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 
Iks – don’t worry, we’re not coming for your ducks…. Yet.
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Fascinating if true. People, eh?
‘The report from psychologists at the universities of Virginia and Harvard found that when test subjects were left to sit by themselves for fifteen minutes with no ‘distractions’ apart from a machine to deliver light electric shocks a massive two thirds of men and a quarter of women chose the electricity over unadulterated solitude.
The difference between men and women was atributed to the fact that men tend to be more “sensation seeking” than women, but all participants knew what the shock felt like with one outlier (who was excluded from the final results) apparently enjoying it so much that he shocked himself 190 times in 15 minutes.’
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I’m still convinced that we will not leave the EU. You wait – this is all part of serial liar Boris’s plan to undo the damage he did in accidentally winning the referendum. He’s deliberately forcing all the remainers to coalesce to force a second referendum, which remain will win narrowly. Not easy to do when the leader of the opposition is an arch leaver at heart!
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Don’t think undoing damage he’s caused is BoJo’s MO.
Occam’s razor suggests he’s just being a self obsessed twat. As per usual.
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No way of forcing a second ref with the current parliament
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Dreich in Linlithgow. 3 People standing onna stage. #highprofile
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#stopwafflingandgetonwithit
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I understand one of them (at Linlithgow) won’t be Huw Jones. Unbelievable.
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Lunchtime touch rugby update: day off work and didn’t play. I’m sure it was of a VERY poor standard with no top skillz on show today.
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He’s out of form, not done much for club and country this year
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Oops, didn’t realise that reply would be nested. Argh.
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He played for Western Province, scored 2 tries in a winning Currie Cup final. He has god status.
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We’ll see if that leak was accurate
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Rambo is el capitano. Sheesh this is going to take forever.
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Also, it’s raining in Linlithgow (shock!). They’ll all catch pneumonia. We’re dooooomed
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First ducks blood, then goujons, now sheesh kebab.
Hungry today.
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Berghan is probably the fittest prop in the world is he? Pfft.
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This team announcement is taking longer than Scotland’s stay at the RWC will be
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Leeks also
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Reid, Dell
Rambo, Brown, Turner
Z-Fags, Berghan, Nel
Gray, Gilchrist, Cummings, Toolis
Barcs, wilson, Watson, Thompson, Ritchie
Greig, Price, G-Horne
Russell, Hastings,
P-Horne, Taylor, Harris, Johnson
Seymour, Maitland, Graham, Kinghorn
Hogg
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Leeks were correct
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Or leaks even.
Outrage! Toonie oot! etc. etc.
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Please tell me they’re doing a list of the players NOT going first and that’s why it’s taking so long.
Hastings, Gavin
Hastings, Scott
Jackson, Ruaridh
Chimpie, pfft
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Don’t want to make you any more hungry, but (keeping the Scottish link) WP Nel grew near Calvinia and the biggest thing the happens there is this (check out the cooked sheeps head): https://www.capetownmagazine.com/hantam-vleisfees
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Only vaguely controversial areas are back row and centre. Shame Bradbury is injured, would have liked to have seen him in.
Hutchinson was always going to be an outside bet although he debuted very well. Toonie does love P-Horne.
As for Jones, well, that one’s going to rumble on. Fantastic on his day and can do stuff none of the others can but obviously hasn’t done enough in training to convince Toonie. Limited opportunity to show his stuff behind a pack in reverse vs. France. Imagine he’ll be first on the plane in case of a centre injury.
Harris had his best game ever vs. France & does have better defence I suppose.
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No Denton though. Or big Jim. Where are the hard men in that team?
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Fighting a sudden urge to go and eat lamb in Cape Town right now.
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No, you want to eat lamb in the Karoo. Lamb (or mutton) that was raised on the semi-dessert scrubs/herbs like honeybush, boegoe even rooibos. A lot of lamb in Cape Town comes from the Overberg region, which is along the South coast and more reliant on grains or grass-like feed like lucerne. Like Argentinian beef, the flavour comes from the wild flora it eats.
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Fighting a sudden urge to go and eat lamb in the Karoo right now.
Might have to ‘settle’ with Romney Marsh lamb though.
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A mayor in the French alps has urged Emmanuel Macron to take action against “wackos” climbing Mont Blanc, after incidents including a British tourist abandoning a rowing machine on western Europe’s highest peak.
Jean-Marc Peillex, mayor of Saint-Gervais, who for years has sounded the alarm against overcrowding on Mont Blanc, said a member of the British “Royal Commandos”, thought to mean the Royal Marines, hauled up the exercise machine for a stunt on Saturday.
But he did not have the strength to bring it back down and left it in an emergency hut situated at 4,362 metres (14,300 feet).
The man gave his name as Disney, said Peillex in an open letter published on Sunday, adding “with a name like that, you’d think he thought he was at an amusement park”.
Whilst clearly a serious problem and not funny at all, this did make me chuckle a bit.
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First choice XV for that squad, at a guess
Dell, Rambo, Nel
Gray, Gilchrist
Barclay, Thompson, Watson,
Greig, Russell,
Johnson, Taylor
Maitland, Hogg, Graham
Tidy
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@Craigsman
I was reading that thinking ‘please let it be a crossfitter’ wanting to do a WOD at the top of Mount Blanc or something daft
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@chek
Yeah, not really much to complain about, a couple of minor back row and centre quibbles aside.
I’m sure the ladz will do great.
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Apparently while the rebel MPs were waiting for their audience with Fatty, Psycho Cummings went up to them and started insulting and belittling them. He concluded his rant with ‘I don’t know who any of you are!’
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That choob needs the rowing machine inserted up his rectum and made to walk the rest of the way down the mountain with it.
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Pro – he might have done some box jumps and 40m sprints at the top 😂
The bellends* who burnt my house down own a crossfit business.
*still no apology.
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That would be my team too, Chek.
I can understand Jones missing out due to form issues but he has an outside break that Harris just does possess, you can’t suddenly gain an extra couple of yards of pace.
Horne over Hutchinson is just plain wrong, I know Toonie likes him and I know all coaches have go-to favourites, but Horne hasn’t played well and Rory Hutchinson has been very good.
Bradbury unlucky with his rib injury and Matt Fagerson can also consider himself unlucky.
I want to see Bradbury ripping up trees for Edinburgh to prove a point
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Chimpie – some Swiss guys landed a plane illegally and started to hike up.
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‘pro, it’s been said before, but for the sake of your health please don’t obsess about this stuff.
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“Just doesn’t”
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Ticht, Horne was always going to go. 37 caps, bags of Test experience, senior leader in the backs. I’ve no problem with his selection, he’s a good player.
Hutchinson in reality lost out to Harris, who has more caps, more overall time with the team and in Toonie’s eyes is defensively stronger.
The big question is Taylor’s fitness, and his familiarity with Johnson.
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I think Toonie is looking to put out a solid, defensively sound midfield that can link The va-va-voom coming from Russell and the back three.
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Chek, I like Pete Horne but I always think he is just not a “test match animal”, too many gaffs and brain farts at that level, he is probably there to cover 10, but that has never worked for him in an international.
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Yeah all 4 are pretty decent defenders. Midfield defence has been an issue in recent times.
It was noticeable in the second France game most of the time Horne & Harris were stopping their opposite numbers effectively, often behind the gain line. Their second try was when they identified a mis-match off a turnover and the defensive system had broken down.
Horne is a decent international IC but is prone to brain farts.
Johnson & Taylor are pretty good going forward too given the opportunity.
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Tory MP Philip Lee defects to Lib Dems!
Fatty has lost his majority!
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Meh. Hutchinson’s time will come he’s still raw.
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Johnson has just lost his majority, Phillip Lee has defected to the LibDems
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Expro’d
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I probably haven’t seen Harris enough but don’t rate him as an international. I spose it’s Horne and him for Russia and Samoa.
Last year Huw Jones was getting great raps for his defence. Even after he got JDIIed twice in Cardiff.
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@Dab, if that isn’t a wind-up I’ll be sending the butterfly catcher with his net and tight fitting belted suit out to capture you and throw you in the back of the padded van fitted with a silent Beadle-klaxon.
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