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jordan210

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  • Jul 23, 2023
  • #176
Grendel said:
Wasps website has been updated with a new address

Wasps

The Official Home of Wasps Rugby Men & Wasps Netball, Fixtures, Tickets, Match Reports, Player Profiles, Hospitality, Wasps TV.
www.wasps.co.uk

They’ve moved to Begbroke Manor
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Pretty sure that's a building that was conversed to flats. So isn't like a big fancy manor for training. literally some houses

Chris Holland EP&IC LIMITED is registered at a flat there

EP&IC LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

EP&IC LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
 
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jordan210

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  • Jul 23, 2023
  • #177
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
I googled that place yesterday - isn’t that where loxwood holdings are based
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Ys Chris holland uses it as a registered address.
 

covcity4life

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  • Jul 23, 2023
  • #178
So nice to know we beat wasps. Didn't look good that first day they took over and all the celebrations from telegraph etc.

Telegraph pretty much died too since then. They both lost.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Jul 23, 2023
  • #179
chiefdave said:
Sounds like something you'd do on work experience. Wonder if they're actually paying or just felt sorry for him?
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He’s probably just hanging around and they have no idea why.

Reminds me of Officer Doofy.
 
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Nuskyblue

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  • Jul 23, 2023
  • #180
fernandopartridge said:
Putting my best Richard Osman voice on:

dangleberries: n. Winnets; excrement adhering to the arse cress around an inefficiently-wiped ringpiece. Fartleberries, toffee strings, bead curtains, kling-ons, clinkers, miniature heroes.

Sent from my Pixel 7 using Tapatalk
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Ahhh the profanasaurus
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Jul 23, 2023
  • #181
I always thought that kit man was a bellend, but I think he also must not be quite the full ticket based on some of these latest posts.

Assistant Kit Man? Sounds like a completely made up and pretend job role. Imagine 'Assistant Postman' or something like that, following the main guy up people's driveways and opening the letter box for them. What is this guy doing? Counting out the socks and making sure their aren't any odd pairs? Ridiculous.
 
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hill83

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  • Jul 23, 2023
  • #182
TomRad85 said:
Like a turd stuck in your arse hair.

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napolimp

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  • Jul 24, 2023
  • #183
Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:
I always thought that kit man was a bellend, but I think he also must not be quite the full ticket based on some of these latest posts.

Assistant Kit Man? Sounds like a completely made up and pretend job role. Imagine 'Assistant Postman' or something like that, following the main guy up people's driveways and opening the letter box for them. What is this guy doing? Counting out the socks and making sure their aren't any odd pairs? Ridiculous.
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He tears little squares of toilet paper off the roll, when Hogan goes for a shit.
 
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jordan210

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  • Jul 24, 2023
  • #184
napolimp said:
He tears little squares of toilet paper off the roll, when Hogan goes for a shit.
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Well they do have a lot of left over shirts so at least it puts them to use
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 26, 2023
  • #185
Just seen a bloke wearing a wasps top, I waited until we got out of the shop before asking my nine year old what he thought he said total twat, I had to wait the boy has no filter.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Jul 31, 2023
  • #186
We have just advertised a role for an assistant kitman. I can only think of one man who is available
 
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clint van damme

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  • Jul 31, 2023
  • #187
Terry Gibson's perm said:
We have just advertised a role for an assistant kitman. I can only think of one man who is available
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Saturday night sky blue twitter would be gold with him and King of shaves bouncing off each other
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jul 31, 2023
  • #188
Terry Gibson's perm said:
We have just advertised a role for an assistant kitman. I can only think of one man who is available
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As soon as I saw that post from the club I thought please not him
 
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AndreasB

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  • Aug 1, 2023
  • #189
Imagine in the interview when he gets asked about a time he had to work as part of a team to deliver an important deadline… and he just does the fucking glasses thing.

“Thank you Mr er Pudsey, we will be in touch”
 
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Grendel

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  • Aug 2, 2023
  • #190
I’d give him the job. He’d start wearing sky blue kit and it would be another thing to add to the piss take list for Shugs and co
 
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MalcSB

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #191
Grendel said:
I’d give him the job. He’d start wearing sky blue kit and it would be another thing to add to the piss take list for Shugs and co
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Looks like Shugs has finally realised Pudsey talks nonsense.
 

MalcSB

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #192
Grendel said:
I’d give him the job. He’d start wearing sky blue kit and it would be another thing to add to the piss take list for Shugs and co
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Do we know who fergal is and if he’s on here? He’s a blatant troll but he’s cuter about it
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it’s me.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #193
MalcSB said:
it’s me.
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I like your style… lovely long drawn out roping them in. Then *bang* remind them that they’re dead and that they owe loads of people money
 
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tisza

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #194

From the Six Nations to Premiership Rugby: Can CVC’s big bet help the crisis-hit sport?

The question now facing rugby’s institutions – and Clarry’s team at CVC – is how to revive the crisis-hit sport
www.fnlondon.com

Interesting piece on rugby's problems as a whole but also reinforces why Wasps Rugby dream was always going to fail
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #195
tisza said:

From the Six Nations to Premiership Rugby: Can CVC’s big bet help the crisis-hit sport?

The question now facing rugby’s institutions – and Clarry’s team at CVC – is how to revive the crisis-hit sport
www.fnlondon.com

Interesting piece on rugby's problems as a whole but also reinforces why Wasps Rugby dream was always going to fail
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Rugby’s problem is that there’s dwindling interest in the sport. It will never be popular in schools whilst it’s up against Football.

the professional game will die
 

Saddlebrains

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #196
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Rugby’s problem is that there’s dwindling interest in the sport. It will never be popular in schools whilst it’s up against Football.

the professional game will die
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Good its a fucking shit game played by fat blokes who arent very good at football
 
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Travs

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #197
Saddlebrains said:
Good its a fucking shit game played by fat blokes who arent very good at football
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Tbf go round most parks in this country on a saturday and sunday..... and football is a game played by fat blokes who aren't very good at football.
 
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Ccfcsj

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #198
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Rugby’s problem is that there’s dwindling interest in the sport. It will never be popular in schools whilst it’s up against Football.

the professional game will die
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I was forced to play rugby in school back in the 1980's - we weren't allowed to play football. I was always picked for the school rugby team because I was good at it even though I hated it. Because of this I have grown up to really dislike the game
 
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tisza

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #199
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Rugby’s problem is that there’s dwindling interest in the sport. It will never be popular in schools whilst it’s up against Football.

the professional game will die
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Never taken a proper foothold in the North in the professional era. Just 2 teams that can only get gates of 6-7k. Just not a national game - it's regional much like Rugby League.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 7, 2023
  • #200
tisza said:
Never taken a proper foothold in the North in the professional era. Just 2 teams that can only get gates of 6-7k. Just not a national game - it's regional much like Rugby League.
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Well that's the crux of it really. Football embraced professionalism and became the national sport, the RFU rejected it in the name of elitism and effectively split the game two ways between two halves of the country.
 
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tisza

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #201
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Well that's the crux of it really. Football embraced professionalism and became the national sport, the RFU rejected it in the name of elitism and effectively split the game two ways between two halves of the country.
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Also football used some of the money for better facilities and importantly pitches. We don't see months of quagmire pitches some of us grew watching games on.
English rugby threw money into wages and didn't develop the other parts so well. Also (my limited understanding) they haven't improved the onfield product - it's still a "slow" product concentrating on producing large athletes rather than a year faster skilled game - again pitches may contribute to that. Even the doddery elitist cricket authorities realised they had to produce more audience friendly products to survive. TV wasn't going to pay for the traditional slow domestic product.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #202
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Well that's the crux of it really. Football embraced professionalism and became the national sport, the RFU rejected it in the name of elitism and effectively split the game two ways between two halves of the country.
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I find the sports general elitest potshots at football and it’s fans doesn’t do it any favours.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #203
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
I find the sports general elitest potshots at football and it’s fans doesn’t do it any favours.
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Mrs BSB went to see some friends of hers in Newcastle recently. She was wearing a CCFC shirt in the morning and one of them looked at it funny and went ‘I’m not judging you for the team, but the sport’ before going on to reel off the usual football stereotypes and how rugby is better.

Must be one of about 5 people in Newcastle who don’t like football
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #204
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
I find the sports general elitest potshots at football and it’s fans doesn’t do it any favours.
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It's jealousy really
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #205
fernandopartridge said:
It's jealousy really
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But I don’t get it - they like their sport we like ours. My enjoyment of another thing shouldn’t impact theirs
 

Gynnsthetonic

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #206
Wasps amateur Rugby Cub are still going and doing well, all old Waps rememeberbelia in the club house, they could be a phoenix club, seems like a lot of the Coventry Wasp fans won't be attending though
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #207
Gynnsthetonic said:
Wasps amateur Rugby Cub are still going and doing well, all old Waps rememeberbelia in the club house, they could be a phoenix club, seems like a lot of the Coventry Wasp fans won't be attending though
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But I thought they’d become diehard wasps fans…

100% they’ve slimed their way back quietly to watch CCFC and pretending they’d never left
 
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StrettoBoy

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #208
I love football, rugby and cricket and I really don't get why fans of one sport should slag off those who prefer different ones. Each to his own I say.

Slightly oddly, but I will explain why below, I support the Sky Blues at football, Warwickshire at cricket and Leicester Tigers at rugby. The first two are easily explained by the fact that I was born and raised in Coventry.

Why Leicester Tigers though? It is because the winter sport at my school was rugby, not football which wasn't played at all. I couldn't play rugby because I am very short-sighted and it is not a game you can easily play in spectacles so I came to hate it. We moved to Leicester in the late 1970s and a few years later joined St John Ambulance as volunteers. A few years after that Leicester Tigers became one of our regular duties and after a while I came to love the game, not as much as football but I do really like it.

My first loyalty is still to the Sky Blues
 
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duffer

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #209
fernandopartridge said:
It's jealousy really
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It's really not, and I thought we'd done all of this to death on another thread.

Lots of rugby fans (and as one myself I know a fair few of them), also enjoy football. A lot of Cov RFC fans also follow CCFC.

At the same time, like a lot of other football fans (also including me) they also get frustrated at the time wasting, diving, endless dissent etc. etc. that goes on around the game. You don't need to be a rugby fan to comment on it.

Whether one game is "better" than the other is strictly a matter of opinion.

Yes there's bigger participation and more money in football, but that's like saying that Kylie is "better" than Radiohead because she sold more records.

As for the "it's only a game for fat boys who couldn't play football", I'm not sure that makes sense either. There are a fair number of rugby players who made it to academy or youth team level at some pretty decent football clubs. That's way beyond most of us here, I suspect, and I know there are a few decent footballers hereabouts.

The brutal truth as I saw it at a sports-mad, all boys school, was that the lads that were really good at one sport, tended to be good at almost all of them, and for the rest of us it was just a matter of finding something that you enjoyed. I've never seen one as being "better" than another, except for cross-country which was obviously only enjoyed by masochistic lunatics.

An incredible XI of rugby players who played for football academies - Ruck

More rugby stars than you think almost had a career in football, including the current England Captain Owen Farrell. Check out who else makes our XI.
www.ruck.co.uk
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Sep 8, 2023
  • #210
Do need other sports than football. Is where the crazy wages are dangerous if they kill other sports off.
 
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