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 
Tears and everything, brilliant
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What a result! Wales won’t want to face this Uruguay side. Cough.
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I just learned that Los Teros means lapwings. Marvellous.
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That’s pretty much secured Wales/Aus as top 2 then
Great result for Uruguay, bloody love the world cup.
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This is what I was thinking of
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Fucking hell. I love rugby.
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May all of us have at least once the joy of the Uruguayan captain being interviewed now… So good to see.
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Astonishing result. Can’t wait to watch it later.
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There won’t be a better interview in this tournament
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He’s a dentist! Such an incredible story
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Fuck. So that’s all for today folks. What now?
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Missed the first half this morning. Flicked it on early in the second, expecting to see a game already over. Instead the little guy was later than usual getting to nursery. Classic stuff. Great WC so far.
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Now, we wait.
Schalk Brits is at 8, I see. My money is on Namibia.
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Wow. Some result for Uruguay
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’15 Donald Trumps’
Eddie keeping it classy
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Both sides that had a 1st round bye beat sides who’d played first time out.
USA play their 1st game v England tomorrow.
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Chimpie – better than 15 Hilary’s.
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@tomp
And Canada v the already puffed out Italians.
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What are the chances of Uruguay coming 3rd? And qualifying for 2023 automatically? Have to beat Georgia probably.
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That is the rule for 2023 right?
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Aaaargh – missed it.
However, I declare that today is officially Los Teros / Grateful Dead day………………………………
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Jones is talking nonsense with that 15 Donald Trumps line. Rugby’s a 23-player game at international level so that American outfit is 15 Donald Trumps a couple of Jacinda Adamseseses, 2 Cyril Ramphosas and 4 Michael D Higginseseseses.
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National characteristics that makes Diego Forlan for ever my favorite soccer player
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Arden. Jacinda Ardern. Bollocks.
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Schalk Brits is at 8, I see. My money is on Namibia.
Gecko said a while back he’d like to have seen Brits play centre, so he’s moving in the right direction. Boks will be ok – our backs are against the wall, so we’ll come out firing. Every game is now a knockout for us etc etc.
England v USA should be a snorter, with 15 Trumps against 15 Borises. I know who my money’s on:
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Slade, my two favourite Dead albums are Working Man’s Dead and American Beauty. I know they are a little different from the rest of their work but I love ‘em.
I also love Blues for Allah and all the rest, mind
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Only thing more terrifying than craig’s cannibal chickens are limbless chickens according to our PM.
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The two Samoan “tacklers” from yesterday have been cited, another has been given a citing commissioner’s warning for punching.
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Chimpie:
This subject really annoys me – because of the reportage a la tabloids.
For me, the really frightening aspect of chlorine washed chicken is not that it arrives as such on supermarket shelves, but that the standards of rearing of the birds render them so dangerous for human consumption if the are not thoroughly sterilised. Don’t get me onto cage rearing etc etc………………
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Ticht
The Dead are part of my life’s soundtrack, not because they were the greatest performers but because they just wanted to play and express themselves in a bewildering world.
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If there are a few here who are fans of both Ken Burns and country music , then you’re in luck. New series on country music: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9708550/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Not sure if/when it’s broadcast over here, but available through the magic of the internet.
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@slade
I think he was referring to GM tank grown mutant chickens or something. He was coming out with all sorts of other shite too.
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Yosoy
thanks for that…………….
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@ticht.
Quite right too. Should both have been red.
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There’s a lot of Ken Burns on netflix. Including his Jazz one I think.
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Chimpie………………………Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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@Ticht – I said yesterday there was a punch thrown just before half time in a scuffle. It was replayed at the time, but the camera didn’t get the whole thing – possibly another angle did.
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Yos, a few American FB friends have give the Ken Burns Country series a big thumbs up, I hope Netflix show it here soon
Though one person did say it went a bit heavy on Johnny Cash’s personal life at the expense of including other artists
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Gm tank grown chickens. Wait are you guys having a bloodborne related discussion without me?
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Ken Burns did the Vietnam documentary. Didn’t make me cry, just made my nose runny. Best documentary series I’ve ever seen.
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Someone in South Africa has a sense of humour. Who knew?
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@craigs
Really brought home the horrifying pointlessness of the whole thing. 2 million or so vietnamese dead. For nowt.
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Craigs et al……………
Have you seen his American Civil War stuff and the opening of the west/skewering the native americans – both great intros/primers on the subjects………………….
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@ticht
I’ve only watched the first episode so far and thought it was great. The history of country music is something I’ve only dipped into (I’m aware of the influences but not so much the very early music), so for me it was great to have it mapped out a bit more. AND we get Dolly Parton singing acapella.
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Chimpie – I thought that there was something to be said for standing by the South Vietnamese who didn’t want to be communist but that wasn’t the reason the Americans really got involved.
The human stories really blew me away as well. Those who came back or the families who eventually got the letters. Also, the sheer madness at the end with soldiers, addicted to heroin, shooting officers who gave dangerous orders and the evacuation at the end.
I went to Laos in 2002 and met a guy who had shot at American planes from a cave. And another old guy who introduced himself by shouting ‘fuck Bush!’ at me from across the street. When I shouted it back he told me how he swam the Mekong to Thailand when the American planes started bombing. It was incredible to meet him. I didn’t have much to say but his story was eye opening.
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Slade – no. Will add that to my list.
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The West is my favourite of them all. Must have seen it 3 or 4 times now.
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Ah, it was 2003. Not 2002.
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From a purely military perspective I can recommend “We were Soldiers Once – and Young” by Hal Moore.
The book on which the film “Once were soldiers” was based.
It is about the founding and operations of 1st Airborne Cavalry Helicopter intrusions squads and tactics.
Horrifying really……………….unbelievable bravery in the name of stupidity.
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