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 
FT: 13-32
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I’m not often rugbyed out, but I’m going to record the BB/Wasps game and catch up with it tomorrow or Monday
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Iconic food update: I’m sat in Heathrow having bangers and mash with Yorkshite pudding.
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Lovely it is too!
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Norn Ireland with the penalty!
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And he hits it into Row Z! Fuck me, that was hopeless!
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Oh hell. On back read, I honestly meant Yorkshire. You can all put the voodoo dolls away.
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Ow! You too at the back!
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They needed that goal too. Been on the rack since I started watching.
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BiMi commenting on Scarlets v London Irish:
Commentator – you played with Dan Carter?
BiMi – Dan Carter played with me
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Next week, I may feature the travel adventures of Deebee.
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Around the World in 80 (client paid) Meals some snarky bastard will no doubt suggest. The outrage!
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Deebee – you in Wetherspoons?
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What’s up in the rugby? Other than BiMi taking the piss.
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Nah, sorry OT – a place called Huxley’s in Terminal 5. Think the closest my red wine ever got to wood was the table top here. Sausages were nice, gravy ok, Yorkshire pudding microwaved I think.
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@Deebee 13 – 13 in west wales, BiMi’s piss taking the most entertaining part
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@deebee
Get yourself to Wetherspoons and treat yourself to a near-expiry date ale.
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Bloody hell, England Fly-Half Stephen Myler? I’d forgotten about him.
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So the Hask is in I’m a celebrity get me out of here.
Did anyone else know about this?
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@Craigs – trying to ignore it, despite my Twitter timeline.
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big sense of relief all round that Exeter managed a decent performance.
not confident about Glasgow game ‘tho…………..I think they have Exeter’s number and Hoggy will no doubt do something silly……………………………..
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Exeter’ll beat them in Devon, Slade. Don’t worry,
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“Saracens will abandon their appeal despite their confidence in the outcome of the move, especially given that the Premiership had cleared the club of any deliberate action to break the salary cap.
“The deadline for notice of the appeal is on Monday. If they accept their punishment, Saracens will be left on -22 points on the log,”
Seems Sarries attitude is “Yeah, we could appeal, and we’d win, but we won’t.”
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Tomp. – yes they should do, but the real mark of progress will be a win in Glasgow……………..
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That’s funny by Saracens
I’m sure it’s just that they don’t want to waste everyone’s time. Totally altruistic
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On the subject of Exeter
“I’ve had half of Exeter tweeting me saying I’m not as good as Santi Cordero!” Hogg says
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Sarries were probably threatened of a worse punishment, should they appeal. Being stripped of their titles for a start.
I’m once again full of admiration of the way the British deal with these sort of things. The T14 also has a salary cap, breached many times by many clubs (the most obvious culprits being Racing, Toulon and Montpellier but ASM and Toulouse probably have also creative accountants). And yet nothing happens, neither within the LNR nor the FFR. French rugby is truly a banana republic.
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Oh for a team with titles that could be stripped and the money to breach a salary cap worth breaching.
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Far too much coverage of the O’s game on here. Those responsible to be battered with a pudding once I’ve finished with Deebee.
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Shipped a BP try in the 84th minute you say? Time was when the O’s would have saved that for when it mattered.
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Chimpie……………..they are correct, too, so far
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Give it time they’ll be telling him he’s not as good as Phil Dollman.
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Izzy at it again:-
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/11/17/israel-folau-bushfires-sermon-gods-judgment/
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Sbt – that almost Westboro church levels of lunacy.
Also, if dog is perfect why did he create homosexuality and homosexual acts unless they are not inherently bad things? Also, why create bush fires?
Also, if dog is so awesome, why did the boks win?
Multiple layers of the failure.
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Ah, bliss. Saints vs Lyon has Cotter commentating. OK, he has Austin with him, but you can’t have everything.
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Nigel Wray comments: “I did not have sexual relations with these co-investment strategies.”
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McRory scores for Saints! Great try, tap tackled but still managed to get over. Glad he’s ours.
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Montpellier lead by 10/3 in Connaught. Last game for Cruden, before Handré Pollard replaces him. Did someone mention a salary cap?
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Bush fires in Ireland would be more impressive. Or forty days and nights of rain in Aus.
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Boks winning the World Cup is probably a better argument for Izzy’s point of view than what he’s come up with.
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Lyon with an intercept, and almost run it the from around the halfway mark, only to have Northampton to recover and steal the ball back. Northampton then run the ball up the left side of the pitch, where Lyon return the favour and squash the play inside their own 22.
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8/10 on Ireland
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…And then as I was typing that, Northampton’s scrum half takes advantage of a good short pass and a hole in the defense to score a try.
Except…
…
… it looks as if the pass from Biggar was forward.
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Is that Biggar playing for the Saints?
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His natural home.
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YC for Willemse who tackled an Irish player who jumped in the tackle. A bit weird as it should’ve been red as he fell on his head. A bit of a grey area in the law there.
Connaght score from the lineout. 13/10 to Connaght.
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This dog character sounds a right nutter.
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@Chimpie – was making Dan a saint a step too far?
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Just switched to Saints/Lyon. 19/0 to Saints.
Lyon must be their usual pish. They may lead the T14 but only because they took advantage of the RWC, being far less impacted than other clubs.
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