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  1. BoyBrumby

    Draft Game - Fantasy Cricket 2023

    Marcus Stoinis, please. @CricAddict
  2. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    Probably just a sign of the years slipping away with ever increasing rapidity, but really doesn't seem three years since Leali'ifano was turning out for the Wobblies.
  3. BoyBrumby

    Other stuff

    Buggered my knee dancing. True story. I did the medial collateral in my right knee at a sixth form disco thanks to Sit Down by James. A group of us were (with the unironic literalism of pissed up teenagers) "sitting down" on the dance floor when Mr Booth commanded us to do so. However my mate...
  4. BoyBrumby

    Pool A - New Zealand, France, Italy, Uruguay, Namibia

    Would've been interesting logistically speaking, as the Rugby Europe Championship (the comp for non-6 Nations teams) doubles as qualifying for the WC. Assuming they didn't get the arse from the 6N Italia would have to double up.
  5. BoyBrumby

    Other stuff

    Yeah, that's pretty much my take too. Playing in the WC alone isn't going to improve standards, only regular games against Tier 1 nations will do that, but given the reluctance of the big boys to play quote-unquote "lesser" nations outside of it the tournament is the only chance they get. We...
  6. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    Wobblies are measurably worse since Eddie took over. They weren't any great shakes under Rennie, but at least one could see what he was trying to do. With Eddie, not so much. Ironically though England are worse since he left, faintly impressive performance against Los Pumas notwithstanding...
  7. BoyBrumby

    Other stuff

    For me at least part of the WC's remit is to spread the gospel to nations where it's very much a minority sport. I mean, yes the likes of Portugal and Chile aren't going to win it, but it must help to raise the sport's profile in those nations. Uruguay did beat Fiji last time out. Admittedly a...
  8. BoyBrumby

    Other stuff

    I guess the solution might be to go down the 24 team, 6 groups of 4 with the 4 best third place finishers joining the group winners and runners up in a second round route a la Euro footy championship. Adding (say) America, Canada, Spain and Kenya to the 20 qualifiers wouldn't really dilute the...
  9. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    First try we don't have to be slightly embarrassed about. The lines we've run tonight have been awful; falling into the old NH habit of running at the man rather than the gap.
  10. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    Jesus Jonny. Both cynical and pointless. Likely cost us 3 points too. Yup. 10-9. Fair reflection.
  11. BoyBrumby

    Draft Game - Fantasy Cricket 2023

    Oh? Is he broken? Asking for a friend who may've procured him in the ODI WC draft... :ph34r:
  12. BoyBrumby

    Draft Game - Fantasy Cricket 2023

    I'll be saying au revoir to: Ben Duckett Matty Cross Stuart Broad George Dockrell Andy McBrine Richie Berrington Curtis Campher Thank you!
  13. BoyBrumby

    Harry Dixon's 250 won Youth test by Aus in Eng

    Proper name that too, Harry Dixon. Report I read said he moved from 90 to his ton in the space of three balls from Jaydn "Nephew of Joe" Denly. I mean, what more proof does one need? When one's nervous about the openers how much more reassuring would it be to know one's team has a chap called...
  14. BoyBrumby

    Pool C - Wales, Australia, Fiji, Georgia, Portugal

    Jesus wept. That's such a jib. Was a walk in.
  15. BoyBrumby

    Pool C - Wales, Australia, Fiji, Georgia, Portugal

    Oooo. **** got real. Crucial conversion, this. Knackers.
  16. BoyBrumby

    Pool B - South Africa, Ireland, Scotland, Tonga, Romania

    Butchering overlaps is next only to crooked feeds and the not calling thereof in my "things that annoy me about rugby" chart. Although this new and entirely wrongheaded refereeing of the outcome of tackles rather than the intent is a quick climber.
  17. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    Fair shout. Maybe not losing their collective rags is a better way to put it. An Argentine side of yore could well have got a little fighty in that situation, but tempers were kept in check.
  18. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    Ha, yeah. Didn't last long.
  19. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    I genuinely have a soft spot for the Brave/Cherry Blossoms, but definitely rooting for the Chileans today. #9 butchered a two man overlap, but think they might've just spawned a try anyway. Yup, TMO confirms it. 5-0 to the debutants, kick to come. EDIT: Extras duly slotted.
  20. BoyBrumby

    Pool D - England, Argentina, Japan, Samoa, Chile

    They really were. It was a very bizarre type of dreadful too; they didn't lose their heads or their discipline, just seemed to be bereft of a plan B once it became clear that England's front five weren't going to allow their necks be shoved backwards through their arseholes.

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