There are no Irish teams in them, so hardly worth mentioning!
Might as well think about the Wee Cup too.
Bristol v Bordeaux
In a fight between Bears and Beagles, there can only be one winner, and I’m afraid it’s not the lovable hounds.
Racing 92 v Saracens
French home advantage to edge it.
Exeter v Toulouse
Probably another close one, but French inability to play away to lose it.
Toulon v Leicester
How did the Tiggers make it this far? They won’t get any further.
On the telly
Friday 25th September
| Bristol v Bordeaux | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 26th September
| Racing 92 v Saracens | 12:30 | Channel 4 / BT Sport 3 |
| Exeter v Toulouse | 15:30 | BT Sport 3 |
| Toulon v Leicester | 20:00 | BT Sport 3 |
Monday 28th September
| Harlequins v Wasps | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Tuesday 29th September
| Northampton v Sale | 17:30 | BT Sport 1 |
Wednesday 30th September
| Bristol v Leicester | 17:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Exeter v London Irish | 17:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Worcester v Saracens | 17:30 | BT Sport Extra |
Ovally Balls 
Ford, Faz, Slade
Faz, Devoto, Slade
Itoje, Itoje, Itoje
This England centre conundrum never ends.
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Bring back cips & put him at 12
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DCB’s still around isn’t he & doing the biz for sarries?
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If you bring back Cips, you need him at 10, with 36 at 12. Funny how well they seem to work together.
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‘Ford, Faz, Slade’
tackle shy & the decapitator at 10 & 12. Liabilities.
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Just flinging poo around in a presidential manner here.
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More concerned with Wales’ midfield personally as we’ve got them up next.
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Also, if anyone needs some lawnmower fuel:
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Chimpie – a shit throwing, furry mammal is more prezidential than Trump.
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Who’s going to be the Wales midfield? George? Mr Glue?
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I DEMAND ANSWERS
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North, Henson
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@Chimpie, TMHMIR™️ hasn’t played enough rugby since his move West from the Drags to STAKE HIS CLAIM.
Foxy is barely off his sickbed, but he might still be a better choice than his pretenders.
My jury is out on Tompkins. He might be brisk of foot bright spark, but I suspect he might also be a bit gormless on the fundamentals of centre play.
Watkin has a bit of mental wherewithal, but seems to sing the body lethargic when out on the field. Needs some coaching to understand that the tackle ball-rip isn’t the pinnacle of a centre’s game.
Roberts and Hook it is then.
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Mr. Glue has gone to Japan, my Chimpolato.
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Posted without comment
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Looks like the Sarries conditioning coach
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Love tripe. Especially deep fried with sriracha and kale.
Makes you strong.
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Criag, ever had curried walkie talkies?
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Trump food……………………
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“Needs some coaching to understand that the tackle ball-rip isn’t the pinnacle of a centre’s game.”
Sometimes we forget how young they are. Not his fault that he saw this as an impressionable 15 year old:
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Or that he’ll only have been two for this bit of heartache:
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He may remember being a miserable 8 year old though:
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I think that’s the return of Dab suitably celebrated. Haven’t got a clue who they’ll pick or any ideas who they should pick really.
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“Criag, ever had curried walkie talkies?”
Forgot to pick up the Little One from nursery school today (very embarrassing) so she ended up having lunch there which she wasn’t supposed to. She told me:
“I don’t know what I had for lunch, but it was hot and I did have to blow on it.”
I think we might have found out what it was now.
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I will miss the “I did” thing when she loses it, it gets me every time.
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To be honest I am expecting some misery on the rugby front. Can’t actually remember when I last saw a match of any kind in which the team I was supporting won. Might have been Wales-Italy! Don’t care enough about Racing v Sarries to count that.
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France-England might have been the day after now I think about it. I really haven’t a clue when the O’s last won a game I was watching and the Scarlets always seem to lose when I tune in.
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CMW, That “I did have to …” is very sophisticated use of English. With her employment of the Verum Focus, your youngest is a syntactic/semantic wizard.
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Controversy of the day:
‘The Irish Supreme court has ruled that the bread served at Subway – a US sandwich food chain with branches in more than 100 countries – cannot be defined as bread.
Under Ireland’s Value-Added Tax Act of 1972 it cannot even be defined as a staple food, according to the Irish Independent, because it contains too much sugar.’
‘bread’
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Things to do in Dublin update:
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@TomP – Had to look that up. Not sure the article I found entitled “Verum focus is verum, not focus” is a rabbit hole my day needs to go down.
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I feel it can’t be as important as sorting out all the loose bits on top of our garden walls. Dressed everything the other day and mixed some mortar. It then turned out that I’d only made about a fifth of what I needed, but as it was the first time I’d tried to any such thing for nearly twenty years I decided discretion was the better part of valour and I’d just use what I’d mixed and see if it worked. It seems to be OK so on we go.
Would like to know for sure whether it’s verum or focus though.
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Challenge for the Brexiteers:
I bet those Brexiters fall foul of the inability of verum focus to occur when the truth value of the propositional content is presupposed in the previous discourse.
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There’s a few of them would do a better job of these walls than I’m about to though. Then again they might have upped and left when the Eastern European window cleaner arrived to do his thing…
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I do think you’re underselling your skills when it comes to sorting out all the loose bits on the top of the wall.
My boy’s English grammar isn’t quite up your youngest’s at the moment. He’s still stuck in “I didn’t be …” phase. He sort of knows what’s going on but he’s slowly working out the “rules”.
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It’s a tough choice between not knowing what I’m talking about on here and not knowing what I’m doing outside. Or at least it was while Heimat Zwei and Sancho Panza were the only childmindees and were happily doing a puzzle in the living room. Howling Julio has arrived now so I’m off outside.
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@TomP – I suspect your boy’s Czech might have the edge.
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Tomp – I’ve had chicken feet a few times. Once it gave me the squits and I vomited in a cafe the next day at breakfast.
The staff were very nice about and didn’t seem to mind cleaning sick off the table.
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I wonder if the Irish authorities check whether cheese on toast is actually cheese on toast?
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Not if you use subway bread-like product
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Don’t think I’ve ever bought anything from subway.
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Gregg’s is another matter though. Got a weakness for pastry products.
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there’s a fantastic all-nigh bakery in Dalry in Embra. Awesome for getting a few pies on the way back from the pub.
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All-night even.
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Aye, that’s true. Am enjoying the way he switches between languages or uses the Czech word when he doesn’t remember or know the English.
When he had his arm in plaster, we went for a walk and bumped into one of his little pals from the neighbourhood. The pal, who speaks Czech and Vietnamese, was on his bike and stopped short. His first words were, ‘What the fuck?’ (in English) and then my lad started explaining in slangy Czech what the story was
A Scottish friend of mine has been living here for 25 years and speaks, to my ears, brilliant Czech but he’s just started learning formal Standard Czech from a textbook again. He says it’s completely fucked him as now he’s concentrating on getting things “correct”. He says his 7-year-old is already streets ahead of him in Czech.
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Chimpie, I adore Greggs cheese and onion bakes. The perfect hangover cure.
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Or, as the ladz at Greggs put it:
I’m willing to overlook the business-speak bullshit in this case.
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@tomp
Oooh that laying a claim to having the ultimate cheese & onion pastry product is a bit cheeky. That title belongs to the late, great Harry Butterworth who had a chippy on Union St (I may have mentioned him before). His cheese & onion pie was legendary. Eventually he retired and sold the shop to someone, who kept the Butterworth’s name. My Dad bumped into someone who worked there and asked if she was till employed by them. “No” she replied “I walked out. They started to reheat the cheese & onion pie”
A commitment to quality you will not find in Gregg’s.
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Craigs, I enjoyed that video of the guy making his distilling beer, he has some good kit there.
All he needs is some good oak to put it in for few years.
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