Sounds like a score you'd get on the (very rubbish) Championship Rugby Manager!

There were still 5 penalty goals to keep the purists happy though.

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/feb/24/ospreys-heineken-cup-ricky-januarie1Troubled Ospreys 'co-operating' with Heineken Cup over Ricky Januarie[/url

'[iHaving already been fined for briefly fielding 16 players in a pool game, the Welsh regional side are now being questioned about the eligibility of their South African scrum-half, Ricky Januarie.[/i'

'[iExpulsion would throw this season's Heineken Cup quarter-finals into chaos, with Leicester taking the eighth-seed place and Northampton, currently England's sole quarter-final representatives, moving up to seventh.[/i'

When did Craig Gower start playing for Italy??

Since last summer I think. Italian grandfather.
Not the first 'foreigner' to turn out for Italy rugby union.

There was a marvellous bit where he picked a pass off his boot laces, and the commentator said 'A former Rugby League player, he used all his sklills there!'

And it's lovely to hear biased commentators on an England RU game finally admitting what a limited player 'Johnny' Wilkinson is.

Didn't have the pleasure myself. Had Ireland pre-tournament


Not seen this weekend's games but have been disappointed with this year's tournament.

Manchester 14 vs 41 Sedgley Park
Manchester 0 vs 148 Esher
Nuneaton 95 vs 0 Manchester
Manchester 12 vs 145 Blaydon
Wharfedale 124 vs 5 Manchester
Manchester 3 vs 93 Otley
Manchester 3 vs 93 Cinderford
Redruth 91 vs 5 Manchester
Manchester 0 vs 93 London Scottish
Stourbridge 95 vs 5 Manchester
Manchester 0 vs 59 Newbury
Tynedale 93 vs 0 Manchester
Blackheath 82 vs 0 Manchester
Sedgley Park 80 vs 3 Manchester
Manchester 3 vs 50 Cambridge
Launceston 66 vs 0 Manchester
Manchester 23 vs 45 Wharfedale
Otley 87 vs 3 Manchester
Cinderford 73 vs 0 Manchester
Manchester 14 vs 52 Redruth
London Scottish 87 Manchester 7
Manchester 0 Stourbridge 84



but whats more surprising 148 people turned up and watched






------------- Plyd Won Dw Lost - PF -- PA -- BP - Pnts
Manchester 21 -- 0 -- 0 -- 21 -- 86 - 1835 - 0 - minus2

Brian Moore has been saying it for a while, as have both Guscott and Davies IIRC.

Austin Healey's attempts to turn it into everyone else's fault but Wilkinson's was frankly pathetic.

The BBC are doing their best not to upset the Celts with their commentary pairings though. The Irish, Scots and Welsh get commentary teams consisting entirely of their countrymen for games against the French and Italians, but the English still have to suffer the monotone biased ramblings of Eddie Butler.

Well seeing that they don't do public executions anymore, and car crashes don't have a fixture list - this is the best alternative if you are into that sort of thing.

Manchester 14 vs 41 Sedgley Park
Manchester 0 vs 148 Esher
Nuneaton 95 vs 0 Manchester
Manchester 12 vs 145 Blaydon
Wharfedale 124 vs 5 Manchester
Manchester 3 vs 93 Otley
Manchester 3 vs 93 Cinderford
Redruth 91 vs 5 Manchester
Manchester 0 vs 93 London Scottish
Stourbridge 95 vs 5 Manchester
Manchester 0 vs 59 Newbury
Tynedale 93 vs 0 Manchester
Blackheath 82 vs 0 Manchester
Sedgley Park 80 vs 3 Manchester
Manchester 3 vs 50 Cambridge
Launceston 66 vs 0 Manchester
Manchester 23 vs 45 Wharfedale
Otley 87 vs 3 Manchester
Cinderford 73 vs 0 Manchester
Manchester 14 vs 52 Redruth
London Scottish 87 Manchester 7
Manchester 0 Stourbridge 84
Newbury 90 Manchester 5


------------- Plyd Won Dw Lost - PF -- PA -- BP - Pnts
Manchester 22 -- 0 -- 0 -- 22 -- 91 - 1925 - 0 - minus2




At least you know your going to see a few trys

Are you the chairman of Manchester RUFC or the fanzine editor?
Thanks for the weekly updates.

Gee that is a sad side...

Leeds are winning again

Sale have just lost either way and so go BOTTOM.

This has always been the time of year Leeds needed to pick up some win, while other clubs are having players withdrawn by the national sides.

In previous years they haven't managed to do it, but this year it could be enough to keep them up.

Watched the Sale game yesterday and Hodgson apart they are woefully short of ideas.

The expert on Radio Manchester was of the opinion that should they go down they might never come back up. He predicted crowds would drop off significantly and that the gulf between the top two divisions in union in terms of attendances, sponsorship, television etc. would mean that Sale would have to have a major restructure.

3 out of the bottom 4 are the northern clubs. It wont be long before they expand the division & do away with relegtation to avoid them all slipping in to oblivion. What next - paying tax?

Looking forward to the 6nations again this weekend.

It's even harder to get back up because the top 8 go in a play-off to get promoted.

Bristol are around 50 points clear of 8th place, but still might not go up.

So how come the super 14 average attendences are far superior to the NRL's?

Link?

This article was written by a yawnion apologist

[urlhttp://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/keep-this-up-and-the-fans-will-return-20100312-q4dp.html[/url

The opening paragraph says it all



A single Sydney NRL game beats that and there is rather more than NRL club for Sydney. You are clearly talking out of your rear end. "Super" 14 attendance and viewing figures are sliding rapidly backwards in Aus and NZ and now the NRL season has started the contrast will be even more dramatic.

Yeah they must be.

You said so and you follow the rah rah.





All of "18,000" (read 10,000) last night for the Waraturds.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_at ... ts_leagues Over 6 thousand more in 2008. Rugby league, Australias number 1 sport if you take away Rugby and AFL

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_at ... ts_leagues Over 6 thousand more in 2008. Rugby league, Australias number 1 sport if you take away Rugby and AFL