None of you will be able to contain your excitement at the prospect of the Leinster v Ulster Pro-Woo final on Saturday. The good news for Ulster is that Iain Henderson is fit and starting, and Johnny Sexton is starting on the pine. The bad news for Ulster is that John Cooney has been relegated to the bench in favour of one Alby Mathewson, who has apparently played for some non-European side called the All-Blacks. Oh, and the fact that they are playing Leinster.
On the telly
Saturday 12th September
| Reds v Rebels | 10:15 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Leinster v Ulster | 18:30 | TG4 / Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 13th September
| Wasps v Bristol | 12:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Leicester v Northampton | 14:00 | BT Sport 1 |
| London Irish v Worcester | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Sale v Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Saracens v Exeter | 16:30 | BT Sport 1 |
Monday 14th September
| Gloucester v Harlequins | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Ovally Balls 
Now a Quins lock scores a intercept try from about half way! Poor guy’s knackered after scoring too.
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Bloody hell, Glaws butchering opportunities like mad, Quins on the defence the whole half, and Glaws 23-3 down.
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Damn, now got to go to dentist during second half. Stupid teeth.
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You’re not playing in the game are you SBT?
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Just turned on the radio. Radio 4, don’t know what programme. First thing I heard:
“Well that was the sound of a Dutch cow urinating.”
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C’mon Brighton!
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Will Brighton be able to solve the Dutch nitrogen crisis? Or sort out SBT’s teeth?
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Don’t need Brighton for a Coronavirus test, got York. Fuck everyone who’d been waiting longer, that’s what I say.
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Polledri over after a nice offload from Harris. Made heavy weather of it, but they got there eventually.
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Can’t imagine with Covid and all that that they went over to Holland to record the cow. Makes you wonder how many nationalities the BBC has covered when it comes to stock recordings of urinating cows.
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The Telegraph have emailed me. Among other things:
“Ed Power argues that it’s completely the wrong time to shake up A Question of Sport, because it’s the perfect comfort TV. Do you agree?”
Over to TomP.
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The presenter of the programme is Tim Whewell, CMW.
Whewell is pronounced “pissexquisitely”.
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They have it on in the waiting rooms at Dignitas in Switzerland. Just in case people’re thinking of changing their minds. It gives them perfect comfort that they’ve made the right choice.
* Not the Adam Jones episode.
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Great break from Polledri! Ball goes to Cipriani – try Quins.
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Gloucester at last get another try. Cipriani not involved therefore no try to Quins.
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And now Cipriani gives away a pen for a high tackle.
I would perhaps suggest that tonight hasn’t been his finest game.
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Quins beat Gloucester with a lot of help from Gloucester. Apart from Polledri, who perhaps should have been MOTM.
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I want to know about the Adam Jones episode. The mister occasionally puts on AQOS just to annoy me, I think.
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Here you go Thaum. Saves watching a whole episode.
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He was quite good at it, then!
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I love a good name. We all do. FC Den Bosch have got some crackers:
Konrad Sikking
Ringo Meerveld
Paco van Moorsel
https://www.fcdenbosch.nl/teams/selectie_eerste_elftal/
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Oh, and this fella:
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I can’t type his name.
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How did that work out?
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Death by rhetorical question?
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TomP – I refer you to John Crace: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/14/ed-miliband-revels-in-the-humiliation-of-boris-and-his-word-salad
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Brexit’s off?
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@tomp
Are you suggesting that Miliband’s triumph was purely performative and of no practical consequence?
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Sadly not.
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Sometimes, even if it’s not going affect a vote, you’ve got to expose a blobby mendacious lying poop-sack as a blobby mendacious lying poop-sack and do your best to humiliate them in public rather than let it all slide through without comment.
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Limited other options working against a majority of 80, most of whom will cringingly vote anything the boss says through.
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Think it was his lordship what said voting though May’s deal back in those halcyon days would have been the least worst option. How right he was.
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Arse. Politics. Boak.
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I can see sarries giving the blue evil a run for their money at the weekend, possibly even sneaking it.
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Exeter will biff Northampton
step too far for Ulster vs Toulouse
No idea about racing vs clermont
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So sayeth the chimpie
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laters
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Would the chimpie like to write an ATL explaining these predictions?
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The chimpie would ordinarily love to. However he is a bit up against it this week bar the occasional drive by.
If you don’t get anything tomorrow assume he’s tried and failed.
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Thauma, Kin Part 3 is on the horizon, but not for this weekend, I’m afraid.
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There are ways to get a test, apparently….
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It saddens me to see how far the Tories have fallen. There isn’t even an attempt to govern anymore. Just a ruling elite shoving their abominable ideology down the throats of a shackled nation. With relish and contempt. Fuck me, their Marie Antoinette moment needs to come soon.
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Even sadder is that you could write that about an increasing number of ruling parties around the world today. On pretty much every continent.
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Have just found a list of brilliantly named Dutch footballers.
This lad was good on the break:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roelf-Jan_Tiktak
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Could have played for Barca.
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There have been several clues over the years.
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Here is video evidence.
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Dear Boris,
Sorry to hear you are having problems with your backwards health service testing system. I thoroughly recommend you adopt our methodology, set one of your buddies up in a private testing company, you could make trillions. Bonus being, all the poor people who can’t afford it will not get tested, so you can keep your infection figures down. What could possibly go wrong ? While you are about it, might as well sell off the whole communist health system you have. ( There are some great real estate locations being wasted by all those hospitals, particularly in central London, fancy going halves in a nice hotel/apartment complex on the site of St.Thomas’ ? )
all the best,
your cleverest, brilliantest buddy,
Donald
ps Can you check if MI5 has any dirt on Sleepy Joe ? If not, can they make something up ?
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There have been several clues over the years.
Doesn’t make it any less sad or disgusting.
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One to warm the cockles of Iksy’s heart
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