Off Topic The Rugby Thread

At Gatwick - more gate info delayed an hour to 11:40, the time we were scheduled to take off.

My son’s father-in-law has been sitting on the runway for 2 hours ……

 

At the gate now - hopefully not too long now.

Brian Moore (ex-England & Lions) is on the flight with us.

 

Enjoy Taff...... keep us posted with incriminating photos if possible

 

Not too incriminating

 

Further delay ….

 

Take the opportunity to have a few sociable ones

 

Dopey Borthwick done just as I expected, Arundel not in Matchday squad again aswell.

 

There’s a lot of rumours on social media that Farrell and Arundel had a punch up in training

 

****ing marvelous, if this goes tits up then we know at who's door the blame lies. Farrell will continually kick it back to the Fijians and they'll just run at us for the entire game. When used well , tactical kicking is a key component of winning games, but when it's continually used to no end purpose it just becomes dull, pointless and endlessly frustrating. Not to have Arundel in the squad is just mind boggling, in my eyes Borthwick is Rugby's equivalent of Southgate !

 

Anyway , Dupont starts against the Boks ! Come on

 

Landed - 3 hours late

 

Better late than never mate.

 

My lad watched the Ireland Scotland game last week (I missed it) and reckoned that the Irish are adopting rugby league tactics……lot of crossing going on.

Just saying.

 

There’s a fine line between smart play and obstruction. I believe blocking is legal in American Football

 

You mean the same way the All Black's played beyond the edge for the last 10 years.... that sort of thing......

 

Richie McCaw was born offside (to steal Alex Ferguson’s line about Pippo Inzaghi).

 

The usual comments relate to Porter’s illegal scrummaging and the players living offside ….

 

Arrived (from Gatwick) almost 3 hours late.

Brian Moore (England and Lions) was on same flight - he was much smaller than I expected.

He, John Bentley and Navidi are the ‘stars’ on parade with Living with the Lions before the game tomorrow.

 

I usually have a meal and a drink in The Wheatsheaf