6 Nations Rugby - Week 1 - Day 1

Well the 6 nations rugby has officially started today with England hosting Italy in the first of todays games at 3 this afternoon. England won their opening encounter of the championship however their performance was quite poor. Errors in selection left the Italians in trouble as their scrum-half for the day had his hand in gifting the English with their first 3 tries in the first half of the game. The Italians eventually lost the game by 36-11 however they had the higher percentage of both possetion and territory in the game however lost the game due to their first half errors with England running in 2 further tries in the second half to seal a fortunate win for the English.

This evening the French have travelled to Dublin with the game fairly close. The French scored the first try of the match and both teams playing reasonably well to entertain the Croke Park crowd. Ireland took a 3 point lead into the interval at half time. During a closely fought second half they extended their lead to come out on top with a 30-21 victory over the French

Tomorrow sees the Scots host the Welsh in the Sunday afternoon game.

The snow continues

Its now Friday, went back to work on Wednesday although due to the car being stuck still I managed to grab a lift off my friend. Thursday I managed to get the car out and they finally salted the estate so driving away from home is a bit easier.

It snowed again today not so much as there had been but still a little to turn the roads white for a bit atleast. Not sure what it will do this weekend snow wise maybe a bit more we will see.

On a sporting note the 6 nations championship starts this weekend with Scotland facing Wales on Sunday at Murrayfield. Hopefully we can score a few tries as the main kicker is not believed to be starting not sure why he isnt starting as I dont think there is a better kicker in world rugby at the moment let alone in Scotland. Maybe I will be proved wrong but here hopes that they win anyways.

6 Nations 08 Wk 3

Well week 3 of the six nations is nearly upon us and after a week off I hope that the Scots can put some points on the board this weekend to lift themselves up the table a bit.

This weekend is going to be fairly quiet, Im at home and have very littele planned except a little shopping to get soe things for my trip to Tunisia and watching the rugby over a couple of beers. Its half term, so I dont have any Scouts so tonights plan is to watch teh Wild game that I recorded from Wednesday when they played the Blackhawks (I watched the first period last night and left the Wild trailing 0-1), its been so long since I watched the wild in action properly although I have watched the highlights on the computer off their website.

So all I have to say is Come on Scotland and Lets Go Wild.