Synthetic growth hormone in fake tan ?. Wouldn't be surprised 😁
Probably trying to argue there was a steroid he was unaware of in his fake tan or something.
Tested positive last July & contested the test finding.
Reckon he knew this was coming.
I don't know, having games on a Saturday and a Sunday works for me as I usually don't have the time to watch more than one game in one day, and can plan the day around a match, so would usually watch one match on a Friday and one on a Saturday, or one on a Saturday and one on a Sunday. I'd probably find it hard to organise to be free for 3 full matches on a Saturday, much as I would like to, and I suspect a lot of people would just pick the one game to watch, and numbers might actually drop off.
Rhys Webb banned for four years for doping violations. Have to imagine that's his career over.
I'll be deciding which game I'm not going to watch if there's three on a Saturday. Like I have things to do, I normally work them around the games.
Tend to agree with you. Super Saturday where you have three games back to back makes for a fun day. I tend to miss the Sunday game unless it involves Ireland or is a blockbuster game.
Intrigued by this - I still love a Saturday 6 Nations game, but have enjoyed the Friday night games too.
Sunday games should be cast into the sea - awful on every front.
OK so its referred to as an ethnic group...
'... Antagonism by an individual... against people on the basis of their membership of...an ethnic group'
Best of luck arguing that it's not racism.
Report from the Guardian that the Six Nations is considering moving to matches on Saturdays only from 2026, based on lower ratings for Friday/Sunday games.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/10/six-nations-saturday-only-tests-revamp-boost-rugby-pulling-power
For me it could be a double edged sword, as long as the games remain FTA in the UK, the BBC and ITV will likely be reluctant to give up too many of their precious Saturday night light entertainment line ups (it’s after all still winter/spring at that point) and what we may well end up with is more lunchtime early kick offs (with the schedule perhaps moving to 12:30pm, 3pm, and 5:30pm say).
There is a big difference in calling somebody a scumbag and a racist. I couldn't disagree with your thoughts on it although I don't see it as that bad due to the fact he was drunk. If he is genuinely sorry about it then I think I'd accept that.
It's more commonly referred to as an ethnic group.
I have never heard the term ethnic race.
I think we just have to disagree. You think its not unkind to want to headbutt someone just because they are Arab. I think it makes him a scumbag.
ah that explains it…..
I suggest you shut up if all you are going to post is crap.
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Well firstly Arabs are an ethnic race.
He never said he hate Arabs although there's a suggestion of it. We don't know if something happened that angered a drunk man with an Arab involved which led him to say this.
id suggest you stop digging….
You don't think saying that you are going to headbutt the next arab you meet, just because they are arab, aren't unkind words? Its not racism since arabs aren't a race.
We have a drunk man here saying he hates arabs so much that no matter who they are he is going to headbutt the next one he meets.
You're entitled to your opinion but I think you are very wrong here.
Here we go with the social media crap posts.
No, there is no reasoning behind it or demeaning of the people. There is no suggestion anywhere of them being an inferior race and there are no unkind words or terms used to describe them.
All we have here is a drunk man saying something stupid.
If you want to get into a discussion on racism with me we can do it by pm as this is a rugby thread and anything more than this is going way off topic.
It might surprise you to know that I'm involved in trying to change things to eliminate racism. You'd be surprised at where we want to get to.
WOW
simply…..
Expressing an intention to commit violence against people purely because of their ethnicity isn't racist in your eyes?
Wow
It's all a good laugh, sure, like a bit of the oul' gay-bashing and lynching the lads used to get up to back in the good old days.
Your comments are revolting.
No I'm not a fan of any French club. This all sounds rather harmless to me. What he said was stupid.
Please explain how it's racist?
I didn't see any comment where he looks down on or demeans another race, or uses an unacceptable word.
He didn't threaten any particular person.
What he said was that he's going to headbutt the next Arab he meets. To me it's stupidity and he's clearly drunk. I see it as pretty harmless. Slap on the wrist, fine and warming as to future behaviour seems a proper punishment for this.
Nice to know overt racism and threats of violence are small change to you.
Montpellier/RN fan, I presume?
Polo, using cars instead of horses. from 1913. #world's most dangerous sport.
As it happens, medical journals have reported most injuries occuring in basketball, golf & cheerleading 😁
Apples ≠ oranges
Go out to fairyhouse and look at the size of the fences. I did half marathon out there a few years ago. You go around the outside of the racecourse on the ambulance track. The fences are huge. When jockeys come off a horse at a fence they can easily be 4-5m up in the air. And are travelling at 40kmh
Jaminet, drunk, stupid but it's wasn't that bad. Hopefully he gets back quickly.
13 feet? I think you're riding an elephant instead of a horse.
He doesn't own them anymore.
