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Six Nations Match Preview Threads ** !! WEEK 4 !! **

  • 30-01-2018 1:32pm
    #1
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,335 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭


    Register your interest here to write them up.

    France v Ireland -
    Wales v Scotland - sydthebeat
    Italy v England - Dave_The_Sheep


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  • #2
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 40,951 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Sure stick me down for Wales v Scotland....

    .... Seeing as they are being taken up at a fierce rate!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Not sure if its just me, but are the English not somewhat over confident rocking up to the Stadio Olimpico expecting a win having been so sensationally outfoxed just last year.

    It's weird, but this is all starting to remind me of the Battle for Helms Deep to be honest and I can almost see the game playing out the same way...


  • #4
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Venjur wrote: »
    Not sure if its just me, but are the English not somewhat over confident rocking up to the Stadio Olimpico expecting a win having been so sensationally outfoxed just last year.

    It's weird, but this is all starting to remind me of the Battle for Helms Deep to be honest and I can almost see the game playing out the same way...

    With it being eventually settled by a man in white?


  • #5
    kuang1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭kuang1


    .ak wrote: »
    With it being eventually settled by a man in white?

    England 4 points down, Farrell lines up a penalty at goal with 5 minutes to go.
    The sun is setting and is at England's backs.
    Farrell hits the posts and ball rebounds into play. The Itallians are blinded by the sun while Dan Cole gathers (he'll have a full beard grown out by the weekend) and scores between the posts.

    Everyone wondering why he's on horseback.


    (Oh god it's still only Tuesday.)


  • #6
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    kuang1 wrote: »
    England 4 points down, Farrell lines up a penalty at goal with 5 minutes to go.
    The sun is setting and is at England's backs.
    Farrell hits the posts and ball rebounds into play. The Itallians are blinded by the sun while Dan Cole gathers (he'll have a full beard grown out by the weekend) and scores between the posts.

    Everyone wondering why he's on horseback.


    (Oh god it's still only Tuesday.)

    So are you volunteering to do the Sunday game, Kuang? :)


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  • #7
    kuang1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭kuang1


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    So are you volunteering to do the Sunday game, Kuang? :)

    I know better than to step on Venjur's toes!


  • #8
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    I'll sign up for one if he are stuck

    Probably be crap


  • #9
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Stheno wrote: »
    I'll sign up for one if he are stuck

    Probably be crap

    No critics here.... Just make sure the tables are good. ;)


  • #10
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,328 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Oh, go on, first time for everything. I'll take Italy - England. Fully sure of my impending regret of making this decision, when does one expect a preview thread to be up for a game on Sunday?


  • #11
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »
    Oh, go on, first time for everything. I'll take Italy - England. Fully sure of my impending regret of making this decision, when does one expect a preview thread to be up for a game on Sunday?

    Generally sometime after the teams are announced, and sometime before kick off.. :P


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  • #12
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,328 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    .ak wrote: »
    Generally sometime after the teams are announced, and sometime before kick off.. :P

    Five minutes before kick-off it is.


  • #13
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Okay, the drink is talking here but bags I le Francais vs Saorsaot Éire


  • #14
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    If, on waking up with a hangover, LD regrets his drunken impetuousness, I am available - off the bench so as to speak - to preview the teams in the Blue & Green corners. And provided no-one objects to it being a project previewer, qualifying after 7 years of habitation on the Emerald Isle.


  • #15
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    If, on waking up with a hangover, LD regrets his drunken impetuousness, I am available - off the bench so as to speak - to preview the teams in the Blue & Green corners. And provided no-one objects to it being a project previewer, qualifying after 7 years of habitation on the Emerald Isle.

    The lack of drink has made me see sense give you the honour :)


  • #16
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    The lack of drink has made me see sense give you the honour :)

    Yeah we see. Not sure I'll have the time TBH.

    Yours are always good value anyway :)


  • #17
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    Yeah we see. Not sure I'll have the time TBH.

    Yours are always good value anyway :)

    I too am short of time, my Haka dancing friend, so I'll pass this one out. But we shall be back for one or other of the alternative games.


  • #18
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Okie dokie, Ireland game still up for grabs unless you have time swiwi?


  • #19
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    .ak wrote: »
    Okie dokie, Ireland game still up for grabs unless you have time swiwi?

    Anyone else is free to go ahead. Otherwise, if work is not too busy tomorrow, I'll try and find a moment. Tonight was rugby training, which I think is a perfectly acceptable excuse :)


  • #20
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    Anyone else is free to go ahead. Otherwise, if work is not too busy tomorrow, I'll try and find a moment. Tonight was rugby training, which I think is a perfectly acceptable excuse :)

    Man, you owe me a load of pints :)


  • #21
    ken.51
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭ken.51


    awec wrote: »
    Register your interest here to write them up.

    France v Ireland -
    Wales v Scotland - sydthebeat
    Italy v England - Dave_The_Sheep

    i dont think ireland will win.


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  • #22
    ken.51
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭ken.51


    awec wrote: »
    Register your interest here to write them up.

    France v Ireland -
    Wales v Scotland - sydthebeat
    Italy v England - Dave_The_Sheep

    i facny england to win.


  • #23
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    ken.51 wrote: »
    i dont think ireland will win.
    ken.51 wrote: »
    i facny england to win.


    I don't think you really get the point of this thread...


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Zzippy wrote: »
    I don't think you really get the point of this thread...

    Who do you think will win?


  • #25
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Any volunteers to do match threads this week?


  • #26
    .ak
    Registered Users Posts: 30,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭.ak


    Reminder of the fixtures:

    Ireland v Italy: prawnsambo
    England v Wales: Stheno
    Scotland v France: Venjur


  • #27
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 40,951 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Any new blood want to give these a go?


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    I'm under pressure this week with work but I'll do either Ireland or Scotland, whichever you are stuck with.


  • #29
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,984 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    I'll do the Ireland v Italy thread if that suits.


  • #30
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Instead of site bans, the Mods should make infracted users write game previews instead :pac:


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  • #31
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Instead of site bans, the Mods should make infracted users write game previews instead :pac:

    Sounds like back seat modding right there... that's a paddlin'. We'll let you do the Scotland game instead... ;)


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