This weekend sees the start of the new Pro-14 season, and the finish of the English Premiership. The only guarantee is that Saracens will be dead last, which will have rugby fans all over Europe crying disconsolately into their beer.
On the telly
Friday 2nd October
| Zebre v Cardiff | 18:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster v Treviso | 20:15 | Premier Sports1 |
| Leinster v Dragons | 20:15 | S4C / Premier Sports 2 |
Saturday 3rd October
| Scarlets v Munster | 15:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Green v Gold | 16:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Connacht v Glasgow | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Edinburgh v Ospreys | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 4th October
| Gloucester v Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Leicester v Harlequins | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| London Irish v Bristol | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Sale v Worcester | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Saracens v Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
| Wasps v Exeter | 15:00 | BT Sport 3 |
Ovally Balls 
Aargh play the conditions you bumwads
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Wonder who has the most wins against Wales. A 90s/2000s Englishman? Leonard perhaps. BOD? Some recent Aussie?
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Nearly disastrous wibble by the Os
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What a load of doomsters and gloomsters.
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Great Embra try.
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Oops. That’s me confused about who’s playing in which colour.
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This is going well
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Well, that was a class take of the long kick.
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*checks score*
yep.
*goes to look for Kanneh-Masons doc on iplayer to cheer up*
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A week ago, I booked a session for today in a secure field with TAO (the dug). Increasing consternation as the weather forecast worsened. We all got soaked to the skin, but she had an absolute blast.
The match is reminding me….
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Still time for it to get worse, ticht
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Ffs. Tactically inept
Os playing the conditions far better
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just playing better, really
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CMW, Leonard never lost v Wakes. Didn’t play the two times we beat them in the period he was an active test player. The English JPR.
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Ah, just checked. He did play those two games. Record was 11 wins 2 losses.
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FEFHSM has been good. JVDW has had a ‘mare
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*sigh*
Good try
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Well, Ospreys look like winning this one.
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@TomP – is Leonard the answer then do you think? Sella might be another contender.
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Can’t get a stream for the O’s now everyone’s gone to bed. Par for the course.
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That’ll teach you to pfft ticht
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Got a stream now. Looks very losable to me.
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Not sure why Embra tried something complicated from that lineout though.
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Pfft
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O’Driscoll 11 wins. Leonard and McCaw too. Also, Genia.
You’re right. The winner is Sella. 14 games, one less. Thanks to the green socks.
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Super start to the new season. For the ospreys
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It is a pretty big shock. First away win for 18 months according to the commentary.
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Didn’t see much of the game. I’m guessing it might be a slightly better halfback combination than some of what has been tried the last seaon or two.
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Had a look now and AWJ is 10 & 2 against Scotland. He won’t catch Leonard who is top dog with 13 wins, next best is eleven so there is a good chance of equalling or bettering that though Wales are hardly clear favourites for the upcoming fixtures in the way they have been for most of his time.
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Back to important stuff, hula hooping violinists.
There is a Youtube guy called Eddy Chen who I like, he is a serious tutor but he has this offshoot where he has a lot of fun stuff and somehow he persuaded one of the world’s top violinists in Hillary Hahn to perform whilst hula hooping
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Pfft. That’s nothing. I give you an ACTUAL woolly jumper….
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Wasps up 20-0 before the 30-minute mark. Umaga continues to impress.
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HT 25-0
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Malins just had the most horrible fumble, as he crossed under the posts – the ball just popped up, out of his hand. Luckily Bristol were on an advantage, so all wasn’t lost. 0-17 to Bristol, at oranges.
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Yay Bristol.
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Wasps have just scored their BP try. Exeter yet to book any points.
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Exeter have managed to score a try!
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46-5 FT.
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So that leaves Bath in the position of ending up furious when Sale get to play their game and go past them. What a shame…
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She was supposed to cure the Coronavirus.
Instead… she fell in love with it.
Dr Alexa Ashingtonford is a part of a crack team of scientists tasked with finding the cure to the devastating Coronavirus. Little did she know she would end up falling in love with it, in this steamy viral-erotica.
Kissing Coronavirus is a steamy tale about forbidden love and dark desires come to life.
The book is M.J. Edwards debut book, and is her attempt at trying to pay the bills following her job loss.
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You’re not fooling anyone with that nom de plume TomP. For shame, flogging it here on OB too!
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“His eyes were striking, like a goat’s, but without the sideways pupils”
Does sound like TomP’s stuff.
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What the hell’s happening in the fitba’? Spurs thump Man Utd 6-1, West Ham (!?) thump Leicester at Leicester, Southampton win at home and now Aston Villa (!!!) are beating Liverpool 4-1 at half-time! Even Wolves won!
(I know Arsenal won too, but by all accounts it was a dreadfully boring game anyway).
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It’s a fun time of year, living with an arachnophobe
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Been some absolute monsters of late.
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@Chimpie – we had a minor invasion of ones bigger than anything I’d ever seen outside of a zoo. Quite proud of myself for managing to catch one in a room containing six children without any of them even noticing it was there. And especially for a late night catch when I managed to throw a plastic cup over one that was running away. Had to throw from a good few feet away and land the cup on a wooden floor without it bouncing. Not much to choose between the diameter of the top of the cup and that of the spider, will never happen again.
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Ends Aston Villa 7 Liverpool 2.
As someone once said, “Football, bloody hell.”
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Bit disappointed Guy N Smith didn’t write the crappy Covid-porn. At least that way it might have been set in Pontrhydfendigaid.
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It would basically be better if Iks had written it than TomP.
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