| FORUMS > Football Chat > Rugby Union, If you must talk about it, do it here. PART III |
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| Quote: DAR130 "They've got a ru phone in on 5live now and one of the 1st callers is a knob who said the reason for Englands defeat is league players going to ru and not tackling properly ![]()
It's odd isn't it- he was their hero five minutes ago, and they were lauding him as some kind of bizarre proof that RL players have to move to fulfil their rugby potential.
As for tackling- he's not a magnificent tackler, but then in their amazing world where every body type apparently has their place in the team because everyone is allegedly a specialist, you'd think the rest of them could do it. Especially with two extra players knocking about.
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| Quote: DAR130 "They've got a ru phone in on 5live now and one of the 1st callers is a knob who said the reason for Englands defeat is league players going to ru and not tackling properly ![]()
Must be on something then.
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He will probably end up at Rochdale Hornets then.
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Nice to see England have reacted to their defeat with the usual level of humility. Clearly playing like they did they would have won under any other referee
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"It may be that the honourable gentleman doesn't like mixing with his own side … but we on this side have a more convivial, fraternal spirit." Jacob Rees-Mogg 21/10/21
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Why does it not surprise me. Building up to the game there was the usual hyperbole about England's new generation & how Lancaster had turned them around blah blah blah. It was the day after the game before I actually heard they had got beat. It was as if there was a news blackout.
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| Quote: tigertot "Why does it not surprise me. Building up to the game there was the usual hyperbole about England's new generation & how Lancaster had turned them around blah blah blah. It was the day after the game before I actually heard they had got beat. It was as if there was a news blackout.'"
Weird wasn't it? Other than to suggest that it was actually positive because Owen Farrell will learn from it all or some such guff.
I've been working in Cardiff all week though, the known RU fans from England have been getting a right ribbing- the one RL fan visiting (i.e. me) has been treated like a Welshman! |
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| Nice to see that the bosses at Old Trafford have had a change of heart over allowing yawnion WC games to be staged there  |
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Neil Jenkins appointed assistant coach for the Lions. Says a lot about international Union. Terrible player but great kicker. Looking forward to following the Lions... Not.
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25,000 out at Twickenham to see Toulon kick 7 penalties (plus a drop goal) to Saracens' 4. The pinnacle of Northen hemisphere rugby, they tell me. Pah.
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“At last, a real, Tory budget,” Daily Mail 24/9/22
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| Quote: JonB95 "25,000 out at Twickenham to see Toulon kick 7 penalties (plus a drop goal) to Saracens' 4. The pinnacle of Northen hemisphere rugby, they tell me. Pah.'"
Surely a 'masterclass'. Or so the papers said. Therein lies the problem. |
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Some interesting venue choices for the 2015 RUWC.
Italy vs a qualifier at Elland Road, New Zealand vs Argentina at Wembley, South Africa vs a qualifier at the Olympic Stadium.
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| Quote: Andy Gilder "Some interesting venue choices for the 2015 RUWC.
Italy vs a qualifier at Elland Road, New Zealand vs Argentina at Wembley, South Africa vs a qualifier at the Olympic Stadium.'"
No doubt the press will be all over the All Blacks calling them the best sporting team on the planet etc etc so they will fill Wembley – similarly SA a big name and the Olympic stadium is a draw for some
The Argentina game at Elland Road is a gamble for me, they will have to work hard to get a full house of paying customers |
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[quote="dally messenger":1gysl9ow]was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have[/quote:1gysl9ow]
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| From the BBC..
rlhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/22379872rl Quote: It is a great mix and will ensure that 92% of the population is within 50 miles of a World Cup venue.
"The tournament's organisers, England Rugby 2015, must sell 2.9 million tickets to cover the £80m guarantee owed to the International Rugby Board.
England Rugby 2015's chief executive Debbie Jevans saidhonour the minimum access prices that there were and that's certainly a commitment to us to be able to do that'"
Somethings gotta give here...there are only 2,578,166 available tickets according to the listed venues, their capacities and the schedule published....112% ticket sales or 11% increase in ticket prices? |
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I think they have been a tad ambitious .. even the diehard RU fans are a bit dubious. I particularly can't see them filling St James' Park, Etihad and Elland Road without throwing cheap tickets out.
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| Quote: tigertot "Surely a 'masterclass'. Or so the papers said. Therein lies the problem.'"
Remember, the beauty of union lies in the diversity of methods of scoring, apparently. Hmmm.... |
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