Pro-14 semi-final playoffs: can anyone stop the Blue Meanies? Can our heroes defeat plucky underdugs Edinburgh?
Then there’s North Island v South Island where, as Iks says, How does one pick ‘my’ team in that N – S clash? Darkness or more Darkness? Sauron vs King Ghidorah? Who are the underdogs?
And some English Premiership matches with some rather gruelling-looking midweek fixtures as well as the weekend ones.
And …
Happy 60th to TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA!
On the telly
Friday 4th September
| Worcester v Bristol | 18:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Leinster v Munster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Northampton v Exeter | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 5th September
| North Island v South Island | 05:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Rebels v Western Force | 06:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Reds v Brumbies | 10:15 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Saracens v Wasps | 12:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Harlequins v Bath | 14:00 | Channel 5 / BT Sport 1 |
| Leicester v Sale | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Gloucester v London Irish | 16:30 | BT Sport 1 |
| Edinburgh v Ulster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
Tuesday 8th September
| Bristol v Northampton | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Wednesday 9th September
| Exeter v Gloucester | 17:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Wasps v Leicester | 17:30 | BT Sport 1 |
| Sale v Saracens | 18:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| London Irish v Harlequins | 19:45 | BT Sport Extra |
| Bath v Worcester | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Ovally Balls 
Naughty Conor
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Don’t much like Slavia and am ambivalent* about Celtic but this is a good story:
https://english.radio.cz/slavia-prague-celtic-fans-play-tribute-scottish-father-czech-football-8196185
* well, if it’s them or the other lot, it’s them.
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Oh whit, I called that as a penalty against Murray.
Discrimination against props is what it is
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Premier player has been particularly glitchy tonight
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Jj choking
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Munster just don’t look like a side that can score 20 points. And that’s what they might need. Doing well this half so perhaps, just perhaps.
Hanrahan, you twonk.
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Ticht
Big Dev is still one heck of a lineout operator
Bah
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Tam, I have aScouser friend who lives in Barcelona, they had Celtic and Rangers there in successive years. The Celtic supporters were great fun, got very drunk and had sing- songs and partied with the locals. The other lot were pissing on monuments to Catalan figures and in the streets, fighting and abusing locals.
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Munster could have box kicked their way back into it if jj’s radar wasn’t off. Haven’t shown much beyond kick chase though
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Nice story TomP.
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Farrell has been quiet, I remember him destroying Embra one night last season, or the one before
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Talking of good stories, we finished Giri/Haji on Netflix today – I’d really recommend it.
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What a surprise. Exeter score from close range.
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Ticht, There’s a green-and-white connection between Bohemians (Prague) and Celtic. And one guy who goes to our home games who’s a Celtic fanatic from Manchester.
A good friend of mine here is a Stirling Albion fan but his family are Arabs.
When we play football, the kids are always Bohemians (or Meteor, the junior club we go and watch) and the dads are the bad boys, either Sparta or Rangers.
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Ach bollocks. Israel equalise. Why am I not surprised.
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That’s the game then, so it’s all about who Leinster will beat at the Aviva next week
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Too much zip on that pass from Casey.
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Tam, when you say Arabs, are you talking Dundee Utd?
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BB – trick of the Rosicrucians, DBWR (even though it’s Fitba), and Jeremy Corbyn.
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Dubs defence has been pretty solid
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Exeter grind out the win!
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Thaum – no lizard people?
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Now for some sweet Soul music…
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BB – those too.
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Phew!
Very good win that from the 2nd XV!
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Yes. His brother was heavily involved in the Supporters trust.
Stephen goes to United games when they’re in Scotland but in his heart he’s a Bino.
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Happy 60th birthday Trisk! Marvellous.
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So it will be North Island for me, and no one is going to talk me out of it!
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I like the South island. Think I’ll go with them
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This series of videos came up on a link earlier, deserves a link by itself.
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flautist
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“7 Black offside!” Not something you hear everyday in New Zealand.
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I made a Belgian waffle this morning.
This afternoon I’m going to make an Italian talk bollocks.
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Apologies if I missed relying to your question. I chose the “handle” as I reckoned I’d remember it and so would others (although someone has already nabbed it on Gravatar long ago).
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Think that was Nov 2018 – we all went to it. Got a selfie with Doug Howlett…. my lads got a selfie with Joe Schmidt while I was off getting coffees at the interval
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No worries, Trisk, it was easy to miss comments, there were so many!
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Saracens looking quite angry………………………..
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clothes-line by Farrell……………………Sarries down to 14 (red) …….18:18
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Ha, maybe I should have watched this after all!
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Priestland called for a forward pass but because he was running back to his own try momentum made the flat pass look forward, according to Ugo.
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Couple of v good scores for Ruaridh McConnochie
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Seen the so-called sending off. Gopperth definitely dipping , Farrell very harshly done by..
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Make your own minds uo, though:
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That was a helluva throw in from Marchant. One handed through to his backs half way across the pitch?!?
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My apologies to Owen Farrell, it was Charlie Atkinson he mis-timed the tackle on.
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I’d say, yes it’s a red and also yes Farrell is unlucky that Atkinson ducked/slipped at the point of contact.
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It’s Owen Farrell. Of COURSE it’s a red.
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It’s the ‘oh poor me’ Owen-roll on the pitch after the deed that gives the game away.
I wouldn’t put him within a million miles of the Lionz captaincy next year, he is too unhinged to trust.
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The Priest meanwhile was all pomp and circumstance today. Glad the lad is having an Indian Summer at Bath.
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Iksy, that is one of his specialities.
I watched the 3rd test from 2017 the other week. Farrell’s first half performance was terrible, missing tackles everywhere, throwing nonsense passes. But he pulled it around and his kicking his top-notch.
The big thing, though, was at the end of the game when Ken Owens caught the ball in what Poite thought was an offside position. Farrell comes blasting in saying his piece but the ref whisperer Warbs sends him away and works his magic.
The Priest looked pretty ok today.
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