Second v fourth in Premiership. Six penalties to four in front of 6k crowd.

2 Weeks into Super 15 and they are tracking an average gate of about 27k and about 5 tries a game so far. There have been a couple of Kick-a-thons though....and mainly involving the South African teams, with the Stormers v Sharks a try free event.

Haven't seen any Super 15 yet, but hoping to rectify that once I get my internet installed.

Wasps beat London Irish 18-13

What's your take on Wasps this season? Financial worries aside, how can the club improve to avoid a repeat next season?


Danny Care was cautioned on Sunday for a third drink-related incident in three months. Poor lad gets singled out quite a bit, doesn't he?

[url=http://forum.planet-rugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4719Cracking discussion courtesy of those jolly good chaps at Planetrugbyunion.[/url

Just waiting for the Leeds Warrington game to start and turned over to the LV= Cup game, Bath vs. Leicester. There was a knock on when I turned on and it took two minutes to get past the scrum... one collapse, one early engage and then a free kick for another early engage

2 minutes to set a scrum, top class entertainment

So gutted for Tom Rees having to retire at only 27

Dean Richards to take over Newcastle in August, probably in the Championship.

Let's hope so,one less pro team in the north.

Took a good 7 pages of that forum to find anything on mungoball. Fooking clowns

Yawnion elitist? Well I never.

Big changes ahead at Sale Sharks?

I can't understand it. It's rumoured that Kennedy is losing millions pumping money into Sale, and now he wants to take Rangers on. If he's got too much money, I'm happy to take some off him, just to help out like.

However, he's said he's only interested in Rangers as a last resort if no-one else takes it on, so he may just stick with p155ing money away on Sale.

Whatever is going on at Sale, it didn't stop a few of their players enjoying a trip to Las Vegas the week before last. Bit hard not to notice James Gaskell in a check-in queue

Who?

This geezer www.salesharks.com/SharksSquadDe ... %20Gaskell Suffice to say there weren't many other 6'7" young Richard Ashcroft from The Verve lookalikes wandering around Manchester Airport that day. He's got ridiculously skinny arms and legs for a Union forward though.

This geezer www.salesharks.com/SharksSquadDe ... %20Gaskell Suffice to say there weren't many other 6'7" young Richard Ashcroft from The Verve lookalikes wandering around Manchester Airport that day. He's got ridiculously skinny arms and legs for a Union forward though.

It was a joke


I immediately thought of the time I met Jeremy Guscott at a do in Manchester and pretended I had know idea who he was. I only did it cos he'd always struck me as a pompous get. His reaction confirmed my suspicions.

Talking if gangly union players, there was a forward who turned out for Orrell when I was a lad. He must have been around 6'5 and reminded of spaghetti.

If this is the best team in NH union I would hate to see what a league team would do to them. I think Gateshead could rack up 50 on them.

France are an embarrassment to International Rugby. I can't think of a team I've ever seen before that lack such basic skills and awareness. I see Philippe Saint-Andre never changes. Sale played the dullest one dimensional Rugby you could ever see under him. Now he's guiding France to the same thing.

I'm gonna await a load of rubbish on here about the England game but that was a very clinical display. The second half we really turned it up and were right to take the penalties and put the game beyond them.

On a Rugby League note I went to Salford's new ground last night. Better than I expected. Your typical new build but more character than the horrible soulless places like the Halliwell Jones Stadium. That main stand looks cracking and the exterior looks amazing. It seems once Sale finally move in that the corporates who we are no doubt moving for will have a ball in there. Just a shame that the access is so appalling. Takes me 15 minutes from Baguley to The Trafford Centre in a car. On public transport it took me 40 minutes into Piccadilly and then 1 hour and 10 minutes from Shudehill to the ground. If they don't sort that side out then our attendance figures will be embarrassing when we move in.

I know, I could have put this on the Salford forum but thought I'd put it here.

I'm still not convinced Wales are a good side. They're just made to look good. It's a sign of how bad some of the sides have been. Really glad with how England have finished the tournament though.

Didn't see any of the games this weekend but the trumpeting of Wales has been a bit embarrassing when you consider just how good the three SH sides are.
The main thing I've taken from this six nations is that I'm going off international union in a way I could never have imagined.

Italy-Scotland was one of the worst games of rugby I've ever seen.

I do think too much emphasis is made on the 6 nations in general. The overall quality of all the teams have been poor and winning the 6 nations seems to be held on the same level as the world cup at times.

As for England, Lancaster deserves the job and he deserves the chance to carry on the good work he's started. If England can develop another attacking centre to partner Tuilangi then they could become one of the top sides in the world again.

On another note I think Robshaw has been poor and will be lucky to stay in the team never mind captain.

I think that the amount of knocks on and generally appalling ball handling seen in the England/Ireland game was akin to the Pennine league 5th division. If these people are highly paid trained professionals the lower levels of union must be really grim. Owen Farrell is very disappointing. He can kick penalties in fine fashion but that is the sum total of his skills. He cannot make a break, he cannot set his centres moving, his first thought is to boot the ball aimlessly down field. He is the second coming of Johnny Wilkinson and he is the most over praised , over rated stand off I ve ever seen. The SH teams have nothing to fear from this lot up here.

The England pack completely dominated the Irish, no doubt about it, but the amount of time spent in the set scrums or with the scrum half poncing about at the base of a ruck for no discernable reason and the number of aimless one yard plunges by the said forwards is monotonously dull. When I see three games on the bounce like this with negligible open rugby I soon come to realise the vast difference in entertainament on show in RL. Like chalk and cheese.

Seeing as this England team has been thrown together last minute with a set of interim coaches (whilst the Welsh side have been together a while now) came within a blade of grass of sharing the spoils, are the Welsh actually that good?

Brian Moore comparing Scotland's basic skills to an under-10s side on Radio 5 this afternoon. Bit harsh on under-10 sides throughout the country.