Rugby World Cup 2023/ Crochet & Knitting chit chat

[flattythehurdler]

Genuine question, but you’re reacting twitchily.

[Tim_Riggins]

Back to low hanging fruit anti rugby likes after the heart rendering story about your dad’s love of rugby last week when it was on the up.

Classic TFK.

[Bisto]

@glenshane

They must be some clatter of wankers. Who comes up with this nonsense?

For some Surely that’s the whole essence of sending kids to a private school ? Form bonds and networks that will last through life to help them get on.

[Cheasty]

@flattythehurdler

He was absolutely outstanding other than the scrum.

Porter had one of those Javier Mascherano v Nigeria 2018 type games - he was simultaneously both brilliant and terrible.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@flattythehurdler

He was absolutely outstanding other than the scrum.
I can’t understand it these days. Back in the day, you lost a scrum, and that was that, the only penalty really was deliberately wheeling, and that was rarely called.
Nowadays, a side loses a scrum.and the default position is a penalty. If the ball is coming out at all, they should just leave it off unless it’s blatant.
The worst scrim refereeing I can remember was actually against the tans in the 2003 WC final, where they were blaggarded repeatedly. My mate Gary was talking to the prop about it (I think he said Leonard, but I can’t quite remember). Leonard said that he had the Aussie on toast, but he just stopped pushing in the scrum so the ref couldn’t give a penalty.
It’s a feature I think of southern hemisphere refs. They bias towards the SH by and large, though in fairness the Aussie lad has been very good at this WC and peyper has also.

It was an English ref, no on Saturday? It’s getting to the stage that both sides would be better off not pushing because the thing is such a lottery.

[dodgy_keeper]

@Fagan_ODowd

@flattythehurdler

He was absolutely outstanding other than the scrum.
I can’t understand it these days. Back in the day, you lost a scrum, and that was that, the only penalty really was deliberately wheeling, and that was rarely called.
Nowadays, a side loses a scrum.and the default position is a penalty. If the ball is coming out at all, they should just leave it off unless it’s blatant.
The worst scrim refereeing I can remember was actually against the tans in the 2003 WC final, where they were blaggarded repeatedly. My mate Gary was talking to the prop about it (I think he said Leonard, but I can’t quite remember). Leonard said that he had the Aussie on toast, but he just stopped pushing in the scrum so the ref couldn’t give a penalty.
It’s a feature I think of southern hemisphere refs. They bias towards the SH by and large, though in fairness the Aussie lad has been very good at this WC and peyper has also.

It was an English ref, no on Saturday? It’s getting to the stage that both sides would be better off not pushing because the thing is such a lottery.

Too posh to push.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

@flattythehurdler

He was absolutely outstanding other than the scrum.

Porter had one of those Javier Mascherano v Nigeria 2018 type games - he was simultaneously both brilliant and terrible.

He gave away a penalty in open play as well.

[Fat_Pox]

More bullshit from you. These private rugby schools play their games on Wednesday afternoons when they have half days and Saturday mornings. So next to none of the massive budget is spent on supervision.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Bisto

@glenshane

They must be some clatter of wankers. Who comes up with this nonsense?

For some Surely that’s the whole essence of sending kids to a private school ? Form bonds and networks that will last through life to help them get on.

Some mothers dream of being the mother of the captain of the winning senior cup team and being presented with the cup.

[myboyblue]

@Fagan_ODowd

@Bisto

@glenshane

They must be some clatter of wankers. Who comes up with this nonsense?

For some Surely that’s the whole essence of sending kids to a private school ? Form bonds and networks that will last through life to help them get on.

Some mothers dream of being the mother of the captain of the winning senior cup team and being presented with the cup.

Presenting the cup, but yes.

It must be a great disappointment to a mother of one of these schools attendees when he turns out not to be good enough to captain an SC winning side. You’d struggle to get over that I imagine. It would leave a mark on mother and child.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

@Fagan_ODowd

@Bisto

@glenshane

They must be some clatter of wankers. Who comes up with this nonsense?

For some Surely that’s the whole essence of sending kids to a private school ? Form bonds and networks that will last through life to help them get on.

Some mothers dream of being the mother of the captain of the winning senior cup team and being presented with the cup.

Presenting the cup, but yes.

It must be a great disappointment to a mother of one of these schools attendees when he turns out not to be good enough to captain an SC winning side. You’d struggle to get over that I imagine. It would leave a mark on mother and child.

Presenting the cup of course you are correct.

[glenshane]

@Fagan_ODowd

Some mothers dream of being the mother of the captain

I’d say that dinner for 80 would cost more than all of my weddings

[Tim_Riggins]

Incorrect. They pay every coach an hourly rate.

That is historically where the money goes.

You criticised the schools for “not paying them” properly but they are being paid for an hours work. Training on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays (yes half days), Thursdays and even Fridays along with the Saturdays- the majority outside of school hours.

A middle of the road school 10 years ago might bring in 3/4 past pupils who are in college and a couple of professional coaches on an agreed stipend (maybe €10k-€15k a year). That would have been the pure “outside” the necessary funding- something which an organisation like the GGA would provide via extra government funding.

[Juhniallio]

@glenshane

@Fagan_ODowd

Some mothers dream of being the mother of the captain

I’d say that dinner for 80 would cost more than all of my weddings

Maybe thats why your marriages keep ending?

[glenshane]

You vicious bastard. That’s just what I’d expect from a would be mother of a private school ambitious rugger mother

[Juhniallio]

If you’d only showed you cared more, preferably with fancy china and canapes and maybe an oyster bar, then we mightnt be where we are today. You could by on an internet forum with divorced high flying private sector types instead of tfk.

[glenshane]

One of my receptions was held in a pirate themed restaurant in Monaco- I’d a nawful kerfuffle with the owner- crockery was broken and some furniture destroyed. @johnnysachs can verify it.

[Fagan_ODowd]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby-world-cup/2023/1018/1411515-gatland-warns-england-of-erasmus-dark-arts/

You couldn’t be up to Rassie.

[myboyblue]

He an incredible man

[flattythehurdler]

I was genuinely asking how much of a school sports budget would be eaten up by insurance? You seem to know these things. If you don’t know, just say so, or don’t say anything. There is no need to be such an arse.