Six Nations 2017
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@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Pot-Hale It sums up the 6N pretty well and I don't find it offensive at all. I find it really quite funny. The only thing that leaves me a little sour is that you get the feeling that if it was any other of the Home Nations teams there would be a media outcry.
I agree Cato. There probably would be. I have to say my answer has always been Wales or France. Probably because I spent my childhood years trudging out of Lansdowne Road after being beaten by them - again!
England remain my favourite team for Ireland to play against and meet fans from. John Pullin is still highly regarded by fans of my generation - with his team's and the RFU's stance on the 1973 Five Nations tourney. It's a shame that the proper match couldn't be set up for the opening of the new Lansdowne Road.
@Pot-Hale Ah now, who are your favourite fans? Such a difficult one as I can't think of anytime that I've come away from twickenham thinking "that was an unpleasant afternoon". Win or lose the banter is usually pretty good. I even had good experiences at eh England v NZ match a couple of years back and we know that the Kiwis don't have much experience of losing, but to a man the ones I met were great (if a little depressed come the end). In between games is often different though...
The worst I see now is at club games. Down here in Exeter we now have a team that is dining at the top table and that has brought on so many fuckwits who have no real idea about the game nor about how to behave with opposition fans. They are usually the loudest in shouting at the ref showing the world and his wife their total fucking ignorance of h=what is actually going on. Nowadays I rarely go to the main stand as it is full of these corporate knob-jockeys but go and stand with the hoi-polloi - much more informative, just takes a bit longer to get a half time beer that's all. Small price to pay.
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Draw Six Nations in NZ times. LIVE on Sky Sport 1:
Sunday 5 February 2017
Scotland v Ireland at BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 3:25am
England v France at Twickenham Stadium, London 5:50amMonday 6 February 2017
Italy v Wales at Stadio Olimpico, Rome 3:00amSunday 12 February 2017
Italy v Ireland at Stadio Olimpico, Rome 2:25am
Wales v England at Principality Stadium, Cardiff 5:50amMonday 13 February 2017
France v Scotland at Stade de France, Paris 4:00amSunday 25 February 2017
Scotland v Wales at BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 3:25am
Ireland v France at Aviva Stadium, Dublin 5:50amMonday 26 February 2017
England v Italy at Twickenham Stadium, London 4:00amSaturday 11 March 2017
Wales v Ireland at Principality Stadium, Cardiff 9:05amSunday 12 March 2017
Italy v France at Stadio Olimpico, Rome 2:30am
England v Scotland at Twickenham Stadium, London 5:00amSunday 19 March 2017
Scotland v Italy at BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 1:30am
France v Wales at Stade de France, Paris 3:45am
Ireland v England at Aviva Stadium, Dublin 6:00am -
@Pot-Hale Ah now, who are your favourite fans? Such a difficult one as I can't think of anytime that I've come away from twickenham thinking "that was an unpleasant afternoon". Win or lose the banter is usually pretty good. I even had good experiences at eh England v NZ match a couple of years back and we know that the Kiwis don't have much experience of losing, but to a man the ones I met were great (if a little depressed come the end). In between games is often different though...
The worst I see now is at club games. Down here in Exeter we now have a team that is dining at the top table and that has brought on so many fuckwits who have no real idea about the game nor about how to behave with opposition fans. They are usually the loudest in shouting at the ref showing the world and his wife their total fucking ignorance of h=what is actually going on. Nowadays I rarely go to the main stand as it is full of these corporate knob-jockeys but go and stand with the hoi-polloi - much more informative, just takes a bit longer to get a half time beer that's all. Small price to pay.
@Catogrande worst fan I met at Twickers was an Aussie, biggest Cnut you are ever likely to meet, had I not been with my new (female) boss I woulda thumped him...as it was, it was another Aussie who was so embarrassed by his big mouth and attitude that they almost came to blows, but it did quiet him down....
Oh the game, some game the ABs allegedly played there in 1999...after the game, There was another group of fans that were cnuts, who were also not involved in that game....
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Wrong thread SG. You should move it.
Oh, and what the fuck are you doing posting screening times at 1am? Jesus!
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@Catogrande worst fan I met at Twickers was an Aussie, biggest Cnut you are ever likely to meet, had I not been with my new (female) boss I woulda thumped him...as it was, it was another Aussie who was so embarrassed by his big mouth and attitude that they almost came to blows, but it did quiet him down....
Oh the game, some game the ABs allegedly played there in 1999...after the game, There was another group of fans that were cnuts, who were also not involved in that game....
@taniwharugby said in Six Nations 2017:
Oh the game, some game the ABs allegedly played there in 1999...after the game, There was another group of fans that were cnuts, who were also not involved in that game....
I was at that one as well. S African Boers / Bores sitting behind me and the wife and it took all of my self control not to smack the pricks. Just vulgar, rude and offensive.They had lost the day before to the Larkham drop goal and were more than a little bitter. Every nation has knobs I guess, and fortunately the French blokes next to us put an end to it and were most sympathetic to a Kiwi's misery.
My experiences at Twickenham with English fans have generally been good.
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@mariner4life Well spotted; that's what you get if you keep all your "European stuff" in one file. Fixed it.
I'm one of those people who only sleep 4 hours most nights. How come you spotted that mistake at 1am? :thinking:
@Stargazer because that's 10pm here
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I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea. -
I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea. -
I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.So it just wasn't me then....
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@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.So it just wasn't me then....
@Pot-Hale said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.So it just wasn't me then....
That Eddie has an electric probe up inside of?
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@Pot-Hale said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.So it just wasn't me then....
That Eddie has an electric probe up inside of?
@Kruse said in Six Nations 2017:
@Pot-Hale said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
I watched most of that Saracens game on the weekend and can only assume that Eddie Jones has some kind of electric probe he inserts up Itoje to make him effective for England. He did absolutely sweet FA all game. Even with expectations of a club lock he was ineffective. Continually jogging from ruck to ruck. He's certainly no Whitelock or Rettalick when it comes to workrate and also looks to be struggling with getting himself down low enough for non risk tackles.
How this makes him the saviour of the injured back row I have no idea.So it just wasn't me then....
That Eddie has an electric probe up inside of?
Yes. Or Mark McCall needs to replace the batteries in his one..
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@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
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@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.
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@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.
@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.
FIIK.
Welsh logic?
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@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.
FIIK.
Welsh logic?
@Crucial Ah. That explains a lot. Thanks.
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@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.
@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.
They signed overseas before Gatland's Law was introduced so are not affected. http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/37316886
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@Catogrande said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Bones said in Six Nations 2017:
No Anscombe? I assume a "wildcard" is a player selected from Overseas?
Yep.
WRU explain the system here http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/wales/news/wales/37155.php#.WH4Xe1WLTRY
*Seven players are captured for the 2016/17 season:
Dominic Day
Taulupe Faletau
George North
Rhys Priestland
Jamie Roberts
Nicky Thomas
Rhodri WilliamsThere are three wildcard selections available for each Wales campaign during the 2016/17 season from the seven names listed above.*
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or not but what about Halfpenny, Tomas Francis and Thomas Young? They all play outside of Wales.
They signed overseas before Gatland's Law was introduced so are not affected. http://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/37316886
@Pot-Hale OK, thanks PH, that makes sense of a sort.
