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 
Cardiff make the conversion to win by a point.
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Hastings has got the fumblefingers tonight. Dire.
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Cardiff MotM number 9 has just said live on camera we were in a fucking match. Then done an oops, sorry!
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Sounds like I’m best off missing the rugby. Gone to the dogs instead.
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To be honest Georgia have been worth their closeness in this game, they have been playing well, but Poite has given them all their momentum by rewarding them at the scrum, and it hasn’t been merited.
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Poîte has always had his own unique take on the scrum.
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Big crowd, Refit.
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Refit – just follow Craig’s special system. Watch the dogs as they line up and bet on the last one to take a shit before going to the start.
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Oh cock. Fozzie bear down
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Poite is a full on cock regarding his scrum interpretation, it’s really difficult to think he is anything other than biased
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@ticht
Yeah Georgia way better this week, we just haven’t blown them away like last week .
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Gwan Darcy
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Darcy in.
Nicely held and sent in by Harris
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Great pace from the wee man
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Now Horne
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That’s better
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29-9
Slightly flattering now to us
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Interesting that wee George took the conversation
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You two must be well in front of the radio commentary – you’d posted about the try before the commentary!
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Chimpie, I think the difference between tier 1 and 2 is always most apparent in the last ten minutes, it’s all about depth in a 23 player game
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Darcy Graham must start against Ireland
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@ ticht
Yeah like when we’d be in touch with the SH teams for 60 minutes then leak 40 points in the last 20
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@ Chimpie
Not any more. We concede 30/40 points in the first half now. Then score 30 points in the second half..
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Ryan Wilson apparently involved in some shenanigans? No, shurely not!
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23-0 in Newcastle
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It’s a lot busier inside the restaurant.
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@Refit – izzat the restaurant at the end of the galaxy?
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@Thaum
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37 – 0
Like the awblax.
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Well, an expected if underwhelming win for Scotland against stuffy Former Soviet opposition.
Well, an expected if underwhelming defeat for Scotland against stuffy Former Soviet opposition.
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Launch, Cowan-Dickie and Sinkler limped off injured, Negri for Italians. Hope all good, but LCD looked really miserable.
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Well, an expected if underwhelming win for Wales against stuffy former Soviet opposition. Very, very ugly and not in a good way.
Sport better get better tomorrow.
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Randwick vs Argentina looks to be a cracker tomorrow, YoS. Otherwise not much going on until Wests Tigers vs Cronulla Sharks on Sunday.
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@tim
Wow! That is a blast from the past, club v country – I didn’t even know it was happening. I just looked it up:
Fair play, older than me and his knees are probably almost as bad.
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Great story, Ticht, about the Georgian biking all the way to Embra. Thanks for posting.
BB has got me watching Tinker Tailor agin, too.
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“Having very belatedly taken the stage, Johnson proceeded to die on his arse in front of rows of police officers. Does this technically count as a death in custody? Certainly, it bore all the hallmarks of such an event, of which there have been 1,718 since 1990, with not a single conviction for murder or manslaughter. Which is to say: it was brutal and disturbing, it happened right in front of multiple police pretending not to notice, and the victim was officially concluded to have done it to himself.”
Ah, Marina.
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How did the Kiwis go? Anyone got a good stream for the Aussies ?
Fuck Boris, Avs, he is nowhere near as much fun as Donzo. I am back in Uk for October, considering standing for dictator, could do with the money, and reckon the Brits may be stupid enough to fall for it. I have to admit I have smoked marijuana tho, and inhaled. Very deeply, on occasion, and held my breath for as long as possible.
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Oh well, noone else up, BB in bed , so I will just drop this here, and mention that I do happen to have a nice old fashioned paper picture of Geoffrey riding in an old car with the Don at the SCG , taken from the Hill during a lunchbreak in the Bicentennial Test. Seen Hadlee cutting the Aussies in half at the MCG, got a pic of Devon Malcolm in the dressing room at Adelaide, watched Sylvester Clarke blow Middlesex away at the Oval, best innings I have ever seen was a 75 by Graham Roope against Glamorgan, proudly own a Boony Army shirt and hat from Hobart , played pool with Punter, but would surely love to watch Smith bat.
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Good work Tim. Paul Kelly sounds like early Go-Betweens on that song.
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I used to really enjoy watching the greyhound racing on Thursday night Grandstand on the BBC. Naturally I used to pick the whippet ranked 6th in the betting.
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Tim – we’ll need to get you a team of commandos to take over parliament. Unfortunately the country isn’t involved in a disastrous world war so the army might be difficult to swing to our side. However, we can always take over HMS Belfast as well. Hopefully people will see that we aren’t fucking around.
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RIP Chester Williams, deid at 49.
5th member of the 1995 World Cup winning squad to have passed on.
Both wingers are now dead within a month of each other.
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NZ 92 Tonga 7
NZ took their foot off the clock too.
They had a half century before the HT interval then scored within 5 seconds of the second half kick off.
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And Argentina cuffed the Galloping Greens 74-0.
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As, Marina Hyde didn’t need to write that column. Nothing could “outfunny ” Johnson’s performance this week. She was able to get her customary 90s film references in so not all was a waste of time.
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“It was an outstanding game for us, outstanding,” he told England Rugby.
“It was a great dress rehearsal for the World Cup and I was really pleased with how the players solved the problem in the first half. The night has been a real success for us.
Eddie clearly knows more than me about success.
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For those wanting the Aus game: https://cricfree.sc/watch/live/australia-vs-samoa-live-streaming
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This may be a long match for Samoa. Aus dominant for the first 7 mins and eventually Coleman scores out on the wing.
5-0
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I hope Samoa are as generous with their defence when they play us in three weeks
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Koroibete runs through half the Samoa team to score in the corner. Foley is 0/2 from kicks.
10-0
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