6 Nations rugby tournament 2006

Saturday 04.02.06

• 14:30 - Ireland v Italy (Lansdowne Rd)
• 16:30 - England v Wales (Twickenham)

Sunday 05.02.06

• 16:00 - Scotland v France (Murrayfield)

Saturday 11.02.06

• 14:30 - France v Ireland (Stade de France)
• 17:00 - Italy v England (Stadio Flaminio)

Sunday 12.02.06

• 16:00 - Wales v Scotland (Millenium Stadium)

Saturday 25.02.06

• 15:00 - France v Italy (Stade de France)
• 18:30 - Scotland v England (Murrayfield)

Sunday 26.02.06

• 16:00 - Ireland v Wales (Lansdowne Rd)

Saturday 11.03.06

• 14:30 - Wales v Italy (Millenium Stadium)
• 16:30 - Ireland v Scotland (Lansdowne Rd)

Sunday 12.03.06

• 16:00 - France v England (Stade de France)

Saturday 18.03.06

• 14:30 - Italy v Scotland (Stadio Flaminio)
• 16:30 - Wales v France (Millenium Stadium)
• 18:30 - England v Ireland (Twickenham)

So, St. Patricks day falling here on the weekend before and Ireland v England at Twickenham on the 18th. Crikey! Bye-bye liver.

Only a couple of weeks now till it all kicks off again. I can't wait! I will no doubt be watching most of the games in Günther Murphys (as per usual) with a couple in The Arc for good measure. After discussion with Pootle the other night I think on the first day I'll go GMs for the Ireland game and then over to The Arc for the Wales match...if my arse is not too firmly rooted to my chair.

shall be in The Arc for the wales england game, no doubtedly discussing various chariot anal extraction methods.

Do we want a predict a score again?

And does someone wanna suggest a betting scoring method too?

Yes, I'm ok with the current system with regards to getting a try and converting, but I think there should be 2 bonus points awarded for bringing down any English back (even if they do it themselves). Also an extra point for the first player on any team to 'accidentally' take out the referee.

Or did you mean something different?

Might as well leave them where they are Gideon, it'll save you time later.

I will be in The Arc for the England v Wales match, hopefully in the Millenium stadium for some of the other Wales matches. If not, then I'll be back in the Arc

how did it work last time? and yes would be good to do it again.

oh, def predict-a-score.

more bonus points should be winnable as well for obscure things.

Scotland winning perhaps?

If I remember rightly everyone put €10 in and basically bet on the scores for each match.

and 10 points for spear tackling irish captains...
(oh was that banter or rascism?)

Of course you mean "was that banter or nationalism". That one is banter as it relates to the players in question (fucking Kiwis) rather than casting asparagus at the people of the nation.

it's only racism if people mention sheep.

And that would be Baaaaad!

Are you implying that one mans banter is another mans Blackface ?

banter or baaaaaanter? whatever. we've got dallyioh!

I think I will be around The Arc for this ! Def in for the predict a score. What did we do last year ? Was it something like points for guessing the exact score, points for guessing the winner, points for guessing the winning margin, and then bonus for total number of points and tries scored ? Something like that !

Naw, last year we all just gave Pootle the money so he could give it to Katrina.

Ok

Katrina is banned this year. I'll work out the predict a score thing over the weekend and post a suggestion.

Some obscure questions would be great for bonus points.

Last year (I think) we had the total number of tries scored, penalties kicked, and total number of points in the competition

Any other suggestions?

P

Yeti that would be funny if it wasn't true.
Aiming to get back from skiing in time for England v Wales at The Arc.
And then I shall take it from there.

Exactly.
You could just give me the money instead to save pootle's time though.

People came up with lots of ideas last year, didn't they, but I had a quick search for last year's thread and I couldn't find it.
Did it get binned?

Weren't people keen to get points for the margin of victory rather than just for predicting the correct score? I seem to remember it was something along those lines, anyway.

i might have to get in on this, this year. Christ if Katrina can win your money it must be easy pickings. Early predictions:

France to win
wales to perform poorly (penthouse to shithouse syndrome)

parnell wanted spread betting because he lost and was bitter about it.
He picked a lot of correct winners but I got more than one exact score.

Oooh hark at her!
Mind your handbag dear.

You can't use the "I know nothing about rugby" excuse this year Ms. Special K !

ok,

I found the spreadsheet from last year in my office email.

5 points for predicting the correct score & winners
3 points for predicting the correct winning margin & winners
1 point for predciting the correct winners

You had to predict the final table positions, with each correct position getting 2 points

And then finally

Total Points scored in all games

Total Number of tries scored in all games
(including penalty tried awarded)

Total Number of penalties goals kicked

Now, this may be an administrative nightmare, but how about each weekend taking predictions

P

Pootle, by that you mean not predicting the whole shabang during a couple of spare evenings in the middle of January but waiting for each set of results before doing the next? Good idea.

yes, gives a chance to judge form based on the first matches.

yeah and opens up more of a discussion point.

But...

you have to predict the final table positions and the 3 other options at the start.

And how do we do this? Post them in a thread? All predictions by Friday morning at 8am??

Why thank you for that...
exact scores is pot luck , picking winners means u might have to know a thing or two about the game... that's my logic.
Can u feel my fume ?

P.S. I'm still owed 9 yoyo from last year (I tink) so whatever the diff is I'll thro it in.

See if you dont actually claim your money

No worres, its only gonna cost you a pound this year

P

Have just noticed that the TT 6 Nations thing has the wrong dates ! (e.g. it says Saturday 5th, and it should be Saturday 4th)

http://www.toytowngermany.com/wiki/6_Nations_rugby

Just threw me, as I was planning the dates to keep free. ahh.. Anyway only a couple more weeks to the grand kick off. Have to see how France start off, but as France have England at home, predict France to win, and England 2nd.

I am gonna bring my camera in case England lose again and one of the Welsh supporters wants to cut his testicles off?

(I am kinda assuming the bloke that did it last year won't be able to perform the same trick again??)

neither of which are gonna happen

Would be great to see Ireland, Wales and france beat the "lets kick the ball every time" England. They have a poor coach at England who has wasted over Million pounds on knackered Rugby League star Andy Farrell who as yet hasnt played a game! Wigan knew what they were doing when Union wanted him! Andy Robinson has made some strange selections and isnt really rated much by many people.

Ireland can surprize many teams and have players that can win matches . France can be brilliant or thugs depending how they feel and the Welsh can also be similar to Ireland. Scotland and the Italians/Argentinians well less said the better.Apparently more people play Cricket in Scotland than play Rugby Union now and the SRU are in a financial and physical mess!Just hope the games are better than last year as they were poor games most in 2005 to watch speaking from a neutral point of view

Prediction

France 8Pts
Ireland 8Pts
Wales 6Pts
England 4Pts
Scotland 2Pts
Italy/Argentina 0Pts (Many of the Italians are Argentinians who have a Italian parent or Grand parent!)

are you betting your testicles on that???

Let's not give him the choice Gids.

I'll bring some blunt scissors.

well we've really shaken things up there, eh? a scottish grand slam???

Not so sure about a Scottish Grand Slam, but it definitely shakes the apple tree a little, the French were the favorites coming into this ! A surprise winner this year again ?

I don't believe this for a minute!!! I've never seen or even heard of a cricket match going on in Scotland!!!

My predictions shot to shit after Ireland yesterday and Scotlands magnificent win today, ah well give Katrina the money

HOW TO MAKE HUMBLE PIE.

take one ailing chariot. add sugar and swing low to sweeten. mix in slowly a couple of dashes and cut through the middle cleanly and swiftly with a fresh slice of cueto. turn up heat being careful not to leave to much air in the lineout. after sixty minutes add some matured dallaglio, remembering to use a badly placed referee if the defence gets sticky. keep turning up the heat and after adding a slightly knocked on dawson - dont overdo the knock on - finish pie with a touch of voyce.

best served with lamb and leaks.

sorry Gideon, don't get what you mean about eating humble pie. My prediction (except for the predict-a-score) was never a Wales win. Have closer look at the quote.

ahhh see, i know you wanted 'em to win! sorry mate was only teasing and bantering you and pootle after last years glitch in the record... but you are bottom of the table though and it'll take a step upin performance to beat the scots with their blitz defence.

Was reported in the Scotsman Newspaper couple of months ago will try and find the report when time. Honestly especially in the Border regions many Rugby Union teams have folded or struggling which could be one reason why Scottish Rugby Union has been doing it tough as many of the top Scottish players came from clubs like Kelso, Gala, Jedburgh etc. The crowds are down to a couple of hundred and the youth section is a mess with kids preferring Soccer or staying and playing on the Computer/gameboy/X Box at home.

sounds like the Scotsman newspaper was spouting utter bollocks, I'm afraid, DallyM.

Total number of Cricket players in Scotland (senior and junior in 2005) is about 12,000

source: ICC-cricket.com

Total number of Rugby Union players in Scotland (senior and junior as per 2002) is about 77,000

source: IRB stats found on a rugby magazine site

despite the differing ages of the stats, i doubt Scottish rugby has lost 65,000 or 84% of ots player base in 3 years.

The IRB are a set of lieing fascist gits Graham and spin and tell lies to suit themselves. Their webpage is full of inaccuracys on playing numbers and other details. Schotte thought you lived in Scotland should know whats going on there mate here read this and Graham and shows you how small Rugby union is in Scotland and what a mess its in. Looks like the Scotsman where i cant exactly find the quote wasnt talking bollocks at all but the truth that Rugby Union is struggling big style even with the win yesterday

Friends of Scotland
Look just above the "International Fixture" headline where it says
"Over 150 clubs are registered with cricket Scotland, the national governing body, which is more than the number of Rugby Union clubs.But there are dozens of unregistered cricket teams which take no part in the formal Leagues...It is estimated that there are around 12.000 active cricketers in Scotland"

Buzzle.com
John Jeffrey former Scottish international and now involved at the Melrose side as well as other areas of Scottish Rugby Union including the U21s side says this

"France has 90 Full time 16 year olds-the same number of adult professionals we have in this country...Whereas Possibly 500.000 play Rugby Union in England, Scotland boasts an optimistic 10.000"

Scotland have massive problems to sell tickets for home games at Murrayfield and often games are struggling to sell more than 20.000 except for Ireland and England games. Crowds are lucky to get more than 1000 at the top scottish games even when playing top European teams from England or Wales in the Heineken Cup.

I find some of the ingredients in your humble pie a little tough, as they seem quite past it. Personally, I would take out the old meat in this pie ie dallaglio, as for the chariot; sugar is OK but something this saccherin sweet is a little hard to swallow. For your next pie, I should try (many times I suggest) the strange combination of Lamont and Blair (unusual but a spicy concoction) to make a kickin' pie known as the Paterson pie. You'll want to hadden it time and time again!

See you on the 25th...