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What will Scotland’s historic victory Rugby victory do to the push for independence? – politicalbett
What will Scotland’s historic victory Rugby victory do to the push for independence? – politicalbetting.com
Judging by the last thread many PBers have spent the last few hours watching the opening matches in this year’s Six Nations.
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Honestly rugby league is as much proper rugby as American football is.
That said, there's not much else happening. Nothing good anyway. The Beast from the Bloody East Mark II, as if this Winter wasn't bad enough already. It feels endless...
It is the Scottish football team's supporters who are mainly nationalists and back independence
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/politics/uk-politics/1953178/ruth-davidson-sparks-tory-row-over-former-gordon-mp/
That was merely the subtext.
Farrell has been garbage at international level for 2 years now but pundits and Eddie are in denial.
Stick him behind a dominant pack and bingo.
If not, not.
However. In both cases it is the pack that win it. They were monstered today and England have no Plan B when they are. Arguably been like that since Bill Beaumont's day.
PS: growth is going in opposite direction mind you.
After he retired and was commentating for the BBC, the morning after the Calcutta Cup match at Murrayfield, in reception of the Grosvenor Hotel, asking if any of the staff had managed to find his trousers...
International sport other than Cricket does not exist.
Best team won, that’s for sure. Poor performance from England, but were still within a try at the end thanks to a couple of missed Scottish kicks. The score was closer than the match.
I’m convinced the missing crowd makes a huge difference in team sports, there’s been a lot more funny results than usual this year in the football too. Can’t imagine 50,000 reds packed into Anfield of an evening, would have let Liverpool lose to Brighton.
Eight hours until the cricket’s back on, better get some sleep!
The RFU or WRU should be looking to snaffle Shaun Edwards from France first.
The way the Scots are celebrating it really means a lot to them.
But the reason I support Liverpool, I was a child of the 80s, I wasn't allowed to go to football matches because of the violence and racism, so I only watched football on TV, and there were like 20 matches live a season, and most of them featured Liverpool.
Once in 38 years enjoy it.
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Like the football, there have been some strange results with the crowds removed. It is surprising how much difference it makes (although the normal home advantage is obvious statistically).
I'm not sure rugby union is a Nats thing although of course there has always been whistling at Scotland's national anthem when matches were played at Murrayfield.
Have you seen the exchange odds on the First Test? They are surely wrong.
We can safely discount India, despite the famous match where India scored 759 in their first innings. That isn't going to happen here.
So it's either a draw or England win. Draws are fairly rare in five day Test matches these days unless the weather intervenes, and it seems set fair in Chennai for the remainder of the match. So it's down to the pitch, and there were distinct signs it was beginning to deteriorate in the after tea session, much as one would expect.
I'm not saying India cannot scrape a draw, but England ought to be favorites now. Instead the draw is a fairly firm favorite - 1.55 with Betdaq. England are 3.15.
I think they should be evens at most. I'm on. What say you?
Something @dixiedean confirms is the way of the North.
https://twitter.com/Alliance4Unity/status/1357735826290077697?s=20
Down the road in Bolton it was just football.
Bozo should resign immediately for such a grammatical howler.
Not this time.
Not much football played!
Three more days on a deteriorating pitch with good weather ought to be enough to get 20 wickets. I'd think England would be fair value at about 1.8
(Got her straight away.)
https://twitter.com/davidsole678/status/1358129982367797249
England were absolutely ghastly. They had no towering figure such as Jonny Gray, who may have had a lifetime game. They had no Watson, and even George Turner, the third-choice Scottish hooker, had a field day. And Russell and Redpath, despite the pressure and the wet weather, were just sublime. Far too much rugby these days is machine-like, but here were thinking rugby players.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/england-stunned-at-twickenham-by-brilliant-scots-jdhz9vcc6
February 15th, the same day when the UK Government hopes to have at least offered a jab to all frontline health and social care workers, all of the clinically extremely vulnerable and everybody over 70, the Irish Government plans to start vaccinating the over 85s. They are hopeful that they'll have cleared them (and presumably moved on to the next age group down) by March 8th.
The available supplies of Pfizer and Moderna are being directed towards the task. They have also got an AZ delivery coming imminently, which will help them to make progress on healthcare workers as well.
As with the UK Government, ministers in Dublin have said that the limiting factor on the vaccination drive is supply, but they've declared that they're satisfied with the EU process and will be making no effort to obtain vaccines outside of it. Now, to be fair, it's probably too late to do anything about that anyway so there's little point in rocking the Euroboat, but all the same it's rather sad.
Redpath was utter quality though.
This is never going to end, is it?
US Senate has confirmed 6 out of 23 Biden cabinet nominees.
Blinken at State, Yellen at Treasury, Austin at Defense and Haines at NSA were confirmed last week; this week's confirmations are:
> Pete Buttigeg for Secretary of Transportation, by vote of 86-13
> Alejandro Mayorkas for Secretary of Homeland Security, by vote of 56-43
The nays against Mayorkas were the highest yet recorded for (or rather against) any Biden cabinet choice. Why? Because he was in charge of DACA under Obama, and is Biden's point man re: immigration; thus a nay vote against AM is an easy way of showing opposition to immigration reform, without actually preventing or even delaying having a presidential appointee in this important post.
On the flip side, my gut feeling is that MANY senators of both great (and not so great) parties are eager to get a chunk of increased transportation infrastructure spending anticipated under the Biden administration.
With respect to votes AGAINST Uncle Joe's cabinet picks,
> Only US Senator to vote against all six? You guessed it - Josh "Bloody Hands" Hawley
> Voting against 5 of 6 = Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee
> Voting against 4 of 6 = Cotton, Marshall, Paul, Rick Scott, Shelby, Tuberville
> Voting against 3 of 6 = Barrasso, Boozman, Braun, Cassidy, Cramer, Ernst, Hagerty, Hoeven, Lankford, Risch, Tim Scott
> Voting against 2 of 6 = Daines, Kennedy, Lunmis, Rubio
> Voting against 1 of 16 = Blunt, Burr, Cornyn, Crapo, Fischer, Graham, Grassley, Hyde-Smith, Inhofe, Johnson, McConnell, Moran, Rounds, Sasse, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, Young (Ind)
So far, number of Democratic senators voting against Biden nominees = 0
Check out Politico.com article below.
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/joe-biden-cabinet-members-confirmations-list/
We're likely going to need booster shots later in the year but we expected that already.
And doubtless many more exist which haven't been detected whether or not they have subsequently died out.
More evidence that the best strategy is stop international travel until covid has been crushed throughout the world.
God willing & the cricks don't rise!
I'll settle for being protected against anything worse than a severe case of the flu.
We should cut ourselves off from the rest of the world, as thoroughly and completely as possible. Raise the drawbridge, and keep it raised.
2. About five minutes of freedom
3. Disease rips through all the AZ recipients, tsunami of sickness, hospitals stuffed with gasping bodies, NHS overwhelmed panic, lockdown until Spring 2022
Bloody great.
https://twitter.com/chrisdeerin/status/1358157189710565386?s=20