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Post by BigIain on Feb 4, 2009 22:34:18 GMT
Its that time of year again for my countrymen to be ritually humiliated. This weekend's winners:
England will be too strong for Italy
Wales will not be as good as Scotland BUT will still beat them
France to Slaughter an aging Irish team.
I have a ticket for Murrayfield as always, but flights to Edinburgh are costing a fortune so ticket is going in the post to a friend tomorrow morning.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2009 22:41:04 GMT
France will crush everyone as usual. It'll be more interesting this year playing in all that frozen slush! (I love it when nobody can hold on to the ball.)
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Post by hal2000 on Feb 5, 2009 11:45:36 GMT
British times. Add one hour for the continent.
Saturday 7th February:
England v Italy (3.00pm)
Ireland v France (5.00pm)
Sunday 8th February:
Scotland v Wales (3.00pm)
Saturday 14th February:
France v Scotland (3.00pm)
Wales v England (5.30pm)
Sunday 15th February:
Italy v Ireland (2.30pm)
Friday 27th February:
France v Wales (8.00pm)
Saturday 28th February:
Scotland v Italy (3.00pm)
Ireland v England (5.30pm)
Saturday 14th March:
Italy v Wales (3.00pm)
Scotland v Ireland (5.00pm)
Sunday 15th March:
England v France (3.00pm)
Saturday 21st March:
Italy v France (1.15pm)
England v Scotland (3.30pm)
Wales v Ireland (5.30pm)
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Post by BigIain on Feb 7, 2009 9:31:46 GMT
I just heard that Dan Parks is not starting for Scotland today. I am changing my prediction because I feel that we can beat Wales without that clown playing at 10. Scotland to win in a high scoring game.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2009 16:19:31 GMT
Why does Italy even bother to show up for these matches?
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Post by BigIain on Feb 8, 2009 14:16:04 GMT
Italy were truly rubbish yesterday. I hope the play like that against my lot later this month. The good news is that England were shockingly bad also.
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Post by palesa on Feb 8, 2009 14:40:07 GMT
Did South Africa play??
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Post by BigIain on Feb 8, 2009 19:25:30 GMT
No, SA are not invited to this set of games. Scotland got well beaten today by Wales. Another year of misery seems inevitable for us.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2009 19:36:49 GMT
France has nothing to crow about either. As for Italy, that's just normal.
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Post by BigIain on Feb 8, 2009 20:33:36 GMT
None of the teams really did much to impress me. France had some great spells as did Wales today. Scotland v Italy to decide who finishes last again. The BBC showed a table summarising the 10 years of this tournament. France and England had won around 45 games each (France had won 2 more) but Scotland have won only 14 games in the short history of the 6 nations. That is just so bad. Italy have won only 6.
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Post by palesa on Feb 9, 2009 4:41:12 GMT
I kinda knew, but could not be sure, but I generally only watch and follow the World Cup, but if you ever want to talk Cricket with a girl, I am your girl.
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Post by hal2000 on Feb 9, 2009 12:28:22 GMT
Sat 7th Feb 09 15:00 England 36 - 11 Italy
Sat 7th Feb 09 17:00 Ireland 30 - 21 France
Sun 8th Feb 09 15:00 Scotland 13 - 26 Wales
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Post by BigIain on Feb 9, 2009 18:18:53 GMT
Yes, thanks Hal for reminding me!!! Like Italy, Scotland were flattered by the scoreline.
I think next Sat will be a great day of viewing
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Post by BigIain on Feb 14, 2009 13:21:23 GMT
I think that my boys are up for sacrificial slaughter this afternoon!! I will still watch it though. Surely France can not play as badly as they did last week? I am expecting one of the famous French backlashes today. I really hope that it is not a basketball score!!
As long as England beats Wales I will count it as a good day.
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Post by hal2000 on Feb 14, 2009 16:03:40 GMT
Scotland is not being impressive so far.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2009 17:02:30 GMT
Sorry, Iain. The inevitable happened.
One thing I like about rugby commentary, in France at least, is the honest admiration of the commentators for excellent plays, even when made by the opposing team. The commentators here are just as excited to see the opposing team score a magnificent try as one by the French team. I do not see that as much in football.
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Post by BigIain on Feb 15, 2009 9:50:22 GMT
We did much better than was expected. I was quite proud of them actually, imagine if the referee had spotted the forward pass which led to the decisive French score?
No sour grapes from me though, the better team won.
And England were beaten by Wales!! What is going on in the world! Not another Wales GS, please no! They will be truly unbearable if they do it again this year.
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Post by BigIain on Feb 24, 2009 14:42:01 GMT
I see that France v Wales is being played in Paris on Friday night. Kicking off at 2100 local time. Seems like a first to me but I am now looking forward to some entertainment with my Frday night bottle of Champagne. Bring it on!!
France to outmuscle Wales
Scotland to sneak past Italy
England to finally wake up and beat the ancient Irish team.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2009 11:56:42 GMT
Well, Paris has definitely filled up with the supporters of Wales today -- the Champs Elysées was a red sea at lunch. I don't know if they'll all make it to the Stade de France this evening, however. It looked like some of them would already be sleeping it off by then.
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Post by BigIain on Feb 27, 2009 22:55:16 GMT
and such a shame that they all must go home to their valleys with no win tonight!! What a great game of rugby. No Grand slam for the sheep lovers
Scotland to win comfortably tomorrow too!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2009 23:08:52 GMT
I was watching the French Academy Awards and only saw about 3 minutes of the match, but I was happy to see that things worked out all right.
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Post by BigIain on Mar 1, 2009 8:42:57 GMT
And the cherry on the cake is that Scotland beat Italy yesterday and actually played some good rugby in the process.
We keep up our record of winning on average one game per season in this championship which is pretty pathetic really.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2009 17:03:18 GMT
What a shame that BigIain is not with us today. I would like to hear his take on the Scotland-Ireland match currently in progress.
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Post by hal2000 on Mar 14, 2009 23:14:51 GMT
Scotland led in the first half. It is a shame they were so inefficient in the second part of the match.
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Post by BigIain on Mar 14, 2009 23:35:43 GMT
or rather that Ireland decided to turn up for the second half?
Scotland are not capable of playing error free rugby for an entire game. Hence another narrow loss
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Post by BigIain on Mar 15, 2009 16:03:36 GMT
Wow! I just had the worst dream! I was dreaming that England are 27- 0 ahead at half time against France. Thats the last time I have cheese before my afternoon nap.
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Post by BigIain on Mar 15, 2009 16:14:05 GMT
Then they scored again immediately after half-time the next time I nodded off
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2009 16:41:15 GMT
It looks like the French decided they didn't feel like playing rugby very much today, even though they are changing their mind in the final minutes.
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Post by bazfaz on Mar 15, 2009 21:38:45 GMT
I began this thread and saw Kerouac's post on 4 Feb: "France will crush everyone as usual."
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Post by BigIain on Mar 21, 2009 9:00:19 GMT
Well its that time again. Time for Scotland to turn up in London and turn in to jelly then get hammered by England. I am lucky enough to be going to the game but I can not say I am looking forward to it.
Anyway, time to get the old kilt on and drink lots of whisky with good friends. Who cares about the game?
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