Rugby

Made a right tit out of myself today.

Was playing a friendly after our original oppo called off at the last minute. Was tail end Charlie in the lineout and caught the ball after it was spilled, unbeknownst to me I had been lined up by their centre who nearly took my head off. Shite ref didn't see it and didn't blow up. I stood up in the middle of the ruck and screamed "which cunt did that to me! If you go it again I'll eat your fucking eyelids!" Its on video and has already made its way around the club's WhatsApp groups. How am I meant to look the parents of children I'm coaching in the eye tomorrow knowing they've seen it?

Oh hai! I'm the guy who coaches your kids, I'm also the guy who threatens to eat eyelids when he gets angry. But nothing to worry about I'm nice really.

Ah shit - not sure you can talk your way out of that one, it's not even like you can claim mishearing as, regardless of the specifics, there's definitely a threat of cannibalism. Ok, I've got it - are you Scottish? If so, surely claiming it's a little known Scottish idiom basically meaning 'I'll tan your arse' is the best call? In no way (except every way) is this funny!

When we were discussing it after the match in the changing room my scrum half gave me the best possible defense. He pointed out that I wouldn't be able to maintain my figure if I limited my diet to eyelids.

Surely the suggestion that you don't limit yourself to eyelids is not a defence :-(

Eyelids is rather niche

Lol

Post the video!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/11/21/english-rugby-player-goes-existential-with-horse-analogy-pregame-interview-harlequins/

Also Bobbo - definitely post the video ;)

Not going to happen! Also, I have had to pull out of a friendly this weekend because we are playing the same team and every time I think about it, I cringe in embarrassment

I take it some alternative drunken buffoonery over has taken everyone's mind off it and it's now but a distant memory?
#postthevid

Radradra to Bristol. Wowza.

He and Piutau salary cap exceptions. Interesting article from Sale money man basically saying 'easy to breach salary cap' in a way that simply can't be audited - ie the wife of one of the players works for one of the sponsors in a very well salaried position

This also happened at Sarries. Shalk Burger's mother is/was (not sure if its still ongoing as my source is no longer at the club) employed as a cleaner at the club on a salary of around £50k, she works/worked from home though as she lives in South Africa and that commute would be killer.

Pat Lam’s press conference was interesting on the matter, saying it was easy to stay under the cap + method + examples.

I must admit as a Bris supporter, I am looking forward to the redistribution of power in West Country after years of Baaaaaarth looking down their noses at everyone else!

And as a chiefs supporter I look forward to you joining the top table ;-)

Seriously excited to see what Bris can do with that back line, don’t know enough about your pack, are they good enough to give you a platform for the backs to fly?

Obviously that was more of a dig at the raa-raa types at Bath. And a lexical manifestation of the chips on both of my shoulders, earned over many years being the poorer relations! (barring a couple of seasons of Mitsubishi money in the 1990s with Contempomi, Pichot, Honnibal, Jason Little, Frank Bunce, etc.).

You're in a whole different world down there! And (Sarries now discounted) in a class of your own. Plus there's the eternal debate over what exactly counts as West Country...

I'm still getting nosebleeds looking at the table.

Bris still need a top-class tighthead. The scrum has looked shaky (Thacker's lack of bulk may be counting against him) and there are some promising young guns coming through that need some expert help as well.

Enjoying seeing Ioan Lloyd break out at Bristol, he looks like he's going to be the real deal. Could be an really exciting partnership with Harry Randall.

Shhhh. One of the Welsh regions will nab him with promises of international caps.

I've been meaning to get to more prem rugby (I watching Glaws ~4 times a year with my old man, but it's such a good day/evening out I wanted to see more) - just checking the prices for Quins - Ulster, am I missing something, but the cheapest seats seem to be £40 and most are £50+! Is that really the state of things these days? That's insane. I was expecting ~£20-25. Maybe I just haven't been for so long but that really feels punchy...

Sounds about right for a European game. I went to Bedford Blues (fairly) recently and it's £20 there.

Tickets in the Shed used to be ca. £30-ish? And the stands were as you say.

International tickets prices are a f*****g joke also. Sod growing the game. The blazers must have their free booze...

I'm now feeling slightly sheepish about my old man buying all the gloucester tickets! Going to have to up my christmas present game this year...

Quin's has always been on the expensive side. For a long time they were able to charge what they liked being the only London based premiership club and they sold well to the corporate hospitality set. Even with Sarries playing in Barnet these days they have a catchment that includes folk with a much larger average disposable income that combined with a relatively small capacity means ticket prices remain high. Glaws is a different matter I can't see them being able to charge as much, even when I used to watch wasps when they played in High Wycombe their prices were about 40 to 50% cheaper than quins.

Aye, that makes sense. I've been to the stoop quite a few times but never had to pay as was a guest of bloodgate's own Tom Williams as my flatmate was best friends with his fiance... Now need to work out how much I want to watch the Quins - Ulster game in a couple weeks...

Quin's has always been on the expensive side. For a long time they were able to charge what they liked being the only London based premiership club and they sold well to the corporate hospitality set.

Pretty much why we ditched our season tickets - £400 for front row seats on the 22, constantly yelling at people to stop dithering and either keep walking to the bar or just fuck off back to their seats, and more and more games being on a Friday evening, meaning family fun times was not happening.

The last Ulster Quins game was fun though - brother-in-law being an Ulsterman and all.