The BEST Disallowed Try of the Year should be an Award in Rugby! FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/HMwT-o_XSUU

Ramos on Friday: "There are 24 teams in the competition, but if you count how many play it properly, I think you can count them on your two hands. Obviously it's problematic" #ChampionsCup

The LNR general manager Emmanuel Eschalier to Sud-Ouest: "We've been fighting for a few years for a more elitist #ChampionsCup with 18 clubs instead of 24" www.sudouest.fr/sport/rugby/...

How bad are the Sharks' vibes? Two of the Lions best players renewed until 2028 this week.

Josh McKay, Cam Redpath & Paul Hill in Midi Olympique team of the week

Team of the week France-born Cameron Redpath in there A Jalibert-Williams half-back combination would be fun to see in real life Alldritt seems to be back to his best #ChampionsCup

"All Bonus" Bordeaux-Begles, La Rochelle and Toulouse start their #ChampionsCup campaigns perfectly I'm interested to see what type of sides Clermont, Castres, Bayonne and Pau put out for round two Toulon should go full strength against Bath

Well the reaction to them winning the URC probably points to why. It’s barely a golf clap they get for winning the league and it’s months of banter when they get knocked out of Europe. Their (and our) expectations and priorities are clear.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Ok having chatted about this a bit more I now know how to articulate it better It has now become weird that Leinster are fielding rotated sides for multiple interpros in the URC but wheeling out the big guns for Harlequins B team in the mickey mouse pool stages thingy

After my major neck surgery, it was one of the hospital cleaners who helped me learn how to take care of my scar and found me a big tube of petroleum jelly to keep it moisturised (and for all the dry skin surgery caused). Not a single one of my doctors told me how to care for a scar.

When a pandemic hits, a hospital cleaner is one of the most important and underappreciated people in the country.

When you're cold, tired and want home. No one hopes for a hedge fund manager. Up the Bus Drivers

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

So often a place of much angst and frustration but last night this was definitely a happy place #rugby #edinburgh #AlwaysEdinburgh

Oh dear what a shame and there he is in the southern hemisphere moaning about the north where that southern hemisphere country makes its money and plays its league games. Hmm why because their southern hemisphere neighbours didn't want them 🤔 you have to play whomever to win regardless.

Newcastle beating Lyon & P*ddy J*ckson Edinburgh beating Toulon & M*lvyn J*minet

About time someone took these French teams down a peg or two

Watching Boan spread the Toulon scrum on his toast was a joy.

Edinburgh 3 from 3 against Toulon in Europe

OK, I get that Ribbans was using an ‘open hand’. But he hit McConnell with the heal of his hand, during his face into the ground. That’s a straight red by any degree.

Cammy has been brilliant

Big bad Boan X2😍

Who has made this 🤣

84' The boys hold tight! A gutsy, gutsy victory to kick of our European journey. What a comeback 👊 🖤 OSP 24 - 21 CON 🟢 #OurBloodIsBlack #OSPvCON #ChallengeCupRugby

I’m in America and I won’t go to nor watch on TV Fuck them and the 4 year old with the clown medal Oh, and if you do come to the US make sure you are white, otherwise you might be kidnapped and sent to some gulag. It’s not safe here

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

I love footballball but FIFA and Fascism is simply not worth it. I will not go to America or watch the games on Telly. I will #boycottTheWorldCup money makers.

🇬🇧

The man's not had break since COVID. Let's be nice to him (if he'd stayed in Wales we'd have not flogged him like a horse)

Newcastle beat Lyon away 💪🏼

Oh BBM I miss you #SCAvBRI

I blame phones and laptops. They turned sofas and comfy corners from money makers for groups of friends getting rounds in, to just wasted space where people to sit and work/scroll without ordering anything.

Personally I think civilisation (ie: pubs and bars) started its inexorable decline when the high bar stool became the standard for pub and bar seating. Give us proper chairs where your feet can reach the ground and give us upholstered sofas against the wall we can sink into.

The fact Young is having this good a debut but is about to be logjammed behind Winnett & Beetham is a clear demonstration why we shouldn't be cutting a region. Fullback is Wales' problem position, and we need all three getting regular gametime at different clubs. This will happen more and more.

Maybe just maybe the Emperor Baz has no clothes? #cricket

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Poster for the movie, THE LONG GOODBYE (1973), directed by Robert Altman. Poster art by Jack Davis. My favourite movie starring Elliott Gould; my favourite Gould performance.

I am now AntFIFA

Breaking: A Florida judge orders the release of grand jury records. Records for both Epstein and Maxwell are expected to be made public.

I knew Racing were underpowered, but I just heard they had a french 10? When did that last happen?

I don't know a lot about FIFA, but everything I see makes me think they are cartoonishly corrupt and the whole Quatari thing makes me think they are also evil.

If anyone wondered about the effect of coaching on a player I'd submit Mchunu in this game versus everything he ever did for the Sharks.

I am reminded of my father in law telling me how the East Germans desperately needed the hard currency brought over by West Germans to keep their economy afloat

Holy f*ck Ulster URC = Best League?

The 20 minute red card was brought in for accidental/technique offences But now they’re being used for deliberate stamps

There are few players in the world I love like I love Josh McKay