6N 2018
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I had to also swallow a bit of sick in my mouth and agree with Woodentop today. He said no way in hell would the likes of Martin Johnson be subbed of at 55mins when his team was behind and needed their leader to step up and show the way. This idea of playing a captain that gets subbed in a tight game must be an Aussie thing (Cheika was doing it as well).
Surely Hartley has to be ditched as captain before 2019? Farrell is supposedly the favourite to take over but I don't ever really see him doing anything but his own game. Will be interesting anyway as Eddie keeps on painting toward that corner.I'd assume, moving forward as the 3 compulsory frontrower replacements has percolated it's way through a decade of rugby at lower levels that we will see almost no frontrowers reCing the elite with any prior captaincy experience at any level anyway.
Hooker, especially, has produced plenty of test captains over the years. Will go the way of wingers throwing into lineout a and 2-3-2 scrums.
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Says plenty to me about the importance Chieka and Eddie place on having a captain.
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Jamie Heaslip has announced his retirement from the game. Great player for Leinster, Lions and Ireland with a good few medals and cups to go with it.
3 Six Nations
1 Grand Slam
3 European Cups
3 league titles
1 Challenge Cup
2 Lions Tours
1 Try of Year.Not a bad haul. All the best to him.
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@pot-hale said in 6N 2018:
Jamie Heaslip has announced his retirement from the game. Great player for Leinster, Lions and Ireland with a good few medals and cups to go with it.
3 Six Nations
1 Grand Slam
3 European Cups
3 league titles
1 Challenge Cup
2 Lions Tours
1 Try of Year.Not a bad haul. All the best to him.
Couldn't shake off the back injury. Shame for such a great career to end like that. I've heard stuff on social media that the back injury was a legacy from Pascal Pape - is that so?
Loved him in the red shirt for the Lions and feared him in either the green or blue.
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@catogrande said in 6N 2018:
@pot-hale said in 6N 2018:
Jamie Heaslip has announced his retirement from the game. Great player for Leinster, Lions and Ireland with a good few medals and cups to go with it.
3 Six Nations
1 Grand Slam
3 European Cups
3 league titles
1 Challenge Cup
2 Lions Tours
1 Try of Year.Not a bad haul. All the best to him.
Couldn't shake off the back injury. Shame for such a great career to end like that. I've heard stuff on social media that the back injury was a legacy from Pascal Pape - is that so?
Loved him in the red shirt for the Lions and feared him in either the green or blue.
Yes - that rumour or supposition has been around a few fora. Clearly it did him damage at the time, and he had to have a small op but nonetheless he returned to playing not long after. He has been scrupulously quiet on his medical history and has said publicly a number of times over the last year that his health is a private matter. So I don't think he's going to say anything about it unless he's asked to co-write an autobiography or something.
One of those players who was too easily dismissed as not one of the greats, yet his consistency in playing and remaining injury-free along with the respect he had from all of his team-mates in the role he played has a lot of value. One of those guys who didn't get all consumed by the game, and found it easy to switch off and do other things - particularly pursue future business ventures. I met him a few times in the course of work and found him very easy-going, smart and approachable.
Hope he continues to enjoy life.
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Balls of steel for that pass
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Heaslip was a great player. Sad he's battled with injury for so long. Good luck to him
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@billy-tell Beautifully judged and executed.
Sexton threw a pearler against Wales under advantage for their first try.
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@antipodean said in 6N 2018:
@billy-tell Beautifully judged and executed.
Sexton threw a pearler against Wales under advantage for their first try.
Yep. Absolute bullet across the defensive line.
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That's one of the best tries I've seen. The pass reminded me of playing a video game where you just throw a Hail Mary and it (unrealistically) goes to hand. Absolute thing of beauty.
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@no-quarter said in 6N 2018:
That's one of the best tries I've seen. The pass reminded me of playing a video game where you just throw a Hail Mary and it (unrealistically) goes to hand. Absolute thing of beauty.
It's pretty standard play for a Scottish backline these days.
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@no-quarter early nominee for try of the year.
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@antipodean said in 6N 2018:
I’ve got things to do, all of which can wait till I watch three, no make that four more times.
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Rugby porn at its beautiful best.
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@antipodean said in 6N 2018:
Wayne Barnes would've called it back for a forward pass. Even after viewing the replay.
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Drunk fan has out of line behaviour .... gets filmed.
Social media picks it up ... goes viral.
Every man and his dog offers his opinion on it. Equally split amongst into 3 types ...
- This doesn't happen in our game, disgraceful, not what rugby represents, not part of our values
- As a (Scotland in this case, but insert country here), I'd like to say this isn't representative of the vast majority of us, please accept our apologies
- Fuck him he deserved it, look at what he says/writes has to expect retribution etc ...
And then of course fans of soccer (in this country anyway) look at it and have a good old giggle, as the haughty taughty rugby fans have long looked down on football behaviour with contempt.
All countries can say what they want, they all have their fair share of dickhead fans, and despite what many will tell you, it's not usually a tiny minority. Fans are passionate, they make mistakes and go overboard. All countries, all places. I've been spat on in Australia, sneered at in Twickenham, punched by a bok in London, verbally abused in Wales, and treated with utter contempt in Scotland. I've also witnessed plenty of AB fans being dickheads too.
The SRU shouldn't apologise, not their doing. Apart from winning of course, but who the hell should apologise for that?
