General rugby thread

[DocJock]

Bugger. Doddie Weir diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

[irocfan]

oh cock

[hornetrider]

Threadbare Welsh side (shorn of several world class lions ) facing Samoa now, live on BBC 2 Wales. Let's see if we can stick 70 points on them like the ABs...

Sadly it looks like it's being filmed with a potato smeared in Vaseline.

[DocJock]

Thanks for the tip!

[hornetrider]

Error count is off the scale. Awful game.

[hornetrider]

Jesus Christ. Overlap and certain try to a rubbish attempted dink from Sam Davies, intercepted and back in our own 22. Terrible.

[DocJock]

Aye, they're making hard work of it.

[hornetrider]

I for one am looking forward to Wales running in half a dozen silky tries as the Samoans fade in this second half.

[DocJock]

Only five to go!

[DocJock]

It really is like watching some old footage from the '70s.

I keep expecting to hear Bill McLaren...

[hornetrider]

That line-out was about three yards off straight surely.

[The Mad Monk]

And the final score was ............

What?

[Kermit power]

The Mad Monk said:

And the final score was ............

What?

A win to Wales (17-19) rather similar to Theresa May's win in the GE.

[TheGreatSoprendo]

Kermit power said:

A win to Wales (17-19) rather similar to Theresa May's win in the GE.

I look forward to the inevitable supply and confidence agreement between the WRU and IRFU then!

[hornetrider]

Kermit power said:

The Mad Monk said:

And the final score was ............

What?

A win to Wales (17-19) rather similar to Theresa May's win in the GE.

Only less convincing!

[irocfan]

well Fiji were on form today & downed the Scots

[DocJock]

I was almost expecting this after the high of last week.

[JuniorD]

Don't know if I'm overly surprised, but of the 50 British athletes currently serving bans for anti-doping violations, 27 are rugby. The testers must be kept busy down in the valleys

http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations...

[TheGreatSoprendo]

JuniorD said:

Don't know if I'm overly surprised, but of the 50 British athletes currently serving bans for anti-doping violations, 27 are rugby. The testers must be kept busy down in the valleys

http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations...

Looks like a fairly even split of Welsh and English union players to me, albeit Wales has fewer registered players. Dean Colclough seems to have been going for a full house of banned substances!

[JuniorD]

TheGreatSoprendo said:

JuniorD said:

Don't know if I'm overly surprised, but of the 50 British athletes currently serving bans for anti-doping violations, 27 are rugby. The testers must be kept busy down in the valleys

http://www.ukad.org.uk/anti-doping-rule-violations...

Looks like a fairly even split of Welsh and English union players to me, albeit Wales has fewer registered players. Dean Colclough seems to have been going for a full house of banned substances!

Seems he had long been retired, but still was registered, and his sports nutrition supply business had some contaminated products. Of course, never doped in his playing career - was tested then, and passed!