Archive For "February, 2012"

I know it’s silly of me but I can’t really help it. You know I don’t really invemt all this stuff; I really don’t. This is brief. I heard that Al Caravelli of the USA Sevens program got the axe, I have no axe to grind with that decision. IMHO he has done enough damage to the program and I do not even know the fellow. Just out of his depth. Period. Someone new can [...]

Funny….unrelated but the USA names a coach that almost rhymes with token. Actually that is a damned good way to remember him, poor chap. I do hope he fares well in the big leagues of professional rugby. Tough task I should think. Speaking of tokens, Stuart Lancaster was a token…the RFU wanted to prove a point. That point is that the playing fields are level. Might have gone with Guscott but I suppose he didn’t [...]

I have just read on Planetrugby in their 6N team of weekend that Farrell beat out Sexton. That is dreadful Let’s pick our worst of the weekend. 15. Ben Foden 14. Sean Lamont 13. Aurelien Rougerie 12. Gordon D’Arcy 11. Julien Malzieu 10. Francois Trinh Duc 9. Mike Phillips 8. Imanol Harinordoquy 7. Chris Robshaw 6. Put in an Irishman, any of the three. 5. Donncha O’Callaghan 4. Alistair Kellock 3. Geoff Cross 2. Rory [...]

I’m totally unfit for rugby union because there was not a fucking brave aspect about Scotland today. Andy Robinson should be sacked now. Can you imagine a professional athlete not playing on a Sunday. Solve that problem. Replace him with a piddling journeyman tighthead in Cross and replace him with another absolute Cambridge educated rugbyfailure in Kalman and is it a wonder that Kellock was dropped as Captain before his inclusion in the 2011 RWC….talk,talk,talk…embarassment [...]

That’s because there isn’t anything here worth discovering. I’m out but I can take some solace in the fact that as I am flushed down the toilet so goes Lancaster and team. Pitiful performance because no game plan was in place, poor discipline and Manu Tuilagi isn’t fit. Had he been so for the full eighty I wouldn’t be here plucking my head out of arse. Only one possibility now. It won’t save Lancaster and [...]

It was a little both atually. On the day Ireland was much improved and much better than Italy to my surprise. A deserved J. Sexton took match honours and my man T. Botes didn’t show much. Of course either did Burton. I think Italy lack leadership and that is a bit bad on me as I think Parisse is such a great player. Or it might be that when the match accelerates the little errors [...]

Allow me to say that the first two SL results in the SH have blown me off the charts. My worst characters, or at least, two of the three, Jake “Why Change Your Real Surname Fom Westhuin White and Todd ” Do Change Your Surname” Blackadder came through as the zBrumbies picked off the Force and the Crusaders picked off the Blues in Auckland. The Blues ought to rid themselves of Lam if this continues. [...]

I never thought in my wildest imagination that Ireland could lose to Italy at home. I still don’t. But it could be tight. The pundits are right about one thing. Italy is all about a flyhalf. They have never, even in the days of Domiguez had a real playmaker. In Tobias Botes, the Azzurri Afrikaans(along with Geldynhys, Van Zyl, Del Fava) cum back specialist they have a Morgan Parraesque type player, which is so much [...]

It’s simply too late to show a yellow streak. The Christians tried and they were fed to the Lions. Bad situation , this. You heard the Mother Superior, if we let them in , we’re in for it. Somehow I think there is a rational explanation for all this. England cannot lose to Wales because Wales are an illusion that Warren Gatland has deluded the rugby world. Like France, not ready for prime time yet. [...]

There are certain inalienable calls that a coach with testicles has to make because that decision will define him. This decision will make Lancaster and break Gatland. Lancaster must select Tuilagi no questions asked. here is why. Jaimie Roberts is too smart not to be afraid of the power of Manu Tuilagi and Tuilagi is too dumb to realize what the end result is. It requires no thinking at all from MT. Roberts is hurt. [...]