Three years ago, we were in Bilbao for the Challenge Cup final. What a difference a pandemic makes. Also, the sun was shining, at least in Spain.
Regarding the Little Cup, Flair99 says: “To find Montpellier there is quite stunning, they’re fighting to avoid relegation, and they’re certainly not pleasant to watch. How about Leicester?”
Same, Flair, same.
La Rochelle v Toulouse will undoubtedly be a more interesting match. I’m calling it for La Rochelle, because I would like them to win.
Onna telly this week
Friday 21st May
| Leicester v Montpellier | 20:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 22nd May
| Sharks v Stormers | 12:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Lions v Bulls | 14:30 | Premier Sports 2 |
| La Rochelle v Toulouse | 16:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Sunday 23rd May
| Nada |
Ovally Balls 
The end of QI tonight had a story about a student who woke up, hungover, with “Brian is a twat” tattooed on his arm.
He has no idea who Brian is.
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I like it Ticht! The rugby here has been slow to get up to speed, no doubt about it. Luckily for us, a good chunk of the Bok side is playing in Europe at the moment, so will be at least at the pace and level of the B&I Lions. We’ve still got a few weeks to go in the domestic stuff and then warm up matches, so after such disruption in the last 18 months, I think we’ll be there. #ItrustRassie
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SBT, that’s a manipulated picture. Male Lions have zero ability to catch a Springbok. Must have pinched it off his missus if it it real! Lazy, entitled man!
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Ricardo Loubscher says Ticht is talking through his sphincter! Also, some of our guys are playing in Japan, which is a much faster, more dynamic league that the ProWoo and left Ireland and Scotland (16 Lions between them) scrambling and defeated in 2019. Boks to win the series 4-0, with a bonus win for style.
https://www.news24.com/sport/rugby/britishandirishlions2021/former-bok-assistant-ricardo-loubscher-says-boks-are-ready-for-lions-challenge-despite-covid-19-challenges-20210526
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Yeah, I didn’t like to say it but the SA super pooper rugger teamz don’t look that hot.
The unzuders though like in fine fettle. Been a clean sweep against the aussies so far hasn’t it?
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Well he would say that wouldn’t he.
‘we’re not ready and we’ll get pumped ain’t gonna get people interested
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Rassie is a meticulous planner and ain’t gonna put a half-baked side on the field. 4.5-0 with half a point for being such massive underdogs.
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Pffffffft.
Planning ain’t gonna whip those lumbering hephalumps into shape. Lionz will run rings around them.
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Cam Redpath has done his acl, likely to be out for the rest of the year.
What a pisser, that is two bad injuries in a few months, he was looking at being first choice at 12 for Scotland in the summer and November tests.
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SA Super Rugby’s been all right. Trouble is they’ve all played each other 6 or 7 times in the last few months so it’s getting a bit familiar.
Also, in 2019 no SA side got past the quarter-finals and the national team won the pot.
Jacques Nienaber and Rassie’s problem is getting the team together from all corners of the earth for long enough to have them playing well. Before and during the 2019 RWC they were in camp for a long long time.
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versus
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I didn’t realise you were such a keen follower of SA rugby, Chimpie. What do you make of young Hendrikse?
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He sucks
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And so do the boks
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That’s bad luck for Redpath, Ticht. He was looking the biz.
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Ticht – I’m not sure how you got a picture of me and I hope I never have to scrummage against Tadhg Furlong again.
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He was such a sore loser the baby.
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Ewan Ashman is going to turn down England this summer apparently. Sensible lad
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Good news for Canada I hope.
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Pffft.
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Ticht, Malherbe looked like that on his way to World Cup glory too. As did Tadhg Furlong on his way to a Q/F exit after losing to Japan as well. Thought you of all posters would appreciate the less than gym bunny look.
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I can’t imagine losing to Japan at a world cup!
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It makes a refreshing change to have Scotland fans take an interest in the B+I Lions.
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Your snark-fishing is not being entirely successful
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Lying is a sackable offence furra minister according to ol’ Dom.
*chuckles*
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Just reading about Rosco Specman being in the SA alignment camp for this series. Would be great to see him in a Test jersey.
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Thought you of all posters would appreciate the less than gym bunny look.
Not that I’m suggesting you’re anything but in fine fettle, just that you’ve always admired rugby as a game for all sizes.
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Yeah, trying to row that back now eh deebs
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Basic politeness and good manners. Unusual for a South African but welcome.
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USA bringing through the (Irish) youth: https://www.the42.ie/luke-carty-usa-squad-ireland-england-tests-5448541-May2021/
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Just back from picking the lad up from school. Conversation turned to vaccinations and I made a horrible faux pas in asking one of the mums if she’d been vaccinated yet, forgetting that the age people can get register and get jabbed is higher in Ireland than it is in the UK and the Czech Republic.
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Insults flying about today. Deebee insulting ticht. Tomp insulting random irish people and indulging in general snark. We’ll have to call him snarky mcsnarkface.
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@tomp
At the cricket last night one of the other dads was boasting that he’d been offered the Pfizer jab because he was too young to have the AZ one.
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You insulting the Hendrikse family and the South African nation as well, Chimpie.
The lady in question wasn’t random as I’ve met her before. It could mean the end of the possibility of free tickets through her husband.
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So I did, appalling behaviour. Someone should do something.
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The Cummings testimony is fascinating. Hancock is toast.
Apparently Johnson is referred to as the ‘shopping trolley’ (swinging out of control, from one side to another).
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Chimpie out!
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Hancock out!
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‘Cummings says Boris Johnson was told he should keep Matt Hancock as health secretary so that he could sack him when the public inquiry happened.
He says his own view was that waiting was a mistake, because keeping Hancock in place would give him more time to mess things up.’
Lovely people
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He sure makes a lot of noise but is a bit more coy about the stuff known as ‘evidence’.
He’s an arse who’s been working for arses. Arses everywhere.
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Chimpie – yep. But it is certainly entertaining, and far more illuminating than any proper enquiry will be.
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This might not make the top 100 worst articles but it’s still shite:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/words-i-thought-id-never-write-thank-god-for-matt-hancock
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Matt Hancock is weird
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Just him? This is a government full of weirdos.
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They can’t even swear convincingly
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I was at college with the bloke who tweeted that. He’s an Old Etonian.
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@tomp
Do all Old Etonians get a blue tick?
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Oh I forgot to mention. It’s 20 years since this delightful event. I moved away a few months later.
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He landed a job at The Times soon after and has traded his way into a career as a pop historian. Not quite sure if he’d’ve managed if he’d been from a less fortunate background and had to rely on his talent.
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