The briefest of all possible previews.
Georgia v Fiji
Fiji are a very good side, but have not played a test match due to their Covid problems. Georgia were much improved last week. Georgia by 5.
Ireland v Scotland
Both sides looking rather pedestrian at the moment. With the inexplicable void where Hamish McFuckface should be, as well as the return of Sexton and Ireland’s home advantage (and despite the dropping of McCloskey), Ireland by 10.
Wales v Italy
Wales by 25. You know why.
England v France
With France putting out a C side, there is not much doubt: England by 15. Although I suspect France will throw some surprises England’s way.
Onna telly this week
Friday 4th December
| Bristol 18 – 17 Saints | ||
| Connacht 31 – 14 Treviso |
Saturday 5th December
| Australia v Argentina | 08:45 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Georgia v Fiji | 12:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Ireland v Scotland | 14:15 | Amazon Prime |
| Bulls v Cheetahs | 14:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Leicester v Exeter | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Wasps v Newcastle | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Worcester v Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Wales v Italy | 16:45 | S4C / Amazon Prime |
| Golden Lions v Western Province | 17:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Glasgow v Dragons | 19:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 6th December
| England v France | 14:00 | Amazon Prime |
| London Irish v Sale | 14:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Gloucester v Harlequins | 16:15 | BT Sport 1 |
Ovally Balls 
I gather the O’s are playing Castres. Should be a good watch.
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Wasps proving the English Premiership rules all…………………………………….errr
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Watched some Craig Doyle. Thinking about giving up the aul Irish citizenship in protest against him.
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Strange rugby weekend … hardly any home sides have won.
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It was going quite well there until they said Scott Hastings is doing comms.
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Top billing for Top 14 v 5th out of 6 in group B Pro 14
What could possibly go wrong for Edinburgh?
I’m going for us by 7
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Yes. Actually an Irish company – based in Cavan
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Cavan being an Ulster county, but not in Northern Ireland, of course….
I still do not recognise the K******* Stadium. Nor the A****, which is of course Lansdowne Road.
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@ticht
My understanding of the ‘new’ ruck interpretation is that jackal only needs to get hands on ball – doesn’t need to “survive” the clear out…..
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Topical, Trisk, as Watson just kifted the ball and didn’t get the reward.
As per, it depends on the ref
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“Pottinger was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, … and contained the wards of Ballymacarrett, Bloomfield, Orangefield, Ravenhill, The Mount, and Woodstock.”
I think I’m most disappointed that the stadium wasn’t built in Ballymacarrett, but Woodstock or Orangefield would have been fun/alarming in their own ways too.
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I guess the main challenge for Thaum and co is not to confuse The Kingspan Stadium with Kingspan Breffni Park.
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Skelton is a differently proportioned human
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Well worked try from La Roche, we need to gtf out of our half
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Mata is really off the pace tonight
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Looks as though Edinburgh really don’t know how to attack. Doesn’t help with Henry as scrum half.
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We had a work quiz the other day (which my team won – yay!). One of the questions was a sequence of numbers, and the answer was the next square of a prime number.
A good quiz question would be to present a rugby score, and the possible scores than could have led to it. For example – an easy one – the score now is 0-8: the 8 can only be through an unconverted try and and a penalty. But take the number higher, and it’s more difficult.
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*Could be a drop goal and not a penalty, of course.
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Dodgy ref call there: pass looked forward anyway.
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Wonder why its not the Kingspan Ravenhill Stadium, a la BA Twickenham and BT Murrayfield Stadium. Would that please more ?
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Ospreys smashin Castres 25-3 at the half.
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SBT – well, I suppose it might be a slight improvement, but K****** can fuck right off either way.
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Kingspan Breffni Park
That’s the GAA ground in Cavan. Not sure I can think of another GAA stadium that has a sponsor….
…goes away ….
There are a couple of others…..none sponsored by companies connected with a disaster like Grenfell (afaik)
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Classic interview with ROG there.
Er, I’m just watching this, oh god….
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Kerr Barlow is a cheating wee shite.
Credit where it’s due, Luke Pierce has been good on the whistle
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That was a rough pen, mind
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I was aware of BT Murrayfield but not aware of the BA / Twickenham link….
Stadium sponsorship seems to be 50/50 – sometimes it catches – tends to work if its a new stadium (eg the Emirates) not an existing one
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It’s all gone Pete Tong, Davidson with a clear lift of the ball, but gets penalised – just referencing the earlier conversation
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My dog our midfield stink up the place
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Knockon my arse
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Pierce has blown a gasket here
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Even the “neutral” Barclay has called Pierce out on this, I’m just sick of it.
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Another home loss. Extraordinary. Commsierations, Embra fans.
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Looking forward to a home loss for Lyon tomorrow against the Cherry and Whites extra A’s.
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Hate to repeat myself, but its time for some music.
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Good stuff SBT, I do like Mr Isbell.
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I must be getting sloppy in my old age ‘coz I’ve listening to this loads over the last few weeks. Just love when the strings come in at about 2:30 mins and then the rest of the orchestra come in about 30 seconds later. Just brilliant.
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Well OF COURSE AC/DC are a jazz band…..
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Charley Pride RIP
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Bonjour!!
John Henley makes the EU’s position pretty clear:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/13/the-eus-red-lines-were-clear-in-2016
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Brexit talks to carry on in Brussels.
Quelle surprise!
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Basteraud playing at 8 for Lyon. I’m almost surprised its taken him so long to play as a forward.
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@flair
As long as I remember we’ve had things like this happening. The PM in Brussels being seen to have demands and standing up to the ungrateful continentals. It always ends in a “historic agreement”.
The only thing missing is footage of politicians and their entourages running breathlessly from meeting room to meeting room desperately trying to meet the deadline. That’s probably due to covid but it would be there if they could.
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Lyon score 3 tries in less than 20 minutes and Baby Glos look down and out, but they’ve come back and scored a lovely try from a long throw in.
Lovely and sunny in Lyon too. Lucky buggers (as I look out at the pissing down rain).
And Basteraud is over for number 4 for Lyon!
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– the pantomime is abhorrent, to me……….
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26-10 at half time to Lyon. Baby Glos doing fairly well – their number 8 has been their best player.
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Lyon scoring some fantastic tries in this game. Up to 40 points + and we still have a quarter to go.
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Lyon win 55-10. Just found out that they now have a double-header against Glasgow.
Gulp!
We’re gonna get pumped today and we’ll get pumped in both games from Lyon.
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OK. Mon ra Weedge. Try to keep the score down please….. Oh hell, we’ve got Horne at 10.
At least we have Olive and Mabel commentating with Cotter. Oops, sorry, I mean Sam and Andy.
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That’s the spirit Chimpie! Keeping the faith!
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