games, I’m not sure if he’d be allowed to train with the team if he is under suspension, someone with better knowledge of the laws surrounding these things might be able to advise on that.
France looked very good on Saturday, their defensive set up was excellent and they bossed the collisions and the breakdown, as well as looking very good in the set scrum. A top notch performance isn’t unusual from France, it’s the consistency that has been the problem, as we all know.
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France are getting their act together… as they have so many times intermittently. P
A proper coach (Fabien Galthié) with loads of experience both as a player and, surprise surprise, as a coach as well; enough preparation time, physically and tactically, and as usual many good players but this time playing in their usual position. Won’t last, but pleasant while it lasts.
Am really surprised, and mightily pleased by the team they send to Scotland. Continuity and no dead wood. Woo hoo!
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Fucking try again.
Wassup ninjas.
Anyway, hope Craig’s survived yharnam.
Flying visit- work kicking my rear end. On to business- I have all the email addresses Brookter. I think. Send me an email in how you want them and I’ll pull them.
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Right. Having checked- I have all “followers”. I think I can get the rest from the comment stream as there are some notable omissions.
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Hi…..are you Facebook’s new deletion facility?
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FEFH starts rugby on 1st September. Depending on if he can cope.
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@Slade
No. I’d be selling them if that was the case.
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Cat seems to have plans for us. Eeeek!
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That’s grand, Cat, thanks.
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FEFH … that’s one of those AoD acronyms that I’ve seen a few times, and never known what it means. And now there’s no glossary to refer to. Clarification please?
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Future England Fly Half.
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Ahh … I suspected the fly half bit. Was hoping it meant Sag, however, and that you’d been in communication.
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I think outside half attracts too many hair-ruffling flankers for Sag’s liking.
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Hiya Cat, Justin Case … my email for this site and wordpress doesn’t work anymore, it’s years since I paid BT any dosh and they pulled the use of the email address, which is fair enough, hence when Refit sent out the bat signal for this new site I didn’t get it, I got another message from the good DCI on another email that actually works
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Aye, was desperately trying to work out how to turn POPE into FEFH. There wasn’t even a G or S to work with.
GN from me.
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Hi Cat,
Glad to see you here.
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Good to see you Cat.
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Hello Cat-o. Regarding ‘yharnam’ or whatever, Craigs was bubbling like a boiled Birds Custard on a simmering flame leading up to the weekend, and then England lost with a shrug. Haven’t heard hide nor hair since.
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Meanwhile that France do seem both more at ease with themselves and not burnt out at the fag-end of an endless season, so I for one am glad they are not lurking in a trenchcoat, beret and cigarette holder in Wales’ group.
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You’ll just have to beat them in the final. You ARE the favourites, after all. Eddie said so and we know he’s never wrong about anything…
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Iks – I’m on holiday. Catching up at the end of an evening. So here are my thoughts.
It’s nice to have rugby on. Must be especially good for you considering the cup is basically yours now. We did pretty well losing away to the number one team in the world so narrowly. Happy just to get the opportunity to play the men in red.
I can see Wales beating the All Blacks in the final by 10-15 points easily.
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Craigs – just wondering where you were – dog knows we can’t lose posters on here.
Shame Saturday’s anticipated spectacle wasn’t. You let us win too easily, which to me implies England are keeping their powder dry and went through the motions, working on specific areas rather than pursuing the win. That’s proper strength in depth for you.
Agree we will beat the ABs if we meet them in the final – the world will be off its axis anyway if it comes to that finale.
Happy Holidays!
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Wales have time to get down to about number four or five before the World Cup starts. Eddie may yet have to announce England as favourites.
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Cat and his “followers”
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Although in retrospect that makes Cat one of the great comedians of UK history and the rest of us extras in his performance. ‘Cept MrIks, who is John Cleese jumping up and down on the right. AVS is Spike Milligan, hiding in a hole in the mountains eating juniper berries (aka Wallaby and Bok supporters) until a bloody Irishman spoils his party, with his incessant bloody talking (as only the Irish can) . Sag would be George Harrison – uncredited (harsh, I know) but central to one of the great scenes of the movie. Thaum would be Judith – a rare voice of calm and reason in an otherwise malestrom (see what I did there!) of insanity and inanity.
Good morning!
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So Thaum sets up a rugby blog and the next thing she knows she’s the mayor of Aberystwyth? Sounds about right.
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Morning, seems my ‘Like’ button doesn’t work. Good work Deebs and er, CMWsy.
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Iks – those games are about getting players used to each other and not getting injured. It was a shame that Coochie couldn’t play from our perspective.
I didn’t expect to win and I enjoyed Eddie’s ‘favourites’ comment after.
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@deebee
The hermit in the ground who utters the immortal line “of course they’re juniper berries they’re juniper bushes!” is Terry Jones, not the great Spike Milligan.
The reason I remember the scene very clearly is because you can see the hermit’s nads.
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Ha ha! I had forgotten that Sue went down that path.
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@OT – bugger, for some reason I thought it was Spike. Mists of time and all that. Gives me a good excuse to watch it again though!
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I’d never noticed the hermit’s nads in that scene.
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Thought they were juniper berries, did you?
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“Boris Johnson Will Seek Trump’s Backing to Put George Osborne in IMF”
Bloomberg bringing the bad news.
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Is cat going to sell our data?
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Didn’t see much rugby at the weekend due to being on holiday, only Wales v England. Stupidest weekend of all to book away.
We need to talk about Ross Moriarty.
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And I’ve got 3 hours to kill in Paddington so need a nearby pub.
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@chimpie
Watch it again. They appear from behind his beard.
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From behind his beard? Are these the fabled chin bollocks like what Dab has?
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It’s a very long beard.
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I confess I feel no need to view an aged hermit’s nads
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He’s an actor, Chimpie. It’s not really a hermit’s scrotum.
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TBH I don’t really want to see anyone’s scrote, except perhaps my own.
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Just to clarify.
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But if you’ve seen the film, you already have seen it. You can never watch that scene again because you now know about the scrotum and will be on the lookout for it.
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It’s the scrotal equivalent of “Don’t think of an elephant”.
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By the nutsack of the aged hermit! It’s Scotland!
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Spike is indeed in that clip, he’s the guy left on his own at the end.
It’s such a brilliant take on religious schisms.
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