for our celtic cousins good luck

for all the rabo teams this weekend good luck

so will kick off one of the best  

boy does this stir.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkVG7HJqfw

Link doesn't work.

http://goo.gl/f9RyK8

this is really great enjoy...

the teams :

Cardiff Blues
Connacht Rugby
Leinster Rugby
Ulster Rugby
Scarlets
Munster Rugby  
Edinburgh Rugby
Glasgow Warriors

http://goo.gl/a3MkT5

Ospreys!

alive555 wrote:http://goo.gl/a3MkT5

Fabulous Alive - what a beautiful song that is and very nicely performed. Pity its been hijacked, in Glasgow at least, by the wendyball morons.

This is what I would like The Warriors to run out to at Scotstoun.  Killie's very own Biffy Clyro :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrVA4nRBv4

For my Irish cousins taking on the dreaded Franglos today, I give you my favorite pre-match warm up song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRo3u04vY1E

Good day for the celts/rabo today.

profitius wrote:Good day for the celts/rabo today.

So far the HEC has not been too bad for the Rabo sides when you consider the max points possible are 10 -:

leinster 8
ulster 8
scarlets 6
blues 5
connacht 5
munster 5
edinburgh 4
ospreys 0
zebre 0
treviso 0

I think most people would say that after a home game and an away game that 5pts is a reasonable outcome (home win, lbp away)

ScarletSpiderman wrote:

profitius wrote:Good day for the celts/rabo today.

So far the HEC has not been too bad for the Rabo sides when you consider the max points possible are 10 -:

leinster 10
ulster 8
scarlets 6
blues 5
connacht 5
munster 5
edinburgh 4
ospreys 0
zebre 0
treviso 0

I think most people would say that after a home game and an away game that 5pts is a reasonable outcome (home win, lbp away)

Where did Leinster get their extra 2 points from? We only scored 2 tries in total.

Umm, err, well, ahh......I may have made a slight type there.

Who cares what league,country, bizarre cultural heritage claims their clubs/regions play in? As long as you win ( stand fast ospreys   ) .This whole Celt thing grinds my gears. It's not the Middle Ages!

ScarletSpiderman wrote:

profitius wrote:Good day for the celts/rabo today.

So far the HEC has not been too bad for the Rabo sides when you consider the max points possible are 10 -:

leinster 8
ulster 8
scarlets 6
blues 5
connacht 5
munster 5
edinburgh 4
ospreys 0
zebre 0
treviso 0

I think most people would say that after a home game and an away game that 5pts is a reasonable outcome (home win, lbp away)

wow have PRL had what they want and just 1 Scottish entrant this year?

Breadvan wrote:Who cares what league,country, bizarre cultural heritage claims their clubs/regions play in? As long as you win ( stand fast ospreys   ) .This whole Celt thing grinds my gears. It's not the Middle Ages!

Most of us?  

Breadvan wrote:Who cares what league,country, bizarre cultural heritage claims their clubs/regions play in? As long as you win ( stand fast ospreys   ) .This whole Celt thing grinds my gears. It's not the Middle Ages!

Yep, Anglo-Saxon English kings took care of the Middle Ages.......... one ring to rule'em all

Just me then...lol. So the celts that met the Romans on the beaches of Kent were bussed in from west Wales, Scotland, Ireland?

Breadvan wrote:Just me then...lol. So the celts that met the Romans on the beaches of Kent were bussed in from west Wales, Scotland, Ireland?

No those celts go slaughtered and watered down more than those from the West and North. Oh, and never tell an Englishman (when their on a anti johny foreigner rant) that the English are technically foreigners and should return to France, Germany or Scandinavia, it really doesn't go down too well.

We're all the same anyway.....

We're all foreigners.

It's true, Cyril. The Celts aren't natives to these islands either, we just arrived earlier.

Breadvan wrote:Just me then...lol. So the celts that met the Romans on the beaches of Kent were bussed in from west Wales, Scotland, Ireland?

The Celts that wot met the Romans hid for a good number of centuries and claimed to be Anglo-Saxons.  But when it became sexy to be a Celt again - you know, the dark looks and running into battle in the nip ....they suddenly clamoured for their 'Celtic roots innit!' past.

They weren't too fond of thinking they had any during the bad ol' days of yore though, when the 'begorrah, begosh' men out west were viewed as a sub-species of man, lower on the scale than even them Neanthe..., Neon..., Neeand... - them hairy lads with the big brows.

So Connacht, Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Blues and Glasgow all won this weekend.
Scarlets drew.
Treviso, Zebre, Ospreys and Edinburgh lost.

Pretty good weekend for the Pro12.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It's true, Cyril. The Celts aren't natives to these islands either, we just arrived earlier.

So it's your fault the place is in a right old mess then? I thought as much

Notch wrote:So Connacht, Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Blues and Glasgow all won this weekend.
Scarlets drew.
Treviso, Zebre, Ospreys and Edinburgh lost.

Pretty good weekend for the Pro12.

I thought it was about unions not leagues

I thought it was about leagues not union...............

If it's Unions you want to talk about then yep, it's been a nice weekend for IRFU too

Cyril wrote:

Notch wrote:So Connacht, Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Blues and Glasgow all won this weekend.
Scarlets drew.
Treviso, Zebre, Ospreys and Edinburgh lost.

Pretty good weekend for the Pro12.

I thought it was about unions not leagues

Speaking of League didn't England loose to Italy there too?

Notch wrote:So Connacht, Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Blues and Glasgow all won this weekend.
Scarlets drew.
Treviso, Zebre, Ospreys and Edinburgh lost.

Pretty good weekend for the Pro12.

I think of the ones that lost Os will be disappointed to still be 0pts and few accual points scored on the field.
Treviso will be disappointed with how poor they have been having been beat twice easily.
Zebre will feel this one got away

Scarlets will be best pleased with 5 points considering they got zero last year

SecretFly wrote:I thought it was about leagues not union...............

If it's Unions you want to talk about then yep, it's been a nice weekend for IRFU too

Aye it was. Did I mention my great granny was Irish?

rodders wrote:

Cyril wrote:

Notch wrote:So Connacht, Ulster, Leinster, Munster, Blues and Glasgow all won this weekend.
Scarlets drew.
Treviso, Zebre, Ospreys and Edinburgh lost.

Pretty good weekend for the Pro12.

I thought it was about unions not leagues

Speaking of League didn't England loose to Italy there too?

They did play quite loose yeah

I'm still in shock about that result, so thanks for bringing it up...  

ScarletSpiderman wrote:

Breadvan wrote:Just me then...lol. So the celts that met the Romans on the beaches of Kent were bussed in from west Wales, Scotland, Ireland?

No those celts go slaughtered and watered down more than those from the West and North.  Oh, and never tell an Englishman (when their on a anti johny foreigner rant) that the English are technically foreigners and should return to France, Germany or Scandinavia, it really doesn't go down too well.

I have found it goes down quite well with most of them. And anyone who may be upset (such as BNP/EDL deserves to be upset)

Of course the Saxons drove the celts west and north, but were in turn driven west and north by the danes. Then the french arrived, followed by the dutch, the germans, the Jamaicans and the Bengalis.

There is probably no more celtic blood in a resident of Wales and Scotland than there is in England. In fact the only real repository for celticness is some of those strange villages in Cornwall.

I do find rampant, patriotic nationalism a funny thing - and often very confused. Once served with a guy who would rail at the unfairness of having to serve in "Englands" Army - being a true and patriotic scot. He would castigate all and sundry for the crimes committed against his ancestors at Glencoe and Culloden. His name escapes me now, other than Carlo, but his father was an Italian POW and his mother an English Land Girl both of whom were "incarcerated" in Scotland.

VietGwentRevisited wrote:Of course the Saxons drove the celts west and north

I thought the latest thinking was that most Celts stayed put and made the best of things. Let's be honest, that's much less hassle than upping sticks.

Churchill didn't find "rampant, patriotic nationalism" a funny thing when he used it to declare he wouldn't awfully like very much to become part of Hitler's Greater Europe of Happy Unity.  Where maidens with Princess Leia hairdos would give birth to beautiful children  and robust men would take long healthy walks in the hills and occasionally slap the sides of their lederhosen.
Churchill didn't seem to like that idea that "We're all the one, for God's sake, now let's get along under one roof and one Furher"

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

VietGwentRevisited wrote:Of course the Saxons drove the celts west and north

I thought the latest thinking was that most Celts stayed put and made the best of things. Let's be honest, that's much less hassle than upping sticks.

Well yeah, but those were the "little" people. History (tm Michael Gove) only cares about kings and lords and stuff and the battles that makes them move. It is the horrible things like famine and plague that actually makes us small folks move.

You're forgetting another horrible thing that makes people move: work, or the lack of it.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:You're forgetting another horrible thing that makes people move: work, or the lack of it.

I considered that (was the main reason I moved and why my children & grandchildren view themselves as English) but viewed that as economic famine - ie without work your family starve.

ScarletSpiderman wrote:

profitius wrote:Good day for the celts/rabo today.

So far the HEC has not been too bad for the Rabo sides when you consider the max points possible are 10 -:

leinster 8
ulster 8
scarlets 6
blues 5
connacht 5
munster 5
edinburgh 4
ospreys 0
zebre 0
treviso 0

I think most people would say that after a home game and an away game that 5pts is a reasonable outcome (home win, lbp away)

Have we (Glasgow Warriors) who top the Rabo league btw, been transferred to the PRL ? 

You're so good, Schizoid, that you've already been automatically signed to the New Champions Cup...making your presence in this old HC null and void.

Congratulations! Hope we get to follow you over there when the negotiations are finished.

Thank you SF - manners maketh the man (or woman !)

SecretFly wrote:Churchill didn't find "rampant, patriotic nationalism" a funny thing when he used it to declare he wouldn't awfully like very much to become part of Hitler's Greater Europe of Happy Unity.  Where maidens with Princess Leia hairdos would give birth to beautiful children  and robust men would take long healthy walks in the hills and occasionally slap the sides of their lederhosen.
Churchill didn't seem to like that idea that "We're all the one, for God's sake, now let's get along under one roof and one Furher"

Only because it would have been in direct competition with Winston's own view of imperialistic happy unity...

Leinster 8
Ulster 8
Scarlets 6
Glasgow 5
Blues 5
Connacht 5
Munster 5
Edinburgh 4
Ospreys 0
Zebre 0
Treviso 0

Right, that is the updated table, featuring all the teams, and also featuring the correct scores, no excuses for the man-sausage up I posted before.

Anyhow the general point was the teams bar the Italians (and the Os have Tibaldi so they can be classed as Italian yeah?) are not doing bad, as the general acceptable points for right now are 4/5+ (1 win and maybe a bp, or more)

And the Dragons are on 5 points in the Amlin. Just saying.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:And the Dragons are on 5 points in the Amlin. Just saying.

Aye, but the only acceptable result from two rounds of the Amlin is 9pts.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:And the Dragons are on 5 points in the Amlin. Just saying.