I climbed a hill near Bloenfontein during the WCF 2010. There was a rugby pitch down below in what looked a decently maintained school. Perhaps it was a public school. But I think unlikely. The pitch looked like concrete. How would one play a ruck on that field?
I climbed a hill near Bloenfontein during the WCF 2010. There was a rugby pitch down below in what looked a decently maintained school. Perhaps it was a public school. But I think unlikely. The pitch looked like concrete. How would one play a ruck on that field?
I used to know a few Jarpies back in the day. Most of them quite older than me. Almost all had done service in the Bush War. Mostly in Angola (and some in other places: Namibia and Botswana. One or two went into Malawi. Rather weirdly none I encountered went into Mozambique) I was wary of them but almost all of them were great. I cannot use another word.
I hate de klerk. He’s like a pygmy version of every obnoxious southern hemisphere sportsman since 1983. He’s a dread combination of Shane Warne, Pat Sharpe, Steve Irwin, Mini-Me and Limahl.
what we need to do is forget territory and work with possession. No box-kicking - now that I know what it is - that’s their game. We need to keep the ball because we are good with the ball, and so far have been shite without.
ZA miles better on the day. They’ve done to us what we did to the al blacks, in terms of tactical mastery, and they’ve added a bit of showboating on top.
Heh. Recall during last world cup my littlest one, aged 3.5 telling all his preschool mates that I played for All Blacks. Not sure how he decided that, but one of my clients had a child in the same class and the sorry tale spread a bit too wide.
you’ve got to hand it to the pockmarked sunburned racists - that was a beast of a performance from beginning to end, even better than England’s v NZ.
I guess that buys them another 4yrs before the total meltdown of their society into dark Escape From LA lunacy*. We can now get back to Brexit - one world cup in a year is enough.
* I am only pulling your leg Gannicus you gnarly great poove
My greatest representative achievement was Hants (North east). We got properly cornholed by the north west (amazingstoke and Winchester mostly). And then 100 pointed by south hants (havant were most of the team, with so'ton, esso, Pompey, isle of widget and (oddly) Jersey).
I got a try in the 100 pointer. Yaya me. Only one of our team was selected to play for hants. My second row m7 Jim Slight. He was known as "jim slightly in" because he waited three years to shag his mrs and she changed her mind at first contact.
this is a higher level than my Cripps Hall First XV tbf (draftee in from the combined Cripps/Lincoln joint 2nd XV as all three hookers above me in the pecking order were “injured” ie away on the piss/shagging girlfriends at other unis).
As I recall, we won. I probably could have played hooker at a slightly higher level tbf. If I’d been fitter I’d have backed myself for university second team.
I’m sure you were quick, but you don’t *look* quick (pot/kettle, I know).
I would have called you as a flanker tbh. Penchant for ultraviolence. Did you ever play there? Given my fighting weight and height, might have been my ideal position too, except that I’m fooking weak at tackling which is why front row suited me. Even when fat, was too small to prop
Garbage ref but probably didn’t affect the ultimate result.
We were rubbish. No intensity, forcing things unnecessarily in first half. Crap passing. At least we can finally dispense with the idea that Farrell is either a leader or a defensive rock.
Praise be to God for that. The thought of having to live among England fans for the next four years crowing about being ‘World Champions’ would have been too much.
That tosser Lewis Hamilton is about as much as I can bear.
Heh@House of Fraser - the online link to said item doesn't work any more and you are presented with a message which says ooops...something appears to have gone wrong.
Farrell's dracomalfoyface was brilliant. TBF, he's always had a malevolent schoolboy's head on a large athletic man's body hasn't he.
I guess we will have to deal with one world cup win, one world cup final defeat, one semifinal defeat in the world's favourite sport, an Ashes draw and a continued hold on the F1 driver's title, all in the same sporting year, and generally being pound for pound the winningest sporting nation in the world... for now.
Is there some element of cultural appropriation going on with fans wearing those Japanese ninja things on their heads? Have the leftys flagged this as 'racist' yet?
Yes. Have played pretty much all positions at one point. (Prop and lock only in under 8s 4-man scrums.)
My best position was open side at colts level and I got into the team a year early (16). We had an ace team back then and had an undefeated season, winning Hampshire cup and beating winckies who had already started paying their first team who were London one at the time.
Then all the other players went off to university and I had to play mens' rugby, initially for the 3rds, aged 17. I was far too small to play flanker at that level so recast myself as a wing/outside centre. That year was ace, I had a 40 year old ex Melrose player at inside centre who could find gaps which simply didn't exist. He would break the line and offload and there would only be a fullback to beat. Trymageddon that year.
Yes. Have played pretty much all positions at one point. (Prop and lock only in under 8s 4-man scrums.)
My best position was open side at colts level and I got into the team a year early (16). We had an ace team back then and had an undefeated season, winning Hampshire cup and beating winckies who had already started paying their first team who were London one at the time.
Then all the other players went off to university and I had to play mens' rugby, initially for the 3rds, aged 17. I was far too small to play flanker at that level so recast myself as a wing/outside centre. That year was ace, I had a 40 year old ex Melrose player at inside centre who could find gaps which simply didn't exist. He would break the line and offload and there would only be a fullback to beat. Trymageddon that year.
Raging about cultural appropriation is not actually a thing, save in circumstances where the appropriator is using their appropriation to neutralise the fact that they're oppressing the appropriated in some way. HTH
Some people “allegedlly” paid some thing like £7 grand of your worthless English pounds for a ticket.
The husband of a colleague apparently paid £1k for the Chelsea v Man Utd Champions League Final. Faux Chelsea supporter.
I once paid about £120 quid to watch a World Cup game. It was crap. That was in 1990. I decided (to quote Fintan O’Toole of the Irish Times) “Enough is Enough’.
I never otherwise paid much more than face price. I had a good (top price Category A) $50 ticket for the 1986 World Cup Final. The local scalpers (gangsters to a man) were demanding outside the stadium at least US$300 from the German fans for a Category D ticket. The Germans, as far as I could see, all walked away. After the game one could see the the torn up tickets of those the scalpers preferred to destroy rather than sell.
I'd love to have played there but I do not have the taste for sheer violence.
Hooker is my position. Actually, the RWC has made me want to play again. But only if I can play in position (surely everyone's looking for a hooker?). Last time I played (10yrs ago) they tried to make me play prop. fook that. I've lost 3st since then mind.
Although the press made much of the ‘smirk’ I think that is a little unfair . I think he knew he was in for a battle. The Battle. It was not a smirk of contempt. It was a smirk of fear. But confidence.
Laz - aggressive violent tackling was what I was best at. Fairly quick in the day but in my last year of university I had to play hooker as they had to freshers who were sub 11 sprinters. Couldn't catch for shyt like but if you handed one the ball he was in.
Hooker was fine until I came up against the blues hooker who scraped all my naked boyish skin off my face with his stubble. Cvnt.
I was a poor rugby player really, but what I was relatively good at was the application of sustained brute strength, and being cunning. Hooker suited that, and suited my size/shape. there’s a certain weird camaraderie in the front row, even though props are fooking weirdos. But put me in open field and ask me to throw my shoulder in against a big guy moving fast and no thanks, I’m too chickenshit for that. Good thing about being a hooker is if you make an open field tackle people are grateful, but they don’t expect it.
I think backs need to be braver, really, because their tackles are bigger hits. And faster. Forwards need to be strong and clever, which was more my thing
and fitter in a different way, because you always have to be up at the game line rather than standing around with your hands on your hips wondering if your hair looks ok
but the fittest guys are scrum halves I think - shame being a twot is a requirement for the position
no, I can do that kind of throw - or at least I could at the (low) level I was required to - it’s totally different to loose over arm throwing. Technique totally different - tight muscle power rather than loose muscle power - slow twitch strength is my thing
throwing a cricket ball in the field for instance is about following through with a loose form of power - lineout throwing is about keeping your grip tight and pulling it at just the right mo. It’s one of the few moves in rugby where power isn’t really required. It’s pure timing.
It’s not one of the difficult bits of hookering tbh. The difficult in a lineout is the coordination of the drill. Not the throw.
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there’s a bit of rain predicted
depending on how much i reckon will be the difference between eng winning or not
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wales getting demo’d by the kiwis was fun to see tho
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It's a bit of a poor show asserting to post an official thread fully 24 hours before the match.
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Can we sing spitting image's south African song as a sort of haka?
cos they're a bunch of arrogant bastards who smell like baboons
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It's at 9am u douche canoe
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zg tbh i only posted it cos i knew it would annoy elfffi
i’m expecting him to start and official, official thread shortly
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I climbed a hill near Bloenfontein during the WCF 2010. There was a rugby pitch down below in what looked a decently maintained school. Perhaps it was a public school. But I think unlikely. The pitch looked like concrete. How would one play a ruck on that field?
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I climbed a hill near Bloenfontein during the WCF 2010. There was a rugby pitch down below in what looked a decently maintained school. Perhaps it was a public school. But I think unlikely. The pitch looked like concrete. How would one play a ruck on that field?
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I used to know a few Jarpies back in the day. Most of them quite older than me. Almost all had done service in the Bush War. Mostly in Angola (and some in other places: Namibia and Botswana. One or two went into Malawi. Rather weirdly none I encountered went into Mozambique) I was wary of them but almost all of them were great. I cannot use another word.
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“great”
is that code for “complete arse-flavoured toolbags”?
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getting pre-loaded now m7s
can’t wait
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if in rugby u could net off relative results, based on eng v nz and nz v wales and wales v sa, we should beat sa by 20 points
i would, faod, be content with just one point difference
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it’s on m7s
off to the pub
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is a guinness acceptable
i can’t be sure
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As long as you aren’t eating Nando’s you are fine.
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You run the risk of guiness cabling before half time. I would start with a nice fruity cider - will go better with cornflakes.
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In the pub. Will order breakfast shortly. So excited!!
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woof woof
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AND WAS JERUUUUUUUUSALEM BUILDED HERE...
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HERE WE GO!
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gonna trundle down the pub now, hopefully full of rugbymilfs
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question
What the fook is “box kicking”?
(Apart from a move rugbymilfs use in catfights).
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massively need to calm down
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I haven’t even got started yet m88
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box kick is off the back of a ruck or maul by the distributor, done from a side on position
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So many mistakes.
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Just....wtf
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heh
is there a more horrible specimen than faf de klerk
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Jerome Garces?
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I hate de klerk. He’s like a pygmy version of every obnoxious southern hemisphere sportsman since 1983. He’s a dread combination of Shane Warne, Pat Sharpe, Steve Irwin, Mini-Me and Limahl.
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I love how scrappy this is
my son is going to scream himself hoarse at this rate. Suck it neighbours if you were having a lie in. Sweet revenge for drilling at 9pm
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it’s a fook ugly game of rugby but v compelling
great defending from ZA tbf
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Cracking game so far
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fooking stop giving away penalties you doss twots
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Poor first half from England. SA look tactically sound at the mo.
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The refereeing is a bit “technical”.
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worst half of rugby from england for a long time
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the play by england is a bit “non technical”, you mean
which is embarrassing given that we are a nation of forwards
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Got to sort out the scrum weakness. Does Dan Cole have a whole match in him?
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didn’t know you were an oval ball man mutts
thought you were one of ROF’s tattooed Pompey crew
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Habana still looking fit as a butcher’s dog.
Bet he could beat Farrell in a sprint even now
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Big talk from Eddie due here. Line out and scrum need a lot of work. Got that pooey feeling right here.
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what we need to do is forget territory and work with possession. No box-kicking - now that I know what it is - that’s their game. We need to keep the ball because we are good with the ball, and so far have been shite without.
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How can you lose every scrum?
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:-/
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f@ck this, rugby’s some homeoeroric BS for guys who like blowing one another in the team bath anyway*
* I’m trying to reverse jinx it
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Crusader outfit for sale. Will throw in 3 bottles of Bombadier, a Hackett polo shirt and a voucher for the local gastropub.
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we can score tries better than they can
GET THE BACKS INTO PLAY FGS
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Minge, clive
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Oh
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that try being given in spite of the blatant forward pas is conclusive proof that some betting syndicate has bought this world cup
despite that, ZA deserve to win the game. They don’t need that kind of help.
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I guess if rugby’s the only thing stopping you being a failed state, you play up.
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Masterful moment of glorious death
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What have they been doing all week?
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Properly outplayed - what a try
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Fair play, better team is going to win.
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Decent try but who missed that tackle? Awful!
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ZA miles better on the day. They’ve done to us what we did to the al blacks, in terms of tactical mastery, and they’ve added a bit of showboating on top.
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All a bit Dunkirk
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But without the glorious escape
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I’d have missed that tbf
guarantee you
and I had a ten year rugby career
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They’re gonna get another
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How many England caps did you win, Daddy?
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* at school and uni
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Well played South Africa
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That second try was sublime - worthy of a world cup of itself.
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Heh. Recall during last world cup my littlest one, aged 3.5 telling all his preschool mates that I played for All Blacks. Not sure how he decided that, but one of my clients had a child in the same class and the sorry tale spread a bit too wide.
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you’ve got to hand it to the pockmarked sunburned racists - that was a beast of a performance from beginning to end, even better than England’s v NZ.
I guess that buys them another 4yrs before the total meltdown of their society into dark Escape From LA lunacy*. We can now get back to Brexit - one world cup in a year is enough.
* I am only pulling your leg Gannicus you gnarly great poove
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My greatest representative achievement was Hants (North east). We got properly cornholed by the north west (amazingstoke and Winchester mostly). And then 100 pointed by south hants (havant were most of the team, with so'ton, esso, Pompey, isle of widget and (oddly) Jersey).
I got a try in the 100 pointer. Yaya me. Only one of our team was selected to play for hants. My second row m7 Jim Slight. He was known as "jim slightly in" because he waited three years to shag his mrs and she changed her mind at first contact.
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At least there will now be no dilemma on which team to give the SPOTY team prize to
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this is a higher level than my Cripps Hall First XV tbf (draftee in from the combined Cripps/Lincoln joint 2nd XV as all three hookers above me in the pecking order were “injured” ie away on the piss/shagging girlfriends at other unis).
As I recall, we won. I probably could have played hooker at a slightly higher level tbf. If I’d been fitter I’d have backed myself for university second team.
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England got their tactics as wrong as SA got theirs right. Bollocks.
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always struggled to imagine you as a wing, Wang
I’m sure you were quick, but you don’t *look* quick (pot/kettle, I know).
I would have called you as a flanker tbh. Penchant for ultraviolence. Did you ever play there? Given my fighting weight and height, might have been my ideal position too, except that I’m fooking weak at tackling which is why front row suited me. Even when fat, was too small to prop
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p.s. I’m v surprised Amazingstoke isn’t in Hanta NE for representative purposes
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Garbage ref but probably didn’t affect the ultimate result.
We were rubbish. No intensity, forcing things unnecessarily in first half. Crap passing. At least we can finally dispense with the idea that Farrell is either a leader or a defensive rock.
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Farrell is the new Will Greenwood
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Praise be to God for that. The thought of having to live among England fans for the next four years crowing about being ‘World Champions’ would have been too much.
That tosser Lewis Hamilton is about as much as I can bear.
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Heh@House of Fraser - the online link to said item doesn't work any more and you are presented with a message which says ooops...something appears to have gone wrong.
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Farrell's dracomalfoyface was brilliant. TBF, he's always had a malevolent schoolboy's head on a large athletic man's body hasn't he.
I guess we will have to deal with one world cup win, one world cup final defeat, one semifinal defeat in the world's favourite sport, an Ashes draw and a continued hold on the F1 driver's title, all in the same sporting year, and generally being pound for pound the winningest sporting nation in the world... for now.
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almost handsome, isn't he, Farrell
looks more like a footballer than a rugby player
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Is there some element of cultural appropriation going on with fans wearing those Japanese ninja things on their heads? Have the leftys flagged this as 'racist' yet?
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I guess most of the leftys are Scots and they probably lost interest in the tournament long ago.
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Yes. Have played pretty much all positions at one point. (Prop and lock only in under 8s 4-man scrums.)
My best position was open side at colts level and I got into the team a year early (16). We had an ace team back then and had an undefeated season, winning Hampshire cup and beating winckies who had already started paying their first team who were London one at the time.
Then all the other players went off to university and I had to play mens' rugby, initially for the 3rds, aged 17. I was far too small to play flanker at that level so recast myself as a wing/outside centre. That year was ace, I had a 40 year old ex Melrose player at inside centre who could find gaps which simply didn't exist. He would break the line and offload and there would only be a fullback to beat. Trymageddon that year.
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Yes. Have played pretty much all positions at one point. (Prop and lock only in under 8s 4-man scrums.)
My best position was open side at colts level and I got into the team a year early (16). We had an ace team back then and had an undefeated season, winning Hampshire cup and beating winckies who had already started paying their first team who were London one at the time.
Then all the other players went off to university and I had to play mens' rugby, initially for the 3rds, aged 17. I was far too small to play flanker at that level so recast myself as a wing/outside centre. That year was ace, I had a 40 year old ex Melrose player at inside centre who could find gaps which simply didn't exist. He would break the line and offload and there would only be a fullback to beat. Trymageddon that year.
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Raging about cultural appropriation is not actually a thing, save in circumstances where the appropriator is using their appropriation to neutralise the fact that they're oppressing the appropriated in some way. HTH
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Ray, when will Ireland be able to release their special edition shirts for winning a knockout game?
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Some people “allegedlly” paid some thing like £7 grand of your worthless English pounds for a ticket.
The husband of a colleague apparently paid £1k for the Chelsea v Man Utd Champions League Final. Faux Chelsea supporter.
I once paid about £120 quid to watch a World Cup game. It was crap. That was in 1990. I decided (to quote Fintan O’Toole of the Irish Times) “Enough is Enough’.
I never otherwise paid much more than face price. I had a good (top price Category A) $50 ticket for the 1986 World Cup Final. The local scalpers (gangsters to a man) were demanding outside the stadium at least US$300 from the German fans for a Category D ticket. The Germans, as far as I could see, all walked away. After the game one could see the the torn up tickets of those the scalpers preferred to destroy rather than sell.
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Knew you'd have been a flanker at some point, ha.
I'd love to have played there but I do not have the taste for sheer violence.
Hooker is my position. Actually, the RWC has made me want to play again. But only if I can play in position (surely everyone's looking for a hooker?). Last time I played (10yrs ago) they tried to make me play prop. fook that. I've lost 3st since then mind.
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p.s. must be great being from one of the other home nations during the knockout rounds, always having England's opponents to support!
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@Ray Vaughan @11:23
Although the press made much of the ‘smirk’ I think that is a little unfair . I think he knew he was in for a battle. The Battle. It was not a smirk of contempt. It was a smirk of fear. But confidence.
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He came, he smirked, he came in his pants, he won, but then a week later he lost. Oh well. He's still a better player than his dad.
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Laz - aggressive violent tackling was what I was best at. Fairly quick in the day but in my last year of university I had to play hooker as they had to freshers who were sub 11 sprinters. Couldn't catch for shyt like but if you handed one the ball he was in.
Hooker was fine until I came up against the blues hooker who scraped all my naked boyish skin off my face with his stubble. Cvnt.
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I was a poor rugby player really, but what I was relatively good at was the application of sustained brute strength, and being cunning. Hooker suited that, and suited my size/shape. there’s a certain weird camaraderie in the front row, even though props are fooking weirdos. But put me in open field and ask me to throw my shoulder in against a big guy moving fast and no thanks, I’m too chickenshit for that. Good thing about being a hooker is if you make an open field tackle people are grateful, but they don’t expect it.
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I think backs need to be braver, really, because their tackles are bigger hits. And faster. Forwards need to be strong and clever, which was more my thing
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and fitter in a different way, because you always have to be up at the game line rather than standing around with your hands on your hips wondering if your hair looks ok
but the fittest guys are scrum halves I think - shame being a twot is a requirement for the position
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I would love to see you throw a line out. Did you do it underarm?
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no, I can do that kind of throw - or at least I could at the (low) level I was required to - it’s totally different to loose over arm throwing. Technique totally different - tight muscle power rather than loose muscle power - slow twitch strength is my thing
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throwing a cricket ball in the field for instance is about following through with a loose form of power - lineout throwing is about keeping your grip tight and pulling it at just the right mo. It’s one of the few moves in rugby where power isn’t really required. It’s pure timing.
It’s not one of the difficult bits of hookering tbh. The difficult in a lineout is the coordination of the drill. Not the throw.
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(I say this as if I play for Saracens)
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Never at the races. Obvious from minute 1. So disappointing.
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