Comments on: Should the ELVs be abandoned?

By: nzkingpin

nzkingpin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:49:06 +0000

dam it it is simply why cant the northern hemisphere fat cats figure it out. Keep the good biff the bad. we no witch ones work(dont we)

By: Pontylad

Pontylad — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:40:19 +0000

Fakey can you post the link to your site I seem to have lost it , I did have it in work(I do some now and then in the off season ! ) but they cleared off a lot of non work related stuff because of huge rumours of some April 1st internet virus that was going to crash the system -it never turned up in fact.
-ta

By: Fakey

Fakey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:34:02 +0000

Pontylad I was a pussycat, honestly, by comparison to some of the animals I came across in the front row, but that is the strange thing about the game. One of my pals who played 1st XV rugby all his days was quite simply the niceswt guy you could ever meet, until he pulled a rugby shirt on and he became something and someone else, little more than bloody evil. Don’t get me wrong I never played anything to lose, but I could never get quite that worked up, at the level I played at, whilst some of ‘em took it so seriously you would have thought their life depended on a game of rugby. Oh! and just for the record, getting back to the thread. I agree with everything that you and paynie have said, with the exception of you lot having your crown back, until you win it undeer the rules of the house at time of playing. NEXT YEAR? Who knows? Maybe, maybe not

By: paynie

paynie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:00:15 +0000

The maul definately needs to be brought back a.s.a.p. for the reasons stated above. As far as the ping-pong stuff that can easily be arridicated by making the kcker or anybody beind the kicker having to run the rest of their team on-side as it used to be. That would quickly alleviate any f that nonsence as the receiver of the kick will have far more time and space to counter-attack, where at the moment all the forwards have to do is be the 10 yards back.

By: Fakey

Fakey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:36:48 +0000

Pontylad I tried and I tried to get out of the front row, as you will see in the “One for Pontylad” on my site.

They just wouldn’t have it. once a hooker always a hooker and it is just one hell of a job to get off the game. Trouble is stuck in that front row you ain’t got a clue whats going on, by the time you get up. I should have been a fly half as you will see when you read all about my attempts to get off the game. Mind you I was fifty before I found out that pubs sold halves and singles too!!

By: Pontylad

Pontylad — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:19:31 +0000

Fakey I’m glad I never faced you , not that I got anywhere near the front row players even in open play if I could help it

By: Pontylad

Pontylad — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:17:21 +0000

Abandon the pass back to your own 22 and you can’t kick direct to touch one immediately in fact make it retrospective replay the last 5 mins of Wales v Ireland and give us back our triple crown

In fact that one rule rather than making people run more appears to have contributed the most to the aerial ping pong infesting the game.

By: Fakey

Fakey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:52:35 +0000

Speaking strictly as a hooker, you understand. Are you now telling me that there are rules in rugby? Are there things that should not be done? Oh NO! Can you no longer swing on your props shoulders and try and retrieve the ball from the oppositions No. 8 with your feet. You’ll be telling me you cannot grab the loose heads balls next, to put him off his stroke. Rules are for the obeyance of fools and but only for the guidance of wise men and hookers.