All-star game?

[MomoWASright]

Presumably to beat the French or the Germans. But to root for them against another club team - what’s the point?

I don’t care about the French or Germans either. I want them to be seriously injured 365 days of the year.

 

[Richey]

I am pretty sure that when the play offs were first introduced (in the 90s?) they were made up of the three teams just below the automatic promotion spots in the lower division and one team just above the automatic relegation spots in the higher division. I always thought that was a great idea, but they abandoned it

Yes, that did used to happen. I think that the only team who actually got relegated as a result of that old system was Chelsea!

 

[StevieM]

When I was a student the college 2nd Rugby XV, whose hooker was yours truly, arranged a match with a difference against the University Welsh Society, the difference being the barrels of beer at the side of the pitch whose contents were liberally sampled at the end of each of the four quarters into which the match was divided.

For info if Jurgen4 sees this, we hammered the Welsh that day. Whether it was because we held our drink better or because they were just sh!te, we never knew.

So you were a hooker in college.

You saucy old devil you.

 

[Judge Jules]

Oh yeah. My nickname in the rugby club was The Happy Hooker. Xaviera Hollander's book was quite popular at the time. Er, so I'm told.

 

[tombrown]

Oh yeah. My nickname in the rugby club was The Happy Hooker. Xaviera Hollander's book was quite popular at the time. Er, so I'm told.

That book was on a shelf in the toilet of the neighbour who I sometimes used to babysit for when I was about 13. I still have the biceps to prove it.