Something resembling first-choice teams have been named. Let’s hope they all survive the weekend.
International rugby on the telly this weekend
Friday 6th September
| Scotland v Georgia | 19:30 | Premier Sports 1 |
| England v Italy | 19:45 | Sky Sports Action / Sky Sports Main Event |
Saturday 7th September
| New Zealand v Tonga | 3:35 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Australia v Samoa | 10:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Ireland v Wales | 14:00 | Channel 4 / RTÉ Two |
Ovally Balls 
Sorry, Iks! I might have been in a sightly memory-impaired state.
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Thaum – I was also in an impaired state. I’ll try to get the atl with you this week.
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I’m the one who should be apologising. Brookter has been waiting 3 years for the cwiz I promised.
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Does anyone else see a smiley face, at the bottom left of the screen?
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Refit – they’ve got to you. Wipe hard drives and burn all your records immediately!!!
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There used to be one at the bottom of the pages in The Old Place – before Sag got rid of them, I think.
Then The Great Schism happened!
Coincidence?
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I’m in Bulgaria
I’m enjoying it
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The Wombles has changed.
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“Maurizio Cattelan became front-page news when his sculpture America was installed at the Guggenheim museum in New York in 2016, two months before Donald Trump won the US presidential election. A fully functioning toilet made of 18-carat gold, America has now been plumbed into Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, near the room where Winston Churchill was born.”
What could possibly go wrong?
“Busted flush: gold toilet reportedly stolen from Blenheim Palace”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/14/gold-toilet-reportedly-stolen-blenheim-palace-cattelan
Apparently, the police had something to go on and have recovered the toilet.
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Glasgow’s pre-season game with Ulster at Scotstoun is being streamed via their website, if anyone’s interested (and needs a rugby fix).
Don’t know if this link will work for everyone.
https://www.glasgowwarriors.org/fanzone/glasgow-warriors-v-ulster-live!
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Good start!
For Ulster – over from a rolling maul.
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Doesn’t work for me, you blwdy bookworm of a guitar solo.
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Ulster in again. Good try from their winger (Little?). I seem to remember him being good for Ulster in the semi-final. We’re huffing and puffing a bit, but not really getting through Ulster.
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Where to, UF?
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I see Adam Beard was left at home by Wales to have his appendix out.
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Penalty try Glasgow! Rolling maul, Ulster take it down, and get a yellow card as well!
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Iksy, Get to it via this page: https://www.glasgowwarriors.org/fanzone/
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Try Glasgow! Jones with a run down the wing!
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Yellow card for Glasgow now.
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Another good start to a half for us.
Ulster try.
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That works TomP, cheers.
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Try Glasgow! From our own rolling maul!
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Embra 14-5 Ospreys at ht
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Another penalty try – this time for Ulster, and another yellow card for Glasgow.
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Bryce over furra try! Close game this.
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Seem to be more replacements coming on than there would be during a league game. Might end up with both teams having completely different 15s from when they started.
And Ulster over again! Over 60 points scored so far.
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Another try Glasgow! Rolling mauls are going to be in this season! Hopefully that will be the winning score.
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Yes! A scrappy but entertaining game. Lots of players on both sides getting minutes before the start of the season. No idea who was on the pitch for Glasgow at the end, ‘cos we had players with no numbers and players coming back on with different jerseys and all sorts. We’ll take the win though and I don’t think Ulster will be too bothered either about the result.
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Edinburgh 21-12 up with 14 mins to go at home, and we lose 21-22
A depressingly familiar result
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Any good young ‘uns coming through Ticht?
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Hmmm………..
Bastaraud playing at 8, ahead of Fearns (who is having a great season start), for winning Lyon.
The world is upside down………………
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“The world is upside down…”
It definitely is – Naarch have just beaten Manchester City! That’ll please Clyde!
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Pop quiz:
England, Japan, South Africa, Fiji, New Zealand, Georgia and Italy. What’s the connection?
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“Any good young ‘uns coming through Ticht?”
The game wasn’t broadcast, unfortunately BB, but a strange thing happened this week, Callum Hunter-Hill, who to my mind is one of the most promising young locks in Scotland has been loaned to Sarries for the season. The official blurb is that it is to facilitate his development, but given that we have signed a couple of mid-20s guys who haven’t broken through elsewhere it makes you wonder what is going on.
We have Ewan Ashman on loan from Saints, he was one of the very few highlights of the recent U20 campaign. He is a big hooker- six two, eighteen and half stones and he knows his way to the try line. I’d like for him to stay on.
Jack Blain on the wing is one to watch, another positive from the U20s, he is a big rangy runner
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Hahahahahahaha
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Something not so cheerful.
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Refit, I’m told that people undergoing treatment do not transfer the virus, and more that people who are now diagnosed as HIV positive have a longer life expectancy than the general population. This is down to those who are diagnosed attending their GP on a regular basis and getting any non-related treatment they need.
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Ticht – aye, definitely not what it was 20+ years ago.
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@Ticht thanks for passing on a valuable message. I think a lot of people in Wales see GT as an attention seeker, but he is brave in revealing so much about himself (the rumour is he was being blackmailed). It sounds like he’s getting good support.
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@ Ticht, I saw that in the news this morning, horrible news but glad to hear that the treatment is working well for him
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I really don’t understand people
“The Conservatives have pushed further ahead of Labour in the latest Opinium/Observer poll – despite yet another turbulent week for Boris Johnson.
The latest poll shows the Tories on 37%, up two since last week, while Labour is unchanged on 25%. The Liberal Democrats whose conference opens this weekend in Bournemouth are on 16% (down one), and the Brexit party is also unchanged on 13%.
The polling – conducted after Johnson shut down parliament for five weeks last Tuesday, and Scottish judges subsequently ruled his action to have been unlawful – shows the Conservatives are continuing to consolidate their support among leave voters.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/14/tories-extend-poll-lead-to-12-despite-week-of-political-chaos
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On the ball, City, never mind the danger,
Steady on, now’s your chance,
Hurrah! We’ve scored a goal.
Or indeed three because Norwich won’t be beating anyone 1-0 this season. Big shock is that three was enough, Match of the Day worth watching for once!
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@CMW, I bumped into a Brighton supporting neighbour yesterday, he was wearing his Albion shirt , on his way home from the game where Burnley scored a last minute equaliser. All he could talk about was that Norwich were leading City
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I managed to watch MotD without knowing the result and it was pretty exciting. Would have been hard to cope with watching it live I think – the shot count was somewhat in Man City’s favour as you might imagine…
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Ticht, if it makes you feel any better, other polling companies are showing a much tighter gap between Con and Lab – one or two percentage points.
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Chek – is that with the Labour vote up or the Con vote down (either or both all acceptable)?
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Squidge!
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Otago drubbed by Wellington.
Booo!
Amused by all the pre-RWC punditry from the likes of Stuart Barnes, SCW, et al. With how the playing field has leveled off in terms of likelihood of winning and the potential for weather to throw a couple of banana-skin draws into the mix it’s a lottery.
Even kiwis fans aren’t taking much for granted.
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Broad gets Warner again! Aus 29/2 and the last two recognised batsmen at the crease!
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Suavo, Rob Kitson’s followed the SH teams so closely he thinks Scott Barrett got red carded against the Springboks.
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