The top two sides in each Pro14 conference face off this weekend: Ulster at home (yay!) to the Blue Meanies (boo!), and Munster hosting Connacht tonight.
In the Premiership, Bath v Exeter looks like the most exciting match.
Onna telly this week
Friday 5th March
Munster v Connacht
19:35
Premier Sports 1
Leicester v London Irish
19:45
BT Sport 1
Sale v Newcastle
20:00
BT Sport Extra
Saturday 6th March
Zebre v Glasgow
14:00
Premier Sports 2
Bath v Exeter
15:00
BT Sport 2
Wasps v Gloucester
15:00
BT Sport Extra
Worcester v Bristol
17:15
BT Sport Extra
Ulster v Leinster
19:35
Premier Sports 1
Ospreys v Dragons
19:35
S4C / Premier Sports 1
Sunday 7th March
Harlequins v Northampton
15:00
BT Sport 1
Edinburgh v Treviso
15:15
Premier Sports 1
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Ha, was being generous. OK, check list of full back jobs then.
Tackling. Brown excellent, great at manipulating space and closing down overlaps, nails tackles well, right up for head on tackles with big forwards. Daly, often out of position, and flaky, often getting brushed aside, even by little guys.
Kick reception. Brown bloody brilliant, Daly often not even in the same part of the pitch, altho he has improved on this to mediocre recently.
Kicking. Brown decent boot both for touch and hi balls. Daly, huge boot, usually aimless. Can kick goals from 50 yards.
Attacking. Brown eye for space, sets off at full tilt, gets better with age at distribution. Daly, rarely passes and wastes endless overlaps.
Pace. Brownie never outrageously quick, lost half a yard recently, uses experience to be in the right place at the right time. Daly, quick, but no point in being a yard quicker than everyone else if you are ten yards away to start with.
Brownie just finished the game with an excellent jackling turnover in the Quins 22, worthy of an international 7. Daly rarely even bothers to try and support rucks to protect the ball when heis the first man there.
Yep, OK, six times the player. That better , Sladey ?
Thereās also Google Meet and an app called HouseParty, although I think HP isnāt set up for big groups.
Speaking of HP, it’s no longer available in South Africa. Pepsico had the rights to importing it, but didn’t renew the licence, leaving me without my favourite sauce. It’s a travesty and I will now boycott all Pepsico’s brands here in retaliation. Just been on their website and all their ‘headline’ products are shit anyway.
Mrs Ball’s chutney’s are legendary, spectacular and beyond compare. But they’re not HP Sauce. In any way. Completely different. Looked at my local supermarket yesterday and couldn’t find anything similar to HP.
It’s just hilarious, I can’t get angry at how pathetic both sides are. Apparently in the interview Harry is whinging about having no financial support from us/the Royal Family when they moved to Canada and being forced against his will to live off all the piles of cash he has inherited.
It’s simply brilliant, as if they’re confirming my prejudices about how stupid they all are.
In other more important news I did this smartDNA thing at work with Bupa. It looks at my genes and tells me what I should and shouldn’t eat.
Apparently I should restrict my smoked meat consumption to 70g weekly. Which is 280g every month and 350g for those months where there are five weekends. I’ll have a big bbq monthly.
It also says that I have a positive response to alcohol. I’m not going to read anything else as I’m pretty sure that is all I need to know.
Have no opinion on the Royals, British or any other. Which is probably an indication of a lack of any interest in them because I don’t see their relevance. Which may hint towards an opinion that they’re just hereditary celebs, which is to say amongst the least useful group of human beings in history and first to be fired into the sun. In my opinion.
@Craigs – I can’t see the sense in them playing Hogg at ten. If they’re going to play someone out of position then in the absence of Weir they could maybe try one of the locks.
Deebee – I’d like to see a kind of televised Battle Royale for all the royals inna world to work out who’s best. They then get a state pension and a job in Aldi for life.
Other TV ideas I’ve had is a one off Hunger Games for Clarkson and Piers Morgan. Spread over several months.
Aldi tend to be one of the better payers so tend to be able to recruit better staff, so I expect royalty won’t be much whack at working there. They’d probably be better at sitting in the toilets at a nightclub trying to cadge tips by squirting aftershave at people.
I don’t know how the queen can be wonderful when she is the CEO of the whole wretched operation.
I think the whole lot of ’em are privileged narcissists arse-licked by the rasping tongues of a fawning press and a grotesquerie of gullible flag-wavers.
OT – there’s a young chap who works in the Ashford aldi who I see about once every 2 months. Every time he asks me about my house and asks how what I said to him last time has progressed.
I’ll admit that it kinda makes my big weekly shop shopping experience.
Ovally Balls 
Six tries now.
What a game
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Trisk – for Google meet, does everyone have to have a gmail account?
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One interesting point comes from the Quins Saints game, Mike Brown without half a yard of pace is still three times the full back Elliot Daly is.
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@Thaum
Not sure…..might need one to start a conference- don’t think you need one to join…..
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…………….only 3 times?
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Ha, was being generous. OK, check list of full back jobs then.
Tackling. Brown excellent, great at manipulating space and closing down overlaps, nails tackles well, right up for head on tackles with big forwards. Daly, often out of position, and flaky, often getting brushed aside, even by little guys.
Kick reception. Brown bloody brilliant, Daly often not even in the same part of the pitch, altho he has improved on this to mediocre recently.
Kicking. Brown decent boot both for touch and hi balls. Daly, huge boot, usually aimless. Can kick goals from 50 yards.
Attacking. Brown eye for space, sets off at full tilt, gets better with age at distribution. Daly, rarely passes and wastes endless overlaps.
Pace. Brownie never outrageously quick, lost half a yard recently, uses experience to be in the right place at the right time. Daly, quick, but no point in being a yard quicker than everyone else if you are ten yards away to start with.
Brownie just finished the game with an excellent jackling turnover in the Quins 22, worthy of an international 7. Daly rarely even bothers to try and support rucks to protect the ball when heis the first man there.
Yep, OK, six times the player. That better , Sladey ?
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Mmm – next week’s match Exeter vs Quins looking tasty………….
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Belated happy birthday Tomp.
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Thaum/Ticht/everyone – I might be able to get access to a paid zoom account we can use without interruption. Will, let you know tomorrow.
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Thereās also Google Meet and an app called HouseParty, although I think HP isnāt set up for big groups.
Speaking of HP, it’s no longer available in South Africa. Pepsico had the rights to importing it, but didn’t renew the licence, leaving me without my favourite sauce. It’s a travesty and I will now boycott all Pepsico’s brands here in retaliation. Just been on their website and all their ‘headline’ products are shit anyway.
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Ball’s, Deebee. Mrs Ball’s.
I always took you for a Monkey Gland man.
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Mrs Ball’s chutney’s are legendary, spectacular and beyond compare. But they’re not HP Sauce. In any way. Completely different. Looked at my local supermarket yesterday and couldn’t find anything similar to HP.
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Do you still get Monkey Gland sauce? I thought that died out in the 80s? I suppose it’s a brand new fad in Pretoria in that case.
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Good Morning Britain is quite amusing right now.
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Think I’ll avoid the news having seen the beeb wanking on non-stop about royal pish
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Amazing how many ‘experts’ are out there on this subject and getting air time.
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Chimpie – Chaka Khan right now.
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Unconfirmed rumour flying around that Finn is injured.
Hastings is banned. Jaco wasn’t due to play yesterday due to injury. Weir out for rest of season. No Horne senior. This could be….. Interesting.
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I have been enjoying the royal soap opera over the last few weeks. Not because I have any sympathy for either side but just for the sport.
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We can lend you our current number 3 scrum half Lloyd Williams. Ali Price can then play at 10. LW can cover the wing too!
Isn’t there a budding Dan Parks coming through the ranks somewhere?
Hoggy?
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I’m sure we could probably let them have Steve Shingler now.
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Think the Dragons could still theoretically catch the O’s so they can have Sam Davies as well just to be on the safe side.
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There are sprogs at embra & glasgow with a bare handful of pro starts between them.
alternatively there’s the Hoggy at 10 option. Or Lang has played 10 in the past I hear.
Ireland by 87.5.
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OT – even if some of the accusations are true it’s hard to get past how self important Harry and Meghan appear.
Also, can we please just release all the royals into the wild. Give them Ā£2m per couple or something and tell them to fuck off.
To America.
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What happened to Weir?
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@craigs
It’s just hilarious, I can’t get angry at how pathetic both sides are. Apparently in the interview Harry is whinging about having no financial support from us/the Royal Family when they moved to Canada and being forced against his will to live off all the piles of cash he has inherited.
It’s simply brilliant, as if they’re confirming my prejudices about how stupid they all are.
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Craigs, have got a feeling all the Royals might be quite self–important. Not helped by the fawning press they get in the good times.
If you got rid of all the self-important types in public life and the media, the world’d be a better place.
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The Queen gave Meghan a pearl necklace is the main takeaway for me.
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Self-importance is kind of the whole thing with royalty, isn’t it?
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craigs and OT sound like quite the royal experts
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Tomp – haha, very good point.
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OT – ah, I thought he didn’t have that much (as in not much for a royal). It’s funny watching him squirm when the money tap gets switched off.
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In other more important news I did this smartDNA thing at work with Bupa. It looks at my genes and tells me what I should and shouldn’t eat.
Apparently I should restrict my smoked meat consumption to 70g weekly. Which is 280g every month and 350g for those months where there are five weekends. I’ll have a big bbq monthly.
It also says that I have a positive response to alcohol. I’m not going to read anything else as I’m pretty sure that is all I need to know.
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@chimpie
I must admit I find it great fun when there’s a big PR war going on like this.
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‘What happened to Weir?’
Injured, not sure of the details.
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Maybe he’s drained of energy.
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Stockdale back fit…………………….Scotland by 5
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Have no opinion on the Royals, British or any other. Which is probably an indication of a lack of any interest in them because I don’t see their relevance. Which may hint towards an opinion that they’re just hereditary celebs, which is to say amongst the least useful group of human beings in history and first to be fired into the sun. In my opinion.
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Stockdale back fit
His legs are bit dreamy too!
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….you need to get out more………………
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@Craigs – I can’t see the sense in them playing Hogg at ten. If they’re going to play someone out of position then in the absence of Weir they could maybe try one of the locks.
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Deebee – I’d like to see a kind of televised Battle Royale for all the royals inna world to work out who’s best. They then get a state pension and a job in Aldi for life.
Other TV ideas I’ve had is a one off Hunger Games for Clarkson and Piers Morgan. Spread over several months.
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Aldi tend to be one of the better payers so tend to be able to recruit better staff, so I expect royalty won’t be much whack at working there. They’d probably be better at sitting in the toilets at a nightclub trying to cadge tips by squirting aftershave at people.
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There’s a Guardian article Royalty today. Here’s one of their songs.
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I don’t know how the queen can be wonderful when she is the CEO of the whole wretched operation.
I think the whole lot of ’em are privileged narcissists arse-licked by the rasping tongues of a fawning press and a grotesquerie of gullible flag-wavers.
Firing into the sun is too good for them all.
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OT – there’s a young chap who works in the Ashford aldi who I see about once every 2 months. Every time he asks me about my house and asks how what I said to him last time has progressed.
I’ll admit that it kinda makes my big weekly shop shopping experience.
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I hate the nightclub toilet guys. Well, not them, but the whole shebang. On so many levels.
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SBT……………….nowt to do with me
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