It’s the play-offs for both the URC and the English Premiership. As Ulster v Munster kicks off shortly, I shan’t waste any more time.
Onna telly this week
Friday 3rd June
| Ulster v Munster | 19:35 | TG4 / Premier Sports 2 |
Saturday 4th June
| Bulls v Sharks | 12:45 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Gloucester v Saracens | 15:00 | BT Sport 3 |
| Northampton v Newcastle | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
| Leinster v Glasgow | 15:15 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Stormers v Edinburgh | 18:00 | TG4 / Premier Sports 2 |
Ovally Balls 
Deebs, he’ll play in the 3rd Test v Wales I should think. He was brilliant today.
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I thought Edinburgh looked a bit overawed, we were quiet in attack until around the hour mark, by which time Stormers had learned how to play the offside line and we never really got into it bar one or two plays.
Stormers’ defence was good, we never got anything going in the midfield which has been the key to some of our best performances this season.
Kinghorn is still learning and if Johnny Sexton can’t turn a game when his pack isn’t producing lightning speed possession, I don’t expect a guy with perhaps 20 games at fly half to do so.
Crosbie is back playing where he was earlier in the season, but we still missed Mata and Ritchie. I like how our two young locks are coming along, Sykes and Hodgson, same with Muncaster, these guys plus a few in the academy have shown up well.
Prop is the main problem for us, when Shooey and eighty five year old Nel are not there we struggle, though de Bruin and Venter both went under the knife a few weeks back so next season we might be in a better place
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On a wider note, Edinburgh have beaten the Bulls and drawn with the Stormers at home, we’ve beaten the Sharks and lost to the Lions in South Africa and now lost to the Stormers in Cape Town.
To be honest I thought we were going to get pumped in all of those games before the season started, but we have something to build on now
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Right, time for Wales to sort out these Wcrainians. Can’t always be the good guys.
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Huge games in France today. Right now the ProD2 final between Mt de Marsan and Bayonne. Winner gets promoted to T14, loser plays T14′ s 13th. Bayonne lead 10/0 after 15 minutes.
Tonight, the last games of the regular season. Lots at stake as 9 teams can still qualify for the playoffs and 2 still fight to avoid relegation.
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Thank goodness that football is over. Horribly stressful.
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Pleased with the cricket. Pleased with the football. Pleased my teams aren’t playing rugby at least for a few weeks.
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I think Joe Root’s bat may be a bit more expensive than the ones I bought for my lads.
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Castres top the Top 14 – end of days, or something……………………………
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*songs in Craigman’s heid update*
I had ‘Spirit in the Sky’ in my head for four fricking days over the weekend. It’s gone now, to be replaced by ‘Baby Shark’ ffs.
*songs in Craigman’s heid update ends*
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Crazy Frog be like ‘hold my beer’.
#megalolz #going insane #pleasemakeitstop
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Somehow I feel this is an F U to Sturgeon:
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Morning!
Picture at the top of today’s Guardian politics blog features Mike Tindall just having asked Johnson how many children he has…………
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jun/06/boris-johnson-confidence-vote-graham-brady-tory-mps-live
Perhaps a caption competition??
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Slade – actually I think Tindall’s just said how nice it was of Johnson to bring his daughter with him.
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Here is the photo:
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How can you support the man after watching this (even if you supported him before)?:
What A Twat
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“twat” – apologies to all young breeding sheep everywhere
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…………..especially in Cumbria
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????
Whit? As young Sag would say.
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Danny Wilson Says…
Bye Glasgow.
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BB – when I were a lad in and around Ennerdale, farmers used the term twat when referring to young breeding ewes ……………………………..I’m sure I remember correctly
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Never heard that term from my dad (a shepherd). Mind you, we didn’t live in Cumbria, so maybe it was a (really) local term. The main name for a young ewe (or yow) round our way was ‘hogg’.
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“Yow” would be the colloquial version in Ireland….
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Slade – we passed through Ennerdale on our way to Kirkland the week before last. Did not stop for any conversations about young breeding ewes though.
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How come he could do his hair before 1995? That’s what I want to know.
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The barman says, ‘Sorry, mate, we don’t serve time travellers in here.’
A time traveller walks into a bar.
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I was lucky enough to spend almost all my school holidays in and around Ennerdale – all that space to myself
It made me what I am (!)
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Lovely, lovely place, Slade! We were staying near Ulverston, but went to Kirkland for the hound trailing.
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…….the main problem I remember with trailing is that not alldogs made it to the end. There was then a risk that one of these (large) dogs would turn up in your house reeking of having rolled in a dead sheep and choosing your sofa to lie on – what a wiff!
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My aunt and uncle had a country hotel on the lakes edge – it’s now demolished – a great haven in the post-war years
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My hound is a retired trailer (she lost interest in racing). She’s never shown any interest in sheep, alive or dead, though!
Shame about the hotel.
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A time traveller walks into a bar.
“Tardis has changed since I was here last”
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A time traveller walks into a bar.
“I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.”
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A time traveller walks into a bar.
A time traveller walks into a bar.
A time traveller walks into a bar.
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Whilst we’re waiting to see the result of the attempted defenestration, here’s my favourite bar joke:
Dumas (père), Sartre and Descartes walk into a bar. They don’t have much money, so they are having to split one drink between the three of them.
Dumas says, Mes amis, I vote that we should have a tankard of the finest Gascon wine.
Sartre disagrees: Comrades, while we are being, we should taste nothingness. Do you not think so, mon ami René?
Descartes says, I think not! and POUF! – he disappears.
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Man goes in pub. It’ll be bananas next.
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Do we know when Davina reads out the results?
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I bet someone’s avatar that he survives. Any takers?
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Not me.
Although I do think it’ll be worse for him than most think, and he might possibly go down.
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Thaum – If I was a tory voter I’d be worried about who replaces him. And without a clear replacement I think most mps will keep him for now. I hope I’m wrong though. He deserves to leave like this
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Craigs – as a non-Tory voter, I’m very worried about who might replace him. It could in fact be a lot worse.
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This is insane, even for post pandemic Maajid.
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Thaum – that’s true, but I doubt they’d survive long.
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Craigs – if it’s Truss, who seems to favour declaring war on Russia, none of us might survive long.
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Someone should point out to Nawad that we call it 18:00 now.
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Something for the mood?:
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……………and this for simple beauty:
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Buddy Guy! Saw him live once. Fab.
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He survived
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As expected, but even worse result than May’s.
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