Here comes the World Cup! Oh, and an English Premiership Cup match too.
Exciting rugby on the telly this week
Friday 20th September
| Japan 30 – 10 Russia | 11:45 | ITV / S4C |
Saturday 21st September
| Australia 39 – 21 Fiji | 05:45 | ITV |
| France 23 – 21 Argentina | 08:15 | ITV |
| New Zealand 23 – 13 S Africa | 10:45 | ITV |
| Exeter 28 – 14 Bath | 15:15 | BT Sport 3 |
Sunday 22nd September
| Italy 47 – 22 Namibia | 06:15 | ITV |
| Ireland 27 – 3 Scotland | 08:45 | ITV |
| England 35 – 3 Tonga | 11:15 | ITV |
Monday 23rd September
| Wales 43 – 14 Georgia | 11:15 | ITV / S4C |
Tuesday 24th September
| Russia 9 – 34 Samoa | 11:15 | ITV4 |
Wednesday 25th September
| Fiji 27 – 30 Uruguay | 06:15 | ITV4 |
Thursday 26th September
| Italy 48 – 7 Canada | 08:45 | ITV4 |
| England 45 – 7 USA | 11:45 | ITV |
Ovally Balls 
BB – I suppose I mean ewes, lambs or wethers. In any case, the ram wasn’t particularly terrifying. He was trying to drive the bloke off, not kill him and eat him. ;-)
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That said, Eric Weinstein really does cover himself with shit in the twitter exchange.
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“Bari Weiss did a column on it ”
It was hardly a column. Here’s a link to the original piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
Regular NY Times columns are about 1200 words. That is a feature.
The point is the IDWers fetishise debate but usually on their own terms (Is that blowhard Shapiro one of them? Just see his Andrew Neil interview for what happens when the debate becomes uncomfortable for them).
Their stance is often hypocritical (numerous examples) but seems pretty good at raking in the money.
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@Thaum
Ever seen the film, Black Sheep? S’what happens When Sheep Go Bad. Cat probably loves it.
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It was hardly a column
Fair. But my point is that article was not of their making really.
Ben Shapiro is an idiot, as is a number of the people within that loose group.
His views are completely different to, say Joe Rogan’s. My point is that it’s a meaningless term to describe a bunch of largely unrelated people and has been set up as a straw man to beat down.
Maybe the one thing that they have in common is that they are all independent ‘content creators’ now. Fuck it, bung the Majority Report in with them. It would make no difference.
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BB – ‘frayed not, and I’m offa me bed for tonight. But I’ll bear it in mind.
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Ooh Sam Seder got fired for a joke on Twitter. He totally fits the IDW bill.
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Ahem, Thauma. My ducks are fed with an especially formulated dry pellet food for water birds. You have to throw it on the water for them to eat, and what they don’t eat sinks after a few minutes and is eaten by the fish.
It was great fun watching the copper inspect it as if I was carrying dried dope in a tupperware box.
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It’s in the AOD Historical Records that I have pointed out to errant feeders that paprika wotsits are not a good idea when it comes to feeding ducks.
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Yosoy: Scott Andrews has played a bit of lock
also fellow Legend Josh Turnbull, not dead yet?
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Wow. I see BB had my back on this one. A bit late but c’mon Scotland!
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Matthew Screech might be a better bet than Josh Turnbull. It’s the end of days.
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Still in good shape:
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Mathew Screech
*sad face*
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Ali Price ruled out of the world cup, Henry Pyrgos called up from Edinburgh.
One game and two vital players down, this is going well.
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“Former Munster prop du Toit called up as Springboks lose Nyakane”
He joins former Scarlets scrum half Herschelle Jantjies in the squad.
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Eeek.
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I was hoping for a bit of light relief from an Edinburgh perspective, and the up side of all this more game time for Charlie Shiel.
The downside is that if he or Nic Groom get injured Edinburgh don’t have any more 9s.
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“you need the gesture from UCW before you go to Mensis”
A tried and tested route through the Welsh higher education system.
The “wolves and brain suckers” have always been a bit of an issue in Aberystwyth though it has to be said.
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Craigsman’s chickens went Bloodborne? Horrifying.
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* Gives Larry the gesture *
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I found the amygdala last night but ran out of vials before he killed me. My chickens would have ripped his face off.
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I’ve always thought Dinesh D’Souza was a bit of an arsehole but this is a new level:
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Cory Hill on the way home. Bradley Davies on his way to Japan.
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The brazenness of the right wing ideologues still surprises me, I should be used to it by now, but D’Souza has done it again.
He can’t actually believe one single word of that, surely no one is that stupid? So it must be deliberate.
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I have whatever is the equivalent of a man-crush for Greta Thunberg. If I had a twitter account I’d verbally boot that twat into the middle of next week.
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It’s not all bad news today. There are still good things happening in the world.
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That should be ‘boxing bellend Carl Froch…’
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. Says a lot about why Bradley shouldn’t be there if Gats went through all that rigmarole with Hill when knowing it might come to nothing.
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D’souza is a contemptible turdflap, best not to listen to his cynical propoganda
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@Iksy
I think Beard’s appendix issue is the curve ball. I’m sure they’d have been happy for Hill to have another 2 weeks, but Beard has thrown a spanner in. Means they need to get Brad out there quick-sharp.
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Haven’t heard from the flat earthers for a while. Must take a huge amount of willpower to deny such easily provable reality.
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Already scraping the barrel at SH
Question is, if we carry on being utterly hopeless and don’t get out of the pool does Toonie resign?
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There’s an argument that Cotter did better with what he had.
Not a fan of this ‘fastest rugby in the world’ pish. No good trying for that if the pack can’t win the ball, you can’t get over the gain line and defence is as solid and coherent as a D’souza argument.
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It’s not the first time I’ve seen the ‘nazis were actually left wing’ argument. It is the first time I’ve seen teenagers compared to nazi propaganda though.
Also, lumping her in with the ‘nordic white girls’ into this category is just racist tbh.
Also, they are plaits not braids. Moron.
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England starting team for US
15 Elliot Daly (Saracens, 34 caps)
14 Ruaridh McConnochie (Bath Rugby, 1 cap)
13 Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby, 43 caps)
12 Piers Francis (Northampton Saints, 8 caps)
11 Joe Cokanasiga (Bath Rugby, 8 caps)
10 George Ford (Leicester Tigers, 60 caps) C
9 Willi Heinz (Gloucester Rugby, 5 caps)
1 Joe Marler (Harlequins, 63 caps)
2 Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 16 caps)
3 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers, 90 caps)
4 Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 61 caps)
5 George Kruis (Saracens, 36 caps)
6 Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 14 caps)
7 Lewis Ludlam (Northampton Saints, 3 caps)
8 Billy Vunipola (Saracens, 46 caps)
Finishers
16 Jack Singleton (Saracens, 2 cap)
17 Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 13 caps)
18 Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins, 26 caps)
19 Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints, 76 caps)
20 Mark Wilson (Newcastle Falcons/ Sale Sharks, 15 caps)
21 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers, 90 caps)
22 Owen Farrell (Saracens, 74 caps)
23 Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby, 37 caps)
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Iks – I think ‘man crushes’ are between guys only. Typically non-sexual ‘philia’ love between friends or some celebrity.
I.e. I have a man crush on the Hask.
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Ffb – is ludlam a 7?
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Not sure why we’re picking Billy again – a little concerning that Eddie doesn’t seem to trust anyone else at 8 (especially as Wilson did a good job in the AI).
If Billy is knackered by the knockouts it’ll look really stupid – really hope he gets replaced at 60 and doesn’t play the full 80 again.
Glad to see Maro getting a rest. Assume this means Slade is still banged up.
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I think he’s played there for Saints but he definitely plays more like a traditional blindside, so looks like we’ve gone all South African with our flankers
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He gets sacked in the car park a la Gareth Jenkins.
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Everyone together….
TOONIE OOT!!!
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Someone just put an 11am meeting in my diary for Thursday morning and I was cursing.
Then I noticed it was for 45 mins. Nice touch.
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I’m going to miss the first half OT.
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@Yos, I hope Beard gets fit quick because he is potentially a better partner for AWJ that Ball and Brad. I think I’m the only one ‘in’ Wales who doesn’t really get Shingler, he comes over like a show pony to me.
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I’m going to miss it all.
Quite a read back here. Chickens sound terrifying,
My only real take from the word cup so far is that the quality has been disappointing, NZ aside. We’re all playing for second and 3rd place I think. Scotland were woeful though. Ireland were efficient in their own way and look the best bet from the northern teams to make a semi final / final. England very scrappy, more than just a few dropped passes. There were some pretty aimless kicks and poor passing and static attacks. Hopefully they’ll improve but it looks tight as to which 2 get out of our group.
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Happy to kickstart a shuttle for Carl Froch to go into space. One way, like. He can take Dinesh D’Souza with him. Wonderful conversations, I’m sure.
Eric Weinstein I’ve a bit more time for but quite why he’s shat the bed over Billy Bragg dealing with his nonsense politely, I don’t know.
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England gave a fair few penalties away as well, Dov. Still going to win the group at a canter.
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My current world cup fantasy is based on 2007 England. Where they got gubbed in the group by SA and somehow muddled through to the final to face them again.
Might put a fiver on a Scotland / Ireland final.
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Boris Johnson might be about to get his arse kicked
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