GLOBAL WARMING

[CANV EFM]

hopefully this will lead to huge extremes in weather.. hotter summers windier springs torrential autumns and artic winters..

but is it caused my man made greenhouse gases? or does our contribution merely scratch the surface of nature.. im not up on the facts but dosen't one medium volcano provide years of car emissions.. ? well anyway just in case im going to buy a large diesel generator and leave it running 24/7 to up my contribution...

im also a big fan of landfill .. fk all this different coloured bags rubbish for er.. rubbish.. tho incineration plants on the east coast would help as all the pollution would head out to scandinavia.. those places are far to clean at the moment

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I'm all for torrential autumns and arctic winters, but don't want hot summers. Can't stand the heat. I prefer it when it's pissing down with rain.

 

Uh-oh - you've sucked me in, CANV. You've got me talking about the weather. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[CANV EFM]

i know.. its a shocker but outside the footy season there is nothing else to talk about in this country.. maybe if we had televised celebrity fox hunting or something to keep us amused.. i could talk for hours about the rugby but i need GHA for that..

[GHA EFM]

Quality, weren't it CANV? I'm all for arctic winters and hot summers, means more people will get swimming pools, more pool parties where CANV talks about how minted he is (according to Hornchuch), girls walking around St. Albans in less clothes than is financially feasible for them. Bring it on. Dunno about the whole skin cancer idea though.

 

CANV. Who do you prefer, Richard Hill or Neil Back?

[CANV EFM]

richard hill.. if he hadn't been 'done in' by the aussies on the lions tour we would have won that as well..

that is going into my all time fave collection of great rugby matches.. that was almost as good as putting 50 points on those bok w..kers!!

[GHA EFM]

Controversial, but you're not too dissimilar to another back row player I know who thinks he's quite good () I would say that Neil Back is one of the best flankers in the world, and is better than Hill, but then what would I know, I'm only a full back / centre / anywhere / libero player...

 

Those 50 points were all stupidly enjoyable, having been to Sarfrica around this time last year, some of them were alright, some of them were mongs. This world cup could be a good one, as I've said <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[CANV EFM]

i played inside centre once.. at lost alert.. wandering around aimlessly.. no idea who to tackle or cover.. fk that 15 man rugby marlarky.. keep it tight that what i say!!

 

you may have something there, i reckon most forwards would favour hill over back.. having said that back has lamped a ref so he gets extra points there!!

[GHA EFM]

I may have been at Twickers for that, not sure, I was there for a couple of cup finals in the early-to-mid 90s I think. Once again, ask AFF.

 

Inside centre's great fun, I've scored many a nice try from there. As they say (well, I do) they're the kind of tries that, if the Fijians had scored them, they'd have been talking about it for ages. Being a back-rower I guess most of your tries consisted of rolling mauls that conveniently collapse over the line with you holding the ball, 17 legs, 4 hands and one blokes face in the way of the ball and the ground but the ref gives it anyway even though he can't see anything??

 

Extra points to that South African supporter fat lawyer bloke who ran on the pitch and lamped the ref for the NZ - SA match. The fact that he ran so far, unimpeded, even though he was so fat, deserves some credit...and how he didn't get the living daylights kicked out of him by the NZ and SA packs considering his moment of glory took place withing 3 metres of a scrum, that's either balls or drink, that...

[CANV EFM]

correct on the try front i have scored one beauty when i was loafing totally offside in the fly half position cos i couldnt be arsed to make the last ten yards to the ruck when the ball flew into my hands a quick burst (well relativly speaking) a beauty of a sidestep and in under posts with huge dive.. naturally as i leapt to my feet to await the aclaim of my team i looked up to see all fourteen of em jogging back to the half way line..

 

the fat bokker is a hero.. we need to find out what he was drinking, something stronger than 'castle' methinks

[GHA EFM]

I want bore you with details of some of my beauties, but some of them have been crackers...including an interception try from 60 metres out when I was 11, and a 70-metre (as they say in American Football) kick return for touchdown, straight from the kick-off. Bloody knackered I was...

 

From what I can remember, when I was over there there were two choices; Castle and Windhoek. Only 4 of us chose the Windhoek (as it was generally nicer and stronger too) so it could have been that. Or maybe absinthe. Or pure methanol maybe.

[GHA EFM]

p.s. whatever he was on, quite a few others were on as well. As far as I can remember, he received quite a support from fellow Africaans, who all thought it was quite funny, and that the ref deserved it. I was watching the match live, and to be fair, the ref was pretty poor.

 

Oh yeah, Umaga is another one of those players you wouldn't cross if he stole your lunch money. Although I wouldn't worry about smacking James Simpson-Daniel, he's a fairly small bloke. How great it is, rubbing shoulders with the rich and rugby-playing...

[CANV EFM]

no try is ever boring.. you can never lose the buzz of scoring a try.. mate of mine who played at a much higher standard (propped against gareth chilcot in a frdly against bath once..only he was never frdly) once peeled off a maul saw the line and reached over with the ball for a beautiful touch down, as the word YESSSS!!! were bellowing from his mouth he realised he was an unfortunate 22 yards short of the correct line.. oh how the opposition laughed as they riverdanced back over his head...

[CANV EFM]

i met paul rendall in dublin on some fk off piss up the time we got done after stuart barnes had told em we'd stroll it.. les cusworth was there as well.. naturally full repect was paid to 'the judge' and we listened in awe to the stories.. then cusworth piped in with something.. fk me did he get it.. you cant run ,you cant kick, you cant pass off your left hand, you were [****!!****]!! i met ben clarke a few times but he was a bit up himself

[GHA EFM]

Too true, just like you can never lose the buzz of nutting someone or cleaning your studs on them and getting away with it...even better was the time in scrum (we didn't have too many players) some bloke smacked his head against mine, so I headbutted him, he got up and flew into a rage, went absolutely mad he did, shouting, swearing, everything. I just stood there, feigning innocence. The bloke just couldn't calm down, and so the ref ordered that he be substituted. That kinda thing makes it all worthwhile.

 

Kicking's fantastic as well, CANV, when you nail 'em from the touchline. You may not be aware, being back row, but it's still quality. AFF will tell you about the time when I, a mere 11 years of age, was playing in the final of a sevens tournament. T'went to extra time, and we were down to 5 and a half players (5 players and one bloke who couldn't run). Next points win it. Our side get a penalty about 30 metres out (maybe 27) near the left touchline. I tell 'em I'll kick it. Disbelieving bunch of mongs thought I'd never get it, but I thought sod it, what've we got to lose. Placed the ball, lined it up, struck it so sweetly. Everything goes into 'bullet-time' slow motion, as the ball sails towards the Sticks before crashing against the God-damn crossbar and coming back into play. Only a miraculous tackle from one of their players stopped one of our forwards crashing over from the rebound.

 

Such glory days, such memories.

 

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propped against gareth chilcot in a frdly against bath once

 

got his book I have, a not too bad laugh it is as well. We played a match in South Africa (where the props run the 100 in sub 8.5 and it's pretty much a joke coz you're never gonna win). We had a 6'3 prop, big solid build he was, one of the strongest in the team. Played a match against this school side and our prop was played out of the game by his opposition number, who was bigger and stronger than him. Faster too. We duly lost, but it was an experience. About 10 minutes before the end the South African prop asked ours if he wanted just to lean on for the last couple of scrums, which our prop agreed to. Only after the game did we learn that this African prop was only 16, 3 years younger than our prop. We still can't really tell our prop, he'd go mad, after the game he was saying 'I swear they're all 21...' The joy of touring, eh?

 

AFF's played against Perpignan you know. I'm sure he's got some stories. He could tell you about the time he got sent off as well, but he's quite a secretive chap...

[GHA EFM]

Never been sent off myself, although I've been sin-binned (I think once, not sure) and ordered to be substituted as well. CANV. Yourself?

[CANV EFM]

i always like clocking the gobby c..t, every side had one.. a couple of times i quite fancied giving ours a clip...

plus the off field stuff.. ive seen a bloke on a tour stop the traffic at a pedestrian crossing stroll into the road drop his chinos to his knees and proceed squat and coil one right there.. the reason i mention he was wearing chinos is, as every bloke knows, you cant have a dump without having a p.ss at the same time.. being around his knees the chinos where perfectly positioned to absorb the lot..he was convinced no one would notice! this was our heros 'no eating on tour' trip he lasted 3 days before alcohol posioning laid him up in hospital.... do you think beckham has ever done that?

[CANV EFM]

never been sent off... the quiet ones never get sent off ;-)

[GHA EFM]

The quiet ones never get caught. The gobby ones are always ####, whilst the best way to do it is to make friends as it were, ask him a few questions etc, then get him in a maul and knee him in the ########. Did that once, the maul collapsed, the bloke leaned down and punched me in the head as I was getting up, he got sin-binned, I was just grand, fantastic stuff. Didn't even hurt. That makes me sick. If you're gonna hit someone, make sure they don't get up for a while.

 

I don't think Sun City has ever been the same since we ventured into town. One big mash-up, and plenty of naked swimming in the fountains oustide these hotels that wouldn't look out of place in St. Albans.

[AFF]

Not so much secretive, GHA, but getting sent off playing rugby is something one would rather forget.

 

We turned out 5 XVs every Saturday and the average was less than one player sent off per season. I was 1st XV captain at the time which adds to the shame. 6 match ban after a tribunal is the bit you do recall.

 

Perpignan, Louisiana State University and some team from Australia on tour in successive seasons. The French gave us each a bottle of fine Muscat, my first taste of desert wine probably. Rather that the "Keys and Freedom of the City of Baton Rouge" which the Americans brought over!

[CANV EFM]

rugby tour - naked ... those 2 words go together like laurel n hardy custard and cream etc etc

if your in a maul or a ruck and your fired up most right handers arn't going to hurt much (well not till the next morning) it when your not ready for it that it really hurts... you can also tell when its really kicked off as opposed to a few custard pies going in when all the others players just stand and watch..