Well, unless you’re French, Welsh or Scottish….
International rugby on the telly this weekend
Friday 30th August
| France v Italy | 20:10 | Premier Sports 1 |
Saturday 31st August
| Wales v Ireland | 14:30 | Channel 4 |
| Georgia v Scotland | 17:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
870 thoughts on “Oh, woe is us!”
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Ovally Balls 
FIRST!
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I was tempted to edit that to read FIST! But that would be rude, and Karlish.
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Second!
And welcome back Muppet. Just in time for Ireland’s humiliation of/by Wales?
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Boo Thaum! I smell a DBWR conspiracy!
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Plenty middle class folk in Selkirk when I was there. Being a mere herd’s son, I wasn’t one of them.
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Surely being T’HIRD! is very good as well?
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Won’t be good enough during the RWC group stages.
Whichever one of us it is…….
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Looking at that Welsh team I think we should bring the yellow second kit back.
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Good work Thauma. Cwiz is still stuck in my head – sorry.
How’s it going keeping this place up and running so far?
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Still not convinced how a makeshift team provides a platform for fringe players to throw their hat into the ring.
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@iks
yellow second kit
Ach – that was hideous… your guys wore it in some AIs about 5-6 (?) years back…absolutely horrid. Obviously, some wicked plan to disorient the opposition under lights by burning out their retinas…
Now that grey/green ensemble Ireland wore vs Boks in 2017 was just dull….. and god knows none of our recent change strips have been that wonderful..purple/plum in 2016… blue last year….can’t say I’ve ever seen anyone wearing any of them
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finding little love in my heart for rugby these days. I’m sure this was part of Joe’s plan to dampen the island’s ridiculous expectations
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But really never been a fan of rugby in Summertime
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Oh jeepers- nested replies
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It rained about 12 days out of 14 on hols in Ballyferriter. Not bad. Place still looks beautiful in the rain
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Iks – it’s fine! No sign of server struggles, ‘cos they’re WordPress’s huge servers. Obviously the downside is that we have no bells and whistles.
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“But really never been a fan of rugby in Summertime”
Watch the ITM, Muppet – it’s winter time down there.
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Thought that said Ballyfritter for a second.
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Even if it’s a bit odd when it’s still daylight, I love Friday night rugby.
I haven’t seen the lineups but I expect France to be really up for this
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French team talk….
“Les gars, c’est l’Italie”
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Aphiwe Dyantyi’s failed his B-test. 3 different banned substances turned up in it.
Not good news.
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Ticht,
France – 15 Maxime Medard, 14 Yoann Huget, 13 Sofiane Guitoune, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Gael Fickou, 10 Romain Ntamack, 9 Antoine Dupont, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Yacouba Camara, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 5 Romain Taofifenua, 4 Arthur Iturria, 3 Rabah Slimani, 2 Camille Chat, 1 Jefferson Poirot (c).
Subs: 16 Guilhem Guirado, 17 Cyril Baille, 18 Emerick Setiano, 19 Felix Lambey, 20 Francois Cros, 21 Baptiste Serin, 22 Virimi Vakatawa, 23 Thomas Ramos.
Italy – 15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Mattia Bellini, 13 Michele Campagnaro, 12 Luca Morisi, 11 Matteo Minozzi, 10 Tommaso Allan, 9 Tito Tebaldi, 8 Sergio Parisse (c), 7 Jake Polledri, 6 Abraham Steyn, 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Alessandro Zanni, 3 Marco Riccioni, 2 Luca Bigi, 1 Simone Ferrari.
Subs: 16 Federico Zani, 17 Andrea Lovotti, 18 Tiziano Pasquali, 19 Dean Budd, 20 Sebastian Negri, 21 Guglielmo Palazzani, 22 Carlo Canna, 23 Tommaso Benvenuti.
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18 Emerick Setiano
Fantastic name! Cactus is much missed!
That’s close to the Italian 1st choice XV i reckon.
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@TomPirracas
I would loved to see testers turn up unannounced at training camps and take blood and urine from every player.
A lot of third stringers would end up going to Japan, I fancy.
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Cheers Tom.
I like Ntamack at 10. That’s a strong selection from France, I hope it’s a full blooded test match but you’d understand if players have half an eye on next month
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It is likely difficult to argue you ate some tainted meat with three in your system.
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Mickey Mouse International Cricket Update:
There’s a 20-overs tournament in Romania at the moment. Today the Czech Republic played Turkey. Most of the regular Turkish team were denied visas so a rag-tag bunch of baseballers and cricketers turned up. The Czechs scored 278 in their 20 and then bowled the Turks out for 21 in about 10 overs. Possibly a world record margin of victory.
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Yes I watch ITM rugby -in proper weather
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Wotcha, Lara. Do you watch the Currie Cup as well? That Aussie thing they play in the local park?
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Parisse! Surely this is his swan song before retirement?
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Matthew Carley ref? Never heard of him!
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Out on the full … poor start by Italy.
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And a French try off it.
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Which they don’t convert, so a bit of a let-off for Italy.
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Huget’s now scored 5 in his last 6 tests. 8 in 53 before that.
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Who’s the French winger with the wee bun and the smiley face who’s a complete pain in the arse to the opposition? I don’t see him here.
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Italy waste a very good chance, but still have a penalty to go back to. France on warning for a card.
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Italy waste the penalty chance too.
Looks like they have Ireland’s line-out coach.
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“Who’s the French winger with the wee bun and the smiley face who’s a complete pain in the arse to the opposition? I don’t see him here.”
Teddy Thomas?
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Yes! That’s him. Lovely to watch when they’re not playing Ireland.
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One had a feeling with the number of lineouts Italy elected to take, it was only a matter of time before they coughed it up.
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According to the commentators, there are ‘too many cocks’.
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Somehow Italy are still on the attack in the French 22, and Picamoles earns the yellow.
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This ref hasn’t got World Cup games, has he?
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watching you right now TomP
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Italy seem to have scored a try, and France are being given a second warning despite the previous yellow.
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Is this game on the telly?
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Amazingly, Italy convert the try, so they’re up 5-7.
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Lara – it’s on Premier Sports.
Second yellow for France!
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He’s only a touch judge. Thank fuck.
France are doing a good job of playing themselves out of form.
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