Little bitta English Premiership … women’s Six Nations.
Onna telly this week
Friday 16th April
| Northampton v London Irish | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 17th April
| Sale v Gloucester | 12:30 | BT Sport Extra |
| Exeter v Wasps | 12:30 | BT Sport 3 |
| Ireland v France (women) | 14:15 | BBC iPlayer/Red Button; RTÉ Two |
| Scotland v Italy (women) | 17:00 | BBC iPlayer/Red Button |
| Newcastle v Bristol | 17:00 | Channel 5 / BT Sport 3 |
| Harlequins v Worcester | 17:00 | BT Sport Extra |
Sunday 18th April
| Bath v Leicester | 15:00 | BT Sport 3 |
Ovally Balls 
Ah, Real Cricket is back, a step towards the return of Normal.
Great read, CMW.
Embra for tomorrow’s game v Zebre, a callow but promising side
15. Blair Kinghorn (98) 14. Damien Hoyland (82) 13. Matt Currie (2) 12. George Taylor (33) 11. Eroni Sau (22)
10.Nathan Chamberlain (7) 9. Charlie Shiel (32)
1. Boan Venter (4) 2. Mike Willemse (36) 3. Lee-Roy Atalifo (8) 4. Marshall Sykes (3) 5. Jamie Hodgson (19) 6. Mesu Kunavula (8)
7. Luke Crosbie CAPTAIN (54) 8. Ben Muncaster (0)
Substitutes:
16. Patrick Harrison (1) 17. Pierre Schoeman (60) 18. WP Nel (152) 19. Viliame Mata (86) 20. Connor Boyle (4)21. Roan Frostwick (1) 22. Jack Blain (12) 23. Chris Dean (106)
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“He’s only just finding out where the toilets are,” says one colleague.
I wouldn’t trust him to do that.
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As someone said on AoD when CU and the others stated CUK-TIG, CU was taking a big risk with his political career. In that sense, I think CU won. That won’t help him when he can’t find somewhere to go for a piss, mind.
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CMW, it might be worth sending your CV on spec to JP Morgan. Make sure you include the line that you “can remember where the toilers are”.
On second thoughts, that might mean you’re over-qualified.
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The rest of us were supposed to want competent and electable people like that running the Labour Party.
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toilers for toilets is a bad typo but somehow it still works.
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Being able to remember where the toilers are would certainly disqualify you from the Labour Party as Chukka would have liked it. I get that there are some self-serving charlatans who are hard to spot and indeed some that don’t start out that way, but it wasn’t exactly difficult to spot what kind of person he was.
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’tis an interesting line up tichty. Actually moderately looking forward to these forthcoming fairly meaningless games to bring some interest to my mainly rugby-less life
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Exited the melbury for a couple of hours on the bike as it’s such a farbulous day.
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‘Childs, an unpopular figure within the league, will join CVC – the private equity firm that owns a 27% stake in the Premiership, where he joins his predecessor Mark McCafferty.’
Classic. Blazer’s gonna blazer.
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Ol knee
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I keep reaching the conclusion that Keir should have made his bouncer hold the pub landlord in a chair whilst whilst he helped himself to multiple drinks and packets of pork scratchings.
No need for conversation either.
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Ah’m pure ragin’.
One of my schools has decided to refurbish my library without any consultation with me at all. I mean, I’ve only worked in that school for nigh on 20 years (longer than the vast majority of teachers there). It had 30 computers in, but they’ve been removed as all pupils now have I-pads, so there is a lot of spare space. Fairy ’nuff, as Ticht would say. But for the school to tweet about how excited they are about the ‘changes’ and I’m only told AFTER that royally pisses me off. Plus the fact that the teacher who emailed me about it today was in that library on Monday and said not a word to me about.
Need to listen to something calming. Motorhead should do it.
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Keir Starmer doesn’t strike me as a stuffing face full of pork scratchings type of bloke. Probably smashed avoid on rye or whatever you eat that abomination on.
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Smashed avo, autocorrect. But you’re right. Avoid. At all costs.
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TomP, I know I’ve seen Gumshoe and remember it somewhat as being a bit grimy and dour, in the vein of a Get Carter type kitchen-sink 70s film. So I’ve never been tempted to back to it. Great spot with the Mighty Joe Young reference though!
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@CMW, I’m genuinely glad your real cricket is alive and well. It sounded like a grand day out crowned by a marvellous knock of 25 on your behalf.
Don’t stop me if I’ve told this before… When I worked in Baden-Baden I stayed overnight on Thursdays because the commute was so gruelling. I found one small Kneipe at the start of the Fußgangerzone run by a couple Michael and Sabine who just didn’t belong in the sterile ambience of B-B‘s town centre. They were always fighting against being evicted by the landlord of the building. They were like washed up hippies grown old and sarcastic running a rufty-tufty bar where there shouldn’t be one. But he cooked good food and they took a shine to me after I endured their snides and took my regular Thursday place at the tiny bar.
Anyway I was there one Thursday and they excitedly explained that CdeB had turned up with his entourage the night before, after playing a concert in the casino / concert hall there. She said they were charming and lovely and were looking for somewhere quiet to eat. But it was after 11pm so they told them basically to fuck off because the kitchen was closed.
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Feck, the end of the week is coming up again.
Deebs, I’m sure you promised me an ATL ages ago?
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(No pressure, heh.)
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Despite warning myself not to, I went and read a Jenkins. Urgh
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Deebs – he would probably have to bring his own avoid and rye in that case. I just think, tht if you force your way into a pub it should be more like this:
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Scotland, Ireland and Wales seem to be taking it in turns to get Jenkinsed each week. Did any of us ask for it?
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I seriously think that Jenkins is losing it.
At least someone’s had a word in his small and shell-like, and he’s realised that it’s the Single Market, rather than the Customs Union, that allows free movement of goods and people. It’s only taken him 5 years.
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Craigs, Withnail has so many classic scenes. Brilliant film!
@Thauma, um, you may be right! Let me think about it!
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Britain is no longer in a pandemic, experts have said, as new data showed the vaccination programme is reducing symptomatic Covid infections by up to 90 per cent
*Blows Sag’s party squeaker thing*
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You get jenkinsed whether you ask for it or not. All part of his MO.
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Fuck’s sake:
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I missed the shabby treatment of our resident librarian on my last read through. Really basic error not to involve you at all, BB. You need to kick up a ruckus.
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Gotta wonder if this is the limit…
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Ol knee…
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Tomp – someone, somewhere is shirely preparing a colourful nuke to go off in a desert.
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A simple text message would suffice. Maybe set up a group Whatsapp.
Or stuff like this happens:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/gender-reveal-stunt-goes-wrong-when-plane-crashes-killing-2/
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Found out that the first two were girls through the medium of emergency c-section. I did go to the pub afterwards, but wouldn’t call it a party.
We really went to town with number three, asking at the scan and celebrating by breathing a sigh of relief that we at least had a good idea what we were in for.
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To be honest the big celebration with number three was the ‘there’s only one in there’ moment at the first scan.
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We found out the sex of our kids during the scan. Called, emailed and texted people we know after. Cracked a tectonic plate and released billions of litres of dye into the ocean for everyone else.
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Cmw – my mate had twins after his second. How I laughed.
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Would have been funnier if it had been quads
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Thauma, you have mail.
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Just noticed how the NZ Notracist’s form has improved significantly in the last few weeks. It’s almost as if it’s linked to something being there or someone not being there. I wonder what that is….
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Both Iran and China were elected to the United Nations’s Commission on the Status of Women yesterday, the former with 48 and the latter with 43 out of a possible 53 votes. The purpose of the commission is to promote “gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
I mean, this would be funny in a dark comedy.
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I’m pretty sure South Africa would have voted for both. We – apparently – have the world’s most liberal and inclusive constitution, so we’re told by politicians every day. Unfortunately without adherence by citizens and enforcement by the state, it’s meaningless shit and the levels of violence against women and the LGBTQIA+ community are being described as a pandemic of its own. Unfortunately, there are very few countries globally that are any better when it comes to matching laws and rhetoric with reality.
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Craigs, Saudi Arabia previously had a seat on it.
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So if Iran’s replacing Saudi Arabia, it’s actually an improvement.
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Deebs – there have been a depressing number of crimes against women here recently which have had ludicrously light sentencing. The details of this case for example:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/18/anthony-williams-killed-wife-act-of-great-violence-jailed-for-five-years
Ridiculously, crimes which have misogynistic element or motive will only be recorded as a hate crime from this Autumn. Why not now?
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Tomp – babiest of baby steps.
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TomP, Craigs, until society – and that means men at every level have to be a part as well – rejects violence against women, children and minorities of every description with energy and conviction, nothing will change.
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New post soon!
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