The Rugby Championship starts next Saturday, always a good few weeks entertainment 🏉
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The Rugby Championship starts next Saturday, always a good few weeks entertainment 🏉
some test fixtures coming up
DATE FIXTURE VENUE TIME 29 July 2023 Scotland vs Italy Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh TBC 5 August 2023 Wales v England Millennium Stadium, Cardiff 5:35pm 5 August 2023 Scotland v France Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh TBC 5 August 2023 Ireland v Italy Aviva Stadium, Dublin TBC 5 August 2023 Japan v Tonga Sapporo Dome, Sapporo TBC 12 August 2023 England v Wales Twickenham Stadium, London TBC 12 August 2023 France v Scotland Stade Geoffroy-Guichard TBC 19 August 2023 Wales v South Africa Millennium Stadium, Cardiff TBC 19 August 2023 Italy v Romania TBA TBC 19 August 2023 Ireland v England Aviva Stadium, Dublin TBC 19 August 2023 France v Fiji Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes TBC 26 August 2023 England v Fiji Twickenham Stadium, London TBC 26 August 2023 Italy v Japan TBA TBC 26 August 2023 Scotland v Georgia Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh TBC 26 August 2023 Spain v Argentina Metropolitano Stadium, Madrid TBC 26 August 2023 France v Australia TBA TBC
That's me done with the SRU and the Scottish Rugby team.
https://twitter.com/Scotlandteam/sta...54588702978054
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Originally Posted by Steven79
read that earlier freakin obscene
I thought she wanted to spend more time with her family?Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
She's utter vile and will cost the SRU millions.
Just reading up on this, sounds just like the European Superleague that everyone was so against in football, but for rugby. Tier 2 nations (except for a token 2) are completely screwed over and won't get a chance to compete in this competition until 2030 at the earliest as there's not going to be promotion or relegation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylar
I thought world rugby was meant to be growing the game? They already let the Pacific island nations get screwed over by the tier 1 countries cherry picking their players, now they are not going to be allowed to play tier 1 countries in any meaningful games apart from the world cup. How are they meant to improve?
We should be opening up competition, not closing it down.
Rugby Chsmpionship starts today, South Africa v Australia at 16:00 hrs , the Argentina v New Zealand at 20:00 hrs , truncated tournament this year due to the World Cup
4pm Rugby union
6pm Rugby League
8pm Rugby Union
5pm hibs on youtube :)
i'm exhauseted already
Wallabies score first and last try but very poor to watch in between, not a great start for wee Eddie and not a great watch for the neutral tbf
FT South Africa 43 Australia 12
I don't understand the upset here. It's an operational appointment, the SRU will have a governance framework/strategy for these appointments and Ruth must fit the bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven79
Politically, I always thought she came across well and one of the less devisive politicians. I've never voted Tory, although I've voted pretty much everyone else so they're the last ones on my bingo card but she'd maybe have tempted me if I were in her constituency.
Outside of politics I've seen her appear on a couple of TV shows where she comes across well. Lately I've met her a few times and again think she comes across as a really intelligent and genuine person.
Pretty much one way traffic so far from The AB's 0-24 up after 30 minutes
Make that 31-0. All Blacks look pretty decent but the Pumas are way off the pace
not just because i had Argentina at +13, Honest... but they truly are dreadful tonight
Even King Boff has been bang ordinary tonight - All Blacks aren't the same oiled machine they used to be, but are dismantling the Poomahs comfortable.
Still reckon an Ireland, France or even the Boks will give them concern.
Stuart Hogg retires with immediate affect
sorry to see him go, but good on him for making the right choice for himself and his family
Scottish Gas Murrayfield…sounds like a ****ing North Sea platform…
First Tories, now fossil fuel sponsors. SRU failing to read the room spectacularly!
amazing last few minutes in the Australia v Argentina game, Australia looked to have won it with an intercepted try with just minutes remaining but Argentina won it right at the death 34-31
fell asleep at HT in the New Zealand v South Africa game :( with the home side triumphing 35-20
two weeks today it's
Australia v New Zealand
South Africa v Argentina
Scotland v Italy at Murrayfield
I’m sure the 20m will cushion the blowQuote:
Originally Posted by Sylar
Latest world rankings....
1 Ireland 91.82 2 France 90.47 3 New Zealand 90.32 4 South Africa 88.34 5 Scotland 82.77 6 England 82.12 7 Argentina 81.49 8 Australia 80.32 9 Wales 78.08 10 Japan 77.39 11 Samoa 76.03 12 Georgia 75.94 13 Fiji 74.84 14 Italy 74.63 15 Tonga 71.21 16 Portugal 67.92 17 Uruguay 66.24 18 USA 65.92 19 Spain 65.45 20 Romania 64.45
Flying start for NZ v The Aussie's, 0-5
7-5 OzQuote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
The intensity involved in these TRC games is amazing.
7-12
7-19 ht
I'm really looking forward to today's Scotland v Italy pre World Cup warm up fixture at Murrayfield. It's a 3.15 kick off and is being covered by Amazon Prime.
:thumbsup:
7-31
7-38, match turned into a rout, could get a bit silly in the last 15 minutes.
7-38 ft
15-13 Scotland, 15 minutes left, not much to get excited about apart from Graham.
Scotland haven’t been great tbh. So many handling errors by them in this game.Quote:
Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
Credit to Italy who have been the better team for me