Onna telly forra next two weeks
Friday 21st April
| Cheetahs v Sharks | 13:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Pumas v Western Province | 15:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Stormers v Treviso | 17:30 | Viaplay Xtra / TG4 |
| Ulster v Edinburgh | 19:35 | Viaplay Sports 1 |
| Newcastle v Northampton | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 22nd April
| Lions v Zebre | 13:00 | Viaplay Sports 1 |
| Ireland v England (women) | 14:15 | BBC2 / RTÉ2 |
| Dragons v Scarlets | 15:00 | BBC1 Wales / Viaplay Sports 2 |
| Harlequins v Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Bulls v Leinster | 15:05 | Viaplay Sports 1 / TG4 |
| Scotland v Italy (women) | 16:45 | BBC iPlayer |
| Ospreys v Cardiff | 17:15 | BBC iPlayer / S4C / Viaplay Sports 1 |
| Sharks v Munster | 17:15 | TG4 / Viaplay Sports 1 |
| Gloucester v Sale | 17:30 | BT Sport 2 |
| Glasgow v Connacht | 19:35 | TG4 / Viaplay Sports 1 |
Sunday 23rd April
| Saracens v London Irish | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
| France v Wales (women) | 15:15 | BBC1 Wales / iPlayer |
Saturday 29th April
| England v France (women) | 13:00 | BBC2 |
| Leinster v Toulouse | 15:00 | ITV1 / RTÉ2 / BT Sport 3 |
| Italy v Wales (women) | 15:30 | iPlayer / S4C |
| Scarlets v Glasgow | 17:30 | S4C / BT Sport 3 |
| Scotland v Ireland (women) | 19:30 | iPlayer |
Sunday 30th April
| Toulon v Treviso | 12:30 | BT Sport 1 |
| La Rochelle v Exeter | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Ovally Balls 
Ben Morgan’s last game as a professional rugby player, and Johnny May’s last chance to impress Steve Borthwick before the world cup. Been sidelined for much of the season, and woefully lacking in ball when selected, so I think he will be watching the World Cup with his feet up.
Seb Atkinson in the centres is on the shortlist for breakthru player of the season, as injuries provided him with a start, he has become a fixture at 12, and for a 19 year old has been ridiculously solid. Nothing flash, particularly, but defence and distribution have been almost faultless, and looks to have a real rugby brain.
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6-2 split on the bench for Munster – they are going very big. Only way it could have been bigger would have been to switch Wycherley F for Egdogbo
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Everybody getting ready for the big day tomorrow ?
Maybe this will drag Craigs out.
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“6-2 split on the bench for Munster – they are going very big. ”
Glasgow too – Scott Cummings is the tiddler at 1.98m, Lewis Bean 2.03m, Richie Gray 2.08m JP du Preez 2.10m .
Matt Fagerson starts ahead of Sione Vailanu, but he’s a meaty whopper to bring on in the second half, about as wide as he is tall, he’s been full of dynamic ball carrying this season.
Apparently the bookies have it as a one point game, it was in favour of Munster before the teams were announced and after they went for Glasgow – this from the Munster forum.
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Connacht playing dirty again.
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Ulster with the first points! 3-0.
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Ulster are playing like shit. Even our hero.
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Crowds and players are getting worse, the crowd booing is shit as is players moaning at the ref
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McCloskey got bashed in the heid and then an elbow to the chin there, so I think there was every right to moan.
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Plus they were in from the side!
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So … 3-9 at HT.
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Thaum it’s getting way beyond the pale, when Edinburgh played at Ravenhill the other week the crowd was awful, it’s not just there, it’s at most grounds now.
I’m not advocating for polite applause and football rattles, but it’s not the game I grew up with.
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Beyond the pale ffs.
I was a fencing contract for donkey’s years too
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:-D
Shoulda been another new post today, but caught up in election stuff….
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Thaum, the leader of the Troy group in Brighton and Hove lost his seat to Labour.
Which was nice
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Ticht – did Labour beat him using a wooden horse?
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That’s left me with a long face BB
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Our council went NOC at the last elections, but with Tories as the largest party, but they came 4th this time! :-))))))
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We are only saved by Connacht playing nearly as shit as we are.
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That is a very blunt attack from Connacht
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For a game without tries, it’s an absorbing match
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Can’t help but feel that if Ulster had gone for the corner instead of taking the first penalty early on, this might be a very different match.
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TRY O’Connor! Whew!
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Connacht’s profligacy is going to haunt them
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We still need to find 3 points without letting them-uns have any….
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Oh FFS, that’s gone wrong. Five points out now.
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Wow that was some finish.
Connacht won it at the breakdown, quite literally
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And we don’t find them despite a good attack at the end. Well, we didn’t deserve to win that, but I’m not sure Connacht did either.
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I didn’t expect to lose that match. Somewhere Claw is dancing wildly.
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The Tories said that losing 1000 seats would be a disaster.
They said this because if they only lost 600 or 700 they could say, well we did a lot better than everyone was saying we would.
They seem to have lost 959 according to the Guardian, I don’t know if every seat has declared.
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BBC says 227 of 230 councils declared, and Tories have lost 1,061 seats. Think the Graun waits a bit longer for confirmation which is why their figures are a bit different.
Still, the Tories have lost loads, but sadly not enough. And the infighting has already started (good).
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The Graun is using AP (or PA?) data, which waits until the results are fully declared before announcing them. The BBC results are probably accurate.
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Catalan Dragons vs St Helens last night included something you’d never see in Wigan or Huddersfield
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Sharks look pumped! In 80 minutes they probably will be.
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Sharks not getting nilled! First try with a stunning sniping run from the – who else – 9. No conversion, 5-0 in the first few minutes.
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Leinster straight back into it! They really do play at speed and go into contact brutally hard!
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7-5 Leinster and Mapimpi in the bin for a high tackle.
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Bristol doing a number on Glaws. Randall playing out of his skin. Semi’s just scored in his final home game. 29-7 after 55mins.
In other news, Ginsters was sent off in the first half, for contact with the head.
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Bloody hell, 36 has cut of his wondrous locks.
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Christ, Twelvetrees has shaved his head! Hardly recognised him!
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Refit’s quicker at the breakdown again.
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This is getting ugly already, Leinster in for their 3rd try. 21-5
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Sharks blow a chance to get points back, but frankly how the Leinster 7 wasn’t blown for entering the ruck from the side – almost from the Sharks side – I don’t know.
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Think the answer’s in the phrase “Leinster 7”.
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Charles P’s final act for Bristol is to concede a yellow card & penalty try.
Final score is 36-21. Barf have made the final place into the European cup.
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Oh no Refit! Bristol have blown their chance of Europe! Piatau goes for interception, knocks on, yellow card, penalty try, Bath beat Sarries ‘B’ team get into Europe on points difference.
Bristol were cruising at one point.
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Refit quick as a Leinster 7 at the breakdown there.
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A shellacking. Leinster are frighteningly good. 35-5, the Sharks haven’t scored in 70+ minutes. And other than a couple of chances in the first quarter, haven’t looked like it.
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Sums it up: Sharks replacement prop with their best break off the 2nd half, decent overlap that the outside backs butcher completely.
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All over. 35-5. Don’t think anybody is equipped to stop this Leinster side. Pure quality, pure class, pure brutality (when needed): a class side that is up there for me with the great Crusaders sides of Super Rugby back in the day. Sorry, my reference point!
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