Now that all that distractive World Cup nonsense is out of the way, we can all concentrate on rugby that really matters*: the Big Cup and the Pish Cup.
*Until your team falls out of it, then it’s the league, obviously.
EnzoM has summarised each Big Cup team’s chances nicely, except for one small error, later corrected to read ‘Ulster by 50’.
On the telly this week
Friday 15th November
| Gloucester 20 – 25 Toulouse | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 16th November
| Bath 16 – 17 Ulster | 13:00 | Channel 4 / BT Sport 2 |
| Glasgow 13 – 7 Sale | 13:00 | BT Sport 3 |
| England 17 – 15 France (women) | 13:10 | Sky Sports Action |
| Barbarians 31 – 33 Fiji | 14:30 | BBC1 |
| Leinster 33 – 19 Treviso | 15:15 | BT Sport 3 |
| La Rochelle 12 – 31 Exeter | 15:15 | BT Sport 2 |
| Ospreys 13 – 32 Munster | 17:30 | BT Sport 3 |
| ASM 53 – 21 Harlequins | 17:30 | BT Sport 2 |
| Scarlets 20 – 16 London Irish | 19:45 | S4C |
| Bordeaux 40 – 30 Wasps | 20:00 | BT Sport 2 |
Sunday 17th November
| Northampton 25 – 14 Lyon | 13:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Connacht 23 – 20 Montpellier | 13:00 | BT Sport 3 |
| Scotland 3 – 17 Wales (women) | 15:10 | BBC Alba |
| Racing 30 – 10 Saracens | 15:15 | BT Sport 2 |
Ovally Balls 
“a fuck in the neck” is very good.
Craigs, is it the phrase that Prince Andrew used that doesn’t make sense? It’s not part of my idiolect and it seems a strange choice for someone to be making in modern times but it’s just a metaphorical idiom (aren’t all idioms?). You have to unpack the meaning but it’s probably there. I’ve never much thought about in this case.
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On the c-word, even nuns use it:
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I reckon Fd might have been behind the coup in Bolivia:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article237501044.html
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Danny Wilson gets the Glasgow job https://www.glasgowwarriors.org/news/duplicate-of-rennie-to-leave-at-the-end-of-the-season
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Cardiff legend.
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Tomp – yeah. And you are probably right. It just seems like an odd phrase. Normally you can work out what they mean when you first hear them. E.g. Needle in a haystack.
Unless the subject of that phrase is not a black person but refers to something else. Probably the case.
I feel like I’m going to have to fuck up my Google algorithmic profile researching this.
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My favourite ‘cunt’:
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Second favourite :
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Damn – you have to go to YouTube to see them.
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Still can’t top Victor Matfield dropping the c bomb on the All Blacks.
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Matfield vs The Hound. Would be amazing.
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O’Mahoney calling the Sinck a ‘stupid cunt’ was also amazing.
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O’Mahony would never have said that if the game had been on the BBC.
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Re that phrase. Wikipedia tells me:
originating in the United States meaning “some fact of considerable importance that is not disclosed—something suspicious or wrong”
Wow. Can’t quite believe that people still use it.
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Thinking back, I probably should have been more cynical when trying to interpret that. It makes total sense from the perspective of how it’s used.
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Right, now that’s solved, what’s next?
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Story behind the pic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-50476004?fbclid=IwAR2XED77Hc3tLDihtVKG59nSyKqxnZw8IZ7oazPsTMBvc3ahtnts2oJ0M9s
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Excellent stuff, Ticht
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Read Muir’s Wilderness Journeys ages ago. Fascinating stuff.
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FASCINATING
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Dave Rennie to Oz has to be the rugby world’s worst kept secret.
Think the weedge are going to struggle this year.
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Apart from salary cap breaches
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Fuck. Now I can’t get Mary’s Prayer out my head. No matter, I’ve had worse ear worms.
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Boks play Scotland next year in two Tests, followed by one against a Tier 2 nation:
This follows confirmation by SA Rugby that the world champions’ “extra” home fixture in the July Test window period next year – after a mini-series against visiting Scotland on July 4 and 11 – will be against a relative minnow power. “The third match will be against a Tier 2 nation,” SA Rugby spokesperson Andy Colquhoun told Sport24 on Tuesday.
I’d like it to be Japan or Fiji, but we’ll probably end up with bloody England.
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Deebs – probably will be England. But why would the world champs want to play 2 second tier teams in a row?
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When does Rennie leave?
I think he’s a great fit for the Aussies. Right kind of rugby for those lads. Huw Jones probably quite happy as well.
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Cause we like to raise the profile of rugby in new regions? Or something?
Enzo – Huw Jones should go back to the Stormers for a season to get his mojo back. Especially now that Fleck has fecked off.
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So we’re playing Georgia after Scotland. We should be ready for them after the warm ups.
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I’m still bitter that we never got to play the comedy boks
We get world champion boks instead
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Cartoon after the 1st ever Test between the Boks and Scotland to cheer you up:
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Be nice if we can be vaguely competitive
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“I’m still bitter that we never got to play the comedy boks”
Me too. Would have been doubly hilarious when they won.
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Ooooh! Feisty, Craigs! Fuck off for beating me to it.
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Deebs – I’m only joshing. Andy Robinson’s team would’ve smashed the comedy boks.
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Double arseholery from me there.
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Space bar on my keyboard is only working intermittently. Driving me berserk.
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Feisty craigs. Result of lunchtime alez?
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I have had but one ale since my Diane Abbott outburst Chimpie.
Wait for the weekend though, it’s gonna be special.
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Hitting the tennants special brew inna big way?
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I don’t really bother with the session beer nowadays.
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“We should ban nude scenes for anyone under the age of 50. Now, bear with me: this is not simply a very specific kink of mine. By the age of 50, most actors have been around long enough to really know their worth. They are no longer naive waifs straight out of drama school, desperate for a credit. They will have been around the block; they’ll have experienced rejection, and realised that rejection is not that bad.”
Where’s Cat? This is his niche.
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You’re saying naked older people are his niche?
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Keeping half an eye on the Impeachment live feed thingy. All fascinating stuff.
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Anyone else would be shafted by now but who knows how this is going to turn out.
Rudy is such an arsebuckle.
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Scots lads:
https://www.planetrugby.com/analysis-attacking-masterclass-from-finn-russell/
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‘naked older people’
Title of his porno.
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Who, Cat’s?
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Obvs.
Who else would have a porno? Pretty sure pro has starred in a few but Cat would be the director of the thing.
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Not sure about Cat . I think he likes a bit of gratuitous flesh exposure, but not necessarily the porn ?
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