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Post by eggchaserbull on Jan 16, 2024 13:32:43 GMT
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Post by glawsterwhite on Jan 16, 2024 19:50:30 GMT
Rather disappointing to lose him mid season. Hope it works for him but it sounds like a big ask. At least he finished with a cracker against Edinburgh ! Can’t see him back at glaws but I’d love to be proved wrong ! Will there be a move for radwan I wonder ?
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Post by eggchaserbull on Jan 17, 2024 14:04:57 GMT
Rather disappointing to lose him mid season. Hope it works for him but it sounds like a big ask. At least he finished with a cracker against Edinburgh ! Can’t see him back at glaws but I’d love to be proved wrong ! Will there be a move for radwan I wonder ?No, don't think so. If we go for a winger to replace him, Glaws would want one who can box-kick.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2024 15:35:47 GMT
Rather disappointing to lose him mid season. Hope it works for him but it sounds like a big ask. At least he finished with a cracker against Edinburgh ! Can’t see him back at glaws but I’d love to be proved wrong ! Will there be a move for radwan I wonder ?No, don't think so. If we go for a winger to replace him, Glaws would want one who can box-kick. So we are losing Caddis to Swindon and Pond to Gloucester?
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Post by eggchaserbull on Jan 17, 2024 15:45:38 GMT
No, don't think so. If we go for a winger to replace him, Glaws would want one who can box-kick. So we are losing Caddis to Swindon and Pond to Gloucester? If Pond went to Gloucester it would diminish him; he'd only be a Dr Foster size puddle.
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Post by somnambulist on Jan 17, 2024 17:38:21 GMT
I wish him well but I wonder whether he will be as good an American football player as he is a rugby player. Christian Wade certainly didn't reach the heights.
To be honest, as a Wales fan I'm more frustrated with the call up of Feyi-Waboso by England, purely because it is a self-inflicted wound by the WRU (no surprises there). I can completely understand the player's reluctance to commit to Wales and potentially put himself in a position where his medical studies are compromised yet again.
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Post by eggchaserbull on Jan 18, 2024 14:40:35 GMT
I wish him well but I wonder whether he will be as good an American football player as he is a rugby player. Christian Wade certainly didn't reach the heights. To be honest, as a Wales fan I'm more frustrated with the call up of Feyi-Waboso by England, purely because it is a self-inflicted wound by the WRU (no surprises there). I can completely understand the player's reluctance to commit to Wales and potentially put himself in a position where his medical studies are compromised yet again. You have to ask WTF Cardiff and the WRU were doing at the time that was more important than liaising with Welsh Universities to get him into one for his studies. Brilliant bit of work by Rob Baxter to sign him for Exeter after Wasps went belly up; I believe what helped sway it was Baxter liaising with Exeter Uni for him to study there.
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Post by somnambulist on Jan 23, 2024 10:52:57 GMT
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Post by eggchaserbull on Feb 4, 2024 17:41:25 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68170605Oh dear! First JPR and now Barry John. The architect of so many defeats for England during my childhood and youth, but I could watch him play all day long. RIP, The King. Thank you for inspiring my love for rugby, and for that Lions series win in New Zealand.
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Post by GRL on Feb 4, 2024 19:04:01 GMT
BARRY JOHN.
This man is the epitome of sporting greatness. A thing of beauty. My word to describe him, probably inadequate, because you can't remotely do him justice whatever word or words you pick, would be "mercurial." What he represents - in the face of his renown - is precisely what we don't enjoy any more in the world of football, especially: tangibility. What I mean by that is that he decided he'd done enough and adjourned to the pub and talked to people at the bus stop; that's where you would find him - still in the Land of his Fathers dispensing wisdom and drinking beer.
Today's sporting heroes are rather more ephemeral.
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Post by somnambulist on Feb 5, 2024 9:02:38 GMT
The best ever. No doubt. My hero as a kid.
I was fortunate enough to have a pint with him once. Cardiff old players were entertaining Swansea old players at the Arms Park before a club game. I was there with my dad. The room was full of rugby greats but I swear that when Barry John walked in the room it fell silent. As nice off the field as he was sublimely talented on it.
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Post by somnambulist on Feb 5, 2024 13:58:04 GMT
The best ever. No doubt. My hero as a kid. I was fortunate enough to have a pint with him once. Cardiff old players were entertaining Swansea old players at the Arms Park before a club game. I was there with my dad. The room was full of rugby greats but I swear that when Barry John walked in the room it fell silent. As nice off the field as he was sublimely talented on it. I don't want to hijack this thread but while reading comments on a Barry John article, I discovered that the wonderfully talented Bryan Richards died in December. My dad, who knew a thing or two about rugby, said Richards was one of the greatest and certainly one of the most mercurial outside halves of his generation, and probably any other... I've just read his obit on the Swansea RFC club site and it says he was stationed in Hereford in the RAF. I wonder if anyone here came across him? www.swansearfc.co.uk/bryan-richards-passes-on#:~:text=Bryan Richards was very proud,2023 after a short illness. Back to Barry John and Max Boyce's take. Into Paddington we did roll with an empty crate of ale
Will had lost at cards and now his Western Mail's for sale
But Will is very happy though his money all has gone
He swapped five photos of his wife for one of Barry John
And we were singing hymns and arias...
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Post by GRL on Feb 23, 2024 11:48:36 GMT
"The optics of rugby have just got to change. I don't like sounding like a grumpy old man, but I really am finding rugby painful to watch at the moment, more so than ever."
L. Dallaglio.
Yes, mate, another weekend of the bloody nonsense infiltrating our public houses. People drinking Butty Bach watching rugby players watching the fecking telly.
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Post by Barney still in B-Block on Feb 23, 2024 14:00:45 GMT
Have to say that your L Dallaglio is quite a long way down the list of former rugby players* that I would listen to.
Or former anything’s, tbh.
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Post by colebridgebull on Feb 23, 2024 15:05:11 GMT
Put on his arse in some style by Sinbad.
Dallaglio I mean. Not the bloke who gets triggered by watching people watching stuff. And then moaning about it. To universal indifference.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2024 15:16:13 GMT
Put on his arse in some style by Sinbad. Dallaglio I mean. Not the bloke who gets triggered by watching people watching stuff. And then moaning about it. To universal indifference. Didn't Lawrence get caught in a sting by the delightful press back when they were proper naughty f£%#ers? Something to do with white powder going by memory. He was showing off saying he could get some.
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Post by glawsterwhite on Feb 23, 2024 19:03:56 GMT
Quite so WL … he was a bit of a prat tbh. Now he’s just a bit of a bore really. Yes cb sinbad really did make him look a chump, remember it well. Mind you he did the same to Lomu iirc ! I enjoy the 6n but I’d sooner watch glaws anytime. Mind you I literally watch the actual rugby and skip the pre- match drivel and the half time drivel.
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Post by GRL on Feb 23, 2024 23:01:43 GMT
Deal with the subject matter for once, you absolute bunch of nonentities who never played any sport.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2024 7:08:22 GMT
Deal with the subject matter for once, you absolute bunch of nonentities who never played any sport. It was a full moon. In the think tank. An old man said to me. You are a nonentity. Even for you that is advanced level rude. The way I see it is both you and I are guests on this their rugby thread. Although as a former sports personality of the year winner you have every right to highlight our sporting limitations.
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Post by colebridgebull on Feb 24, 2024 7:54:25 GMT
The image of ww in the “Mary Earp” dress is going to need an awful lot of mind bleach.
Thanks for that.
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