raindog Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 watched Tarbes/Narbonne yesterday afternoon - great game. Who needs the WC when you've got 2nd division rugby on the box?[:D][:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Who needs to watch it on the telly when you can watch your local team play away just the other side of Perpignan. 21 deg, cold beer, good ambiance, geat crack and a suntan to boot. See Perpignan had a good away game as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Nothing like live rugby - hoping to get to see Montpellier play this winter [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 [quote user="UlsterRugby1999"]Flip me Gardian, I hate mind games. Give me a clue who you mean by "PS" for your surely dont mean Paul Sackey and he is the only PS I can think of. [/quote]'Slinger' Stringer?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plod Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Heineiken again this week; unfortunately Gloucester are at Bourgoin which is about 350 miles from Albi. A win here and we'd be set up to get into the quarters I think. It would be very very nice if Ulster could beat Ospreys, wouldn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlsterRugby1999 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 [:$][:$] You got me good and proper there Gardian - and of course - you were spot onNot in a hare's gowl would I vote for thast clampet.Fair play to you sir - you got me there. [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlsterRugby1999 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Hi plod - I wish we could turn over the O's but with our performances thus far and all the stuff going on at Ravenhill, I very much doubt it. That said, I dont think you have to worry too much - I keep telling you (and you must believe me - honest ) the Glaws are semi final and probably final material. Here's hoping. We'll share a Guinness if they make it that far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plod Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 We'll share more than one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Gloucester still seem to be well on track after hammering Bourgoin and Glasgow beat Biarritz for christ's sake [8-)]Great win from London Irish over Perpignan too, but look out for the return match next week-end!Watched Leicester-Toulouse on the box. The commentators kept on about how the conditions favoured an English team. But it just looked like "rugby weather" to me. Couldn't tell the teams apart really as they were all the same colour.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plod Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Didn't see any rugby this weekend as, foolishly, I took the wife to Perpignan for a couple of days - lovely place. Gloucester are still going well and realistically we should win the group and get a home quarters tie. Some of the other pools are very close. Biarritz are not the team they were and Sarries should have beaten them. The Irish might make a losing bonus point at Perpignan. I hope that Ulster can take Ospreys out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I don't think it was so much English team weather as the fact that Toulouse like to play/are best at a fast moving game - and when they're trudging through 6 inches of sticky mud it's not exactly fast-moving! It was a tight one though - am going to Toulouse next weekend for the rematch - our Leicester Tiger supporter friends are also coming over - and reckon Toulouse will slaughter Leicester once they are at home. Plus the weather is forecast to be dry, cold and sunny - yippee!Lou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlsterRugby1999 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 [quote]I hope that Ulster can take Ospreys out[/quote][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(][:(]The bottom has fallen out of my wee world right now. We are rudderless, clueless and down right naff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plod Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Well you didn't win but they didn't get a losing bonus. We are the only unbeaten team in the Heineken. On reflection I'd better not start counting my chickens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Yes, Gloucester really are looking like THE team in the Heiny. Plod, do you know who Tom Walkinshaw played for? My "fearless predictions" were Gloucester, Wasps, Clermont and Stade. Clermont aren't looking too good and Stade seem to have gone completely pear shaped. Toulouse looked a bit better last saturday. That was always going to be a tough game for Leicester but there was a twenty minute period in the second half when they really should've got a couple tries and I thought they would swing it, ah well, not to worry....[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 So, we're sticking with this then...... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7153485.stm Can't say i'm thrilled. Some of the players spoke out against Ashton and the 2 coaches during the WC. Whether or not that was a good or bad thing to do, there must have been something drastically wrong for them to do it. Not the way forward in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 If you remember when Catt and Delaglio spoke out about Ashton, they were both having book launches. Could there be something in that, if you can excuse my cynicism. More book sales etc...............I agree with keeping Ashton but it's the 2nd coaches I have a question over. They should IMHO be drafting in Shaun Edwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Don't worry, I share your cynicism about the release of the books at that time. [:D]But I still think we should start from scratch. Nothing wrong with England's players, so why have we been playing so badly at an international level for 4 years? Got to be coaching and management imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 [quote user="raindog"]So, we're sticking with this then...... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7153485.stm Can't say i'm thrilled. Some of the players spoke out against Ashton and the 2 coaches during the WC. Whether or not that was a good or bad thing to do, there must have been something drastically wrong for them to do it. Not the way forward in my mind.[/quote]If Ashton was not good enough to be head coach before (only managed second best/coach) how comes he is now or are the board grasping at straws? Perhaps nobody is stupid enough to take the job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 How to handle those pesky rugby journalists.... http://www.rugbyfanz.com/VideoShow.php?id=488&nl=0301 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlsterRugby1999 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Thank you raindog - you've just brightened up a gloomy morning for me. Looks like the Glaws are still on for it - and errrr Ulster aren't. [:'(][:'(]Bonne Annee a tous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 notice nobody argued with him [:D]Montpellier have been knocked down to 7th in the Top14 by losing an away match to Stade 33-6....ouch! [:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plod Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I wasn't aware that Tom Walkinshaw played at all; certainly not for the Cherry and Whites. Questions were asked about our staying abilities by Bath last Saturday in the mud. We need dry grounds as we have outstanding backs - to think once upon a time our backs were such lumps that they could have interchanged with the forwards. I hope we can get a losing bonus at Ospreys (if not a win!) and a four try bonus against Ulster (sorry!). Then we should get a home quarter - against whom? Sarries? London Irish? Clermont perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hmmm, done a quick google on TW and can't find any reference to him having played rugby - but I swear I read somewhere that he had. Oh well, just the onset of old age on my part I suppose. I first heard his name way back when he was running the Jaguar racing team..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 BLIMEY!http://www.planetrugby.com/Story/0,18259,3551_3032492,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plod Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 We Glaws fans are not sure about this. The chances are he won't be picked - bench maybe, and therefore we will be deprived of him. I'm not sure about the rest of the squad - Worsley, Cueto... what's Simpson-Daniel have to do to get a game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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