Babbling 'brook

I wonder had trump asked himself these questions A) what is a wet market? B) do all wet markets sell live animals? C) do all wet markets sell live wild animals? D) do all wet markets butcher animals in front of you? E) how many people in the world rely on wild meat as part of their protein intake? F...

Maybe I’ve not articulated what my problem is yet, it’s not a matter that they haven’t perfected a very difficult task, or that they are behind where they behind where they need to be, or that we have to lock down until Cinco de Mayo, it’s when things are not being reported honestly that confidence...

We can’t trust the number of confirmed cases because they haven’t made it through the backlog so the only number that we can trust is the number of deceased and that number is pretty bleak. But we can't trust the number of confirmed cases even if they had no backlog. Each country has a different se...

Spain has not had automatic BCG innoculation for several decades. Most of the deaths have been of people who were alive for several decades at least. I think it's more that they introduced it late, 1965. So there will be a cohort who are now quite old and never got it. But it's all conjecture. The ...

The BCG looks like it could be good news for most of us. It's no longer given automatically and you'd have to wonder why. My understanding is stocks went low, price went up, and nations with low rates of tb asked themselves is this giving good value for money considering where else we could spend i...

I don't think we will be stuck in our houses for months and months but I wouldn't bank on them lifting the prohibition on mass gatherings before September. So while I'm not saying this is most likely, if the start of the 20/21 season is delayed, they might just finish off this season same time next ...

Was wondering why are children apparently unaffected. What is different about children to the rest of the population and teens too. Could it be related to their growth hormones. Are there other groups showing a similar resilience. Groups who use creatine perhaps I don't know about covid-19, but one...

Have any of our cases made a full recovery? According to the John Hopkins dashboard there have been 0 recoveries in Ireland. First coronavirus patient discharged from CUH after making full recovery https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.breakingnews.ie/ireland/first-coronavirus-patient-discharged-from-cu...

Noticed an Interesting problem with the BCD match with PSG and Dortmund last night. Thousands of PSG supporters turned up anyway and were outside the ground singing and cheering the team on, thus defeating the purpose somewhat. I don't see it being a huge problem at our QF (I'd say most people woul...

4 weeks is a very long time and if cases rise dramatically here there is simple no way it will go ahead - just mention risk or fiduciary duty at a meeting and they will all kick to touch and stop the game (Please excuse the pathetic rugby pun). Going to be a long 4 weeks waiting to see how this pan...

Maybe it doesn't cover stadia. From Toulon via Google translate Following the press conference held this Saturday by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announcing the cancellation of all gatherings of more than 5,000 people in confined spaces, the RCT indicates that this Sunday's match at the Mayo...

Men, women and u20 matches v Italy have been officially postponed. Simple solution would be not let any fans travel how would you do that? (not trying to be a smartarse, I genuinely cannot see how that could be achieved other than relying on voluntary compliance) I bet the IRFU are relieved it is n...

I'm also looking for 2 tickets

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Eh lads before we get too precious, I seem to remember that we brought a player to SA whom we then had to fly home, sort out the visa and fly back out again. I also seem to recall that we had a problem with another foreign player who we simply failed to register for the HEC. One was from NZ and the...

If this escalates to the point of they have to hand back their trophies, what do we think would happen? Would exeter become champion as runner up, or just no winner, or what?
Is there a precedent in other team sports?

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I think his main point is he is sick of weakened inter pro games and sees their value as preparation for higher level rugby being wasted. Which I would agree with. In his current lens as top 14 coach he has latched on to the relegation arguement as being the one reason why they field less weakened t...

It does - however our best ‘unbeaten’ run is 20 (18 wins and 2 draws) games in the 11/12 season Also, the 01/02 and 11/12 runs were within one season whereas the current run of 15, if compared to them, is actually only 13 this season Whats our longest run of wins as opposed to wins and draws? Sent ...

That's our 15th win in a row with our last defeat being in the Champions Cup Final against Saracens last May. Pretty sure that equals our best ever winning run from the 01/02 season when we won our first 15 games of that season. It does - however our best ‘unbeaten’ run is 20 (18 wins and 2 draws) ...

Has anyone specifically said that the new proposed league will not include the Italians or South Africans. I would think the most likely will be a merger of the 2 leagues as they are. Reasons being 1) cvc are now a part owner of something that has them in it now 2) what better markets to try expand ...

Ok Cheers. Not great to have 4 games in an hour (assuming they are just going to do the 4 irish). But better than nothing.

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