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 
Fuckinell, Ticht, you’re ancient!
(I’m just behind you.) (So to speak.)
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Ulster think they have a try, but I doubt it.
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I’m still not used to being ancient, I was always the youngest at whatever I did, it’s difficult to shift that
Oh Faddes jusr made and scored another
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Oh he missed it
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Christ, if Ticht’s ancient, then I must be Methuselah (being a whole 2 years older).
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That is an awful decision, truly awful.
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It’s no try on the grounding, but the ref has awarded a penalty try for Lyttle being pushed off the ball. I think that’s a dodgy decision; it didn’t look like anything to me. And it’s a second yellow for the same player, so he’s off.
Even Stevie Ferris thinks it’s harsh.
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Two years wiser, BB
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Ticht – I have also always been the youngest in class, work, etc., and it’s odd being old.
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Youse lot are all ancient
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*ahem*
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Billy burns!
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Billy Burns MotM over Lyttle? I begin to wonder about Ferris’relationship with Burns.
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Ospreys looked like they had scored at the death, but there was a forward pass leading up to it.
That penalty try was bollocks.
Final score: 38-14.
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@Thaum – “I know, he’s awful. I personally think Burns is rubbish, but he makes him sound like the second coming of Ronan O’Gara.”
Surely the second coming of David Humphreys?
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Ha, maybe. But it’s all about the clever cross-field kicks (and fair enough, Burns managed two today), and game management. I don’t think Burns has the latter at all: that’s Cooney.
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Thinking about it it could well be that Ferris thinks he’s as good as O’Gara, but not as good as Humphreys.
Surprised Cooney isn’t in Japan.
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Out of the two sides it certainly shouldn’t be the O’s who have lost their scrum half to the World Cup.
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Evening. Pleasing performance from Ulster. Just back from the game. It rained, of course, but mild rain as it’s September.
Burns getting motm was staggering.
Our new lads looked good.
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CMW – snort, yep. And I was also astonished that Cooney wasn’t chosen as Ireland’s back-up scrum-half, but there you go. Ulster will benefit from having him. Sounds likely that we will lose Jordi Murphy to the WC though.
Larry – I’m not sure about that new Kiwi full-back. Made some seriously bad handling and judgement errors that you wouldn’t expect from a Kiwi, but then again he did have a few moments of brilliance.
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Thaum, he was brilliant for the Highlanders where he usually played 13/wing
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Meant to post this earlier
THE GRETA THUNBERG PROBLEM, so many men freaking out about the tiny Swedish climate demon
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/27/the-greta-thunberg-problem-so-many-men-freaking-out-about-the-tiny-swedish-climate-demon
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I love this blog. A load of rugby fans who care about Greta Thunberg and her cause.
Yer my best mates *sniff*
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Erm, craigs- that aint Annalise’s Hubby. You have somewhat misinterpreted that. He’s Martyr Logarius because he martyred himself to keep the Vileblood sealed away for eternity. Alfred knows. He’s the leader of Alfred’s order (the Executioners), and Alfred has pledged to avenge him but can’t reach Cainhurst.
I mean the Sealed Cainhurst invite from her room. Not the base one. It’s on the desk to the right of her.
It’s a wicked area though. The crying ghosts give me the shivers. And beating the shit out of the sad floppy gargoyles never gets old.
Alfred should be on the path to the woods from Cathedral Ward.
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I’m sort of enjoying these random Bloodborne posts.
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“I’m sort of enjoying these random Bloodborne posts”
Time for bed, Thauma.
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Have to say I’m not sure about beating the sad floppy gargoyle, doesn’t sound like a wholesome activity to me.
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“Ugo has a style of his very own.”
The argument that neither starts anywhere nor finishes anywhere. By the time I get to the end I don’t know if I’ve even started reading it.
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Twitter is a raging cesspit, but occasionally educational. Some doofus asked the internet to name a woman more badass than Kylie Jenner and some dude replied Phoolan Devi.
I’d never heard of her, but I’m now reading everything I can find. Fascinating- horrible, but amazing story.
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Stat quoted in buildup show just now:
Pack weight – Arg 872; Ton 1002
They’ve finally done it. Cracked a ton. Incredible
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@Cat – I had ‘Olga of Kiev’ come up in my time-line. Another fascinating historical figure.
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Ooh, Veianu in the team for Tonga. Will be nice to see him in broken field play.
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Compared to the Tongan 9, Takalua, Connor Murray is only mildly fond of the box kick.
Takalua knows the tru meaning of love and devotion
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@Utna – got to do something with those calves.
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Argentina hooker scores a hat-trick inside 25 mins, 4 tries in all. Looking grim for Tonga.
28-0
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Urdipilleta just got absolutely creamed, trying to clear the ball from the restart. Tonga have their backs up. Wide ball to Veianu, who beats 3 players to score.
28-7
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When Tonga pass it into midfield you get to see why the 9 kicks so much. Good carry from him in the lead up to their try 28-7.
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Surely had to be a penalty not just a knock-on?
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Is Lavanini guilty of shithousery again?
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Shoulder charge by the cover defender?
Winger was so slow, though.
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Ooh, the barest of use of the arm by Lavanini saves a try.
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Shame about the no-try at the end.
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It was a nonsense decision as well having now seen the replay.
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Argentina don’t seem to play with enough depth at centre. The centres are quite good and have decent footwork but are often coming from a standing start.
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You don’t really want your loose head to be chasing a hack down-field. Good effort though.
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Lovely one-handed show and go from Vuna and then Veianu sneaks it in, in the corner. What a finish.
28-12
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Lovely try, Tonga.
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Then Argentina manage to kick the ball over the Tonga try-line, direct from the kick off. All the way back for a scrum.
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Tonga will rue the mistakes in midfield that set up two Argentina tries in the first half. They’ve been pretty good since then even if Argentina did have that long period in their 22 (and maybe should have taken three points at least once).
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Cat – ah, I thought that the crown of illusions made him king. I would have been a rubbish peasant. Any arsehole with a crown would have been king in my eyes.
Yeah, I like the weeping ghosts and those little fencing dudes as well.
I sort of get what was happening but don’t really understand the full story of bloodborne. Or why I have to kill everyone. But it seems that no one on the Internet really understands either.
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