Halfpenny thrills!

[Lord Jim]

RB, I really like your sig line

[Gob]

[loCAtek]

So Halfpenny thrills! involves unhinging your jaw and doing primal screaming over a leather stitched ball, men in polyester shorts?

[Gob]

How can we lose, we've got the Hoff backing us!!

[Gob]

Another good reason for the boys to step their game up; RIP Merve the Swerve.

The flags around the Millennium Stadium have been lowered in honour of Mervyn Davies, the former British Lion and Wales rugby hero who has died aged 65.

Number eight Davies, known as "Merv the Swerve", led Wales to the 1976 Five Nations Grand Slam.

First Minister Carwyn Jones called him a "giant in all senses".

The Welsh Rugby Union said players will wear black armbands and a minute's silence will be held before Saturday's Wales v France match.

A video tribute to Davies' career will also be screened ahead of Wales' Six Nations match in Cardiff in which they chase their third slam in eight years.



Standing 6ft 3in tall, Davies, who died on Thursday, has been described as a "giant of the game" who won two Grand Slams with Wales and three Triple Crowns.

He went on the Lions tours to New Zealand in 1971 and to South Africa in 1974, playing in eight Tests.

Davies was handed the captaincy of Wales in 1975 and skippered the side to the Five Nations Championship in the same year, and the Grand Slam the following season.

He died following a long battle against cancer.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17396494

[The Hen]

(To the Hasselhoff post.)

Good grief.

We're a shoo-in then?




(The above just looked so wrong without the post qualification.)

[Crackpot]

What part of Cricket entails eating hamburgers while drunk on the floor?

[Gob]

Errmmm this is Rugby C-P, the majority of rugby matches end up with the fans pissed out of their faces rolling on the floor, and eating unsavoury meat products. (though normally these are kebabs.)

[Crackpot]

there's a difference?

[Gob]

A little.

[Crackpot]

I'd ask you to explain but I know it would involve a bunch of incomprehensible words that don't mean what any sane person would think they mean just leaving me more confused than I started.

[Crackpot]

I mean I can sort of see how it would be fun to throw things at Ewoks but it apparently has nothing to do with that

[Gob]

I'd ask you to explain

Think of rugby as our equivalent of American football, think of cricket as our baseball.

Now think of the bits in baseball and American football, where people run around a little, those bits that happen between the national anthem, the flag raising, the cheerleaders, the marching bands with a fucking sousaphone, the songs sung by washed up has beens, the traditional showing a Janet Jacksons saggy nipples, the fireworks displays, the hours and hours and fucking hours of adverts, those little bits where men on a field run about for a second or two.

Rugby and cricket are a bit like that.

[Crackpot]

So a few hours of homoerotic posing. Got it.

[Gob]

Well if that's the way you see it, good for you. (Does your wife know? )

[Crackpot]

You're assuming I watch Baseball and/or football.

[Gob]

How would you know about the homoerotic potential otherwise sweety?

[Crackpot]

I said I don't watch it don't mean I haven't seen it.

[Reality Bytes]

BBC Wales 6 Nations Rugby 2012 - History in the making 'France'

[Reality Bytes]