Babbling 'brook

Would love to know what genius thought that kicking off a Leinster v Sharks match 3 hours before the World Cup Final was a good idea. Given that we were only a bounce of a ball away from it being an Ireland v SA game, the timing seems crazy. Grand if you live near the RDS but you're likely to miss ...

BBC News - Wasps plan to move to Kent and want new stadium in county https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67193921 From the article "The club are "actively engaged with Sevenoaks District Council to identify a suitable location". A statement by the two-time European champions and ...

BBC News - Wasps plan to move to Kent and want new stadium in county https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67193921 From the article "The club are "actively engaged with Sevenoaks District Council to identify a suitable location". A statement by the two-time European champions and s...

Fascinating game. Really good performance from England that suits the conditions. Brilliant basics, squeezing SA set piece and kicking everything. Itoje is all over the SA maul and the England defence is really quick off the mark. I think SA will figure this out and England will tire, but if Englan...

BBC News - Coventry RFC coming to Jersey for rugby community
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe ... y-67156326

Fair play to Coventry RFC - heading over to Jersey knowing match with Reds is cancelled but putting on open training session etc for locals.

BBC News - Wasps: Former Premiership club aim to return at 'highest level possible'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67137505

But not until the 2025/26 season. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

BBC News - Worcester Warrior Women: Welsh players heartbroken over club withdrawal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67141339

Worcester Women's team go bust now as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/16/player-safety-is-priority-for-south-africa-after-hia-calls-insists-rassie-erasmus Someone questioned the substitution and reintroduction of SA players. From article above "South Africa’s director of rugby, Rassie Erasmus, says he and his coaching te...

BBC News - Exeter chief executive Rowe calls for better central funding for rugby union
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67124320

From the above article Exeter are down 10% on season tickets sales from last season.

It's funny how people are condemning SA for the traffic light system giving instructions to the players on the pitch because no-one seems to have passed comment on Argentina getting instructions from their coaching team. The Argentina Coach held up 3 fingers and they promptly kicked for the posts. T...

Bigger checking his kids nappy on the pitch would bring anyone back down to earth.

Peyper pops his calf.

Hopefully he will be out of the rest of the Tournament.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/10/thousands-of-tickets-unsold-for-england-v-fiji-but-paris-rugby-world-cup-quarter-finals-sell-out Thousands of tickets unsold for England v Fiji but Paris quarter-finals sell out May be of interest for anyone in France who wants to see a game at the world...

BBC News - Rugby World Cup 2023: Argentina flanker Pablo Matera ruled out of tournament
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67067450

BBC News - Worcester Warriors: Chris Holland handed more time to 'finalise' purchase
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67054774

Cahill making friends in Italy: https://www.rugbypass.com/news/irish-pundit-calls-for-italy-to-be-axed-from-six-nations-to-make-way-for-south-africa/ From the comments: Nobody should pay any attention to what Hugh Cahill says. He can barely put together a coherent commentary and often gets the basi...

Tweet from Cian Healy https://twitter.com/ProperChurch/status/1707490154322014670?t=L2VhM08IHn2YP14pbNbLoA&s=19 Looks like he's saying he is recovered (or ahead of schedule at least) Sent from my LE2123 using Tapatalk Does anyone see this and think of "Escape to Victory" and the scene...

I've really been surprised by how poor a lot of the countries have been: Argentina, Australia, Samoa, Japan being the main ones. I knew they weren't any great shakes but didn't realise just how poor they are, they've been really disappointing. I didn't expect a lot more from Japan tbh. I got the im...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... ighed-down

More bad news about Castore

BBC News - Rugby World Cup: Chris Paterson 'gutted' over Stuart McInally's forced retirement
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/66914054

Scotland have to bring in a second replacement hooker.