The good thing about breaking your foot is that the painkillers mean that you’re less bothered about your team getting annihilated by the Bad Guys.
Important Blog News
The plan for the 6N Super Saturday meet-up in Heidelberg, courtesy of MisterIks.
On the telly this week
Friday 20th December
| Leinster 54 – 42 Ulster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Gloucester 36 – 3 Worcester | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 21st December
| Leicester 22 – 31 Exeter | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Zebre 8 – 13 Treviso | 15:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Connacht 14 – 19 Munster | 17:15 | TG4 / Freesports |
| Dragons 22 – 20 Scarlets | 17:15 | S4C / Premier Sports 2 |
| Glasgow 20 – 16 Edinburgh | 17:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Ospreys 16 – 19 Cardiff | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
Sunday 22nd December
| London Irish 10 – 38 Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Thursday 26th December
| Cardiff v Dragons | 15:00 | S4C / Premier Sports 2 |
| Scarlets v Ospreys | 17:15 | Premier Sports 2 |
Ovally Balls 
A walk-in for LRZ is Glos’s 5th. Waste of a game.
Cap LRZ now, Wayney.
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Lloyd, Rees Zammit, Dai from Pentyrch, Ben Thomas, Lane Train, Me, Tomos.
That’s the future.
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Best 8 in the British Isles for a while, TomP. Was about to comment on him racing out of the line and making a superb tackle still going full bore in the 76th minute, when he plays fly half and spreads the ball for another try at the death. Beadle pleasing second half.
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Evening allà
@Thaum – sorry to hear about your accident; really hope it heals quickly. Assuming a guest appearance on the Michael Flatley Christmas Special is on ice, so to speak?
@Craigs – chin up brother, never nice, but we have confidence in you! Claim a Kyle and waltz into your CEO’s office as if you’re still there and park one in his desk drawer.
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The rest of you behave.
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I ALWAYS behave, Deebs. It’s that Iks you need to watch.
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BB, I’m well aware of this. Iks is a monster. A cuddly, loveable one, but a monster nonetheless. Oh – and TomP I saw your comment about the bridge and lunches from yesterday. All I can say is I have concrete proposals for bridging finance that could be discussed over lunches. Many of them.
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“Lloyd, Rees Zammit, Dai from Pentyrch, Ben Thomas, Lane Train, Me, Tomos.”
Too many Blues.
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I think is the very definition of “too much time….”
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@BB
As MrIks is probably asleep now, I’d like to take a stab at what he might’ve said to your comment about having ‘too much time’…
“The person, or people, that set that up were probably finished before they had to turn the prog rock album over to side B.”
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two bizarre results last night:
– points-fest in Ireland
– Gloucester wake up in 2nd half shocker
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Pfft, Mr DogBone. Second track, not second side.
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Glorious opportunity missed for someone to say “You set ’em up, I’ll knock ’em down”.
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For you Thaum, to kill some time while you rest waiting for your knee to heal. ( ouch!)
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2019/12/20/le-brexit-les-yeux-bandes-des-britanniques_6023591_3232.html
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The steps-knee Christmas disaster seems to be a Norn Irish speciality. Hope it all heals up quickly Thaum.
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Wouldn’t be surprised if he was qualified for Malta – at least that’s where I’ve heard the name Zammit before.
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“I wouldn’t begrudge Wales their 2019 grand slam”
Awfully kind of Ugo.
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Merci, Flair (et CMW)! A depressing but pretty accurate take on things.
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Abbots?
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Agree Yos, Moriarty has seemed to orbit the Drags rather than land there since his signing. Hill is playing his second come-back game at 6 again, and Keddie is ok too. Ollie’s twangy legs are driving me up the wall though.
We should invest the money in a front 5 pie-feeding programme.
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Hope the Craigses are not too hungover today.
They sound like a dreadful company Craigs. The doorknob praise on your way out on top of the timing really comes over like they haven’t a clue about dealing with people in a responsible way.
Hopefully something much better comes along soon, and this turns into a positive experience.
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Top work Mr. DogBone. Gotta keep an eye on that Border Collie Boy.
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@Iksy
Plenty of rumours that Hill will be returning to Legend land. How true they I can’t say.
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Evilness rampant again today.
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Leicester 3 tries to 1 up on Chiefs in 20 minutes!
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Chiefs get one back! But no! Held up. Maybe. Perhaps. Given in the end.
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Leicester 3 tries to 1 up on Chiefs in 20 minutes!
That doesn’t seem right.
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Bristol are up 13-7
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Player exchange with Ellis is the only acceptable deal on that front, Yos.
Hill is a great example of hauling lads out of the regions and seeing how they cope/improve in the Wales environment. If he reverts to type, you can have him!
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Slade aff.
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‘Evilness rampant again today.’
Step back and reflect before embarking on another rampage, Hopalong.
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Seems to be a lot of scrums in the Sarries-Bears match-up.
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I’m borrowing a ‘pfft’ from chimpie for that.
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*Ignores Iks until ATL received*
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Saracens off the back of maul on the five-metre line, the pass goes to the fullback, who evades three potential tacklers for a try under the sticks.
14-13 at the half.
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Wasn’t paying attention. Saracens are now up 28-13.
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Two tries in less than seven minutes.
Impressive.
I wonder who called George ‘fat’ this time?
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Another potential try from the Saracens fullback.
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Malins (?) didn’t look to me to have pressure on the ball, but I’m not the ref.
Farrell misses.
33-13
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Exeter take the lead at last!
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Exeter have the BP try. 22-31 with 8 mins to go.
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47-13
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Great win for Exeter……..L’ster looked right on their game for 30 minutes but seemed to lose concentration and get personal whereas Exeter team ethic took it on the chin then ground them down
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oof! Saracens 2nd half 33 – 0……………………..
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…grim for Wasps
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after those games – Exeter go top and L’ster go bottom………………….cruel game
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….no they don’t but you can guess what I mean!!!
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I only saw the last half an hour of the Tiggers v Chiefs, Exeter looked very professional, Leicester looked like they’d met each other for the first time this morning
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The Fear is upon me.
Mon Embra
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