Six Nations Rugby 2008 - thump your tub!

[veggiemanuk]

Originally posted by War Griffon
Welsh team to Play Ireland on Saturday has been announced...

4 changes in total from the side that beat Italy.

#10 shirt is held onto by Jones so no change there, the changes though are at Scrum Half the Tight Head Prop and Hooker and the 2nd Row that got injured against Italy is the other change.

Ireland has always been a tough game for Wales and more so when it is over in Dublin so I think there will be a lot of people glued to the box come Saturday

I know i\'ll be glued to the box if im left alone to watch, enjoyed the rugby this year and i\'ve even managed to remember its on.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Why the hell is Mark Jones anywhere near that bloody team! Jamie Roberts played a blinder against Munster on Saturday and is already a better player than Jones ever was. Jones falls over all the time and can only score tried against shite teams.

Stephen Jones for Hook was expected and not a problem. Hook will come on at some point no doubt. The front row is far better.

Ooh, I\'m excited yet full of dread!

 

[Logan]

Mate of mine has had the sheer audacity to organise a wedding this Saturday.
There\'s the rugby, FA Cup footy and athletics all happening and I\'ll see not a bit of it. :flame:

 

[War Griffon]

The Welsh game is beng showed by BBC Wales but not sure about the other games but if they are on BBC as well then you can always download themusing the BBC iplayer I did this with the first episode of Ashes to Ashes and watched it in media player afterwards.

 

[Logan]

Originally posted by War Griffon
The Welsh game is beng showed by BBC Wales but not sure about the other games but if they are on BBC as well then you can always download themusing the BBC iplayer I did this with the first episode of Ashes to Ashes and watched it in media player afterwards.

Ta for that. It\'s certainly an option. I\'ll see if I can avoid the score... actually I might video it - trouble is, if things are going \'badly\' I can never resist flicking onto teletext to put me out of my misery.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Originally posted by Logan
Mate of mine has had the sheer audacity to organise a wedding this Saturday.
There\'s the rugby, FA Cup footy and athletics all happening and I\'ll see not a bit of it. :flame:

That is just plain wrong!

 

[Logan]

Originally posted by reverend

Originally posted by Logan
Mate of mine has had the sheer audacity to organise a wedding this Saturday.
There\'s the rugby, FA Cup footy and athletics all happening and I\'ll see not a bit of it. :flame:

That is just plain wrong!

Aye, and the nearer it gets, the more I\'m wondering whether or not I can pull a sickie

 

[freakinacage]

my mate got married last year when england played wales. he made sure the hotel had a big screen tv and a room to watch it in. after the food and some quick speeches, we all watched the game. a great start to a good night!

 

[Infidel Castro]

Now that\'s the way it should be done...

I\'m nervous as hell now. Ireland are tough. So am I though, as my 11am drinking will testify. What an early match! I\'ve not had a drop all week in anticipation and I\'ve just finished a six night shift. 3 days off, rugby, a party....beautiful!

 

[Infidel Castro]

Oh aye, and Cipriani was hard done by. Poor bastard.

 

[Logan]

Originally posted by reverend
Oh aye, and Cipriani was hard done by. Poor bastard.

Aye that he was. At first I thought \"Well done Ashton\" but when I heard the specifics I think it was rough. He\'s accepted it with great humility though.

No offence to Ireland but best of luck to your boys - I\'d like to see them do the slam now.

ps - and Rev, 11:00 drinking? Is the sun over the yardarm yet ???

 

[veggiemanuk]

Fantastic game, how good were our lads in red then? Thats probably one of the most determined games ive seen in a long time.

Phillips\' tackle and Williams\' try were spectaculare. I think the fact that they rode out two sin bins (one of which was questionable) and their determined rooking made sure they won the game.

Well done lads, now go win the Grand slam.

 

[Infidel Castro]

I\'m interested in what \"rooking\" is

I see your point, and I know you meant rucking. We were the better team over the whole match and should have won by more. I can\'t quite believe it! 2nd Grand Slam opp in 4 yrs. Blow me!

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by reverend
Blow me!

Don\'t take this personally Rev........But not even if Hell froze over!

And from your original post:
[/i]\"Wales have Twickers first up, and we\'ve not won there in 20yrs. I can\'t see that changing now. Scotland next up then at home, but again that could be very tough if the confidence is low. I saw Edinburgh beat Cardiff the other week and they were big, well organised and professional. I\'ll wait till the first two are out of the way before getting too carried away. If we manage to win one or both you may well find me in a loony bin gibbering to four walls a ceiling and a floor. \"[/i]
Still feeling the same way? Cos to be honest from what I\'ve seen Wales are looking serious about this.

 

[veggiemanuk]

Scotland impressed me also, that was a corker of a match, almost a copy of the welsh game with scotland holding their own against the larger english lads, some realy tough tackles in that game which is what its all about.

Nice to see the cocky over confident english getting a smacking from the team that was written off with the wooden spoon and a duck.

And as to Wales looking serious, I think they are trying to proove a point that they can still play rugby with the best of them after a disastrous world cup.

To be honest this Welsh team is one of the most enjoyable ive seem in ages, nice fast flowing ball with wide play, put into that the tallent of williams and the presence of Shanklin, not forgetting the other players and this is a team that can intimidate the best of them and already has.

France next and that should prove to be a tough old match but if we keep our heads down and dont think of the grand slam just yet they we should do it. We have the advantage of not being beaten yet, knowing that england trounced them and the fact that Ireland almost made a spectacular comeback to almost beat them.

One last thing, anyone here able to sculpt me a Tom Shanklin head to use as a Terminator Sarge? His head is perfect for it

 

[Infidel Castro]

DR: It\'s the Welsh way - downplay the whole affair, only get excited (or go nuts. if you will) when the form your team displays doesn\'t look like a flash in the pan or the death-throes of a terminal patient. Now, however, I\'m beginning to believe again. I say believe, because it\'s such an important thing to so many people over here. It\'s our religion

I\'m gibbering, just like I predicted!

:drool:

 

[War Griffon]

Well I did post a reply last night but once again CMON decided to log me out without warning :cussing: so here goes for a second attempt

The Wales Ireland game was an excellent bit of entertainment and a match I felt sorry for the forwards because they must have hurt like hell that night/this morning.
Yes Wales lost/missed a lot of opportunities in both halves and the score should have been a lot more and some of the Ref\'s descissions were a bit one sided at times, one that really puzzled me was that he sent philips to teh sin bin but in the last 15 minutes when one of the Irish players did a similar thing into the back of the Welsh Skipper all the Ref did was award a penalty??? I thought that deliberate incident was far worse than the one committed by Philips.

Wales really showed their control of the game by holding Ireland at teh start of the 2nd half with only 14 men and managing to get 3 points in that time as well. When the game started I had the feeling it was going to be one of attrition whereby the losing team would be the ones that tired first.

The England Game...
Well what can be said, OK the weather was abismal but come on aerial ping pong by England to a pointless degree, why did they bother to leave the changing room at all???

I felt that Scotland played their hearts out and really deserved that win. The commentators wrote them off before the game even started and gave England a 5 to 1 odds for winning.
I think what really brought home Englands unimaginary game was when they put some stats up on Wilkinson, he might have kicked himself onto the top of the points table/record but to what end??
The stats were something like this:
# of runs 4
#of tackles 6
# of kicks 10

I think that says it all really and Ebgland really need to start looking at teh type of game they are playing and try to inject some imagination into their game and start involving the backs, its OK to say that Wilkinson is experienced but apart from actually playing aerial ping pong and put himself at teh top of the points record table what is he actually doing for their game now???

Wales France will be a hard game regardless of the performance of other sides come backs and wins against them I think I will start to believe when Wales have actually won and can then carry this type of play further than just a season. They have worked really hard on the building blocks now lets see if they can keep up the momentum

 

[matt15595]

it doesnt make any sense

on the news it said

\'France will have to beat Wales by at least 20 points next week to seal the championship\' (or something similar.)

but


Wales have a points difference of 65

and

France have a points difference of 27!

65 - 27 = 38!!!!!

People have always said to me that people who work at the BBC are complete morons.

(no offence for the following statement.)

Im sorry but i have been forced to agree

Cant they count? and even if the CANT count you would at least think they had calculators at the BBC HQ.


This is frustrating me because they are wrong

or am i missing something?


please explain?!?!!?!?

 

[War Griffon]

Explain it I can\'t and it always loses me when they start talking about winning on points.

Yesterday was a prime example when they turned around and said that England could win if they beat Scotland because they would be beating Wales on points scored??? Makes no sense at all to me especially when you take into account Wales haven\'t lost a game yet England had???

 

[matt15595]

yeh its a bit odd

wales have won 4 games so they have 8 (im not gonna call them points so i will call them score.)

france have won 3 and lost one so they have 6 score


if they beat wales, both france and wales will have 8 score


then it goes down to points difference and i calculated that wales\' points difference - france\'s points difference = 38 points


so france would have to win by 38 points


its bloody frustrating me


i was shouting at the people on the TV everytime they said \'france will have to win by 20 points\'

so i shouted things like


\'no they wont you stupid \"%^$£%$\'


you get the gist