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 
Cheese and onion, just no.
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The perfect hangover cure.
Bold.
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OT, there’re quite a few Union Streets around. Where’s the one you’re talking about?
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@tomp
Some depressed Lancashire former milltown.
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Tomp, has your boy ever been to Bristol ?
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OT, Colne?
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SBT, he has. Christmas 2018. We had a family lunch here: https://theoldspotbristol.co.uk/
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The boy had fish and chips. When we asked him how it was, he said it was “right lush”.
Oh my God. He’s trilingual – Czech, English and Bristolian.
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‘there’re quite a few Union Streets around. Where’s the one you’re talking about?’
Main street, Aberdeen
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He’d gone up there to OD on butteries and bridies for the full artery clogging effect.
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Back in my young days working on geophysical surveys I worked for a while with a russian freelancer. he wandered up Union Street in Aberdeen of a November Saturday 11 o’clockish and was shocked by the state of the place. ‘these people, they wear no clothes, they must be freezing, I never seen drunkenness like it & I’m Russian’.
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‘Manu Tuilagi ruled out for six months by torn achilles’
Ouch
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Given all his misfortunes with injuries since, how the fuck did he not drown when he jumped off the ferry?
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Chimpie takes unsuspecting Russian on nude midnight walks?
Not shocked.
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Musing on Manu and his injuries, this song popped into my head. Not exactly relevant, but a nice song anyway.
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Nothing wrong with a nude midnight walk, Craigs. Just have to be comfortable in your own skin.
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Every word true.
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SBT – your video is unavailable here.
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And here. Thought it was just us 3rd World types who was being snubbed, like.
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No rugby on tonight? Do I have to watch reserve teams have a lacklustre kickabout in a competition nobody really gives a shit about?
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Other than the Manchester clubs obviously and their need for some kind of silverware. Ditto the London ones. And the Blue Bastards on the wrong side of Stanley Park. It’s lonely up here.
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“SBT – your video is unavailable here”
So is Chimpie’s video. Can’t think why.
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@Deebee – Shall I compare thee to the former MD of my former employer again?
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Am beginning to have warm feelings about Everton. Two of the top three political footballers of the 1980s – Reidy and Big Nev (Dr Socrates is always number one) – plus they’ve now got the lovely James Rodriguez as well.
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Big Nev’s a contender even without the politics.
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Never mind Everton’s players – they’ve got the always cool Don Carlo And His Amazing Eyebrow in charge, and if Italian coolness doesn’t work for you, then Big Dunc could always heid butt you….
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The trouble with Everton is they got Norwich relegated back in the 80s by losing 3-0 to Coventry City in a game played after everyone else had finished when they’d won the title. They beat us in one of our very rare FA Cup semi-finals (the one nobody saw as it was the same day as Hillsborough) and they pinched our manager after we’d just had our best ever season, not that it did them any good.
Quite like them apart from that.
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Not that it’s an important thing in the context of what happened, but the other lot of course caused the ban that meant Norwich missed out on playing in Europe all the times they would have qualified bar one. The first time being the year of Heysel when Norwich won the Milk Cup only to then get relegated by Everton throwing that last game of the season against Cov.
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Mike Walker was always one of those people who always took me a second or two to recognise when I saw the face. Vic Marks is another one. The weird thing for me is Mike Walker looked like a Mike Walker should look like.
A friend of mine was completely obsessed with Mike W’s daughter-in-law,, Suzie. SW was in a documentary in the 1990s and I think part of it was her on a Teleshopping thing trying to say, ‘Hiya, I’m Suzie Walker’ but getting wrong again and again.
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CMW, your ex-boss from your ex-company sounds like a dick. Every side has them. But mostly the Manchester, London and Midlands clubs. And the Yorkshire ones. Rest are ok.
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No harm in any of the Yorkshire sides apart from Leeds. See also Rugby League.
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Don’t know what it is about Leeds.
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Andy Bull seems to have come up with his own way to measure a Robshaw. Don’t imagine he means it to be, but the headline is crueller than the AoD measuring stick.
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That could be why Jacques V didn’t make the XXIII v Toulouse.
Also, Racing have a lot of staff in quarantine. Exeter win the once and present Heineken Cup by default?
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‘Don’t know what it is about Leeds’
Lived there for a year, not sure what it is about Leeds Either
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Sympathies for the virus etc etc etc
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Burgess confirmed he had stood down from his coaching role with Souths ahead of their elimination final this weekend after The Australian newspaper on Friday published detailed allegations of drug use and domestic violence levelled at him.
I’m sure he’ll go on a podcast with the Hask in the future to tell everyone that it wasn’t his fault.
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Andy Bull seems to have come up with his own way to measure a Robshaw.
There’s two. One is a measurement of girth and I won’t go into that here.
The other is the width of the pitch divided by 3.5m multiplied by 100% commitment for the full 80.
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It’s raining!
Juventus has suddenly become a football team to support now that the ever-gorgeous Sr. Pirlo is in charge.
Such looks; such style; such hair……………………………..
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Tomp.
Vermeulen looked positively grey in his last match so I can see it might be him. Also, Kirsten has disappeared off the radar – they probably mix socially.
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I’ll believe Trump has it when I see him without an orange face and hard hair.
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I hope he fully recovers. So he can lose innit.
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One suspects the orange one would not be above using such a ploy as an election stunt.
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Sounds a bit conspiracy-like but that’s what you get when you sow lies and conspiracies. They might splatter back all over your big, fat, orange face.
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Not that I’m pointing fingers or anything
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Chimpie – stick him with the pointy end.
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That would be a better option than detaching the finger and sticking him with the soggy end.
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@chimpie
Are you talking about Trump or Sam Burgess?
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That’s nearly as complicated as the formula I received for calculating my tax free amount from my impending redundancy* payoff…..
* Yes, currently on “garden leave” till 6th Nov. After a long time in same / similar – trying to brush up on IT skills. One programming language is much like another (certainly procedural ones) – but some look jazzier than others – Python seems to be the big thing currently…
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