there’s a rugby podcast that has a game “Springbok or Nazi war criminal”. It’s pure gold.

Fully agree, no need for the change. It took way too long for England to figure it out and they can basically never do it again because the next coached will say “if they don’t ruck this is what we want you to do”.

It’s pretty easy to exploit, once you are prepared for it. The Italians will get back into the ruck when they realize their tactic is hurting them. No reason for a rule change.

It was a great tactic until England decided to just run through all the holes left by not having the ruck. Frankly they should have worked that out the 3rd time the Italians didn’t ruck.

It’s not going to be a problem cause anyone with half a brain can beat it easily.

I think in this case it was fun to watch one off and potentially a fun wrinkle to add to Rugby Union, so long as the tactics inherent weaknesses are enforced. That is, there has to be space for the scrum half to move into, if it’s totally blocked backwards by a non-rucking team there needs to be space forwards.

Otherwis…

Yes, they should have, but England’s problem was that they couldn’t think outside of the standard rugby paradigm at all. Only after halftime did they realize they could just run straight ahead without bothering with the first pass, somewhat akin to a quarterback keeper with no pesky nose tackle to get in the way.

I referred to a couple guys as “hipsters” the other day and boy did they get upset. Apparently the politically correct term is “conjoined twins”.

The NBAPA would never allow this to happen.

It’ll be the best of 2007, only in 2017.

And now, a joke. A Utah farmer dies and goes to heaven, where he is turned away for his sinful life and sent to hell. The Devil greets the farmer in hell “Welcome you sinful bastard, to hell! As punishment, you shall now work this barren patch of land for all of eternity in the blazing heat!” The devil then leaves the…

i mean, can you really end a success story with “and that city? Detroit.”

Nothing brings people of all races together like ignoring MLS.

That kid’s a trouble starter, a punk instigator. After all this Trump business, he just looks like he’s fear-addicted, maybe even danger illustrated.

What I’m trying to say is, he’s no more than a firestarter, albeit a twisted firestarter.

Worst dog still better than best cat.

I have a theory about this. Call me a truther.

I’m 39, which means I am officially both old as balls and not a millennial, and I’ve been waiting for them to do something about the end of NBA games since I got back into the sport fourteen years ago. Blaming it on attention spans is ludicrous. The back-and-forth fouling at the end of games has been an obvious…

In fifth grade I got a D on a history test (I had not studied) and had to take it home and have my parents sign it. Instead, I told my mom we were studying hereditary traits, and our teacher asked us to get our parents signatures to compare to our own to see whether our handwriting was similar to one parent or the…

If that’s the best throw you have ever seen you have clearly been ignoring my 4th grade highlight reel I sent you with me lighting up my best friend Tony’s back yard using an official John Elway Nerf Vortex! I would like to see Rodgers thread a pass through the branches of the Williams’s old oak tree.