Wall of Mouths

Ad breaks even (..adverts Gav you fucking pillock!)

deadsetgav wrote:

I think its fair to say the protection is necessary…

Well I think the helmets are a bit much, and I have played American Football in LA with a few American guys who were about the same height / bigger than me and some hits they put in weren’t too bad. I’ve had much worse on a rugby pitch.
I’m inclined to think the protection isn’t neccessary because I don’t wear protection on a rugby pitch, apart from a scrum cap to stop my head being trampled on, and I don’t think tackles made in NFL are any worse than the tackles you’d see in a Toulouse vs. Ulster match. Each to their own.

I’m not sure if they fit the play round the ad breaks, but it’s the stopping after a tackle that pisses me off, they should make the game a bit more free flowing, and call these plays before the ball is played :P

:D

Thx Colin :) .I guess you’re happy that Trimble will play as Centre and I’m impatient to see that guy,Heaslip as number 8,I was said he had played a great part with the Leinster against Toulouse during the H-cup competition.

I’m off on the road :)

@Gav : :D

Well,juste came back from “Le Stade De France”,I wasn’t able to make my survey about T? too many people “in green” on my way…Just the time to take a pic of me with some nice ones wearing that traditional “hat”, worn sometimes in some illustrations by some dwarves when it comes to talk about Ireland,don’t know if you see what I mean… And loads of beautiful Ladies from the Green Erin. (Colin,how lucky you are to appreciate some everyday :p :D )

About the game,the last 20 minutes made me sweat on my seat .The Irish suddenly woke up :eek:,they were lead 26-6 and finally ended at 26-21… France has a great backlines and Vincent Clerc is definetly a “Curse” for the Irish :D …But the young forwards are still too tender to face some members of the Munster’s Pack.It may be better to make some experiment players (Thion,Papé,Marconnet…)come back.

Great singing of the Irish Fans on the stands,BTW ;) .

deadsetgav wrote:

the contact looks more full-on than rugby, dont they fit the play round the add breaks?

Correct me if I am wrong but in Rugby you tackle the player who has the ball, the only other contact being a scrum which is actually fairly structured and carefully supervised, whereas in US Football, shite though it is, players who are off the ball have head-to-head physical contact to block each and prevent progress.

I once saw the figures for the serious injuries and deaths in US Football in the early days before the safety gear was used - frighteningly high for a “sport”! I can’t say I blame them for having the gear. I DO blame them for playing a wank game, however.

CS wrote:

It’ll be down to the wire with Wales just about winning the Grand Slam. France to choke against England :D

Mmmm,If the english play like they did against Italy,we have some chances…Except’ for the scrumming exercice :rolleyes: …As they say in the perfidious Albion : No Scrum,no Win…And to quote Bernard Lapasset’s sentence,the French rugby fed Prez after the lose in the semi-final of the last RWC :”When you play against the English,you musn’t play like the English”

Don’t understand why EOS talked about football after the Game??????As I don’t read much foreign sports press.The only words I had from him was that France was very lucky in the second half…I don’t know if he was aware that The French made a trap by making believe that The Irish could strike easily on the wings…Sorry I can’t develop this further cause,I lack some technical rugby vocabularies in English :rolleyes: …But I guess you know what that trap consisted in ;) .

Ah so tommorow,I’ll go and see the Game between France and Italy and Unfortunatelly, There won’t be any Marco ” Abruti” Materrazzi to hiss at :D …Hope it will be a great game that will warm my heart because my club of Paris lost at home against Perpignan (the 1st defeat on that pitch,all competitions mixed,since September 2004 ) :( .

Ah today, Congrats To the Scots :) and for England…they’re good when it’s only about giving France some spankings :D .I also appreciated the game between Wales and Ireland.

Ah so,except’ Wales,your fav’ teams lost this week end :P …France won against Italy,but I have a mitigated feeling about that game : they are not still as strong as they should be on some basics (Scrum,Line out…) and what worries me is that Marc Lièvremont is quite satisfied with the quality developped by his team…But paying that way against the welsh at Cardiff next week and as we say in French,they’ll take back to France “some suitcases”

Yeah Marc is focusing on the future,and I know I said it here that I wouldn’t mind if they got the “wooden spoon” but They should work with more serious and application the “Basics” :Look at our line out,it’s not the most sure of the world : Dimitri Szarzewski is just a good Pizzas’ thrower (term used in French to designe a bad thrower for line out),whereas he seemed to improve in that with the Paris’s team…And I was shocked to learn that in the week before facing Scotland and Ireland that one session was weekly dedicated to the Scrum’s excercice…So not a surprise that they ate the grass against England,against who he didn’t use the right strategy: why playing the passing game to take the English on the wings whereas their sliding defence was ready to wait for them there? And why they didn’t kick more the ball and play “up and under” on Ian Balshaw,the full back,who seems to be terrible on high ball (we agreed on this with an english fan)? I know he is keen on make play his team a “total Rugby” but sometimes and against some opponent,he has to reflect more and not to be blinded by his game’s philosophy…

About Chabal…It’s good rugby player,he usually proves his value every week with the Sale’s Shark for the Guinessshipremiership but he’s not really an enduring one and he always takes too much time to get up after participating to a ruck for example and was overrated by Bernard Laporte and the french Medias during the RWC…it was just a scarecrow for our opponents :D (and a way to hide our lacks of our team…)

Hopefully,for the game against wales some experiment are called in the squad :Skrela,Heymans,Vermeulen,Elissalde…But why firing Rougerie and not call an experiment Loose head Prop (Marconnet,Emmanuelli…)?

And at last A word on England :that’s a shame for firing Danny Cipriani off the squad last week because he came back at 1 am from a discothèque!!!!

Jake White for Ireland coach!

They could use that as a tourist logo - because people just usually think of bombs, badly tarmaced drives and people with eyebrows on their cheeks!

…horses running through council estates

butters wrote:

2 games into the six nations they give o’sullivan a new 4 year contract, and now they sack him

Erm… he was awarded the contract before the 2007 WRC.
Also, he resigned, and was not forced to quit. The IRFU panel which decides whether he left or stayed wasn’t due to meet for another two weeks.
No massive payout, but I’m sure there is some behind the scenes stuff.

Jut read that he’s getting 350,000 euro payout.
Not bad for a guy who likes the word football…

Munster - Toulouse would be a great final. Hopefully we can over come Saracens - tough game again this weekend so fingers crossed we get no more injuries. You keeping up with the Boss thing Colin? Sounds a bit suss to me - moneygrabbing?