The Rugby Thread (Part 1)

Heard it from a very reliable source.
From one cunt to another.

Tickets on sale for the big final, picked up two, see you there again @locke?

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Ooooft.

I don’t give a fuck where you heard it, nor do I expect you to stop wheeling it out whenever you get a chance, It’s old women at the garden gate stuff, you’re nothing but a cunt for this ultimate gallery playing, the man had a fine wife and two grand little boys.

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But he also had a daughter who was completely excluded from all the proceedings and she had to be grieving because she was in the congregation at the funeral. Can you imagine being relegated to the back bench of the funeral of your own father? Nothing to celebrate in someone who would do that to their own flesh and blood, no matter how saintly you make him out to be, at least not in my book. Sorry for his wife and boys but there was someone else in this as well.

Jesus you’re some bullshit artist. I’ll leave you to it you fucking spoofer. Alls fair game in here after all.

Sorry for the wife and boys? :joy:
You are in your fuck, you’re the one broadcasting this tittle tattle on a public forum, if it’s true it’s not common knowledge you nasty prick. Spare us the crocodile tears, if that girl exists you don’t give a fuck about her beyond your little gallery here, fuck off.

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That’s a belter of a post my man.

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That’s an oooofffty

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So even from beyond the grave he decided where she should sit at his funeral?

You made clean shite of him there

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Big time! Looking forward to it

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Whatever, pal. As I said, I know from good and great authority as to the truth of the matter. Whatever you think is something that doesn’t matter one single jot. But thanks for getting worked up anyway, I can always take comfort from that.

What do you need comfort for?
Bizarre post from a bitter cunt, all because a fella played a bit of rugby, now piss off back to your den till you get the notification that he’s been mentioned so you can serve the publics interest by highlighting this poor girls plight whereby her father who died suddenly at about 40 years old excluded her from the front row handshaking at his funeral, bitter nasty shit from you.

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You’ve bate the lard out of him.

:grin:

I draw comfort from the fact that I have upset a bollocks like your good self. I suppose you have a munster thugby flag flying on your front gate to she everyone how right on you are. In any case, what I have said is absolutely true and there is no hiding from that. I have never, and could nor would ever, deny any child of mine, despite how they were conceived or what kind of a relationship I had with their mother.

Last word on this occasion to you…

Go fuck yourself you cowardly prick . :smiley:

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excellent programme about Ruan Pienaar on BBC2 Ni
deeply religous man, his wife also , classic afrikaaner
defintly wouldnt be a man going for post game beers anyway, ud think a man like him would have pulled a more glamourous women, she’s one tough bitch id say, id imagine he is a cunt of a man to have around, not to be messed with , never smiles
seems a very private person, id say he was a big hit with the posh proddies who frequent that sectarian Ravenhill shithole -

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Despicable attempt to pervert the course of rugby justice in the IT today.

Munster must avoid paying big penalty in final showdown with Scarlets
Referee Nigel Owens has penalised Erasmus’ side more than rivals
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Nigel Owens refereeing Munster’s game against Glasgow at Scotstoun this season. Munster have a 100 per cent regular season record with the Welshman in charge. PHOTOGRAPH: CRAIG WATSON/INPHO
JOHN O’SULLIVAN
What do Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and Claude Monet have in common with modern rugby players, and specifically those who populate the front row?

They all liked or like to ‘paint good pictures,’ the great artists on canvas while the rugby players are more concerned with the visual image they portray to referees when it comes to scrum time.

It’s a difficult and contentious area to officiate, deciding who did what to whom, and the interpretation can vary from referee to referee. It’s not just the scrum as the breakdown contains so many variables and, for the most part, multiple offences.

The one thing players look for in a referee is a consistency of interpretation. Munster take on the Scarlets in the Guinness Pro12 final at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday and it’s fair to suggest both teams will enjoy the fact that Nigel Owens will preside over the match.

Officiating style
It’s not merely ascribing sentiment but backed up by statistics. Owens is one of the best referees of his or any other generation. He communicates clearly, with authority and possesses a genuine commitment to establishing a natural flow to a game. His officiating style is well known to both teams, whom he has previously refereed on four occasions each this season.

The Welshman has taken charges of more Munster matches this season in the Pro12 than any other referee.

The Irish province has had 10 different officials during the 22 Rounds of the tournament – not including the semi-final – and the breakdown is as follows: Nigel Owens (4), Marius Mitrea (3), Mike Adamson (3), Ian Davies (2), Dudley Phillips (2), Ben Whitehouse (2), Daniel Jones (2), David Wilkinson (2) , Sean Gallagher (1) and Lloyd Linton (1).

In contrast the Scarlets have had 12 referees with Owens joint top on four matches alongside Ireland’s Andy Brace. They have also been officiated by Ben Whitehouse (2), George Clancy (2), Gary Conway (2), Lloyd Linton (2), Sean Gallagher (1), David Wilkinson (1), Marius Mitrea (1), Daniel Jones (1), John Lacey (1) and Mike Adamson (1).

Munster have a 100 per cent record when the Welshman has been in charge during the league part of the current campaign, two of which were one-point victories over Ulster (Kingspan Stadium) and the Glasgow Warriors (Scotstoun), a comprehensive win over Leinster at Thomond Park and a three-point success against Glasgow in Cork.

The Scarlets have won three of their four matches when Owens has been refereeing, against Cardiff and the Ospreys in Parc y Scarlets and the Dragons in the Principality Stadium. The match they lost was a 45-9 thumping by Leinster at the RDS, a reverse they avenged in great style during last weekend’s semi-final win at the same venue.

So far, so superficial but drilling down a little reveals some interesting statistics, that may be more germane to the outcome on Saturday. In three of Munster’s four wins under Owens, they have been penalised more often than the opposition as the graphic illustrates.

They conceded seven to Ulster’s five, seven to Glasgow’s three and nine to Warriors’ seven in the second match between the teams.

Fewer penalties
Only in the Leinster game did Rassie Erasmus’s side give away fewer penalties than the opposition; five against Leinster’s seven. Thus Munster have conceded 28 penalties this season, at an average of seven per game, when Owens has had the whistle.

Scarlets in contrast, despite losing one of the four games, have always conceded fewer penalties than the opposition, four against six for Cardiff, three against seven for Leinster, seven against 12 for the Dragons and six against 10 for the Ospreys.

Wayne Pivac’s team have given up 20 penalties in those matches refereed by Owens, at an average of five a game, two less than Munster. What’s also interesting is that the Scarlets have forced the opposition to concede a whopping 35 penalties, 15 more than their cumulative figure (20), while Munster have given away six more (28) than their opponents (22).

So will Munster maintain their unblemished victory record under Owens in the league this season? Will the Scarlets continue to concede fewer penalties than the opposition and will it be good enough to ensure victory?

Saturday will reveal all.