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 
@Chimpie
Yeah, it would be classic unorthodox Toonie, but it does make some sense. It protects our star players and sets up the Geo game as a chance for the unselected guys to make their case as the next cab off the rank if there are injuries out in Japan.
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There are going to be some interesting calls to make, especially in the back row, centres and back 3
Other positions are pretty much nailed on.
Suspect Strauss will miss out, and probably Ritchie (boo) and / or Bradbury. Or it could be Fagerson. Centres I’ve no idea. Toonie likes Horne & Harris. Johnson has got to be nailed on, and if fit Taylor will likely go. Hutch has shown up pretty well but may be a bit green. Jones has been class in the past but mis-firing a bit of late.
As for back 3 reckon McGuigan and HornKing will be oot.
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Hello. Looks like Big Dev is going to miss out – which I understand – along with Marmion and Chris Farrell, both of whom I’d take.
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How is everyone?
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Big Dev is lucky not to get cited for one of his clearouts at the weekend.
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What’s Dave Kearney gotta do?
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Yes, he was. Clumsy and clear contact with the danger area. Of little import now- though I think Kleyn is extremely fortunate to get a ticket. He’s done nowt.
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@yos
Be handsomer than his brother
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I didn’t know such a thing was possible.
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It’s not. Bad luck, Dave
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Hello er, Enzom. Good to see you around.
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Still a few missing at sea, but we washed-up survivors seem to be alright.
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Perhaps someone shouted ‘timber’ when Big Dev started his decent, so the Welsh lads were warned.
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Top, you wouldn’t happen to be moonlighting as Stuart Barnes, perhaps?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/rugby-world-cup/rwc-2019-japan/115453825/rugby-world-cup-2019-all-blacks-coach-steve-hansen-hits-back-at-cheats-tag
What’s up Enzom?
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Ye dogs. Listening to Vine on R2 going on about brexit. Why do I do it? Someone’s suggested activating the queen.
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She’s already been activated by Boris
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Needs more activation apparently. To put those remoaners in their place.
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It really is the dumbest format. Get two people on with opposing views and goad them into shouting at each other.
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Tomp
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*taps side of nose with forefinger*
pssst, word is Huw Jones, Strauss, Bradbury, Matt Fagerson and Rory Hutchinson are to miss out on the squad announced tomorrow – the source is some journos who are close to the Scotland camp, reported on Rugby Pass site.
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Very rough on Rory Hutchinson, I think. Bradbury obviously hasn’t recovered from the injury sustained in a warm up against his own club.
The younger Fagerson can be a bit peed off, too.
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Strauss no surprise, same with Bradbury with his injury (shame as he’s exactly the type of player we’ll need). Jones slightly surprised by, but he’s not in great form although has been great in the past. Hutch for the future. M-fags same.
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Still, some good options to come in when we get the inevitable injuries
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Ticht – really like Rugby Pass. They do great analysis such as this article.
https://www.rugbypass.com/news/analysis-how-faf-de-klerk-blows-up-set-piece-plays-before-they-even-get-started/
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Ireland squad announced – no Toner, but also no Addison…
Hookers (3): Rory Best, Niall Scannell, Sean Cronin
Props (5): Cian Healy, Dave Kilcoyne, Tadhg Furlong, John Ryan, Andrew Porter
Locks (4): James Ryan, Iain Henderson, Jean Kleyn, Tadhg Beirne
Back rows (5): Peter O’Mahony, CJ Stander, Jack Conan, Josh van der Flier, Rhys Ruddock
Scrum-halves (2): Conor Murray, Luke McGrath
Out-halves (3): Johnny Sexton, Joey Carbery, Jack Carty
Centres (4): Bundee Aki, Robbie Henshaw, Garry Ringrose, Chris Farrell
Back threes (5): Jacob Stockdale, Rob Kearney, Keith Earls, Jordan Larmour, Andrew Conway.
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Marmion is a shock, for me. I thought he was decent on Saturday.
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I watched the England game and I’ve still no idea who kleyn is
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Craigs, yeah Rugby Pass can be good. I think that particular Ben Smith used to write analysis for one of the Aussie sites I used to read, either The Roar or Green & Gold, I can’t remember which it was now, they had very good scrum analysis too.
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@UF
He is a South African who has been at an Irish club for 37 months.
36 months is the minimum requirement.
The 5 years thing either seems to have been dropped or not applied yet.
Let’s remember that Romania were kicked out the WC for fielding a Tongan born player who had lived and played in Romania for 5 years (on 700 euros a month) because he played one 7s game for Tonga as a teenager. This, despite the Tongan RFU (Billy and Mako’s dad) telling Romania he could play for them.
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The consultant urologist actually hired by the government to publish a study on the risks to patient health of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit carries out extensive research and concludes that no deal Brexit carries with it the risk of medicine shortages and staff shortages and could increase mortality.
Jacob Rees-Mogg – who is not a doctor, doesn’t work in the NHS and has done zero research into the effects of no deal Brexit on the NHS – just called this doctor a ‘fearmongering remoaner’ on national radio.
We are so utterly fucked.
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Yeah, I had no idea who Kleyn was either
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@Pro,
How are things going at at your end with the citizenship tests etc?
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It doesn’t come into play until 2021.
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Five year rule does not apply until end of 2020
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I support Western Province, Kleyn sat on the bench for a Currie Cup final for us and I honestly have no idea who he is.
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Natalie Clein is a cellist who won Young Musician of the Year in 1994.
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Poor Jeanny No Mates Kleyn
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Oscar winner, Kevin Kline.
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Brian Kilcline is a Coventry City legend.
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Patsy Cline was an influential mid-century American musical artist
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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is a rather lovely piece by Mozart
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“Top, you wouldn’t happen to be moonlighting as Stuart Barnes, perhaps?”
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“Tomp”
Avs, you will be hearing from my lawyers in due course.
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Poor old Jean Kleyn. They can’t even pronounce his surname right.
Anyway, Yves Klein’s the daddy.
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Townsend’s not being so unorthodox. Eddie Jones had Joe Marchant come in from outside the 31 to play against Jean Kleyn’s Ireland the other week.
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Dr Nicholl told the prominent Brexiteer: “Can I remind you I wrote the plans of mitigation?”
But Mr Rees-Mogg replied: “Well you didn’t write very good plans if you hadn’t worked out how to mitigate, had you?”
He’s done him like a kipper
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I heard that Dai from Pentyrch will be travelling to Dublin despite not being named in the squad.
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Tomp, how are we pronouncing Kleyn?
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Calvin Klein makes kecks
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I found an Afrikaans pronunciation guide that says to pronounce Klein like Kleyn, which doesn’t really help
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