As this weekend marks the halfway point in this year’s Six Nations, it is no wonder that it is the sole focus of this week’s missive, and what a tournament it’s been so far! However, as always, at this point, some big questions are presenting themselves. First and foremost, can anyone derail the seemingly inevitableContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
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Lineout Calls of the Week – What to Watch and Why
Well, it’s that magical time of the year once more, people, and we can’t wait. With Sixmas Eve nearly upon us, we can’t wait to open our presents at the Stade de France on Thursday night as this year’s Six Nations kicks off. The Six Nations in the year before the World Cup has, forContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week – What to Watch and Why”
Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why
Well, it’s only two weeks away, so the Six Nations is starting to focus our attention. This week, we had a look at the squads for the six countries, how they struck us, and their respective chances. However, the Bomb Shell that really got us talking was the sacking of All Black Coach Scott Robertson.Continue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
Lineout Calls of the Week – 2026 The BIG Questions!
First up, Happy New Year, everyone, and apologies that, apart from the TV page, December was relatively quiet, to say the least. Incredibly hectic end-of-year work schedules and all the regular holiday chaos meant there was little or no time for rugby chinwags. Also, although plenty of rugby was played, we find December slightly lessContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week – 2026 The BIG Questions!”
Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why
Well, after far too much work and severe cases of noses to the grindstone, we managed to briefly come up for air and talk about some rugby. While there has been a lot to mull over in the rugby universe over the past few weeks and since the last time we managed to put penContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why
Anyone else enjoying these November Tests as much as we are, despite having to sandwich them in between a ridiculous work schedule? We did manage to catch three cracking games of rugby as Scotland came tantalisingly close once again to almost upsetting New Zealand’s apple cart in a genuine thriller. Then France and South AfricaContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why
Due to us just getting back from Chicago and the All Blacks/Ireland game, and finding that our employers saddled us with an unreasonable number of deadlines and workloads this week, we sadly are going to have to keep this week’s Calls down to a few one-liners. A more in-depth resumption of service will return nextContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why
This week, as you can imagine, there aren’t too many surprises about what we’ll be concerning ourselves with. You guessed it, there is a decided nip in the air, and if you’re a rugby fan in the Northern Hemisphere, that only means one thing – November’s traditional smorgasbord of International Rugby. Although the official three-weekContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why
This week, we mourn the passing of the Rugby Championship as we know it, as we’re sadly not all that excited about its replacement next year by a self-indulgent exposition of what is supposedly Rugby’s greatest rivalry. We also look at the hottest debate in rugby right now as to who really is the fairestContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why
This week we’ll be turning our attention to Club Rugby as our favourite competition the URC really gets into its stride, and take a look at who looks the best representative of the five participating countries Ireland, Italy, Scotland and South Africa and Wales so far. We also look ahead to the first International weekendContinue reading “Lineout Calls of the Week and What to Watch and Why”
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