Well, it’s a marvellous month for a World Cup

Posted on by thaumaturge

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 18:05Premier Sports 2
Ulster 38 – 14 Ospreys 19:35Premier Sports 1
Leicester 27 – 7 Exeter 19:45BT Sport 2

Saturday 28th September

Argentina 28 – 12 Tonga 05:45ITV
Japan 19 – 12 Ireland 08:15 ITV
South Africa 57 – 3 Namibia 10:45ITV
Northampton 32 – 36 Wasps 15:00BT Sport 3
Munster 39 – 3 Drags 15:00Freesports / TG4
Southern Kings 27 – 31 Cardiff Blues 15:00Premier Sports 2
Scarlets 18 – 10 Connacht 17:15PS2 / S4C / TG4
Treviso 27 – 32 Leinster 17:15Premier Sports 1
Edinburgh 50 – 15 Zebre 19:35Premier Sports 2

Sunday 29th September

Georgia 33 – 7 Uruguay 06:15ITV
Australia 25 – 29 Wales 08:45ITV / S4C

Monday 30th September

Scotland 34 – 0 Samoa 11:15ITV

Wednesday 2nd October

France 33 – 9 USA 08:45ITV4
New Zealand 63 – 0 Canada 11:15 ITV4

Thursday 3rd October

Georgia 10 – 45 Fiji06:15ITV4
Ireland 35 – 0 Russia11:15ITV

1,654 thoughts on “Well, it’s a marvellous month for a World Cup”

  1. MisterIks's avatarMisterIks
    27/09/2019 at 16:31

    I should clarify that my Arab garb did not involve any blackface. Mrs.Iks did make up my eyes though, so I looked like Peter O’Toole wearing Omar Sharif’s outfit from Lazza of Arabia.

    Rudolf Valentino was spinning in his grave, keeping Douglas Fairbanks Snr & Jnr awake with his jealous cries.

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  2. craigsman's avatarcraigsman
    27/09/2019 at 16:39

    Iks – in my NCT group of friends there’s a guy who is well….

    He invited us dad’s to go out on an annual piss up he and his mates have called ‘Raising Allah’. One of them dresses as ‘an arab’ and the rest of them carry him from pub to pub whilst they all get hideously drunk.

    I’m not really sure how or why this tradition came about but the rest of us all made our excuses and reached for the crisps and dip. Didn’t seem to phase him though.

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  3. tompirracas's avatartompirracas
    27/09/2019 at 16:44

    Building a nice image of who some of our most esteemed contributors resemble:

    lIks = a young Peter O’Toole
    Ticht = a young Justin Trudeau

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  4. craigsman's avatarcraigsman
    27/09/2019 at 16:50

    Tomp – who is Ben Kingsley?

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  5. Cat's avatarCat
    27/09/2019 at 16:56

    Oscar winning actor. Getting on a bit now.

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  6. craigsman's avatarcraigsman
    27/09/2019 at 16:59

    There’s also an article about Chris Morris in the Graun. He has a new film put about the FBI entrapping people in the US. Funny that they don’t mention this:

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  7. Cat's avatarCat
    27/09/2019 at 17:01

    Craigs, that’s not true about all the Hunters referencing the Dream. Djura does, because he’s a rebel who knows the truth about what the beasts are so quit. Eileen isn’t a hunter. Gascoigne doesn’t. Later on the likes of Simon and Brader don’t either. Neither does Alfred, but he’s a church lackey.

    Incidentally, did you get into Annalise’s chambers in Cainhurst? If you did, did you get the invite? If not, go and get it then give it to Alfred, then go back to Cainhurst and go to her Chamber (there’s a lamp in her Chamber and just outside. It’s well worth it.

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  8. Cat's avatarCat
    27/09/2019 at 17:05

    Incidentally, playing the old hunters gives you the full story about why Gherman is the filthiest pervert in the history of videogames and HAS TO DIE. Painfully.

    He’s fucking repugnant. Like furry levels of repugnant. He’s even more of a pervert than the cannibal paedo in TLOU that Ellie gets stabby with.

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  9. Borderboy's avatarBorderboy
    27/09/2019 at 17:18

    Ah, Bloodborne chat.

    I missed this!

    No, wait….

    Anyway, in rugby news – Ali Price expected to be out for 8 weeks, he’s had surgery on his foot injury.

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  10. Cat's avatarCat
    27/09/2019 at 17:20

    He’s nearly at the end now. So patience. Padawan.

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  11. Cat's avatarCat
    27/09/2019 at 17:29

    Got to go onna fancy dress boat party. The theme, unsurprisingly, is pirates. Picked a bad night for it.

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  12. tompirracas's avatartompirracas
    27/09/2019 at 17:34

    I’m confused the Bloodborne bantz must be Cat but this fancy dress stuff seems more like CJ.

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  13. thaumaturge's avatarthaumaturge
    27/09/2019 at 17:41

    All right, ‘fess up. Which one of you wrote this?
    https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2019/sep/27/my-sports-mad-dad-watched-me-play-rugby-terribly-every-week-i-thought-he-was-in-denial

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  14. ClydeMillarWynant's avatarClydeMillarWynant
    27/09/2019 at 17:59

    If the fancy dress boat party match report doesn’t feature Daff’s line “Pirates will be pirates” then I will be very disappointed.

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  15. Borderboy's avatarBorderboy
    27/09/2019 at 18:01

    New rugby club season!

    A game a Scottish team can win!

    ‘Mon Glasgoooooooowwwwww!!!!!!

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  16. Chimpie's avatarChimpie
    27/09/2019 at 18:13

    Glasgow going well

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  17. Borderboy's avatarBorderboy
    27/09/2019 at 18:15

    ‘Sigh’
    Did someone say that the season had started? Seems nobody told Glasgow.

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  18. ClydeMillarWynant's avatarClydeMillarWynant
    27/09/2019 at 18:17

    @Thaum – good article. I like this from BTL:

    “Second week playing rugby at school, The ball landed in my hands despite my best efforts. I threw it at a member of the opposing team. The teacher shouted at me asking why I did that, to which I replied “ because he wanted it” “

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  19. thaumaturge's avatarthaumaturge
    27/09/2019 at 18:22

    CMW – yep, that made me laugh too!

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  20. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 18:25

    One of these teams has been in preseason and one won the Currie Cup, it’s not difficult to tell which is which

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  21. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 18:28

    Kinell, ten points and two players down after 18 mins

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  22. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 18:32

    Well that’s torn it

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  23. tompirracas's avatartompirracas
    27/09/2019 at 18:33

    Great finish by Dweba.

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  24. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 18:49

    There was a point where Oli Kebble was standing next to the ref in one of the preseason games against Ulster and I laughed because it reminded me of Father Ted describing to Dougal the plastic toy cow looking the same size as the one in the field because it was so far away.

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  25. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 18:51

    Stewart’s darts are pish, he was milimeyers away from Scotland’s world cup squad, if Brown hadn’t been declared fit…

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  26. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 18:52

    The shred of comfort is that Glasgow will be in the play offs, not sure the Cheetahs will.

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  27. Borderboy's avatarBorderboy
    27/09/2019 at 18:53

    Somebody remind me why I support bloody Glasgow and bloody Scotland again?

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  28. MisterIks's avatarMisterIks
    27/09/2019 at 19:06

    Sorry to repeat the same old boring question, but is Ulster v Ospreys available to watch anywhere?

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  29. thaumaturge's avatarthaumaturge
    27/09/2019 at 19:07

    Iks – it’s on Premier Sports 1, if you can get that.

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  30. ClydeMillarWynant's avatarClydeMillarWynant
    27/09/2019 at 19:07

    @Iks – certainly not.

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  31. MisterIks's avatarMisterIks
    27/09/2019 at 19:07

    “Somebody remind me why I support bloody Glasgow and bloody Scotland again?”

    You forgot to add ‘listen to Prog’ to that cry of despair.

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  32. MisterIks's avatarMisterIks
    27/09/2019 at 19:11

    I have to find a stream or something Thauma, unfortunately. The German DAZN service I subscribed to let me down, so I’m scuppered.

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  33. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 19:13

    Shit, ten past seven and I’ve already done a bottle of wine.

    So much for switching from beer

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  34. Borderboy's avatarBorderboy
    27/09/2019 at 19:13

    Also forgot to put in ‘put up with snippy German Welsh buggers’.

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  35. ClydeMillarWynant's avatarClydeMillarWynant
    27/09/2019 at 19:14

    I’m going to imagine the O’s game rather than watching it.

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  36. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 19:14

    Iks, you can subscribe to Premier Sports, there was a deal on at £49 for the year, that gets you all the games live and on demand later

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  37. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 19:17

    That’s better Glasgow

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  38. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 19:20

    That wasn’t

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  39. MisterIks's avatarMisterIks
    27/09/2019 at 19:21

    @BB, did you know that my Legend Tim Bowness is reuniting with your Ledge Steve Wilson to release a new No-Man LP in November? Rumour has it will named after what I think of you!

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  40. tompirracas's avatartompirracas
    27/09/2019 at 19:21

    Where to begin?

    “So what are the solutions? With rugby we really led the way with TMOs. We’ve seen things such as Hawk-Eye and Snickometer follow. A fluid game was made even better and sharper. You could hear the TMOs in commentary, you had the introduction of ref links but I feel like now it has gone back in time. We’re not talking about the technology, we’re talking about the referee’s ability and I’m not quite sure there is another sport where the referees are scrutinised as much. We have the technology but I’m not sure it’s used as well as it could be.”

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  41. brookter's avatarbrookter
    27/09/2019 at 19:23

    Thaum,

    Did the email arrive — think I’ve got the right address, but probably haven’t….

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  42. Borderboy's avatarBorderboy
    27/09/2019 at 19:23

    “Iks

    They’re calling an album ‘Boring Scottish Prog Librarian Bastard’?

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  43. MisterIks's avatarMisterIks
    27/09/2019 at 19:24

    Not sure Ticht, but whenever I’ve explored such solutions there’s usually been a ‘UK only’ barrier. Also I only watch rugby matches so a full-on sports package doesn’t really attract me.

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  44. MisterIks's avatarMisterIks
    27/09/2019 at 19:25

    “They’re calling an album ‘Boring Scottish Prog Librarian Bastard’?”

    Ooh close…

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  45. Chimpie's avatarChimpie
    27/09/2019 at 19:36

    Glasgow still going well I see

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  46. tichtheid's avatartichtheid
    27/09/2019 at 19:37

    The Librarian Lies Down On Bathgate

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  47. thaumaturge's avatarthaumaturge
    27/09/2019 at 19:37

    @Brookter – sorry, yes, I can see it, but my mail isn’t cooperating in opening it! Crappy laptop; I’m sure it’ll get there eventually.

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  48. thaumaturge's avatarthaumaturge
    27/09/2019 at 19:40

    It’s opened at last – thanks, Brookter!

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  49. Borderboy's avatarBorderboy
    27/09/2019 at 19:41

    I suppose the only way is up from this. Bloody hope so.

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  50. OurTerry's avatarOurTerry
    27/09/2019 at 19:42

    Ugo has a style of his very own. One day students will be critiquing written texts and describe them as being written “in the Ugo voice”.

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