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France regularly play in Marseille too.
ireland play in Limerick and Belfast occasionally and England played the Argentinians in Manchester last year.
The stupidity of Melbourne for a Bledisloe Cup match
‘Robben has played largely a sideshow role to the brilliant Sneijder at this tournament, but he has the ability to turn it on as an x-factor’.
Robben’s running at the Brazilians almost singlehandedly resulted in their self destruction. He was relentless.
I expect Webb to keep an eye out for Van Bommell’s dangerous play, which remarkably went unpunished. In any case, I hope the Dutch do it as to lose 3 straight finals would be hideously unfair to a team that has a pedigree teams like England could only dream of. My head says that this Spanish team will do it though. Either way, a new name on the trophy!
Star-studded midfield battle to prove vital
Missing the point True Tah!! If I shell out $15,000 on a world cup trip, I want to be able to hit the sauce when and where I want. Such ‘high and mighty’ attitudes wreak of a fly by night soccer fan that doesnt know Aston Villa from and Aston Martin.
A world cup in Qatar would be a ripp off, souless and inconvenient to you average football fan. We saw what location does to crowd sizes in SA.
Hopefully a traditional nation in Europe or South America gets it, or else the USA. Somewhere where therre will be a great tournament. I rememebr USA 94, it was such a blast. Germany 4 years ago was also a great tournament. You cant turn your back on the main foootballing hintermand too often. That is why FIFA ditched their benighted ‘rotating continent’ policy!
Qatar will host the 2022 Football World Cup
I agree with you there Ora. Super 14 just doesn’t have the fire that other more tribal competitions have. No relegation really just leaves the bottom half of the comp just festering away for the season in dead rubber purgatory. meanwhile the boys in the suits scramble to change the rules in order to keep bums on seats.
Is rugby slipping in popularity in NZ?
All British citizens are generally referred to as Pommies, or POHM’s in the original sense of the word. Prisoners Of Her Majesty. The cizizens of the Republic of Ireland are not POHM’s as they are a repblic and don’t have a moarchy. They head of state is an elected President. Ironically as the Antipodes have retained the monarchy, they too are technically POHM’s so things get a little muddled.
Stephen Jones should stop trashing the Super 14
I think we had this very arguement a few months ago, Flutey, Mauger etc on a 300 post plus thread. Got ugly!
Bowe double ends England grand slam dream
‘The problem for MJ is selection. He felt that there were too many players to choose from and there are considerable advantages in only having a limited number’. – What? England have too many world class players to chose from according to Clive?
So just by pickiing the same team on a consitent basis, they become world beaters? Too many players too chose from? This is delusion. England have maybe 3 world class players to choose from at most. Scotland should be sorted then using this delightful logic.
England enter Six Nations with Johnson's 'best' squad
I thought Youngs played well against the Ospreys, he made about 4 or 5 clean breaks and nearly won the game for them, apart from one bad pass near the end he didn’t do much wrong, and whatever you say about the Ospreys, the two flankers he was up against were Jerry Collins and Marty Holah. Hodgson on the other hand, as usual, made a grand total of zero breaks against Leinster but…he’s a “good talker” waaaaa. Hodgson would be considered a premiership journeyman in any other generation – the new Shaun Perry!
if England are playing Wilkinson at fly half then you need a breaking scrum half to keep the defence honest because they know Jonny never runs it either. If we play Hodgson and Wilkinson the opposition defence will be all over Englands’s most creative player, Flutey, like a rash because they know neither half back is ever going to take them on.
all this stuff about Hodgson generating quick ball is pure alice in wonderland stuff, England got no quick ball when he played in the autumn. quick ball is 90% dependent on having a mobile pack that rucks aggressively and 10% about the scrum half. the reason England haven’t been getting any quick ball is because we have the likes of Deacon, Borthwick, Easter and Payne in the pack who aren’t mobile enough, and people like Mears, Borthwick and Croft who aren’t powerful enough at international level to smash people at rucks. hopefully in the six nations with Moody, Haskell, Shaw, Hartley and Wilson, with Lawes to come off the bench, England can start smashing people off the ball at rucks again. unfortunately there nothing one can do about Payne, Borthwick and Easter
there was an interview with johnson in this free sport magazine you get on the tube today – the two things he was banging on about was “experience” and “defence” which says it all really, nothing about flair, creativity, pace, scoring tries……..
England enter Six Nations with Johnson's 'best' squad
No way? Very interesting! I’d bet they’d be a mean team if they were still playing it today!
What about the rest of the rugby world?
You know what they say PastHisBest, the trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job!
Conor O'Shea is a future Irish rugby coach
I sprung out of my bed on the right hand side this morning at 6am, looking good and feeling awesome. I grabbed a quick shower, freshened up for work before I realised I was ahead of schedule, so lept back into the sack with this missus for a quick round. She was lovin’ it. Anyways…………..
Sarcasm/drilling for the nerve in forums is fine and I particularly enjoy it, accordingly when I respond to a sarco posting (like yours), I like to give it loads. Alas, imagine my disappointment when I read your damp squib response that just wreaked of hurt feelings and tender sensibilites……….
As for it being too small? I guess it was pal. I guess it was. I don’t apologise for being right most of the time….I wallow in it! As for my feet, rather than them being in my delicable gob, I am actually (as we speak) trying to remove them from your a*se following the verbal ass kicking I just unleashed on your skippy ass!
Ta-ra old chap. I have work to do……….
Conor O'Shea is a future Irish rugby coach
POTHALE AND PASTHISBEST: what’s with the vitriolic attack on what I can state is a nice piece of journalism? Is it the usual childish my dad is better than your dad type SH arguement. Change the record boys. Try and think a little, it only hurts a little.
Quaint piece? How so? Is it written on parchment or perhaps is it quaint because you audio heard it on a cassette because you cannot read? I know how you SH boys roll. Obviously anyone with a cultural bone in their body will understand the mild irony where a Kerry GAA legend’s son becomes the main man in one of the poshest rugby clubs on the planet. (Posh means upper class/inherited wealth/Eton types), (Oh Eton is a posh school).
As for PastHisBest’s misinterpretation of “With so few Irish coaches operating in the upper levels of professional rugby, the news that Conor O’Shea is primed to take over as Director of Rugby at Harlequins can only be a good thing.” It is pretty clear that he means that this is a good thing for Irish rugby. Pretty hard to interpret it any other way, but contratulations, you have managed to do just that!
As for what a Rah Rah means, we’ll, coming from your one eyed skippy perspective, I can forgive you for not knowing what a Rah Rah is. It means a public (fee paying) school boy chap, that went to Eton perhaps, is super posh and considers himself super intellectual and well, somewhat elite. The ‘Quins are essentially their rugby team. A deplorable bunch really but at the same time quick witted, great banter at a rugby game and they know their rugby too. I can see why you might be unaware of them living all the way over there in the antipodes, where rugby types are less likely to read a book and more likely to get caught doing a spot of burglary, drink driving, wife beating……..[insert felony]
Finally, as for the Irish economy, I can’t wait to see what happens when Western Australia runs out of stuff to mine and sent to China. it won’t be pretty. Plus at least the irish have an educated work force. Rugby wise, for a nation of 4 million where rugby is the fourth sport behind Gaelic footie, Hurling and Soccer they do okay. I kind of like them. Plus, they have a bit of culture too. Just think of that next time your watching the Wobblies play in your local Irish pub in Wagga Wagga or Wogga Wooga or wherever you herald from.
Cheerio boys. (That means goodbye or later mate as you chaps might mumble).
Conor O'Shea is a future Irish rugby coach
“Longer than the potato famine” – Really? A period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland which eventually resulted in a million dead with the population of the Island eventually to drop from from 9 million to 3.5. Tantamount to genocide. Why not throw in a few holocaust quips or witty Srebrenica gags whilst you are at it.
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