Pickles

Stoop as in The Stoop, where your lot play I presume?

Docker

Very same.
His Father bequeathed the land to Quins.
We're now both life members, although our attendance is pretty woeful we do benefit very well in the international ballots.

Pickles

sounds good to me

you'll have to get down to Adams Park when you play us (Wasps) :thup:

Kill Rock Stars

it's mainly people standing in line or rolling around on the floor, so i dispute that

Razzler

How did Rugby catch on (if you can say that) ? Ok, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it. So then they based a game around that and someone decided you had the pass the ball backwards ?

I find some of the knock-ons ridiculous. Didnt quite catch it and went slightly forward is a freaking knock on ffs ?!

Docker

I actually saw more of Wasps when they were at Loftus road than Quins.

James Haskell is the son of a very good friend of my Dad's and so he often goes along to watch him play.
He also went to my school but way after my time.
Sat next to him once at an Old Boys Sports Dinner about 2 months after he'd been busted in The Sun for wiring up a video camera in a girl's bedroom at school.

Docker

The whole concept of the game is based on the ball being passed through the hands backwards.
Therefore if it moves forward off the hand (and other parts of the body apart from boot) then it is a knock on.

ajw2255

yeah they are a bit strange, but if you fumble it so badly and it bounces on the ground then you cant really argue with it

Tim Madisun

Well, I figure we had such a bad start to the finals, that it's taken alot of the pressure off to perform. Hence, lack of publicity.

Even if we beat the French, we'll most likely line up in the final against the South Africans, who gave us a right pasting in the group stages.

So, I guess the rest of the media barring the broadsheets is taking the long term view - we'll get beaten, save the coverage. Still, 'mon the England!

Razzler

The whole concept of the game is based on the ball being passed through the hands backwards.
Therefore if it moves forward off the hand (and other parts of the body apart from boot) then it is a knock on. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Seems fairly harsh sometimes and just brings the game back. I watch sometimes and end up shouting at the fecker. Partly cause i cant believe the appalling handling of a freaking ball sometimes (could say the same about passing in football, i guess) and also i wonder whether someone really got an advantage from a ball kinda almost leaving their hands forwards slightly before they gather it back into their body.