Going from watching Bristol Vs Newcastle to Scarlets Vs Dragons is like going from watching foo fighters live to watching your mam doing karaoke drunk at Christmas 🙈
One of the best things about rugby is the fact that it brings together people who would never normally interact with each other e.g. my mate Ross (slaughterman) messaging me (pharmacist) for medication advice...
#quarterzone
Proper smelly chat this. This is what makes union great. If you don't like scrums watch league. Imagine not having the big props at thid RWC. Boring! Watching massive blokes smash into each other is entertaining. Then when they're tired from scrums that creates mismatches.
Scrum discussion:
🗣 "By giving a penalty where you can take 3 points or kick for touch and maul, you are incentivising scrummaging to get the penalty!"
🗣 "World Rugby have to make a decision. Do we want the scrum to be the focal point of our game?"
#ENGvRSA
#RWC2023
Purely based on the fact that Fiji could select a centre partnership of Botia and Radradra, explain to me how they wouldn't add more value to the Six Nations that Italy? 🤔
There seems to be a very strong correlation between covid vaccine conspiracy theories and people who have no medical/scientific background. I also love their inability to reference any supporting literature. When was the last time you heard of a child dying from Polio in the UK?!
How can someone spend 5 minutes setting up their phone to video themselves doing lat pull downs. But that same person can't spend 20 seconds wiping down their equipment when they're finished.
#Helmets
Great to have the support of
@cinerglass
for the next few years. Having such a big company invested in the local area can only be a good thing for Ebbw Vale 🇭🇺
Talk about overcomplicating things. Anyone would swear he's just done 3 hours with Joe Rogan and had 10 shrooms, 6 joints and a space cake. Imagine being a causal fan watching this 🙈🙉🥱
John Afoa is 37. Thirty fucking seven! That means he's been a pro tight head for about 20 years and he's playing like that! Most mortal men would have some form of scoliosis after 20 years at tight head. Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous 🤯
Main take away from 9/11 museum: Dogs were involved in the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden, and the rescue of people from the world trade centre. Dogs are fucking awesome! 🐕
I consider it a massive honor to be named captain of Ebbw Vale RFC. As an Ebbw boy it doesnt get much better than this. I know I've got some big shoes to fill with the likes of ashsweet6…
Great performance from the boys tonight, couldn't fault the effort. Shame the result didnt go our way. There's lots of positives we can take from it though. Nice to get MoM with the broski too👌
We had a new warm up drill for
@evrfc
which split the team up into odd and even numbers, based on their playing numbers,
@RossNuldy
then asked me what an odd number was
So does he not understand that the SOONER you are vaccinated the SOONER you get some sort of immunity to Covid-19. Therefore, the LESS likely you are to put pressure on the NHS. Or am I missing something? 🙈
Big performance from the
@evrfc
boys yesterday when the chips were down. No excuses just hard work. I’m sure the supporters had a quiet night up in north wales after that.
#LoveThisClub
#GoToTheWell
I learned a lot from Chunk, especially in my first few years at Ebbw. The best hooker I've ever played with by a mile. A great servant to the club and he really epitomizes what it is to be a Steelman. All the best bud 👍
Fair play
@aaronwain97
is the glue in that Wales back row. Lots of great unseen work to allow Faletau and Morgan to go about their business. Very Dan Lydiate-esc. All three having stomers 🏴
Welsh club rugby is a shambles at the moment. The people I feel most sorry for in this merger are the young academy prospects who have put most, if not all, of their eggs in the rugby basket and could find themselves kicked to the curb or having to relocate in order to continue
A special day for me yesterday to get 100 caps for Ebbw. It was a nice touch to have
@DFranchii
present me with my game ball. I'm very lucky to be part of such…
Massive shift from the
@evrfc
boys yesterday to put the reigning champions out of the cup in the first round. Can't thank
@Cerijones77
and Chippy enough for the last 3 weeks!
#Onwards
&Upwards
Shame to be losing such great men. Especially two of my oldest rugby friends
@Ronnykynes7
and
@rhysclarke54
they all have genuine reasons for moving on, its been a pleasure wearing red, white and green with you boys. All the best for the future.
Can't beat a win up North. Great day and even better bus trip home with
@evrfc
boys yesterday. Looking forward to seeing
@RGC1404
down at EXP later in the season
#AwayDays
#Rugger
Professional sport is a business at the end of the day. So if you don't have the fan base, merchandise sales, sponsors or viewing figures to reflect the players salaries it will not be sustainable. It's not about equality its about being realistic
"If it's not equal there's no deal we can get to... you either value us equally and you show that or you don't," says
@mPinoe
on the U.S. Women's Soccer team's continuing fight for equal pay.
The whole point of his family leaving Syria is to escape violence like this. No place for this in modern society. I hope this idiot has been punished properly.
🎥 ANNOUNCEMENT 🎥
'Pontypool RFC: One Game' will premiere on Wednesday, 13th November at 7pm, on our Facebook page ().
Here's a quick preview to whet the appetite 👀
(As to be expected, there's lots of bad language - you've been warned!)
Steffon Armitage will never have to pay for a drink in Biarritz again.
After their promotion decider against Basque rivals Bayonne was tied at 6-6 after normal time, the match finished on a penalty shootout and saw Armitage strike the winning kick!
This is Todd. He saved his human from a rattlesnake yesterday. A true h*ckin hero. He’s expected to make a full recovery and has been rewarded our fifth ever 15/10
Today's breakfast:
- Turkey sausage sandwich
- 2 pancakes with maple syrup
- Bowl of fruit loops
- Cinnamon roll
Texas is definitely bigger and better 🤠
Haven't watched the Gallagher Prem in a few weeks. Oh my physicality! Some absolute mutants smashing into each other at speed. Great semi so far
#SharksVsTigers
This Bristol Vs Exeter game is proof that the Gallagher Premiership is the best Rugby Union league in the world. It just needs to add relegation back in.
*79 mins at altitude, scrummaging against two of the best looseheads in the world, in unbelievably physical test match. I hope they've got him in a permanent ice bath until next week. There's big shifts and then there's what Dillon Lewis did.
Dillon Lewis has done these things...
- 79 mins v Springboks
- 77 mins v All Blacks
- 73 mins v Fiji after snapping the plantar fascia in BOTH feet.
He's been to dark places before and he's expecting things to get darker this week.
How did he make the same mistake twice?! Too slow to act when it mattered AGAIN. Surely, a pretty good rule in all of this is, if New Zealand do it, its probably a really good idea. The man is an absolute buffoon 🤬
I've got 30kg of charcoal in the garage and 2 big racks of baby backs in the freezer. So, I guess it's only right to bring out the Weber Smokey Mountain for Wales Vs England next weekend 🐖🏉
Some serious positives for Bristol in the first 20 mins:
- Nathan Hughes looks as cool as penguin piss in dreds
- Chris Vui getting through some serious work
- Semi being Semi
- Lloyd looks decent at 10
- Morahan is rapidoo