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@Daggers - 12 years old?

Please take this as a compliment, but I always imagined that you were, how should I put it? - a more senior contributor to this forum - maybe on the cusp of retirement age. That you are rejoining CAMRA for a second time perhaps supports that assumption?

I'd say, superbly entertaining game, but fraught with errors to the point of being comedic at one point. However when both sides made it count it was exquisite and one of the best finishes I can recall in the nations for years. France could have killed it in the first half, but then Smith uncharacteristically cost us 5 points. This is precisely what some of these players need for their confidence. What a scalp!

Very uncharacteristic handling errors form Pernaud and Dupont. That deft kick for the try though. Ramos looks particularly ominous. England need to make their replacements count. I thought that there wasn't enough impact last week against Ireland.

Until a Russian spy ship such as the Yantar operated by the Minoborony (in the guise of a supposed oceanic research vessel) coordinates their severance that is.

I'd recommend one. Takes a minute or two to set up. 'Mark Steele's in Town' toured the Bushmills distillery in Coleraine and someone asked about putting ice in single malt whisky.

@28.30... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021j31

Data returned from Copernicus shows that January was the warmest on record at 1.75°C above the 1850 to 1900 average, beating the previous record set a year earlier, when temperatures were 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. And this is despite an emerging La Niña.

Unfortunately she became more renowned for the "dirty old man's fantasy" surrounding the Redlands raid concocted by the Daily Mail, (involving Jagger, the fur rug and the Mars Bar) than her talents as artist. By the early 70s, she was homeless and strung out on smack and denied an equal writing credit for 'Sister Morphine' for which Jagger/Richards took sole credit. 'Wild Horses' also off 'Sicky Fingers' is allegedly written about her. A quirky, unpredictable enigma, she certainly lead a colourful life. RIP 'Girl on a Motorcycle'.

There's a few on this forum that would do the world a huge favour if they were to become Trappist Monks.

Most definitely this. If you weren't there, you'll never know. It would have been one of the most intimidating grounds in the country if the East Stand and the North Stand had been redeveloped. Eventually the Double Decker would have had to have been replaced though.

4-0 loss way to Luton, 1985. Players had all got hammered in the week at Willie Thorne's wedding, Lineker's final game for the club prior to f*****g off to Everton, daft green strip that everyone now raves about that we never won a league game in, last match of the season - and no one gave a flying f**k. Finished 17th, nothing to play for. So they didn't.

Again, beautifully timed by Lowe.

Surprised to see Lawrence Dallaglio still doing these daft 'Motorway' adverts after being banned from driving last year.

Brilliant from Lowe.

Ireland have been into their 22 four times and haven't scored.

Promising variation and creativity to England's attack.

I like the newly adjusted playing the 9 rule. Opens up play.

Dan Cole isn't getting any younger, really want to see his Tigers teammate Joe Heyes come to the fore although Will Stuart's pretty nailed on for the foreseeable future.

There was an item on BBC Radio 4 this week concerning mounting speculation that it will be moved behind a paywall in the future. The free to air rights deal between the BBC and ITV expires at the end of this year's tournament. The Six Nations is not on the list of the government’s “crown jewels” and organisers are apparently receptive to bids from a subscription broadcaster. TNT has expressed serious interest. Whilst a subscription broadcaster is likely to pay more for the rights to the championship the organisers know that it would not have the reach of the BBC and ITV. England’s victory over Ireland last year attracted a peak audience of 6.6 million viewers while some fixtures can approach 10 million.

It isn't a case of "got you beat" honestly. I know absolutely nothing about investments, stocks and shares, (I don't have a corporate cell in my body), golf, strava apps, Love Island, hip hop, TV buying, car finance... For this reason, there are topics and threads I won't comment or speculate on (with the exception of football) or make absolute statements. I applaud your response and apologies again if my responses in particular seemed like an onslaught.

Really, I'm not angry with you, genuinely, and apologies if you got that impression. And yet... You have at least, albeit inadvertently, perfectly epitomised, embodied and personified the 21st Century online conspiracy belief.

Perfectly put.

When I went through school there would invariably be a couple of pupils who couldn’t quite grasp certain concepts in the subjects that we were taught. It was OK though. They’d squeak by and live their lives happily, albeit not as rocket scientists or brain surgeons. Now they find each other on the internet. They find validation for their lack of understanding, and then they embrace it. They’re told “you’re one of the smart ones, you always knew they were lying to you.” Facts don’t matter at that point, and yet another conspiracy believer is born. Throw in the special feeling conspiracies can confer, along with a liberal affliction of the Dunning Kruger effect, and we have what we have. This is all just an unfortunate, yet understandable side effect of the internet. This is something we’re always going to have to deal with.