The rugby

[Dorset Boy]

La Rochelle out of the Big Cup!
And losing to Quins is a bit like getting beaten by Spurs!

 

[Pross]

Quite.
That’s some ego he has.
The crowd booed him every time he got the ball.

He is such an idiot, looking forward to some Saffa bringing him down a peg or two at some point. He's worse than Mike Brown.

Anyway, the WRU really are continuing to show their incompetence. Having tried to destroy club rugby as the scapegoats for the regions' lack of success they are now making a complete mess actually trying to fix the issue at regional level itself. All this stems back to Moffatt doing such a poor job when the regions were established in the first place, alienating most club rugby supporters in the process. It's only coming to a head now as the international team managed to somehow string together a few successful periods to paper over the cracks up until a couple of years ago.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

I enjoyed the first half of the Gloucester Bath match.
After 5 minutes it looked as if it could be a rout, however Gloucester exceeded expectations to accumulate a handy lead.
But for the actions of one, moronic forward, they might have gone in at HT, two scores up, but as it is, it’s just a 2 point match.
With the bomb squad to come in the second half, I would expect Gloucester’s plucky resistant eventually to be overrun.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

I didn’t think that I would be saying this about Gloucester, but the better team lost this evening.
Great game. So competitive.

 

[Pross]

Had the misfortune of choosing Exeter v Bristol earlier (just the second half luckily). Sale v Saints on the other hand is a great match. Oh, and Pooler got their first win in ages earlier.

 

[Pross]

Ruined by that d1ck scoring a try at the end (he’s seriously rapid for a forward though).

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Had the misfortune of choosing Exeter v Bristol earlier (just the second half luckily). Sale v Saints on the other hand is a great match. Oh, and Pooler got their first win in ages earlier.

I went with Quins Leicester which was rather one sided, but at least it was drier than Exeter!
Yup, Sale vs Saints was a good watch.

 

[Pross]

Defences are optional in Saints v Tigers, 20 minutes gone and Saints leading 3 tries to 1.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Tigers getting a pasting

 

[Dorset Boy]

Very, very uninspiring England A squad for their match against Ireland A next weekend btw.

 

[Pross]

Tigers getting a pasting

Strangely poor game considering the amount of tries scored. Not sure what the TMO was doing on the disallowed Saints try.

 

[matticus]

I hear there's a match tomorrow (yes, Thursday) of interest to FRA and IRE fans.

 

[Dorset Boy]

I hear there's a match tomorrow (yes, Thursday) of interest to FRA and IRE fans.

They do say Thursday is the new Friday....

 

[Alex321]

I hear there's a match tomorrow (yes, Thursday) of interest to FRA and IRE fans.

Yep. First time ever a 5/6 nations game has been played on a Thursday - done to avoid clashing with the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Though why they had to move the usual Friday game to Thursday rather than just playing them all over Saturday/Sunday beats me.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Yep. First time ever a 5/6 nations game has been played on a Thursday - done to avoid clashing with the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Though why they had to move the usual Friday game to Thursday rather than just playing them all over Saturday/Sunday beats me.

The love Friday night lights for the 6 Nations opener in Paris. And as I said, Thursday is the new Friday