Team v France

[WaspInWales]

Please can we not do the 'gate' thing? Even ironically? It hurts me in my soul.

Gate-gate.

[Which Tyler]

There was a bit of a local scandal about a year ago when some vandals attacked the lock between the Avon and Severn in Tewkesbury.
They called it Water-gate-gate.

Please note, the above is pure bullshit.

[skidger]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/ ... spiration/

It really goes to show how football was really in the dark ages not long ago. I remember reading that steven gerrard was told he was too small as a teenager and almost stopped.

Also some stats:

Most lineouts won on own throw

George Kruis (England) 21
Devin Toner (Ireland) 19
Richie Gray (Scotland) 15

Most lineout steals
George Kruis (England) 3
Maro Itoje (England) 3
Devin Toner (Ireland) 2
Richie Gray (Scotland) 2
Alun Wyn Jones (Wales) 2
Yoann Maestri (France) 2

Most turnovers won

Alun Wyn Jones (Wales) 7
Jack Nowell (England) 7
Michele Campagnaro (Italy) 6
John Hardie (Scotland) 6
George Kruis (England) 5

Most tackles made

Jonny Gray (Scotland) 59
Taulupe Faletau (Wales) 56
John Hardie (Scotland) 51
Francesco Minto (Italy) 51
Jamie Heaslip (Ireland) 50
George Kruis (England) 48
James Haskell (England) 48

Impressed on that from Nowell...fair play.

Maybe Austin was right in suggesting he'd make a decent 7.

A red letter day indeed if Austin has got something right. This would be a first i believe.

[p/d]

Back in the day when I used to intermittently watch Harrogate play I would suffer 80 mins of, 'Come on the "Gate"'

[Oakboy]

Back in the day when I used to intermittently watch Harrogate play I would suffer 80 mins of, 'Come on the "Gate"'

And did you, ever?

[Digby]

I used to have a gate but some gypsies stole it.

[p/d]

Back in the day when I used to intermittently watch Harrogate play I would suffer 80 mins of, 'Come on the "Gate"'

And did you, ever?

what can I tell you, I was young and enamoured by a filly who attended the young farmers barn dance.

[p/d]

I used to have a gate but some gypsies stole it.

Boy, tough break.

[Mellsblue]

I have a good feeling about this. I fancy us for an easy and stylish win.

[Parsifal]

Considering the time difference, I'm loving this later kick-off time. I think we'll win well.

Gusset with his feckin mittens on again.

[plainoldtoad]

Considering the time difference, I'm loving this later kick-off time. I think we'll win well.

Gusset with his feckin mittens on again.

Well nuts to you. I'm in Finland and have to get up at 5 tomorrow, so I think it's a crap kick off.

I had a dream that we lost. The dream also involved a cat having a fit in a department store.

[Peat]

I have a good feeling about this. I fancy us for an easy and stylish win.

I think you may be right. The French are weak; the only true enemy out there is what lies in the players' minds.

...

On second thoughts, we may be fucked.

[Banquo]

FFS....discipline eh Peat
pi55 poor really

[Mellsblue]

Same old failings....

[Banquo]

Tindall's good btw

[Epaminondas Pules]

Tindall's good btw

He's got hands of clay and been retired for years!!!

[p/d]

Tindall's good btw

Whilst Butler remains an idiot.

Cannot stand Hastings.

[Banquo]

Tindall's good btw

He's got hands of clay and been retired for years!!!

Really liked his comments- pretty sharp and incisive. Pretty much the opposite of how he played!

[skidger]

Considering the time difference, I'm loving this later kick-off time. I think we'll win well.

Gusset with his feckin mittens on again.

Well nuts to you. I'm in Finland and have to get up at 5 tomorrow, so I think it's a crap kick off.

I had a dream that we lost. The dream also involved a cat having a fit in a department store.

Are you still in charge of banking in Finland?

[Epaminondas Pules]

Tindall's good btw

He's got hands of clay and been retired for years!!!

Really liked his comments- pretty sharp and incisive. Pretty much the opposite of how he played!

Must have stayed off the beer today.

He was on the money commentary wise though.

[skidger]

Tindall's good btw

He's got hands of clay and been retired for years!!!

Really liked his comments- pretty sharp and incisive. Pretty much the opposite of how he played!

Its hard to warm to him if you have ever had the misfortune to be in the same room as him in Bath........when he had a few. I am sure he remembers me fondly. The man is a tool.

[Banquo]

He's got hands of clay and been retired for years!!!

Really liked his comments- pretty sharp and incisive. Pretty much the opposite of how he played!

Its hard to warm to him if you have ever had the misfortune to be in the same room as him in Bath........when he had a few. I am sure he remembers me fondly. The man is a tool.

Fair dinkum, and I'm not claiming warmth, he just talked sense....unlike my encounter with Jeff Probyn- now there was a tool when in drink.

[skidger]

Really liked his comments- pretty sharp and incisive. Pretty much the opposite of how he played!

Its hard to warm to him if you have ever had the misfortune to be in the same room as him in Bath........when he had a few. I am sure he remembers me fondly. The man is a tool.

Fair dinkum, and I'm not claiming warmth, he just talked sense....unlike my encounter with Jeff Probyn- now there was a tool when in drink.

He came across well in commentary in fairness. Perhaps marrying a minger has made him grow up.

[p/d]

Its hard to warm to him if you have ever had the misfortune to be in the same room as him in Bath........when he had a few. I am sure he remembers me fondly. The man is a tool.

Fair dinkum, and I'm not claiming warmth, he just talked sense....unlike my encounter with Jeff Probyn- now there was a tool when in drink.

He came across well in commentary in fairness. Perhaps marrying a minger has made him grow up.

Oi!!!! That 'minger', like the girl off the Trivago advert, makes me come over all fuzzy and warm........

[Spiffy]

Tindall's good btw

He's got hands of clay and been retired for years!!!

Really liked his comments- pretty sharp and incisive. Pretty much the opposite of how he played!

Fair enough. But I thought his comments no more than commonsense - the kind of bleedin' obvious thing that most of us posters here see for ourselves when watching a game. Not particularly insightful if you are a semi-knowledgeable rugby fan to begin with. I'd put him in the same categorey as Dallaglio - dull, with a grating delivery that is rather boring to listen to. But then - I'd say the same thing about Jonathan Davies, Scot Hastings, Dewi Morris, Andy Nichol and several others.