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It's that time of year again when the Northern Hemisphere rugby fans get their hopes out and prepare themselves for whatever might happen. I reckon this year it will be a great series but, as ever, we'll see. For me, it kicks off tomorrow in Twickenham when my home team (Wales) battle it out against England. I reckon it will be close but I have an inkling that England will use the home advantage to pinch it.
France will be out to pull themselves up from the World Cup debacle and Italy will be desperate to build on their better game play they have been showing over the past couple of tournaments. Meanwhile Ireland are struggling a bit and Scotland look well prepared. Wales have a lot to do with a new manager and coach and England are, of course, riding high from their recovery in the World Cup.
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hmmmm..... I pick Scotland ftw!
I dont know, Wales and Scotland would be my sentimental favourites, but the Frogs and the Poms are always hard to beat.
Yeah, I agree with you andro...
But I've decided to go the optimist's route
C'mon Ireland!!
Ok, C'mon The Emerald Isle!
hehhehe
I bet Mr Dent celebrated that win!
W00t!
Wow, the Welsh and the Irish both got up! 
Now all I need is for the Scots to get up also. 
Yeah, I'll bet the booze was flowing wherever Arthur was watching it.
hehehe yeah!
Who knows, this might be the time of the underdogs....
What a weekend! Unfortunately I didn't get tickets for Twickenham so watched the Ireland/Italy, England/Wales matches in my local hostelry. As you can imagine, the first half of Eng/Wales was so dire (for me) and the piss-taking was severe and pityless. The second half was an absolute blinder and again the piss-taking was even more severe and may possibly result in a war-crimes trial for it's cruelty to the English.
Other than that, I thought the Italians battled hard against the Irish (they are getting much better) and I must admit I expected a ruthless game from the French (which happened). A great opening weekend with (I believe) more to come...
and yes, a few sherberts did cross the threshold - Sunday morning was, I must admit, a little bit difficult.
ROFL! war-crimes trial! hhahahahahh
Hang on, the French had a game too? Who did they play? I didn't see any results for them
Glad you had a good time Arthur, sounds like fun.
And deezee, the French defeated the Scots 27-6. Bugggeerrrrr.
D'oh!!
Terrible score line too
Yeah, I think the halftime score was 17-6, so the Scots didn't score in the second half.
oops....
France beat Ireland 26-21
Check out this headline: Ireland are not that shit anymore, but still lose
Oh dear, and we were goin for Ireland, weren't we ??
I loved this last sentence in that article............
The French Revolution welcome England next, and I fear the worst, especially the thought of Clerc and Heymans running at the KFC-engorged Vainikolo.
HAHAHAHA Yeah!
Well England certainly showed how good Italy can be these days. A score of 19-23 (Italy/England) is close, very close.
For me, one of the best matches of the 6 nations is always Wales vs Scotland. This time it finished in favour of Wales but it was still a good match. I just got back home from Cardiff and it was a brilliant weekend. We had a blinder of a time with all the Scots lads down for the match - excellent...
Wow... sounds like great fun Arthur....
Must be nice living where all the action is!
I hardly live at the centre of the action but close enough.
Using the trains:- Cardiff (for the Millenium Stadium) is about 4 hours Twickenham is only 2.5 hours. Murrayfield (Where Scotland play) is about 6 hours. Stade de France (Paris) is about 6 hours.
Croke Park (Dublin) and Rome need to be flown and take anything between 4 and 6 hours depending on connections.
Hey, given I'd have to take a plane and spend a few thousand dollars in the process, that's pretty much the centre to me!
Or I could walk for 3 minutes and watch it on 50-odd inch wide screen in my local pub or fall out of bed and watch it on my own TV...
Don't have that even!
what - a TV?
TV I have.... it just doesn't show the right stuff
Wales vs Italy at the Millenium this Saturday - great match. The Italians can't drink pints of beer, never mind, they can play a good bit of Rugby and they are a very sociable group of supporters... Good score for Wales too 47-8.
Wow!
That was a complete thrashing!
You wouldn't think so for the first half. Italy were dangerous. They even got the first try of the game and it was a blinder.
Scotland crashed out to Ireland and England played a very good game to beat France. The Six nations is now wide open. Wales are on top with 3 wins out of three but I am not even thinking about celebrating yet (although I'll celebrate anyway - hic!). Our next game is against Ireland in Croke Park and that will not be easy by any stretch of anyones imagination and the final game for Wales is vs France at the Millenium (I will be there again...!) . All very dodgy, France are immense when thay get their shit together.
Anyway back to Ireland vs Wales A quote from Eddy O'Sullivan, the Irish coach:
“Both teams like to run and if it’s a dry day at Croke Park, it will be all bets are off and a great spectacle.”
I happen to agree with him and am a bit pissed off that my efforts to make arrangements for a weekend in Dublin have fallen through.
Here is a link to the Six nations Web-site for the info...
Damn! I'd love to see the Ireland v Wales match.
Might try and watch it at a pub
Is it next week?
Two weeks time. Ireland will be defending their "Triple Crown" so it is seen in the Irish community as a big match. I guess you need to find an Irish Bar in Sydney...
Okay, now that would just be scary!
Time difference would be the problem deezee.
Generally when we watch live footy games (of any code) from Europe, they are on in the wee small hours of the morning. (here in Aust).
Which is prime time for me!
hehehe
I am now definitely looking forward to Saturday with many thanks and praises to my old mate Denver (that's his nickname, after Denver Sluice in East Anglia, he has the same ability as the sluice to hold his liquid and he comes from that area, or at least his Dad used to live there).
He weasled a couple of tickets through a mate, who's cousin is married to a girl whos father knows a bloke he'd met on holiday etc... Well I don't know the source but they were acquired for a donation to a charity and appear to be legitamate so I have just booked good old Ryanair to Dublin for Friday morning and we are there for the weekend. I have no idea what the fleapit hotel will be like and judging by my last visit to Dublin I had no recollection of what the hotel was like anyway.
All I know is that I will be at (or near) Croke Park on Saturday and that I am anticipating the best game of rugby since ever... If Wales beat Ireland they will win the Triple Crown (to do that they have to beat England, Scotland and Ireland) and then it will be France at the Millenium for the final game (for which I've already got tickets and feel a bit guilty because Denver doesn't have one - although he's 50/50 Irish and Isle of Man...) And that might be the Grand Slam. Oh dear! let's hope I'm not going to fall here, I hope the lads are as confident as my anticipation is!
Yaaaaay!!!
That's excellent Mr Dent!
I'm so excited for you
And GOOOO WALES!
Go the Celts!!...
hahahaha
W00T!!! Scotland beat England!
And Wales won!!!!
*hopping around the house* woo hoo!!!
I guess we shouldn't expect to hear from Mr Dent anytime soon....
Well, two out of three of the Celtic countries won.
Just hope that Wales can beat the Frogs next weekend.
Good on the Scots as well.
Arthur is probably still in a Dublin bar having his Guinness and oysters.
heh heh Yeah...
Meanwhile, I think there's France v Italy tonight
Yeah, that's him in the left front of the pic. (holding up the trophy)
Or maybe thay's him with the ball in the third pic on Scrumbag
HAHAHAHAHA
Me thinks he's still working off that major hangover he'd have acquired over the weekend
Or he's in the slammer..
ooooooo
Good point!
I hardly live at the centre of the action but close enough.
LOL Arthur. The nearest I get to an away game now would be the Shed's v the Bronko's at the Gold Coast but be buggered if I'd want to go to that shit heap. All else needs a plane.
Well what a week. Dublin was great and Andro has ruined it by suggesting Guinness with Oysters. What a waste of Guinness!!!.
Had a really busy week and then it was Cardiff again, from Friday through till Sunday. What a game, what an atmosphere a the the Millenium. I have been to some big rugby games in Europe, South Africa Australia and New Zealand and I have never,ever experienced an atmosphere like this one. The French were shitting themselves, and it showed with one or two of their backs doing things early on in the game that only nerves could account for. Having said that, they settlind in nicely and both teams fought it out well. The big difference was Wales' defence - completely impervious whereas France dominated a lot of play until the last quarter. Eventually the 29-12 score line was about right.
So, Wales not only win the Six Nations Championship, they win the Grand-Slam (beat all the other teams) for the second time in 3 years. Hopefully the new coach (Kiwi) Mike Gatland is going to shake off the world-cup debacle and turn Wales into the world-beating team thay they are capable of being. Roll on South Africa!
W00T!!
I dunno how I completely missed the fact that Wales won the whole thing - but -
YAAAAYYYYY!!!!
And... errrm.... what's happening in South Africa??
Andro has ruined it by suggesting Guinness with Oysters.
Guinness and Oysters is a marriage made in heaven.
Obviously Arthur doesn't like oysters.
I'm happy that Wales won though..
You are right there. Oysters are food for Oyster Catchers (a bird) plus other natural predators, not humans - yeuch! Guiness on the other hand is compatible with any other foodstuffs.
South Africa is where Wales will be touring later this year. Hopefully they can only keep on improving to hit what the pundits are calling "world class".
The Six nations finished as follows:-
1 - Wales, 2 - England, 3 - France, 4 - Ireland, 5 - Scotland and 6 - Italy. I can't help feeling sorry for Italy but they showed that they are not the dummies that they used to be and are improving all the time.
Ugh - oysters. Completely agree with Mr Dent there!
I see the BBC graded Wales with an A+
The remarks for Scotland are funny!
Oysters are food for Oyster Catchers
Ugh - oysters. Completely agree with Mr Dent there!
Peasants.
I think all those grading remarks were funny!
They were too!
