Forum Rugby Club - 2010-11 Season

Yes, the letters on the backs of the jerseys will be fantastic. Just a pity that there not the sown on patches that they used to be, but i will be there shouting away and then i have the Springboks game at HQ to look forward to on the 27th

And the proper shade of green, and white shorts would be nice too. But you can't have everything, and with no number patch sponsors, they actually don't look too shabby.

I would be proud as punch to wear either A or B

Change that to A or C

C for me.

Ok,I will take A then

Us with Cockers, now that would have been quite a front row ... (I can dream, can't I?!)

O yes that would be the best part of sixty stone of testosterone in the front row alone, more than enough to sit the wasps pack on their arses.

I must go to bed now and dream about tomorrows game with us in the front row telling the Wallabys how it is and that they should have gone for the soft option south of Watford gap

TIGERS TIGERS

Although Tigers lost in a game where the score flattered the Wallabies, it was in many aspects a pretty entertaining match (and great to see those letters on the Tigers' backs).

Shame the ref couldn't have been consistent in his adjudication of the rucks, mauls, offsides, scrums and lineouts...

I have been thinking what to say about yesterdays game without being accused of bias to the Tigers but here is an honest view of the game.
As you say the ref was a problem as he was not watching the Aussies crooked throwing in the line out nether mind the forward passes, but he was keen as mustard with the Tigers infringements and as you say the score did flatter the Wallabies somewhat and it was evident that the Wallabies were not worthy winners one jot. On the other side of the coin i thought that the Tigers had a storming game with so many internationals out [ we do have eighteen altogether ]and the Aussies certainly did not like Manu rattling their cage [ you could hear the thuds as he hit them ] and boy is he going to be a star for England sometime soon let alone the Tigers. Had we had a full complement i truly believe that the Wallabies would have had a sound thrashing as apart from Chuter our whole front row was missing, Crane did a sterling job as well in fact you would most definitely say the team wore its colours with pride and i was most proud of them and to be there. Next year the All Blacks

For me, Crane was the MoM.

I think that having beaten SA last year and given Aus a good run for their money this, NZ next year should be a perfectly reasonable expectation. In which case, I'll book my ticket now.

Many if not all of us will have heard of the WWI 'Pals battalions'. Ultra-local recruitment, because those from a locality who already knew each other, worked together, socialised together, would already have the comradeship to fight together. The same also applied to sportsmen.

A proud club name that hasn't fared so well in the professional era, though perhaps they're slowly working their way back up, is the Scottish Exiles, London Scottish.

Perhaps every Club has something of a similar story to tell. But almost immediately after the start of the War, London Scottish joined up en masse, and they were numbered in the first Territorial battalion to go into action, with the same name. This was in the first battle of Ypres, Messines Ridge, 31st October 1914.

The Scottish poet, Mick Imlah, who died with motor neurone disease in 2009 aged 52, in his last collection of poems, 2008's award-winning The Lost Leader, includes a most moving poem, London Scottish (1914) which records their tragic story and the lasting sorrow of the few players who returned. It is a stirring yet mournful insight into the realities of war. And I am sure it will touch the hearts of all rugby enthusiasts at this Remembrance season as we solemnly recall events, people and sacrifice.

London Scottish
(1914)

April, the last full fixture of the spring:
'Feet, Scottish, feet!' - they rucked the fear of God
Into Blackheath. Their club was everything:
And of the four sides playing that afternoon,
The stars, but also those from the back pitches,
All sixty volunteered for the touring squad,
And swapped their Richmond turf for Belgian ditches.
October: mad for a fight, they broke too soon
On the Ypres Salient, rushing the ridge between
'Witshit' and Messines. Three-quarters died.

Of that ill-balanced and fatigued fifteen
The ass selectors favoured to survive,
Just one, Brodie the prop, resumed his post.
The others sometimes drank to 'The Forty-Five':
Neither a humorous nor an idle toast.

Mick Imlah
The Lost Leader - 2008

James

Oh dear, big cats mauled by birds of prey!!

Murrayfield bound tomorrow. Hope springs eternal.

Jim

Good luck Jim! It ain't gonna be easy!

5 mins in and good possession for England, but 2 penalties conceded for holding on. They need to learn the ref's way of working quickly.

3-0 and a good start for England.

Brilliant play! What a try from England! That was southern hemisphere stylee, offloading for fun!

Halftime and England lead 16-6. They have been absolutely dominant and were silly at the end to give away a penalty and then an extra 10 metres. They need to keep this up and not let the Aussies into the game in the second half.

Like the kit. All blacks with the thin red line. Should wear it more often!

Hmmm, more like dark grey, still, it's halfway to All Black from all White!

What a try from Ashton!!!!! Full length of the pitch!! Absolute genius!

26-6! Come on!!!!

Whatever happens for the rest of the game this has been 50 minutes of 15 man rugby for England so far.

Australia are starting to play now. They get a try back.