Return of the Franno !

Glad to see him back,

Not sure what a “part time fan” is and how they would differ from a full time one. Do full time ones get a card or something?

Neil is an excellent journalist.

If your idea of excellent is a bad player in his day a modern racist and homophobe who consistently predicts the outcome of games incorrectly.

The Sunday paper was delivered the other day and i was surprised to see his mug on the top banner.

Its hard to understand why you think rugby fans who watch less matches than you are lesser fans, and less knowledgable. Help me understand, where is the threshold for crossing over to full time? A couple of provincial matches? Maybe a few autumn internationals. It is this type of small minded arrogance which the IRFU are trying to do away with, to be more inclusive and attract more fans. I have to say, the thing that bugs me most about going to internationals, I always seem to be sitting close to some shouting know all who thinks he knows better than everyone else, including the players and coaches. Would they be examples of full time fans I wonder?

He said he had a David Beckham haircut and an ooopa Loompa tan, personally I think a rugby player being compared to DB is a bigger insult.

I’m not sure if I fall into the part time or full time category of rugby fan (watch autumn internationals, attend as many 6 nations as I can get tickets, attend Thomand and Race track occasionally), but before the controversy I didn’t know MS’s heritage, and google images does show the lad likes a tan.

Because i wouldn't pay the slightest bit of attention to anything franno says or writes.

Which of course is your right, don’t read it. Personally I don’t much care for some sports journalists and indeed tv commentators, but I just choose not to read/listen to them, It works for me.

Ah, the boards special, yes, I am Neil Francis.

D’oh.

Oh I’ve been here before, I like most sports so I post in what interests me. Again, I’m not sure whether I fall into the part/full time category, I did post a lot around the time of the WC cause I went to Japan for a couple of weeks, and I did post on the earlier incarnation of this topic. I find the cancel culture very naff, in hindsight Franno should have known MS’s heritage before commenting, but I doubt all of us, even the know alls, knew he was half Filipino until this story blew up. Franno is a typical forward slagging a pretty back, happens all the time in every dressing room. His mistake is that back is of foreign descent and he got slaughtered for it. There was no outrage from the white English people who were offended by the reference to one of their own, David Beckham, for any self respecting rugby player, that should have been the bigger insult.

WhosNeil?

Don't think I will bother reading him again, he clearly watched a different game to me. "JGP was excellent for 70 mins", I thought he was terrible in the first half, he made so many mistakes, to be fair he was a different player for the next 30 mins.

Franno goes on about Ireland were not going to score 2/3 tries in the last 10/15 mins with Murray on (took 70 mins to get 4) , in the game I watched, when Murray was on, Ireland gave away 4 penalties, knocked the ball on 3 times and also kicked the ball dead.