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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465 thoughts on “A Brief Interlude for Pro-woo and Premiership”
Lace Hankies goes straight into my Deep South novelette.
@CMW, I’d be amazed if Beard doesn’t play against France. A run out for Hill makes sense as he lacks match rugby. Agree that Jake is being given a sentimental send-off. He did a job for Wales, along the lines of Drags’ leges Ian Gough and Andrew Coombs – solid and committed but always struggling to offer more than effort and physicality.
Beard is more like (yet another) Drags lege, Charteris. I think AWJ needs this type of second row partner, because they add elements to the Welsh team’s game that AWJ can less easily deliver.
I think Ball’s generally done pretty well for Wales and has been very important for Scarlets. I don’t really mind the sentimental send off either, but it does suggest that Pivac might be human which isn’t what we normally want out of NZ coaches.
Think you’re probably right about the Charteris thing.
I have just remembered a French joke. The problem is that telling all of it in colloquial French is probably beyond my powers these days, and the punchline doesn’t translate into English. So have a franglais joke.
Being in the unusual – for him – position of wanting to ensure the maximum pleasure of his partner, he begins slowly. He kisses her hand, and then kisses her all up the arm.
France second row in trouble: Leroux’s injured but worse, Willemse did not train with the squad as while playing with Montpellier last week, he may’ve been in contact with a Clermont player who tested positive. This covid thing isn’t over yet. The team will be announced tomorrow around noon. Or else…
I may forfeit my ATL.
Flair, there’s a few more locks kicking their heels where you got those other weaklings from. In the Cup with No Nameā¢ (seriously, we’ve got a warm-up tournament here to prep the SA sides for the Rainbow Cup but it has no name and no sponsorship), the Cheetahs, once more dumped and kicked in the nuts by SA Rugby, have now beaten both the Stormers and Sharks in the CNNā¢ (think someone else may have trademarked that). Now, Carl Wegner and Rynier Bernardo may not be household names in European rugby (or even outside of their own houses), but they’re at least fit and Covid free. And Wegner played for Stade Francais back in 2013/14 so should slot in seamlessly. Bernardo, so Wiki gushes, blazed a trail across Europe in the the successful Ospreys and Scarlets sides of that golden generation from 2014-2017.
I’ll take my payment in the form of a steak bordelaise with an ’82 Chateau Latour to wash it down with. I think you’ll find it’s worth it.
Hmm, no response to my generous talent scouting. Times are tough I suppose, even if you’re dealing in Euros. Let’s settle on a packet of 2-minute noodles and some roast beef crisps then?
Ovally Balls 
Post office prolly responsible for lace hankies too.
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Having Steak Balmoral for dinner. Scotland by 27.
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I hope it’s authentic Aberdeen Angus!
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Not in SA, but a lovely aged Karan steak. It’s good!
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Mrs Deebee is out of town so I’m indulging myself with steak, roast potatoes, sautĆ©ed mushrooms and good red wine. Will probably have the sauce stripped of the cream, butter, peppercorns etc shortly. Just with a block of ice.
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“Turns out without it on I write total gibberish.”
*Leafs through Chimpie’s posts to prove the opposite*
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Good evening Mr Pot….
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Lace Hankies goes straight into my Deep South novelette.
@CMW, I’d be amazed if Beard doesn’t play against France. A run out for Hill makes sense as he lacks match rugby. Agree that Jake is being given a sentimental send-off. He did a job for Wales, along the lines of Drags’ leges Ian Gough and Andrew Coombs – solid and committed but always struggling to offer more than effort and physicality.
Beard is more like (yet another) Drags lege, Charteris. I think AWJ needs this type of second row partner, because they add elements to the Welsh team’s game that AWJ can less easily deliver.
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I think Ball’s generally done pretty well for Wales and has been very important for Scarlets. I don’t really mind the sentimental send off either, but it does suggest that Pivac might be human which isn’t what we normally want out of NZ coaches.
Think you’re probably right about the Charteris thing.
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Good evening Mr Kettle on your Sojourn through the Scriptures of the Chrysalis of Gilgamesh.
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For the record Chimpie’s toasts, sorry posts, are marvellous.
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Mrs Deebee is out of town so Iām indulging myself with steak, roast potatoes, sautĆ©ed mushrooms and good red wine.
How many paid for lunches do you have with Mrs Deebs, Deebs? I bet you have ham, egg and chips with her and then splash out when she’s not there.
Also, have salsa verde with the steak innit.
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I have just remembered a French joke. The problem is that telling all of it in colloquial French is probably beyond my powers these days, and the punchline doesn’t translate into English. So have a franglais joke.
SĆ©bastien has always fancied himself as a ladies’ man with enormous talents in the bedroom. One day he meets CĆ©cile, a very beautiful but rather shy young lady, and falls for her. After much wooing and a few drinks, he eventually persuades her back to his place.
Being in the unusual – for him – position of wanting to ensure the maximum pleasure of his partner, he begins slowly. He kisses her hand, and then kisses her all up the arm.
She is unmoved.
He kisses her lips. It is like kissing a mirror.
‘Is this okay?’ he asks.
‘Oh – yes, fine,’ she says. ‘Carry on.’
He carries on, employing every technique he knows, some he’s only heard of, and a few he’s made up on the spot. CĆ©cile remains unresponsive. As SĆ©bastien, desperate, tries his last and best move, he asks passionately, Tu sens quelquechose?
– Non, pourquoi, t’as pĆ©tĆ©?
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SĆ©bastien, Piers desperate, tries his last and best move, he asks passionately, Tu sens quelquechose?ā Non, pourquoi, tāas pĆ©tĆ©?
Piers storms off set.
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Should be a comma after Piers, but in retrospect Piers Desperate is probably one of the kinder things you could call him.
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‘England have vowed to “keep playing on the edge” when France visit Twickenham on Saturday’
The Edgelords cometh
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‘O’Connell has warned Ireland not to hand the Scots any kind of “leg-up” in Sunday’s Six Nations game in Edinburgh.’
That’s just not fair after all they did to help Wales. we could do with some assistance.
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Just reading about a 19th Century Irish Nationalist claim that the Irish invented chess.
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Same mob who claim they invented whisky?
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@Deebee – The one led to the other.
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“England enlist referee Wayne Barnes to address Six Nations disciplinary woes”
He’s not French.
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Is it true that his entire address was “Maro, stop being a dick?”
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@BB – I don’t think he had time left for that after he’d explained Thaum’s joke to them.
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I’m hoping Owen Farrell goes over it in the post match interview on Saturday.
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“Sam Skinner says Scotland don’t want ‘freebie points’ against France”
This is where Scotland get things wrong. You won’t see Wales turning down freebie points.
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He’s not speaking for all of Scotland there. I’d love some freebie points.
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@chimpie
…..I don’t think anyone has ever been able to do that p ‘though many may have claimed to
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France second row in trouble: Leroux’s injured but worse, Willemse did not train with the squad as while playing with Montpellier last week, he may’ve been in contact with a Clermont player who tested positive. This covid thing isn’t over yet. The team will be announced tomorrow around noon. Or else…
I may forfeit my ATL.
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Just kidding, Thaum.
It is half written but may need drastic changes. Damn!
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EEK – you scared me!
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Good, that was the point.
Don’t worry, I’ll do it, I just hope the damn virus is not spreading again in the French squad.
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Flair doing that underdogging thing again. France by 23.
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Nope. If France can play, I expect them to win by 12.
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“Nope. If France can play, I expect them to win by 12.”
Le BIG TALK! Marvellous.
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@BB
Did you know the Psychedelic Furs have a new record out? Doesn’t sound too bad…
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Yup, came out last year.
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That doesn’t sound too good for the French 2nd row. I think they need Big Seb back for the game v Wales.
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This one, yeah?
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For the record, my choice of SƩbastien and CƩcile for the character names in the joke had nothing to do with Chabal: it was from Les Liaisons dangƩreuses.
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In the eyes of us Wales fans there’s only one Big Seb, thaum, and it ain’t Chabal.
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Do refresh my memory, TomP. And of course Chabal wasn’t a second-rower.
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Won a WC quarter-final and completed a great Six Nations comeback for us.
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OT – ha
CMW – I am none the wiser. Shall have to sleep on this mystery.
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CMW, we’ll never see his like again. Quite simply, The Greatest.
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I’m starting to think that not making catastrophic mistakes is quite a big part of the game.
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Flair, there’s a few more locks kicking their heels where you got those other weaklings from. In the Cup with No Nameā¢ (seriously, we’ve got a warm-up tournament here to prep the SA sides for the Rainbow Cup but it has no name and no sponsorship), the Cheetahs, once more dumped and kicked in the nuts by SA Rugby, have now beaten both the Stormers and Sharks in the CNNā¢ (think someone else may have trademarked that). Now, Carl Wegner and Rynier Bernardo may not be household names in European rugby (or even outside of their own houses), but they’re at least fit and Covid free. And Wegner played for Stade Francais back in 2013/14 so should slot in seamlessly. Bernardo, so Wiki gushes, blazed a trail across Europe in the the successful Ospreys and Scarlets sides of that golden generation from 2014-2017.
I’ll take my payment in the form of a steak bordelaise with an ’82 Chateau Latour to wash it down with. I think you’ll find it’s worth it.
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Hmm, no response to my generous talent scouting. Times are tough I suppose, even if you’re dealing in Euros. Let’s settle on a packet of 2-minute noodles and some roast beef crisps then?
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