Week Two made Irish eyes very sad. But Welsh eyes leeked with joy, when the Wallabies didn’t quite manage to hop into the lead in the second half. Uruguay failed to repeat their magic from Week One. Otherwise, the results were more or less as expected.
Week Three’s biggest clash is looking like England v Argentina, although no doubt there will be some surprises in the other fixtures.
We’ve also got some Pro14 and that English Premiership Cup thingy to look forward to.
Exciting (?) rugby on the telly this week
Friday 4th October
| S Africa 49 – 3 Italy | 10:45 | ITV4 |
| Glasgow 21 – 25 Scarlets | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Leinster 53 – 5 Ospreys | 19:35 | Premiers Sports 2 / TG4 |
| Worcester 19 – 34 Exeter | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 5th October
| Australia 45 – 10 Uruguay | 06:15 | ITV |
| England 39 – 10 Argentina | 09:05 | ITV |
| Japan 38 – 19 Samoa | 11:30 | ITV |
| Kings 20 – 31 Munster | 15:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Zebre 28 – 52 Dragons | 17:00 | Freesports |
| Cheetahs 63 – 26 Ulster | 17:15 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Cardiff 11 – 19 Edinburgh | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1 / S4C |
| Connacht 41 – 5 Treviso | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 / TG4 |
Sunday 6th October
| New Zealand 71 – 9 Namibia | 05:45 | ITV |
| France 23 – 21 Tonga | 08:45 | ITV |
| Northampton 28 – 54 Saracens | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Tuesday 8th October
| South Africa 66 – 7 Canada | 11:15 | ITV4 |
Wednesday 9th October
| Argentina 47 – 17 USA | 05:45 | ITV4 |
| Scotland 61 – 0 Russia | 08:15 | ITV |
| Wales v Fiji | 10:45 | ITV/S4C |
Ovally Balls 
“Wahey! We get the try bonus point.”
The Glasgow forum’s take on that was that it was in the “Dublin script” for Ulster to get something from the game
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Just seen the Drags score – MrIks, your lads did you proud
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Great try from the Wesht’s Godwin
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I’m a white rioja fan too. Not much of a fan of what I am drinking as it happens, but so it goes.
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Ticht, erm … I’m really not sure Dublin always has Ulster’s best interests at heart (and vice versa).
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Thaum, quite
I speak some bollocks at times, but I don’t think I’ve reached the stage where Dublin pull strings in real time in South Africa so that a team getting humped get a bonus point try
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White Rioja, errr, rocks, CMW
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I like a cold drink and so switching from beer was a bit of a shot inna dark for someone who only really drank red previously
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Lovely side step from the Connacht 9 for their second try
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I’m giving up on the wine I opened at dinner. Think I’ll have a brandy. Now the last time I opened a new bottle of brandy the bottom fell out and half a litre of armagnac deposited itself on the dining room table and floor. This is the replacement so wish me luck.
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Good luck, CMW. I am shortly behind you, although I don’t have Armagnac.
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Campo Viejo Rioja Viura-Tempranillo Blanco
one poond fifty off at Sainsburys,
ya bass
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A generous measure safely consumed. No quibble on the refund at the supermarket by the way so you can knock the bottom off your next bottle after you’ve drunk it and tell them what happened to me happened to you if you want.
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Not that this week has in any way given me cause to reflect on how dishonest cheating shits and shysters prosper at the expense of those of us who do things properly. Perish the thought.
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Oh go on then, I’ll have a whisky. Aberlour, if you must know. I always think of it as my armchair whisky: mellow and sweet.
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Just sat down to watch my Freesport recording of the Drags game. Did it tape? Of course it didn’t. *Sighs*
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Dalwhinnie. Goooooood
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Oh No, Mrs Iks, that is a real shame. going by the scoreline it would have made pleasant viewing from a Drags fan’s point of view.
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Get that dark chocolate out Chek, it makes it a whole different experience
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First away win in almost 4 years Ticht, but looking at the South Wales Argus match report a Zebra player got a double yellow = red card at the outset of the second half. So 14 v 15 for most of the second half. But there we are, a win at long last.
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Argus probably got it wrong. If I were you in the absence of video evidence I would just imagine the match the way it clearly should be.
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But is the Dalwhinnie with a silly name that I can buy at a reasonable price when it’s reduced in the supermarket anywhere near as nice as the 14yo that was once brought to a dreadful New Year’s Eve party at my mother’s house by a complete arsehole who was married to one of her friends from line-dancing? To be fair to him he left the bottle behind still two thirds full which was good for my next few visits home, but I can still remember the shitty conversations like they were yesterday and it must be ten years.
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@ticht, mainly consumed with a terry’s chocolate orange
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@CMW
There is so much in that post, I don’t know where to begin
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@Chek – the whisky’s the important bit, everything else is peripheral.
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You can make that a rule.
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Rule of thumb, only buy whiskies with an age statement on the bottle.
It does not guarantee that you are buying good whisky, but it prevents you buying a whisky lake bottle of mediocrity.
Also, Adli and Liddle own brand are good, especially the old stuff that is available at Christmas
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The US has put a tariff on imports of single malt whisky. Ultimate proof that Trump is a wrong ‘un.
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Chek, the best move for the Scotch Whisky industry is independence from the UK and full membership of the EU
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France is the biggest market for Scotch in terms of bottles sold, but the US is better in terms of money earned, if I recall correctly
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Yer man was an archetype of the offensive British person(man) who immediately tells you they were brought up in Africa (‘Rhodesia’ is his case) and whose favourite subject is themself. Self-made-man shtick, worked in oil, racist, unneccessarily rude, opposed to Welsh people speaking Welsh in Wales (I acknowledge this is a bit niche), unpleasant about an elderly lady suffering from dementia who was present, beats his wife, drinks good whisky. Yeeeurrrgh.
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He was basically the Anti-Deebee. I’d almost (not quite to be fair) have preferred to have been arrested by the Anti-Brookter.
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Luckily the good whisky is the outlier there, CMW, everything else about the guy sounds like a nightmare
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@Ticht – unfortunately the good whisky does seem to quite often align itself with similar types (wherever they’re from).
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I’m drinkin Brennivin.
The Icelandic spirit, my neighbour was there for a long while and I looked after their house
I do feel like a Viking now, where is the Reece Mogg shiter?
I’ll sort him
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Is that the ‘Black Death’? My brother was once in a flat-share with an Icelander and I remember getting absolutely smashed on the stuff with them.
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I hope not, it would be a pitiful end, here on my own, just me and my little window on the world in this wee room.
I was hoping to just get a bit of a buzz from it, black death sounds a bit ott, I could have had the Guinness instead.
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Having unpleasant flashbacks now to another New Year’s Eve in Glasgow when I ended up sitting drinking with the father of one of Mrs CMW’s friends while his depressed alcoholic wife passed out in the bathroom. ‘Self-made’ again, aerospace this time, misogyny, fancy Macallan.
Have to say the ones I had on other substances were a lot better!
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@Ticht – Black and white death?
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Here we are:
“The product was introduced in 1935, after prohibition ended in Iceland. The bottle contained a white skull on the black label, in order to warn against consumption, later replaced by the map of Iceland. Therefore, it was sometimes called “svarti dauði” (black death).”
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I’m just feeling a bit “svarti dauði” doesn’t sound as bad.
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“The product was introduced in 1935, after prohibition ended in Iceland. The bottle contained a white skull on the black label, in order to warn against consumption, later replaced by the map of Iceland. Therefore, it was sometimes called “svarti dauði” (black death).”
It does indeed have the map of Iceland on the label and feck me it does seem stronger than the 37.9% it states on the bottle
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‘Hic’
Been out with friends – too much wine. Mrs BB using her ‘drunk voice’ – need something loud.
This’ll do.
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And Rod the Mod at his best. Love this single.
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Jebus = everybody getting hammered tonight.
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Jebus = everybody getting hammered tonight.
They’re celebrating England’s win, of course.
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That or getting the commiserations in for Namibia.
Who actually got points on the board first – early pen.
Then Reece is in, in the corner.
5-3
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I see Rentaghost is back.
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Deysel close to scoring his 2nd try against the ABs!
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Namibia are putting in a hell of a shift at the breakdown, secured 3(?) turnovers so far.
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