six nations

[cappy]

lewis there will be some great rugby to watch .....but like racism ....blatant hooliganism a bad advert for young men who are starting in the game ....your teams match was quite heroic with one man missing ...but then wales are a poor crowd compared to teams of the past....and a new manager is certainly required ......your oppo was so erected at englands performance...he states he watched it twice .....before he came off ...i do hope for the sake of all on our august site ...he meant off the computer....lol cappy

[Lewis McColl]

Cappy , A big difference in todays game from when I played (at a decent senior level) New Brighton , Birkenhead Park, even had a Cheshire trial. I was just simply not good enough.
Anyway the difference then and now is these young lads are super fit athletes. In my day we were certainly nowhere as mobile as these guys. The difference is like two juggernauts hitting each other compared with a couple of milk floats bouncing off each other. Any of todays players if they continue playing at the top level will end up in a few years time badly Brain damaged. The hits they take around the head area the brain will be damaged. Even if they wear head protectors a hit does not stop the brain getting bounced around in the skull. Look at aging pro footballers today the numbers that have developed dementia due to heading a football is frightening. If that has happened to pro footballers how many Rugby players are out there damaged

[cappy]

well lewis i cannot disagree with you on the future of iether soccer players or rugby players were contact of the head is common .....but young men will forever think they are immortal .....and put thoughts of the future behind them.....ie army ...seamen firemen police ...etc .....but to reach the top of anything is a goal most will pursue .....there are many who have no goals and often become an anchor on society as a whole and us as individuals.....to earn your wages in life doing what you enjoy is a wonderful bonus in our short time in this world ....the future is not here now ....more so among the young.......cappy

[Keith at Tregenna]

Lewis: It is still not certain whether the Lions will be able to travel to South Africa this summer, but there is still hope the tour will go ahead in some form.

British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland was in London and Cardiff as all four nations were in action.

Who impressed on Six Nations opening weekend for you?

Keith.

[j.sabourn]

Not being a Rugby man , my first thoughts on seeing the title Six Nations , conjures up visions of tepees on an American rolling plain, and members of the 6 Indian nations of that country, Sioux, Mohican, Apache , Cheyenne , and whatever other two you pick. All sitting around a campfire having a pow wow puffing away on pipes , getting throat cancer, And maybe John Wayne as a cavalry officer sitting there who had the will and foresight to bring all together , all by courtesy of metro goldweyn Myer ( spelt wrong). And at the end going to the fish and chip shop. JS

[Lewis McColl]

No way should the Lions tour be even considered being played in South Africa. As a matter of fact there should be no inter hemisphere rugby be allowed while this pandemic is still raging around Europe. If I was the PM of Australia and New Zealand I would tell the poxed up European nations to stay home.

[Keith at Tregenna]

And at the end going to the fish and chip shop. JS

At least you got the odd shaped (fish} balls in.

Bit of assault and battering, score when pos, if you try.

A pint or two after with the foe, great camaraderie with
the team and supporters on both sides after the event.

Many will support more than one team, not always on the same day.

K.

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[happy daze john in oz]

Cappy, you ate correct about Rugby here in Oz.
It does well at local level but mainly played in the northern states, though Victoria which has only one team has done very well.
But the best by far are the Kiwis, to them it is like a religeon and they are good and very entertaning.

[thomas michael]

hi john sabourn #25
so you must have been a reader of louis lamour that great western writer, as all the crew seemed to be in those days.
as for sitting around the camp fires smoking tobacco it was also a mixture of peyote and mescaline from which they where able to receive their hallucinations, thats why when the cavalry came over the hill they where easy to slaughter by john wayne and his boys, i dont think hong kong flu was there then, but david carradine possible was as playing kwai chang caine in his kung fu part
tom

[Keith at Tregenna]

Hate is for terrorists not rugby players:

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