Six nations 2012

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a well earned appointment for Stuart Lancaster as England manager

[amateur51]

a well earned appointment for Stuart Lancaster as England manager

Thank goodness that in a week of political incompetence (granny tax, hot pasties, kitchen suppers and jerry cans of petrol in your garage ) the RFU has made the right decision

I liked what I saw of the way that Lancaster's England team plays and no-one, even the greatest patriot, would mind losing to a team that plays attractive intelligent rugby. But Johnson & Robinson had created such a lumbering style I guess that anything positive looks like the Holy Grail - let's hope that it isn't a flash in the pan (I speak as a fervent supporter of Wales! )

Well done RFU!

[Nick Armstrong]

Thank goodness that in a week of political incompetence (granny tax, hot pasties, kitchen breakfasts and jerry cans of petrol in your garage ) the RFU has made the right decision

Hear hear....

It's been a particularly surreal week for news. Not least PastyGate, e.g. this revelation:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9173168/Pasty-tax-Ed-Davey-reveals-he-worked-in-a-pork-pie-factory.html

Just proving you can take the Nottingham boy out of the pork pie factory, but you can't take the pork pies out of...

Ed Balls was also a Nottinghamian. Did he too engage in clandestine pastry and processed meat work?! We should be told

[vinteuil]

... but does the success of the Welsh in their Rugby Grand Slam threaten the life of the Pope?

Each time Wales achieves the rugby grand slam, a Pope dies - with the exception of of 1978, when the Welsh rugbymen were particularly brilliant - and two Popes died...

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/04/20/drop-dead-le-grand-chelem-du-pays-de-galles-menace-t-il-la-vie-du-pape/#xtor+RSS-32280322

[Nick Armstrong]

... but does the success of the Welsh in their Rugby Grand Slam threaten the life of the Pope?

Each time Wales achieves the rugby grand slam, a Pope dies - with the exception of of 1978, when the Welsh rugbymen were particularly brilliant - and two Popes died...

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/20...r+RSS-32280322

You are delving deep into the recesses of t'internet this afternoon, vinchaud !!