Duke attempts the Impossible

[duke3016]

What a scrappy game, juvenile mistakes and lack of discipline. Step change in the second half required.

[duke3016]

Thank Feck for that -- Nearly had heart failure......

[SirPercival]

That was close.

[Mikeyboy9361]

Had to rely on the old guard to save you, too close for comfort.

[Des]

Could be a long campaign!  

[Chipaccrual]

So far it"s not been the sort of quality rugby you would want to see from the home nations, especially in a World Cup year.

[technolog]

I"m sure you"ll agree it"s fantastic for the game of rugby that Italy can compete with the big boys.

[duke3016]

I"m sure you"ll agree it"s fantastic for the game of rugby that Italy can compete with the big boys.

100% Jack, with Treviso in the Celtic league things can only get better for them with good young home grown players coming through and not relying on foreign imports.

[duke3016]

n.b.

We were shyte by the way  

[duke3016]

Being honest that was a dismal start to the campaign for a side I had hoped would be in the title shake up. Brian O"Driscoll scored a nice try buy his ball distribution was awful, two other tries went a begging with wayward passes. Italy are in our World Cup group (along with the Aussies, Russia and USA). Italy will only have been encouraged by today"s events.

I know we had a few missing (Heaslip/Bowe etc) but that side was still good enough on paper to win comfortably.

It took a drop goal to win this one when down to 14 men

Must do better in the rest of the matches or else it's not looking good.

[Des]

I think there was a greater issue with our approach to the game and am confident that there"s a lot more to come. We certainly won"t be assuming easy victories in any of the remaining games, as we almost certainly did here.

[Chipaccrual]

I think there was a greater issue with our approach to the game and am confident that there"s a lot more to come. We certainly won"t be assuming easy victories in any of the remaining games, as we almost certainly did here.

What"s all this "we" stuff ?

You"re Welsh aren"t you ?

[SirPercival]

Looking forward to Scotland v Ireland  

[Des]

I think there was a greater issue with our approach to the game and am confident that there"s a lot more to come. We certainly won"t be assuming easy victories in any of the remaining games, as we almost certainly did here.

What"s all this "we" stuff ?

You"re Welsh aren"t you ?

Wirish lol!

[duke3016]

Marie broke her wrist on Friday and has been in pain ever since. There is a temporary cast on it at the moment with a full cast going on Wednesday when the swelling goes down. The reason she is suffering is because she is allergic to all types of pain killers. Poor love that is a bad beat. If it gets really bad she takes the pain killer and an anti-histamine  tablet to lessen the reaction.

This evening she wanted to go round to a friend's house so she wanted a shower, a bin bag and some tape solved that one. She then comes down and we remove the bin bag, all good.

"Daddy will you put my hair in a ponytail" says she

Well how hard could that be, FML damn near impossible. Anyway that done, to a fashion, she goes upstairs to get dressed.  

Next I hear some swearing from upstairs and I get a text. It's from Marie asking whether I was any good at applying makeup. I nearly spilled my drink, nearly mind.

You couldn't script it FFS --  Priceless