Glasgow and Edinburgh: Ongoing Banter Thread IX

[George Carlin]

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Time Honoured Banter:

https://www.606v2.com/t48240-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread
https://www.606v2.com/t51313-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-ii
https://www.606v2.com/t53119-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-iii
https://www.606v2.com/t54519-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-iv
https://www.606v2.com/t55409-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-v-the-fun-continues
https://www.606v2.com/t56913p950-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-vi-banter-boogaloo
https://www.606v2.com/t57946-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-vii
https://www.606v2.com/t58659-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-viii

A. Edinburgh (2015-2016)
 
Players In
William Helu from Wasps
Nasi Manu from Highlanders
Nathan Fowles from Sale Sharks
Michael Allen from Ulster
Jack Cosgrove from Worcester Warriors

Players Out
Tom Heathcote to Worcester Warriors
Grayson Hart to Glasgow Warriors
Ollie Atkins to Exeter Chiefs
Tim Visser to Harlequins
 
B. Glasgow (2015-2016)

Players In
Simone Favaro from Benetton Treviso
Grayson Hart from Edinburgh
Kieran Low from London Irish
Mike Blair from Newcastle Falcons
Sam Johnson from Queensland Reds
Greg Peterson from Leicester Tigers
Taqele Naiyaravoro from NSW Waratahs
Javan Sebastian from Carmarthen Quins

Players Out
Nikola Matawalu to Bath Rugby
Sean Maitland to London Irish
D.T.H. van der Merwe to Scarlets
Dougie Hall retired
Jon Welsh to Newcastle Falcons
Alastair Kellock retired
Murray McConnell to Nottingham
James Downey to Wasps
Tommy Spinks to Jersey
Euan Murray to Pau
Connor Braid released

[jimbopip]

I was very impressed with the threat the Japanese backline offered with ball in hand, and would happily take their 12 and 15 for instance

I would have their scrum half as well. Makes Laidlaw look like he's stuck on 'pause'.

Careful now, GC. We can't pick on Milk it's "not getting behind the team".

[funnyExiledScot]

I was very impressed with the threat the Japanese backline offered with ball in hand, and would happily take their 12 and 15 for instance

I would have their scrum half as well. Makes Laidlaw look like he's stuck on 'pause'.

Careful now, GC. We can't pick on Milk it's "not getting behind the team".

Go for it I say. You remind me of Jerry Guscott when he described Richie Gray as "bambi on ice".

[George Carlin]

I was very impressed with the threat the Japanese backline offered with ball in hand, and would happily take their 12 and 15 for instance

I would have their scrum half as well. Makes Laidlaw look like he's stuck on 'pause'.

Careful now, GC. We can't pick on Milk it's "not getting behind the team".

Go for it I say. You remind me of Jerry Guscott when he described Richie Gray as "bambi on ice".

To be fair, he did eat humble pie for that comment. Respect for that.

Guscott was once the purtyest rugby player on the planet.

Now, I noticed on telly last night that he seems to have turned into a melting waxwork of himself.

[funnyExiledScot]

I was very impressed with the threat the Japanese backline offered with ball in hand, and would happily take their 12 and 15 for instance

I would have their scrum half as well. Makes Laidlaw look like he's stuck on 'pause'.

Careful now, GC. We can't pick on Milk it's "not getting behind the team".

Go for it I say. You remind me of Jerry Guscott when he described Richie Gray as "bambi on ice".

To be fair, he did eat humble pie for that comment. Respect for that.

I look forward to Jimbo doing the same.....

[RuggerRadge2611]

I was very impressed with the threat the Japanese backline offered with ball in hand, and would happily take their 12 and 15 for instance

I would have their scrum half as well. Makes Laidlaw look like he's stuck on 'pause'.

Careful now, GC. We can't pick on Milk it's "not getting behind the team".

Go for it I say. You remind me of Jerry Guscott when he described Richie Gray as "bambi on ice".

To be fair, he did eat humble pie for that comment. Respect for that.

I look forward to Jimbo doing the same.....

Ditto.

[jimbopip]

I hope I do: it'll mean that Milk has turned into the rugby player we all want him to be, given himself a shake and curdled soured the Japs hope of winning the group.

[funnyExiledScot]

The cream always rises to the top.

[jimbopip]

hard cheese if he doesn't.

[funnyExiledScot]

I'm confident that he'll Shake things up. His ability to Skim the ball away from the ruck is seconDairy to his leadership skills. If you think he'll be Cowed by the Japanese, you've Goat to be joking.

[George Carlin]

I'm confident that he'll Shake things up. His ability to Skim the ball away from the ruck is seconDairy to his leadership skills. If you think he'll be Cowed by the Japanese, you've Goat to be joking.

 I'm not sure that curd have been any better.

[jimbopip]

Ghee us a break.

[George Carlin]

Ghee us a break.

[funnyExiledScot]

Hats off Jimbo. An udderly awesome effort.

[funnyExiledScot]

Ok - I appear to have cleared the room.....

[RDW]

No, we just don't give edam anymore...

[funnyExiledScot]

Brielliant!

[RuggerRadge2611]

I was very impressed with the threat the Japanese backline offered with ball in hand, and would happily take their 12 and 15 for instance

I would have their scrum half as well. Makes Laidlaw look like he's stuck on 'pause'.

Careful now, GC. We can't pick on Milk it's "not getting behind the team".

Go for it I say. You remind me of Jerry Guscott when he described Richie Gray as "bambi on ice".

To be fair, he did eat humble pie for that comment. Respect for that.

I look forward to Jimbo doing the same.....

Ditto.

I believe the phrase " have some of that" springs to mind as Frodo, Glacius or Milk Scored nearly 50% of Scotland's points and scooped MOTM.

[InjuredYetAgain]

There is some utter bollix on this thread.
I understand Hugh-Dan McLennan when he is in full flight more than some of my fellow countrymen here.

[RuggerRadge2611]

Wow, the cheese jokes still in full flight. I would get involved but I don't want to come across as parmesan...

[InjuredYetAgain]

Going off at a welcome tangent from cheese-related topics, I was hungry and went for a scooby-snack during a(nother) lull in the France/Romania game and found a box of those M&S chokky biscuits* that you normally only get at Christmas. They are half price just now. Anyway, I ate too many and feel a bit sick now but, if there was ever a biscuit world cup, M&S chokky ones would be the equivalent of the all-blacks.
Mods - I do not work for Marks and this is not product placement (although I am available to front any advertising campaign that they may consider)


* other biscuits are available but, let's be honest, they are minging compared to M&S ones

[RuggerRadge2611]

Is that the disks that have really thick chocolate on them?

[InjuredYetAgain]

They are, indeed, constituent parts of said box of biscuits, Radge. And they are the ones that make you feel sick when eaten to excess.

[RuggerRadge2611]

In my moments of weakness an entire tub has been emptied on the odd occasion.

The shame...

[InjuredYetAgain]

You have just gone up in my estimation. That said, when I was in what I and others can jokingly refer to as my "prime", props got respect from skulling 15 pints of beer rather than OD'ing on M&S biscuits

[RuggerRadge2611]

These threads are awesome. They morph from enlightened/vitriolic rugby opinion, to some of the best humour on the forum, to parenting advice and now a secret eater / alcoholic support group!

[InjuredYetAgain]

I do wonder what a medical specialist might make of the kak that appears on "our" threads

[IanBru]

I suspect the doctor would cart us all off the the emmental home.

No kicking or screaming, he'd just move our laptops to the padded cells - a feta comté.

[MacKnocked-on]

Meanwhile over at the World Cup Mariano Galarza has been banned for nine weeks, he's an eye gouda apparently.

[jimbopip]

Mac,

[George Carlin]

Amazing MacKnocked.


We're all wasted in our day jobs. 

[jimbopip]

Speaking of which.... Yesterday was a good day all round.

MrBru, I shall beak the habit of a lifetime and buy a round in Noocassell, bonnie lad.

[RDW]

Speaking of which.... Yesterday was a good day all round.

MrBru, I shall beak the habit of a lifetime and buy a round in Noocassell, bonnie lad.

You got the job then?

[jimbopip]

Retirement didn't last long.

[funnyExiledScot]

Retirement didn't last long.

Congratulations! Now, please tell me you won't be responsible for operating heavy machinery?

[cakeordeath]

Retirement didn't last long.

Congratulations! Now, please tell me you won't be responsible for operating heavy machinery?

Or using a quote function.

Congratulations though

[IanBru]

Speaking of which.... Yesterday was a good day all round.

MrBru, I shall beak the habit of a lifetime and buy a round in Noocassell, bonnie lad.

That's really outstanding bud! OK, we're heading for the Bridge Tavern , then up the hill to Pleased To Meet You to laugh at the hipsters . Good times!

[jimbopip]

Excellent, my songbird amigo.

You do realise that when I said I would buy a round .....

Is the bridge Tavern the one you said was under a bridge and sold a wide selection of real ales with twigs in to men in ill-fitting corduroys and Josh Strauss beards?

[IanBru]

Excellent, my songbird amigo.

You do realise that when I said I would buy a round .....

Is the bridge Tavern the one you said was under a bridge and sold a wide selection of real ales with twigs in to men in ill-fitting corduroys and Josh Strauss beards?

That sounds about right. Some of the men wear chinos, but there's usually bird feed leaking from a hole in a pocket.

[IanBru]

Also,

Is the bridge Tavern the one you said was under a bridge and sold a wide selection of real ales with twigs in to men in ill-fitting corduroys and Josh Strauss beards?

"AH! I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before!"

[funnyExiledScot]

Jimbo is buying a round eh? Tempted just to pop down to Newcastle on the train just to hear his wallet creaking open.

If you'd said RDW I just wouldn't believe you.

[RDW]

Jimbo is buying a round eh? Tempted just to pop down to Newcastle on the train just to hear his wallet creaking open.

If you'd said RDW I just wouldn't believe you.

Ahem, I think you'll find I bought a round once in 2012.

[funnyExiledScot]

Jimbo is buying a round eh? Tempted just to pop down to Newcastle on the train just to hear his wallet creaking open.

If you'd said RDW I just wouldn't believe you.

Ahem, I think you'll find I bought a round once in 2012.

Is there a blue plaque on the wall of the pub to mark the occassion!!?

[EWT Spoons]

Congratulations Jimbo

Off the topic of cheese etc, but glasgow have tweeted about their game tonight, are they playing a friendly or something, as there is nothing on the pro12 site about any fixture this evening?

[EWT Spoons]

Oh wait, just seen they are playing against the army

[IanBru]

Glasgow are playing a warm-up match against the Army - they've published an extended squad, but not a starting XV or 23.

[IanBru]

Also, it says something wonderful about this place that talking about actual Glasgow Warriors playing actual rugby now counts as 'off topic'!

[funnyExiledScot]

Is this a charity match or something?

Solomons will no doubt be hammering his squad in this intervening period. I get the feeling that training under Solomons is a pretty thankless task at times!

[jimbopip]

Jimbo is buying a round eh? Tempted just to pop down to Newcastle on the train just to hear his wallet creaking open.

If you'd said RDW I just wouldn't believe you.

Ahem, I think you'll find I bought a round once in 2012.

Is there a blue plaque on the wall of the pub to mark the occassion!!?

Considering that the quiet Bok and I will have been drinking since the 8:oo hours o'clock am train left Kings Cross and apparently the Bridge Inn does Haggis Toasties there may be a mutli-coloured plaque on the authentically reclaimed floorboards to mark the occasion.

Going off-topic; at Scotstoun tonight, Junior's mates are coming round to play with his new friends.

[RDW]

Bad news for Edinburgh - Ben Toolis has had to have elbow surgery and is out with an unkown return date.

We're OK for 2nd row cover now with McKenzie and Bresler starting and Alex Toolis on the bench, but one more injury and we'll be scratching around looking for 2nd rows like Glasgow!

[jimbopip]

When you look at the likes of Scott Cummings, Ickle Jonnie, Richie Gray not to mention the Caotain...No you'll never produce second like Glasgow.

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