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 
Tomp – pretty sure CJ has that as his ring tone.
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Newport put the whorl in whirlpool, even if they spelt it whrong. It is where you had to go to throw mhoves, and find lhurve.
So all roads led to Newport at the weekend. If the boy/girl next door was more Rooney than Clooney, then off you went.
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Craigs, I like the note in the description that the song isn’t racist because the radio still plays Dreadlock Holiday by 10CC.
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@Iks – Obviously I was just being rude for fun – the dog story wasn’t even set in Newport and neither are any of the other stories I have about dogs having sex in Wales.
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Think I’ll stop paying income tax. Should be fine as I’m only breaking the law in a limited and specific way.
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Lots of us have stopped paying income tax recently.
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That’s how they got Al Capone in the end, Chimpie.
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Andy Uren taking the piss out of Saints here….
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Yes, yes, I know. Saints B team.
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Oh the times, CMW.
There was no getting round the traipse from the Valleys, when the mating call meant that the only dancing ritual was to be found at Tiffany’s Ballroom – or similar – in Newport.
If the dancing proved fruitless and the dust-up with Newport Townies sidestepped, then the consolation prize was a proper curry out on Commercial Road. Unfortunately that was followed by the hazy, drunken bewilderment of how to get home after spending your last pennies on lager and that extra mushroom bhaji.
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That was a brilliant try from Brizzle – nearly the full length of the pitch! Almost Glasgow-like that was!
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@BB – If no Newport Townies were sidestepped then pffft.
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I would have thought it would take something special to have a worse performance than Scotland struggling to beat the Czech C team, but it seems as though England’s ‘performance’ against Denmark has done it.
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Tomp/Chimpie – capone clearly didn’t have the correct tax accountant which is odd considering there would have been loads lining up to offer their services.
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I feel my point has been missed slightly
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‘point’
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Chimpie needs a tax accountant?
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Chimpie is a tax accountant?
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When I typed ‘chimpie is a’ my phone predicted ‘tosspot’.
Say what you want about that graun article but AI is improving every day.
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Farrell banned for 10 matches, reduced to five because of testimonials of the highest quality from er, his club owner, national coach and an unspecified charity owner, according to the chair of the disciplinary panel.
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In unrelated news, the Teddy 🧸 was born today in 1902.
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‘When I typed ‘chimpie is a’ my phone predicted ‘tosspot’.’
Possibly accurate
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5 match ban? Should have been transported to Australia to become forced labour as a NRL tackle bag.
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I hear Saracens are hastily adding some matches to their calendar.
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Taking a stroll down the fetid corridors of social media this week and you’ll glean that the preferred punishment for Farrell’s red card against Wasps should be somewhere between death by electric chair to 30 years hard labour.
Outrage by proxy reins hither and thither, with hyperbolic assumption ruling fact. In Farrell’s career, there have been a few tackles that have been perhaps debatable in legality, but the simple truth is that this is his first red card in 217 professional games and only his second citing in 10 years as a professional.
Not going to add anything else from the article this appears in.
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He can’t play until 05/10 apparently so misses an easy game against the Dubliners.
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Has someone been reading Kitson again?
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‘“Testimonials provided by Mark McCall, Eddie Jones and the founders of a charity with which the player works very closely were of the highest quality,”’
Makes near decapitation much less serious.
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Wonder what the biscuit situation was at the hearing.
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You’d have to get Amazon to deliver the biscuits for you. If you brought your own it wouldn’t be covid secure.
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Just seems to me that the disciplinary panels in almost all cases bend over backwards to excuse foul play. It’s not just this case; it almost seems mandatory to halve sentences based on character and remorse – almost trying to sustain the ‘rugby ethos’ of gentlemen playing hard and fair but occasionally getting it wrong, wink-wink-nudge-nudge.
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Deebs – at the time Faz holds his hands up and accepts the card so I think it’s that kind of thing too.
Plus, he probably didn’t just stop at biscuits but roasted some marshmallows to make smores beforehand. And there’s his face. How can you be upset with that face?
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Mother of chimpie thinks he looks ‘weird’, and ‘like a possible serial killer’
On that evidence I think we can agree that lifetime in an underground asbsestos mine is too lenient.
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her opinion of former PM David Cameron (appearance and character) doesn’t bear repeating.
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Oh, go ON!
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Best not.
She also has Opinions on Corbyn. A woman of varied Opinions.
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Some of my school reports were ‘Very Disappointing’
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Well, I am certainly disappointed in you.
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You haven’t even seen any of my work!
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Thats the point, Chimpie.
Weekend Homework:-
Essay on Parental Opinions on Cameron and Corbyn.
Grade F.
Not turned in.
Chimpie has the ability if he would only concentrate. Running around looking at rocks and drinking beer is not an excuse for not completing a homework assignment. If he would put as much effort into his schoolwork as he does in watching rugby, he would have an excellent future in industry.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/trouble-in-store-as-covid-canning-craze-leads-to-empty-shelves-and-price-gouging
This is indeed a thing. No canning supplies, freezers,generators, guns or ammunition.
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Running around looking at rocks and not drinking beer due to an inability to obtain beer is not an excuse for not completing a homework assignment.
FIFY
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Why do I feel like these opinions from Chimpie’s mum are going to be a list of the top ten hottest politicians of all time?
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‘cos you’re weird?
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I only have eyes for Che.
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‘Running around looking at rocks and drinking beer is a fantastic way to spend one’s time’
Seeing as we’re fixing stuff
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What’s your mum’s opinion of your ‘toast’?
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BB – she was speach less apparently.
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Being a sensible and practical person, she thinks it’s fine
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Being a sensible and practical person she chucks it in the bin when your back is turned.
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