Category Archives: Six Nations 2013

Everything You Wanted To Know About Wales’ Season + probably a few things you didn’t – Part 2

Posted on April 3, 2013 by dermott

Resident BTL Welsh Tragic yosoy rounds the turn for home in the Rowntree Saturday Night Rugby-Related Forensic Examination Stakes: The same team that beat France was named to play in Rome a fortnight later – the fit-again Warburton and Alun … Continue reading →

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Wales’ Season + probably a few things you didn’t – Part 1

Posted on April 2, 2013 by dermott

Resident BTL Wales Tragic yosoy does a Rowntree – anti-socially sits up late and alone on a Saturday night to forensically examine something rugby-related, in this case Wales’ topsy-turvy season: Wales entered the 2013 Six Nations as the reigning champions, … Continue reading →

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L’ora più buia è quella prima dell’alba

Posted on March 28, 2013 by dermott

This has, historically, been a typical day in Gli Azzurri‘s dressing room – lounging around in their mutande pouting, wondering who forgot to bring l’Olio d’Oliva Extra Virgine, about as ready to rendere il massimo as a Viagra-less Silvio Berlusconi.

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Is the long dark night of the Scottish rugby supporter at an end?

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Chekhovian

More of this please, says resident BTL Russian literary-phile and Scotland rugby tragic Chekovian

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France -v- Scotland – Vote for your MOTM

Posted on March 16, 2013 by dermott

Now that’s how to play 9. None of your crabbing sideways soft-shoe-shuffle rubbish. Take note, blokes. Our “Eddie” wondered whether the France-Scotland game might be an exiguous filigree, une babiole. Now that you’ve looked them up in your dictionaries, get … Continue reading →

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Wales -v- England – Vote for your MOTM

Posted on March 16, 2013 by dermott

Some of the England players turned up under-dressed for the occasion, but, apart from that, who was your MOTM?

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Italy -v- Ireland – Vote for your MOTM

Posted on March 16, 2013 by dermott

Bloody Italians. Still can’t spell either their name or their oppo’s. Was BOD MOTM in possibly his last appearance in green? Will BOD’s retirement mark the end of such acronym festivals? Whatever, vote for your MOTM.

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The Six Nations Concludeth: not Eddie Butler’s guide to surviving Week Five drink by drink

Posted on March 15, 2013 by dermott
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The All-Singing All-Dancing Hask Riddle #2

Posted on March 13, 2013 by dermott

Welcome to my All-Singing All-Dancing Hask Riddle #2. Catty reckoned my riddles were wasted on dumb-bum rugby players in tactical planning sessions and reckoned I ought to have a lash at Mastermind instead. Couldn’t find that particular title in my … Continue reading →

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England -v- Italy – Vote for your MOTM

Posted on March 11, 2013 by dermott

Did i figli di Garibaldi spike i figli di Elisabetta II‘s Grand Slam ambitions? They did their dang best despite George Clancy! With George Clancy in their pocket again next week, England are nailed-on GSers.

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