Round Three Redux? Round Five-and-three-quarters? In any case, Welsh fans will be biting their nails, or any other available substance, and wondering if France can win with a bonus point and 21 points to deprive them of the title.
Scotland will no doubt have plenty to say about this, as a win with a six-point points advantage will put them second on the table (giving them their best finish in the Six Nations), supposing France don’t score a LBP.
Sadly, both teams can finish above Ireland. Maybe we should just cancel this match.
And maybe we should support France to wind up the OH.
Onna telly this week
Friday 26th March
| Gloucester v Exeter | 17:30 | BT Sport 3 |
| France v Scotland | 20:00 | BBC1 |
Saturday 27th March
| Glasgow v Treviso | 13:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Bristol v Harlequins | 14:00 | BT Sport 1 |
| London Irish v Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Worcester v Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport Extra |
| Wasps v Sale | 16:30 | BT Sport1 |
| Leinster v Munster | 17:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 28th March
| Dragons v Edinburgh | 14:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Leicester v Newcastle | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Ovally Balls 
BB displeasing I should add
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Another BB pleasing try
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Another try
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Going to apply some suspense this time
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I am displeased.
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Pleased now?
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Treviso are pretty bad
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I am pleased.
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Told you feelgood factor was back!
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Come on, Munster!
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Just spotted the score between Wuss and Saints. Wuss 7 Saints 62. And it’s not finished yet! Ashton given red as well.
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And since I typed that Wuss score a try! The comeback is on!
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Ah. Comeback finished as the game has ended.
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Munster have managed to prevent Leinster from crossing the line (well, and putting it down) so far. Pretty brutal match.
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6 all at oranges.
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Bah. Blue Meanies score.
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POM limping off, looking like he’s in serious pain.
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Dammit I had forgotten about this game until five minutes ago
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Sexton had replaced the limping Ross Byrne, but now he’s gone off for both blood & HIA, so Byrne’s back on.
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Leinster in, really still a not too shabby team, shocker
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Seriously though, they are an outstanding side
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Boo hiss. 16-6 at FT.
Munster really looked out of ideas.
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Heh – switched over to a Pink Floyd concert. The mister (who doesn’t actually read the blog), said Some bloke at work tried to tell me that Pink Floyd are Prog Rock! (He is not a fan of PR.)
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Well at least he doesn’t think they’re a blues band…
Seriously, what type of band does he think they are? Has he heard The Wall? About as Prog as it gets.
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He says, fuck off.
I tried to explain that PF practically invented the genre.
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Charming! And to think we won his championship for him. :)
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I know, he’s an ungrateful bastard.
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He likes Animals, and apparently it’s never occurred to him that it’s the least big proggy.
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Very disappointing – never really in it…. big call to play Carbery with so little game time but don’t think he can be blamed for lack of progression. Seemed like we’d missed the entire 6N and were surprised by how good Henshaw was. Kicking game was poor – I know the plan would be to target Larmour but so did Leinster hence Keenan and Kearney in back three.
Ruddock and van der Flier were good. Coombes showed well as did de Allende . We’ve hardly reached double figures in last few games vs Leinster. Definitely second best again… and not close second either….. we looked tired/leggy which didn’t appear to be the case with Leinster even though a lot of them played vs England last Saturday.
Definite murmurings about van Graan…. as tactical plan looked bereft of any invention. Played OK in first half but not sure we got into Leinster 22 in the second.
Moans on for another 20 mins…..
Anyway – congrats to Leinster… by far the better team….
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Trisk – even Earls made some bizarre and very uncharacteristic mistakes.
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Leinster won? I’m shocked
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Shock of Leinster winning – or shock of Chimpie being shocked by Leinster winning kills blog.
Even more shocking is the Ireland fitba’ team getting beat at home by Luxembourg. I’m sure HBH was either born or lived in Luxembourg for a bit, so we’ll chalk that victory up to him.
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trisk, just watched it now. Henshaw was very good as you say and Rhys Ruddock is just great to watch. McGrath kicked very well most of the time as well.
For Munster? Not much to what you said. It’s hard for them as they’re 2nd best in the league but the best are that much better than them. No disgrace.
Also, Graham Rowntree is a brave fella wearing shorts outside in this weather but not doing any running around to keep warm.
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So Scotland win in Paris and Ticht ends up playing poker with dogs at 2am? Sounds about right.
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Yeah – no pastries at all for Munster.
And then the damn soccer team lose to Luxembourg…. unfortunately Irish soccer needs a rebuild from bottom upward.
I recall 2 of my lads playing in an U12 tournament – 11 a side, full size pitch, full size goal. By comparison in rugby at that age they are still playing mini rugby (11 a side – playing across the pitch – 6 man scrum, no contest, limits on kicking) and in gaelic football it’s Go-Games – 11 a side, half pitch, limits on possession, limits on scores).
Which of those models promotes players skills? Doesn’t look like the soccer model…..
Now it turns out that most of the Letzebergesch play at a decent level across Europe – their goalscorer plays for Dynamo Kyiv. Although most of ours play in Prem or old Div2/3 – we don’t seem to have any/many plying their trade in France/Spain etc or even Belgium or Netherlands even at second tier clubs.
(Wrote this last night-forgot to post)
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And back to rugby…while there’s no shame in being second… we don’t seem to be closing the gap. Not even causing Leinster problems.
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Here, most football games until they reach the U 15 are played with a smaller ball, smaller goals, half a pitch and usually 7 players.
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The UK is apparently considering a ban on foie gras. While authorising the import (and hence the local production) of chlorinated chicken.
Brexit: getting your priorities right.
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Leinster play like Good Ireland, Munster like Bad Ireland.
Perhaps something as simple as an intercept try could help Munster. 2 would really help them.
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@flair
We haven’t authorised chlorinated chicken. It would fail our existing food standards in any case. It’s a complete non-issue dreamed up by campaigners against Brexit.
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I always viewed the chlorinated chicken as being an example of the potential trade offs necessary in any trade deal with a stronger partner…. probably highly unlikely but where standards and processes differ it’s possible.
Then the question is how desperate/keen are you for a deal….is it a showstopper or can you offer something else that the “partner” wants?
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@trisk
No trade deal could oblige the UK to accept lower standards. To change them requires new legislation which isn’t going to happen.
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@Flair
That underage soccer/football model seems to be generic across Europe – small pitch/small sides.
Not to say that 5/6 a side is unknown at juvenile level but the adult form of the game predominates.
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Non rugby question here. Was browsing a tag sale yesterday, and discovered a rather nice Union Flag sitting at the bottom of a box . Thought I should rescue it, only 2 dollars, thought it would be nice to hang on the wall in the workshop to wind up the septics. Funnily enough, when I got it home, thought it was missing something, and it turns out it is the pre 1801 version, without St. Paddys cross, so was probably used by some revolutionary war reenactment group. So here is the question. Is there anything offensive or dubiously political to display this version of the flag ?
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Right. Going to make myself watch embra
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Remember not to lose by 45 points se Glasgow can get 4th.
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We’ll try.
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Can’t guarantee anything though
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Hubbard is 37!
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