Sorry to break up the rugby league is going the way of the dodo theme but,

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Apology accepted

Oh gutterfax, what [iare[/i you like!

[url=http://www.reds.co.uk/rugby-news/reds-youngsters-in-demand-but-no-sale-deal-in-placeSteve Diamond shooting his mouth of again, getting it wrong again, embarrassing himself and Sale Sharks again.[/url

It's a good job for Steve Diamond that so few people in the north west give a flying one about Sale, otherwise he'd be a PR embarrassment.

If "crouch, touch, pause, engage.." and 20 minutes per game of scrum time does one thing, it might be to preserve the mental faculties of front row forwards once they reach middle age a little better.

One thing’s for sure, the BBC like to spin their Rugby Union Dan Lydiate's Six Nations ‘moments of magic’ can be found here www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17465020 I have to say, I was expecting a little more from the text

One thing’s for sure, the BBC like to spin their Rugby Union Dan Lydiate's Six Nations ‘moments of magic’ can be found here www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17465020 I have to say, I was expecting a little more from the text

Quote ="Dunbar"One thing’s for sure, the BBC like to spin their Rugby Union Dan Lydiate's Six Nations ‘moments of magic’ can be found here www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17465020 I have to say, I was expecting a little more from the text'" Have they put the wrong video up? I saw nothing magical in that.

Quote ="Dunbar"One thing’s for sure, the BBC like to spin their Rugby Union Dan Lydiate's Six Nations ‘moments of magic’ can be found here www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17465020 I have to say, I was expecting a little more from the text'" Have they put the wrong video up? I saw nothing magical in that.

Mine was a genuine question. Is this Welsh side as good as they're being made out to be? Personally, I would say no.

The major difference in the two governing bodies is without doubt the marketing, but the locality of the two sports (certainly in this Country) lends a hand to that. Rugby League needs to fire the tennis guy and the fat guy off and bring stomebody in with some balls.

Gf - dont get sucked into beleiving that everyone at Twickers has paid to be there.

I think the 3 test tour to Australia in the summer will answer that question for us

While this Welsh side has some talent and athletic players, it is certainly being talked up in the press

I always smile at the plaudits the Welsh side is getting. Considering England won the Six Nations last year and then went to the World Cup and lost one game and the Welsh lost 3 games (2 if we are generous and discount the 3rd/4th place play off which is not really a competitive fixture) and they actually both got knocked out by the same team by a score differential of 1 and 7 points respectively there isn’t that much in the two sides as far as I can see. And yet one was at its lowest ebb and the other were world beaters

I can happily say that in the 30 years+ I have been attending events at Twickenham Stadium, I have never once paid for ticket(s).
Last time we attended a Union game there was as "competition winners" in METRO.....I have also been there as a competition winner of various other publications and media shows....

I have never won a competition in my life.....I have never entered a competition in my life



Interestingly, I have been to a number of events at the CAKE tin here in Wellington since I arrived in 2009..........can't recall paying for any of them either....it's a GIFT!

Exactly my point. This England side is a work in progress etc etc and yet came a bugs d1ck away from sharing the title with this all conquering Welsh side.

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-17490607Danny Care questioned over alleged sexual assault in Leeds.[/url

Is scrum-half one of the missing links in this England side?

Neither Dickson nor Youngs impress me. A fit and firing Danny Care could have made an improvement to the side IMO.

England union to play in the Carnegie 9s.

They must think they can use this as away of showing exciting union. The issue with this comp is that its full of made up teams or the actual teams that do show up for this are now full of squad players and kids.

How can they show 'exciting union' by playing rugby league? At least rugby league will get some exposure in the national media.

I wouldn't bet on it getting too much exposure - this is likely to be the England Sevens side currently playing on the IRB circuit rather than the England XV's side IMO.

My line of thinking was that with the Olympics being just around the corner the press will pick up on (soon to be Olympic) union 7s. The head of referees at RFU can break wind nowadays and it dominates Sky Sports News all day, so maybe league will benefit in a kind of 'in the background' way.

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I would be interested to see Jeff Blackett's full judgement, and whether he considered Clark to have set out to deliberately and with pre-meditation injure Hawkins.

If - in Blackett's opinion - he did, then I'd say what he's got is what he deserves.

If it's a case of a player getting carried away and doing something a bit stupid, I think he's a touch unlucky at the length of the ban. Particularly given Hartley got less for an act that could have potentially blinded an opponent, not just broken his elbow.

If he did it deliberately you have to wonder why the police are not involved.

Good to hear Matt Dawson this morning proclaiming a new golden era of English rugby with the appointment of Matt Dawson. Then again he did say before every six nations game this year that the charge down kings were going to play exciting running rugby

I see that Alex Goode is predicting that today’s Saracens Harlequins game will be a “will be a record rugby attendance at Wembley” www.metro.co.uk/sport/894541-ale ... harlequins I know there was 78,000 plus at the Challenge Cup final last year, are they expecting more than that?

I see that Alex Goode is predicting that today’s Saracens Harlequins game will be a “will be a record rugby attendance at Wembley” www.metro.co.uk/sport/894541-ale ... harlequins I know there was 78,000 plus at the Challenge Cup final last year, are they expecting more than that?

Quote ="Dunbar"I see that Alex Goode is predicting that today’s Saracens Harlequins game will be a “will be a record rugby attendance at Wembley” www.metro.co.uk/sport/894541-ale ... harlequins I know there was 78,000 plus at the Challenge Cup final last year, are they expecting more than that?'" Most articles are mentioning a World Record Rugby Attendance for a club game, which even a 2 second Google search shows up as typical union hype nonsense and lazy journalism copying from a press release without checking.

Quote ="Dunbar"I see that Alex Goode is predicting that today’s Saracens Harlequins game will be a “will be a record rugby attendance at Wembley” www.metro.co.uk/sport/894541-ale ... harlequins I know there was 78,000 plus at the Challenge Cup final last year, are they expecting more than that?'" Most articles are mentioning a World Record Rugby Attendance for a club game, which even a 2 second Google search shows up as typical union hype nonsense and lazy journalism copying from a press release without checking.

seeing Wembley so packed for Saracens v Harlequins. just read a Tweet, this just about sums it up: 'At Wembly for a rugby match, Saracens v Harlequins (?)...no idea what's going on but it's awesome.'

got to wonder, where are all these 'fans' every week when they struggle to get 6,000 into Vicarage Road??

What was the pre match band today. Thats how they normally do it. Plus many free and very cheap tickets. www.premiershiprugby.com/premier ... /30259.php

What was the pre match band today. Thats how they normally do it. Plus many free and very cheap tickets. www.premiershiprugby.com/premier ... /30259.php