Gazing at life through a haze of opiates, I’m intensely relaxed about not getting a proper blog post up, and just giving you the matches.
But I will add an emphatic TSK!* that the Cardiff and Ulster matches have yet again been scheduled at the same time.
*This is more vehement than a PFFT!
6N Blog Meet Update
The Heidelberg Tourist Information Bureau has posted this:
Falcon tries to decide whether to deliver a TSK! or a PFFT!
And this.
And as a reminder, here’s the info.
On the telly this week
Friday 3rd January
| Cardiff 14 – 16 Scarlets | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster 38 – 17 Munster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Sales 48 – 10 Harlequins | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 4th January
| Treviso 19 – 38 Glasgow | 13:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Gloucester 29 – 15 Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Dragons 25 – 18 Ospreys | 15:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Zebre 41 – 13 Cheetahs | 15:00 | Freesports |
| Leinster 54 – 7 Connacht | 17:30 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Edinburgh 61 – 13 Southern Kings | 19:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 5th January
| Wasps 31 – 35 Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
Ovally Balls 
Conversion good. 47-7. Leinster being outscored in the last 15 minutes of the match.
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Ringrose gets a second. Weird kick from J G-B to get the ball to him.
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Only rugby I’ve seen all weekend is this:
Rugby has now peaked
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The Kings defensive line is a mess.
And they’re going to get a card very soon.
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They were highly unlikely to win anyway but now they’ll get massacred. Red for Scholz, the Kings prop.
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Embra have been dreadful so far
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Bit better, maybe that run of phases will settle us down a bit
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I really want Joy Neville to be good, but she isn’t.
The latest was the lineout, the jumper passed the ball down to another pod, but the receiver had at least two players in front of him in an offside position
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“The latest was the lineout, the jumper passed the ball down to another pod, but the receiver had at least two players in front of him in an offside position”
The first Edinburgh try, right?
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Don’t be silly now Tom.
There was also the pen milked by the Kings’ scrum half, Pyrgos was similarly blocked a couple of minutes later but no penalty was awarded to Edinburgh.
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This is pretty fugly
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Thank flip for that. Be nice if we could maintain a lead now…
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Nah, man, check it out. One of the props I think.
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Bilge. Ball was available for both those penalties
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I can report that 460ml of haagen dasz in one go makes one feel full.
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Uncontested scrums now.
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Kings to 13, run out of props
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Leon Brown’s try will put some lead in Tichto’s pencil.
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Get shiel on
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Drags were lucky to play the wOes when they were bottoming out rather than improving.
I doubt that we would have won this fixture a month ahead from now although their half backs still look honking, so who knows.
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‘A one handed finish’
Karl
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With apologies to the English language there.
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Nice by shiel, but feels a bit hollow whipping a 13 man kings
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Kings have been really good, they are a different team these days, they could well reverse this when we play in SA without our 6N contingent
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Pfft.
And also….
Tsk.
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12 man Chimpie
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I think we would have won anyway, but the score line is purely down to the miss match in numbers. We had no intensity in the first quarter
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kings prop deserves a slap from his team mates for being a choob.
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It was a training run for the last twenty odd minutes, as soon as they went down to 13 but they fought hard
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I was wrong, Canada will finish with a medal at this year’s World Juniors. They play Russia for the gold tomorrow.
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Owen Farrell up to his old tricks? https://www.rugbypass.com/news/uproar-as-farrell-appears-to-get-away-with-yet-another-shoulder-charge
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Today’s Stewart Lee contains sentences of extremes, the first two are peak Lee
The other is also peak Lee, or possibly trough Lee, brilliant but depressing and sad
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/05/im-seeing-stars-but-not-for-much-longer-elon-musk-satellites
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LaDoaB, your attack seems pretty strong. 4 against Germany your lowest score apart from when you were shut out by, oh dear, the Russians.
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That was the nation’s worst loss, most lop-sided, since the beginning of the tournament, 43 years ago.
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Belgium* score against the Chiefs! It does seem unfair for LI to co-opt a whole country to help them against the racists.
Belgium Tuatagaloa in fact. Perhaps the best name playing today?
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Exeter having fun at London Irish’s expense.
21-7
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Biggar to Reinach. Easy-peasy. 7-0 in Coventry.
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Fekitoa strips the ball from England’s Piers Francis, sprints away and drops a lovely pass off for Marcus Watson. 10-7 to Wasps in the Midlands Derby.
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Sorry. I was away from my computer.
14-35
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Irish winger dances along the left touch line evading a tackle from the Exeter scrum half, cuts back inside and makes Jack Nowell look like he shouldn’t be a fullback, before dotting the ball down for the try.
21-35
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Exeter have an answer for that.
21-42
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Eight-man broke a tackle and then passed out of a second to the inside centre, who then flicked the ball back-handed to #21 (Whoever he is…)
It was a nice play.
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Frustratingly for the Irish, they knock-on after setting up a maul from a penalty with the touchline juuuuussssst out of reach.
Exeter scrum.
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London win the scrum, and pressure the Chiefs’ defense with a few pick and goes on the line.
Outside centre sent to the sin bin for a deliberate knock-on.
Irish scrum.
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While I was away there was a previous yellow. Exeter defending with 13 men.
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And the two-man advantage has been exploited. Mafi (sp?) has the left side of the pitch open to gallop in for the bonus point try.
28-42
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Penalty.
28-45
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Are the London Irish the only team to nick-named the ‘Exiles’?
Or are the London Scottish and Welsh also referred to by the same name?
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When I were a lad, I played Under 19 rugby against all of them. We just called them Irish, Scottish and Welsh.
There was a club called London Exiles at one time.
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So when did the Irish get the second nick-name?
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