We've got the football/wrestling/NFL chat threads so why not have a rugby chat thread?
 
Whether you're a League or Union fan, use this thread as general chit chat.

I feel like I should say something.

And me....I was supposed to be refereeing an under 17's game tonight but the bloody pitch is frozen, so of to the gym I go.

Anyone know much about Rob Webber? Hooker from Wasps is all I know  (other than he is in the England Elite Squad and that at the end of the season he will join Bath)

I don't know much, heard his name once or twice. Not much more.

I know his line out throwing in is poor, can't hit a barn door from 6 inches away from what I've seen!

rew37

I know his line out throwing in is poor, can't hit a barn door from 6 inches away from what I've seen!

All the best hookers are like that!

yorkshirerocker

We've got the football/wrestling/NFL chat threads so why not have a rugby chat thread?

Whether you're a League or Union fan, use this thread as general chit chat.

Do I really have to associate with those League posers?

Fawning program about the best winger in recent memory and all around nice bloke, Shane Williams, on bbc2 wales tonight. Watch and weep when Welsh.

S8N 666

yorkshirerocker

We've got the football/wrestling/NFL chat threads so why not have a rugby chat thread?

Whether you're a League or Union fan, use this thread as general chit chat.

Do I really have to associate with those League posers?

I happen to be a 'League Poser'   Season starts for my team tomorrow. Not too confident about it though.
 
Shall be keepin my eye on the six nations though.

Disappointing start to the season for Bulls today. Defence was terrible.
 
How is everyone anyway?

Decent opening to the six nations, can't see anyone winning a Grand Slam this year but France & Wales have to be favourites after the first weekend.

How did England play for rest of the match against Scotland? Only saw first 10 minutes

yorkshirerocker
How did England play for rest of the match against Scotland? Only saw first 10 minutes

Ummm....opinions around here vary a little, but I thought they were pretty dreadful. Offered pretty much nothing at all in attack (from backs or forwards), and the only reason that Scotland didn't score several tries was their own inability to stop just throwing the ball away or dropping it every time they made a decent break (along with one particular delayed pass that was just criminal, and prevented a certain try)! A few positives (good discipline, and one or two decent individual performances), but generally pretty poor, I thought - England didn't 'win' that game, Scotland definately lost it all by themselves.
 
Did any other rugby fans make an attempt at watching the Superbowl? I usually do, and watched the first half, but couldn't take any more! After watching the Ireland v Wales game in the afternoon (which was an absolute cracker!), it just reminded me how dull a game American football is to watch in comparison. I usually enjoy Superbowl, but the whole stop-start-stop-adverts thing just got on my nerves too much last night. I find Rugby League a bit too stop-starty for me, but Am fball is just ludicrous! How can they cope with all of the adverts they have to sit through?! After an afternoon of exciting team sport yesterday, it was all just too much like watching a chess game for me!
 

Opinions seem to vary everywhere on England's performance!

rew37

Decent opening to the six nations, can't see anyone winning a Grand Slam this year but France & Wales have to be favourites after the first weekend.

I'd pretty much agree with that, although Ireland are still looking pretty solid, just unlucky to let the lead slip through their fingers at the end.

cenydd

yorkshirerocker
How did England play for rest of the match against Scotland? Only saw first 10 minutes

 
 and the only reason that Scotland didn't score several tries was their own inability to stop just throwing the ball away or dropping it every time they made a decent break (along with one particular delayed pass that was just criminal, and prevented a certain try)!

 
Bulls were like that yesterday, as well as having a very poor defence.
 
In regards to the Super Bowl I've never bothered watching it due to the amount of adverts, and from what I've seen of American Football it does seem very start-stop.

yorkshirerocker

How did England play for rest of the match against Scotland? Only saw first 10 minutes

Offensively we weren't good (our 9+10 combo isn't good enough (START DICKO!)). Defensively we were brilliant.

I thought Charlie Hodgson had a good game, nothing spectacular, but a safe pair of hands.  Ben Youngs was poor in an England shirt yet again, I'd give Dickinson a try.

Typical Hodgson, getting his hands on his own chargedown to score the only try, after I'd been slagging him off again