Week One has provided some excellent rugby, dodgy refereeing and unfortunate injuries.
I think we can all unite around Uruguay as WC champions.
Other competitions are also starting up, so cancel all engagements and be prepared to spend your entire weekend and parts of the midweek glued to the screen. Hopefully not literally.
For those of you who lack rugby preparation skills, let me remind you to order in adequate supplies of booze, fags and possibly food.
Exciting rugby on the telly this week
Friday 27th September
| Cheetahs 48 – 14 Glasgow | 18:05 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster 38 – 14 Ospreys | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Leicester 27 – 7 Exeter | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 28th September
| Argentina 28 – 12 Tonga | 05:45 | ITV |
| Japan 19 – 12 Ireland | 08:15 | ITV |
| South Africa 57 – 3 Namibia | 10:45 | ITV |
| Northampton 32 – 36 Wasps | 15:00 | BT Sport 3 |
| Munster 39 – 3 Drags | 15:00 | Freesports / TG4 |
| Southern Kings 27 – 31 Cardiff Blues | 15:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Scarlets 18 – 10 Connacht | 17:15 | PS2 / S4C / TG4 |
| Treviso 27 – 32 Leinster | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Edinburgh 50 – 15 Zebre | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
Sunday 29th September
| Georgia 33 – 7 Uruguay | 06:15 | ITV |
| Australia 25 – 29 Wales | 08:45 | ITV / S4C |
Monday 30th September
| Scotland 34 – 0 Samoa | 11:15 | ITV |
Wednesday 2nd October
| France 33 – 9 USA | 08:45 | ITV4 |
| New Zealand 63 – 0 Canada | 11:15 | ITV4 |
Thursday 3rd October
| Georgia 10 – 45 Fiji | 06:15 | ITV4 |
| Ireland 35 – 0 Russia | 11:15 | ITV |
Ovally Balls 
Haining has looked good in doing the trucking up in heavy traffic role
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Mostly pleasing
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Surely even embra can’t cock it up from here
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“Surely even embra can’t cock it up from here”
I’ve seen some unwise words in my time, but really….
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Ah Chimpie – you were doing so well too, then you had to go and say THAT. Nice jinxing.
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Pffft
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Demba Bemba out of the Cup. And Jack Conan.
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I like this new innovation of ‘putting backs into space’
Be nice if we could do it inna few more games
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Hope ‘Pro doesn’t see this:
“A Solid First Forty By YOUR Edinburgh!”
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Also prefer this season’s Embra first team kit to last year’s. What’s the change kit like? Glasgow’s first kit is pretty boring and the change one looks like an old Racing 92 kit.
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BB https://shop.scottishrugby.org/gb/edinburgh.html
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Bennett having a stormer
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Mark Bennett has just had the perfect 90 seconds of rugby
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Thanks Ticht – that away kit is quite smart. Not that I buy replica kits anyway (the price is ridiculous and I don’t like the material) but that would almost tempt me.
If I was an Embra fan…
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Do you think Bennett can get back in the Scotland team?
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When Schoeman carries his hits sounds like the Radio 4 sound effect punching a cabbage
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Nice move
Too late for a classic embra lead spunking?
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very good try for Zebre, but we should have snubbed it out before it got there
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Noice
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oh my word, Charlie Shiel
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Kid’s got wheelz
And there’s the 50. Good night’s work
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Listened to the new Opeth album tonight (English version). This may be sacrilege, but I far preferred it to the new Tool album that everybody’s* been raving on about. Not that the Tool album was bad, as such, just not as varied and inventive as the Opeth one was.
*Yes, Iks, I know you won’t know one end of Tool from the other, and you think that Opeth is a fictional city** from a Wilbur Smith novel, but there we are.
**Which admittedly, I didn’t know until tonight, yet I read that novel years ago, when I were a lad!
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Screwdriverspannersawchiseldrillbastardfile.
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I should know better than to read an article in the Guardian about Welsh Nationalism by Rhiannon Cosslett. I really should know better than to read the comments.
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I’ll go there right now, CMW, I’m intrigued
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I don’t see any problem with the article, tbh.
There are always going to be turds btl, it’s the way it is now, there is little chance for debate btl, that cab has gone, unfortunately, I learned a lot from opponents to my point of view on cif, but that possibility has gone now
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“Modern Welsh nationalism is no longer only a question of language, though for those of us who speak Welsh it will always be a part of the conversation.” Takes quite a bit of unpacking. The stuff about English people in Wales being behind the Brexit vote doesn’t really appear to stack up either and the idea that all the Welsh speaking areas voted remain simply isn’t true. Essentially the language issue massively separates Welsh Nationalism from Scottish Nationalism (along with Scotland’s much greater separation in legal, educational etc terms) and is not something that the writer is in any way neutral or to my mind realistic about. Of course I’ve been away a long time myself and will never move back, but she doesn’t live there either as far as I’m aware.
BTL you have the usual idiots carrying on about Why is Scottish or Welsh Nationalism OK, but English/British Nationalism isn’t etc which does my nut.
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Hrmm, sound like I need to read a lot more on the subject.
tbh there is a big difference, huge, not even in the same ballpark, between the SNP and groups like EDLetc and whatever groups the extremists have formed.
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I totally agree with the latter point and Plaid Cymru are very much in the SNP bracket in that sense – that’s what does my head in about the comments you get BTL.
I defend the Welsh language (and even to some extent the Nationalist power and jobs for speakers brigade) when it’s questioned by ignorants up here (and indeed back there), but you’re looking at a small country in which interest groups will look after their own.
Seems to me much of the Brexit vote in Wales fits in rather more closely to the one in the North of England than Rhiannon would like to contemplate. I suppose I do have quite a lot of sympathy with her last paragraph, but the rest of her attitude does not reflect it.
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So, who do you support when it’s underdog v underdog?
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I wonder how much of the last few days Uruguay have spent pissed?
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The Georgian scrum is far too powerful for Uruguay. Georgia open the scoring, going wide after another collapse.
5-0
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By the looks of it, a fair amount! Their pack is a man lighter than Georgia’s too! 91kg difference in pack weights. Georgian fizzikality too much for Uruguay at the moment.
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So, who do you support when it’s underdog v underdog?
Sorry, can we focus on this match and talk Wales-Aus a bit later?
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Barnes is doing his level best not to bin a Uruguayan prop.
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This time from the scrum, it turns and the Georgian 8 picks up to dive over.
12-0
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This could get ugly in the 2nd half for Uruguay.
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TRY URUGUAY!
The get a lineout in the Georgian half and there’s a massive gap at the back of it, that Silva darts through. Vilaseca is on his shoulder and scores.
12-7 game on.
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And as I type that Uruguay reply from the lineout with a lovely inside pass off theclineout and a Sea of Galilee size gap for the centre (Cat? Was that you?) to cruise through under the sticks.
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Ah, not Cat then. Try seems to have sparked some life into Uruguay.
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12-7 Georgia at the break. Can Uruguay hold on against the much more powerful Georgian pack, or can they up the tempo and run them off their feet? Should be an interesting contest in the 2nd half.
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Neither is the likely answer.
Good kick (nice bounce too) to set up the scrum and the inevitable follows.
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Chilachava driven over in the corner. Excellent conversion from wide on the left.
19-7
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Worst possible start for Uruguay.
As a USA fan I am cheering Georgia on,
If Uruguay get 2 wins they probably finish third and qualify automatically for 2023. Puts US in a scrap with Canada for a guaranteed place with the loser going into the repechage.
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Powerful maul gets Georgia over the line for another try.
26-7
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I blame Deebee.
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Another error from Deebee and another Georgia try.
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The Georgian hooker(?) puts a little dink into the 22 and then tracks down the Uruguayan 14. They turn over the ball and get a hand to it over the line.
33-7
Gorgodze is on.
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Chip kick from Georgian hooker leads to try!
Still, Fatties, please don’t kick it!
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