Curious rugby phrases used by the curious rugby set

Throw it up

Post contact meters

Canon Arm.

Stinger

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He’s retired pal.

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Through The Gate

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Cab of the rank

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Jaysus

Indeed

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Common phrase not exclusive to rugby. Nowhere near your ruck resourcing and your chicken wings etc

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As eldest, my Oldman used to use that when scolding me.

Caught smoking a fag hanging out the bedroom window. “As first cab off the rank, the rest after you are watching so you can fuck out of this house if you want to smoke.”

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What did the rugby set use before “working the channels” and “front up” became popular?

“Working the channels” huh?

Me man must be looking at the remote instead of the telly

I would have thought working the channels was more Caleb folan or Leon best.

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Surely it should be cab on the rank or cab off the rank? Still gibberish either way.

That actually originated with Tim Sherwood speaking about when he gave Harry Kane his Spurs debut.

Crowley needs a bigger dataset of performances with Ireland according to Horgan

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Referring to a rugby player as a “freak”. An insult in most walks of life but a term of endearment in rugby. Tomás O’ Leary described Duhan Van Der Merwe as a freak at the weekend on the wireless. He could even see it when he was 18 years of age at Montpellier.

Same in horse racing