The Rugby

[claymore]

With 2 anthems

[Mark]

Good try by the Scots tho', well done Guys & better luck at the next WC.

Always a shame when a home team knocks another home team out. (Unless it were a final!)

I can't really see a solution to that. Demanding that home teams are seperated until as late as possible on the basis that we're all (more or less) one country entering 5 teams would seem a bit cheeky.

Five teams?
Are you including the French? Or Italy?

I seem to struggle with complex mathmatical operations.

[Arghiro]

How about Eire & Northern Ireland, Welsh, Scots & English? Do NI have a ugby team? Is Eire a "Home team"?

Oh dear, you are not a rugby fan, are you?

Since international rugby began in the 1880s there has been a single team representing the Irish Rugby Football Union, with players drawn from the the whole island of Ireland.

Not really, I was forced to play from 11 at which age I was small & very skinny. All the big kids liked Rugby as it was an excuse to beat up us skinny ones. Wewere always told it was a Ruffian's game played by gentlemen . . . but they always seemed to be bloody ruffians then & still are in this WC with all the cheating, gouging & stamping - they're all a bloody disgrace.

[lady_stormrider]

I suppose everyone now has a Welsh auntie

[sahona]

No, but I was conceived there. All Adolf's fault of course. (something to do with bomber training?)

[claymore]

Well
That's that then.
The frogs won't win the final

[lady_stormrider]

How about a Kiwi as a cousin???

I've posted in All Back.

[ubergeekian]

Not really, I was forced to play from 11 at which age I was small & very skinny.

They tried to get me to play rugby too. I was once, and only once, asked to tackle someone. Since I didn't want to hurt him, and, more importantly, didn't want to hurt myself, I deliberately aimed at a point two feet to his left and gently subsided to the ground beside him. Thus, with a snort of contemptuous disbelief from the PE teacher, my rugby career ended. Thank goodness.

[aquaplane]

I'm rubbish with any ball game, sports should be carried out sat down.

[lady_stormrider]

Or leaning out backwards over the side.

But certainly not in this weather.

[claymore]

I'm rubbish with any ball game, sports should be carried out sat down.

Oh come on - you were doing well to keep your balls dry in the Windermere Surface Walk Event

[aquaplane]

I'm rubbish with any ball game, sports should be carried out sat down.

Oh come on - you were doing well to keep your balls dry in the Windermere Surface Walk Event

The balls were wet, the nips stayed dry, just.

[lady_stormrider]

Yes - those passing Japanese tourists were mightily impressed by your attempt to re-enact 'The Battle of Midway' for them at the Lake Wardens.