Everything will be all right tonight. Everything will be all right tonight. Or so I keep telling myself, as Ulster prepare to turn and face the strain of Leinster at the RDS. Let’s hope that Ulster can put Big Brother under pressure. It’s simple, really: all we have to do is win. But hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing: we are the dead.
While Ulster have lost Stockdale to injury, one South Effrican is back for us.
But one of Them has apparently recovered from yet another head injury.
Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal
In other news – newsman wept (with joy) as he told me – a familiar face is returning to Cardiff.
Someone’s back in town the chips are down
I just cut and blackout
I’m under Mulvihill’s influence and my honour’s at stake
Today is David Bowie’s birthday, in case anyone was wondering.
Onna telly this week
Friday 8th January
| Glasgow v Edinburgh | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Leinster v Ulster | 19:35 | TG4 / Premier Sports 1 |
| Bath v Wasps | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
| Sale v Worcester | 20:00 | BT Sport Extra |
Saturday 9th January
| Zebre v Treviso | 13:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Newcastle v Gloucester | 14:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Griquas v Cheetahs | 14:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Exeter v Bristol | 16:30 | BT Sport 2 |
| Western Province v Sharks | 17:00 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Dragons v Ospreys | 17:15 | S4C / Premier Sports 1 |
| Cardiff v Scarlets | 19:35 | S4C / Premier Sports 1 |
| Connacht v Munster | 19:35 | TG4 / Premier Sports 2 |
Sunday 10th January
| Harlequins v London Irish | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 16th January
| Glasgow v Edinburgh | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
Ovally Balls 
And speaking of music….
Just watched a Netflix doc on Clive Davis. I knew he was/is influential in the music biz, but hadn’t realised just how much. Just some of the folk he’s signed or been involved with – Big Brother And The Holding Company, Bruce Springsteen, Simon and Garfunkel, Miles Davis, Earth Wind and Fire, Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, Whitney Houston, Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, and so on…
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Conservative estimate for Sundays:
Roughly 20 games a season for ten years = 200
An average of probably 14 for another 10 years =140
That is already 340 cricket matches lasting roughly 4 1/2 to 5 hours each making
67.3 days if we say 4.75 hrs/game. Some stuff got rained off halfway through, but then there have been at least 15 two-innings games that started at 11am which will more than make up for them.
There’s a load of Saturday League cricket of a level that may as well have been played on Sundays and quite a bit of midweek 20 over thrashes to go with it.
Then there’s Haverfordwest 4th XI, Aberystwyth 2nds and Sundays etc from when I was a kid. Dear me.
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@BB – Does she watch the Scotland football team?
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I think it’s safe to say that Mrs BB is not a sports person in any way shape or form. (And yes, that does include the Scotland football team before anyone gets snarky).
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She’s not also a librarian though is she? I’ve always suspected those types of silent swearing that they think doesn’t really count…
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She is indeed a librarian, although she doesn’t work in schools like I do. She’s in charge of sending out resources to primary schools.
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Glasgow: H Jones; L Jones, Grigg, Fergusson, McLean; Thompson, Price; Seiuli, Turner, Fagerson, Gray, S Cummings, Wilson (capt), Gordon, Fagerson.
Replacements: Matthews, Lambert, Pieretto, Nakarawa, Harley, Dobie, Thomson, Smith.
Edinburgh: Kinghorn; Blain, Bennett, Dean, Sau; van der Walt, Groom; Sutherland, Cherry, Berghan, Toolis, Gilchrist, Bradbury, Watson, Mata.
Replacements: Willemse, Schoeman, Nel, Hodgson, Crosbie, Pyrgos, Chamberlain, Johnstone.
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Tempting
https://rootsrugby.org/iroquois-rugby-online-shop
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She’s in charge of sending out (yet more fecking) resources to (the little bastards in) primary schools (, wasted on the little shits).
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Only been to Embra and Inverness in Scotland. Loved both places.
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Hah! Very good, only you missed out the worst culprits of the lot – the teachers. Or the bloody fuckin’ bastardin’ teachers as Mrs BB is far too polite to call them (when her manager’s listening).
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what happened??
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Everybody was shocked by Mrs BB’s disgraceful language.
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Yes indeed I was.
Tried VIP for Bordeux Clermont game, and it was Portugese soccer. Hmmm. Also my French TV pass seems to be unavailable. Brexit ??
Still no decision on who to support this afternoon, so may just have to be a neutral, but that never is as much fun.
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Saracens winning 14-13 against Ealing just after half-time.
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No rugby, so idly browsing. Didn’t realise that Christian Wade was still with the Bills, thought he had been cut. Apparently still on the roster for the practice squad, and something of a celebrity. Lots of videos with him/about his journey. If the Bills progress and get a lot of injuries of covid hits, he could still get activated I think. Would be nice for him to get at least one NFL start.
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Ealing sneak a 27-26 win.
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‘Mon ra Weedge! Time we got a win. Big Leone on the bench (although he hasn’t played for about a year, so he might be Really Big Leone), couple of young guns starting – I don’t feel unduly negative about this. But then I don’t feel unduly positive about it either…
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Gray is an aerial menace
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Glasgow done their scrum homework
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Trump addresses the nation: “My pillow Americans…”
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Edinburgh getting my support so far for more creative effort in shit weaher. Could yet change.
Praps they should start another team in Dundee or Aberdeen ?
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I feel that is a really important win for Ealing – even if a non-league fixture
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Yes!
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Turner gets a yellow for not very much. Watching the 1999 game last night reminded me that in the olden days the yellow card was like it is in soccer, a caution. Corne Krige got one for stamping on Mark Taylor’s head. Pleasingly, Tayls scored a lovely try and Scott Quinnell smashed past the thug Krige plenty of times in Wales’s glorious win.
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Fantastic. A passing train sounds its horn and Nic Groom thinks it’s half time so wastes a couple of seconds before kicking the ball out deep in Edinburgh’s 22.
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Groom ya donut
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Sladey, only Billy Vunipola was playing for Sarries. Of their England internationals, that is. Duncan Taylor also played.
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Thats funny. Serves him right. 3 points now. Silly bugger ran 30 odd yards back too. Shame he didn’t kick it out over the dead ball line behind the goal as well.
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Tomp
ok – thanks for that.
But, the result is now down on paper and is a sort of marker: one that will encourage Ealing to greater achievements or encourage Saracens to try to squash them at the next opportunity.
From such minor events are futures made…………………or something
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Hah!
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Double hah! (or Hah! Hah!)
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Better game than the last outing. Wrong current score thought
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Just turned it on – nailbiting finish!
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Ah well, a well done to the weedge then
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No idea what Glasgow were doing there with the penalty – why?
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Thaum – we just wanted Groom not to feel like the only twat at the end of a half….
Thank feck for that, as Mrs BB won’t say.
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One up for us Glasgow fans.
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Oh, and this:
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Rather nice article here, well written too, which is increasingly becoming unusual In the Graun :-
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jan/17/marcus-rashford-the-making-of-a-food-superhero-child-hunger-free-school-meals
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SBT
I loved the photo of his little boy’s smiley face as he reached the top of a rope wall……………….
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Anyone interested in predicting EJ’s 28 squad?
perhaps not……………………………….
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16 big fat forwards and 12 interchangeable dour backs. Next!
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16 ridiculously fit forwards, 10 super skillful and lightning fast backs, a dour game plan that negates all their qualities, plus Ben Youngs and Owen Farrell.
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When is it announced, Sladey ?
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Tuesday, I think………………………
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reduction to 28 for 6 Nations puts pressure on EJ:
– even greater temptation to go with tried and trusted]
– less room to take risks and blood new players – so 27 + Youngs, then………………………..
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Would be OK with Youngs, great servant to English rugby etc etc, if only Eddie would pull him and bring Robson on as soon as it becomes obvious he is having a shit day, instead of persevering with him for 70 mins. Sometimes he looks kind of depressed to be on the pitch.
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