Tight Head, Loose Balls

This is a tongue in gumshield view of English rugby. It will first of all uphold the ethos, camaraderie and dodgy morality of the greatest team game in the world. However, it will be biased and if you aren't English, don't expect me to apologise either. Once I get the hang of it, I will encourage comments and forums, but all those Wind Up Merchants (one-eyed Taffs and Kiwis please note) that clog up other boards will find themselves on the end of a good shoeing and rucked out the back.

Saturday, 6 October 2007

You won't win anything playing in Grey!

When will they ever learn?

The kit manufacturers I mean.

England football team in Euro 96.

Bayern Munich v Man Utd in the Champions League 99.

London Wasps v Edinburgh Heineken Cup 2005.

And the latest screw up, New Zealand All Blacks (ha!) v France RWC 07.

All lost, all wore grey.

Its rubbish isnt it. It doesn't feature on any national flag. It isn't even a colour for God's sake.

Was it all a master stroke by those cunning Frogs to unsettle New Zealand? Did Nike really change the colour from Bleu to Marin in order to create a colour clash? Did those 15 NZ players look merely mortal playing in a colour that wasn't black, or not even a colour? Perhaps, yes. Bloody clever and a worthy new entrant in the pantheon of Rugby Dirty Tricks.

Will France switch back to their true bleu for England next week? Would be hilarious if they did, job done!

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Things we like

We admire the dedication, fitness and professionalism of today's top players. But we also want them to remember they are rugby players and have a beer or two and let their hair down every now and again.
Vigorous rucking - with a good bit of shoe for those who stray on the wrong side or attempt to kill the ball
The British Lions - the greatest tour and probably the only professional one
Singing Mucky songs - yes I know its a cliche but anything which makes you thirsty must be a good idea
Proper Scrums and Lineouts - nothing against rugby league but we prefer our restarts to be contested and our forwards to be different shapes and sizes
Happy Hour
Easter Tours - long may they continue

Things we don't like

We abhor the blazers and marketing idiots at the RFU and wish to ask them just in whose best interests are they screwing up the game.
The new throat slitting haka. If its a tradition, why change it?
The IB and the cretins behind the new ELVs. Legalising bringing down a maul?!! Please forward all law suits c/o Paddy O'Brian, Dublin
Lady singers for the anthems - unless they wear a low cut top and are showing off their Charlies - thank you Katherine Jenkins
Interfering touch judges who would rather be refereeing the game - are you watching Stuart Dickinson, Steve Walsh and horror of horrors, Jim Fleming
Hotel Owners/Managers who can't distinguish between good old fashioned high jinks on tour and vandalism (see also foreign police and souvenir collecting)