Homer pushes it wide!! Embra still ahead!

I'm on the edge of my chaise-long... I wish I had a can of irn bru to hand.

EDIT: Chaise-longue; we don't want the English Police round here; not after my remarkes about Wade Dooley on another thread...

Free kick to embra....and now the scots are taking their time....leonard's kick charged down but they keep possession...

High kick up to homer...but now hodgson has the ball...at the 10m mark...

embra holding firm.....at the 10m line

loose ball by hodgson...and embra keep it tight...but lose out to hodgson again....rock solid defence though..

bowden left to heath...but the scots keep their discipline....homer hangs on to the ball 90 secs left...irish trying to push forward....

dropped by sinclair...ohhh and thats in the last minute...is it all over?

Irish failed to move it wide...could that have cost them...scrum embra

McInally drives on....into the irish half....into extra time and the chip comes in and Edinburgh win!!

Apologies to the fans of the other code.

Hang on that's us SC!!

McInally drives on....into the irish half....into extra time and the chip comes in and Edinburgh win!!

Yebyootieyebythewayboys!

I can go to my bed now...

SC

McInally drives on....into the irish half....into extra time and the chip comes in and Edinburgh win!!

Yebyootieyebythewayboys!

I can go to my bed now...

SC

Sleep well mate.....!

I think you'l get more entertainment here than any union game.

And what a great game it was - I watched on the Astro delayed telecast, as I find the internet video freezes every ten seconds. Bloody rugby league, eh? In a slight digression, looking forward to Glasgow - Bath in the other code on Astro tonight...

England fully deserved their 22-6 margin, though I have to say that they didn't really tear the Kiwis apart, and it looked as if they didn't have to defend against any really cutting attack; though maybe the mark of a good defence is that it makes any attack look blunt. England played well, but they'll need to play excellently to beat Australia at Elland Road next weekend...

SC

Benji Marshall is a fraction of the player for NZ that he is for the Tigers, where he plays for Australia coach Tim Sheens.

I think England have an excellent chance next week. I don't think Australia are underdogs, but the closest to it for a long time.

I think you'l get more entertainment here than any union game.

After watching Glasgow snatch a win against Bath at Firhill, with a missed drop goal that was caught and converted into a try, I have to disagree. League does not have the dynamic range that union has; the change in pace from the glacial grind of the scrum to fast and furious running. In both codes, there's a lot of slowing down the recycling in the ruck, but I really enjoy watching frantic goal-line defence in both codes. I think League is far and away the better game to watch at the ground, and on the radio, because of its relative openness and simplicity, but I'm told Union is more fun to play, and I think it comes across well on TV. And for all that we whinge and criticise it, for international competition we're more or less stuck with Union and Sevens...

By the way, I've just come away from the Cobra 10s in Petaling Jaya; an entertaining afternoon out, Penguins from the UK held on to the Cup, beating Cobras in the final on a heavily waterlogged pitch

SC

I think you'l get more entertainment here than any union game.

After watching Glasgow snatch a win against Bath at Firhill, with a missed drop goal that was caught and converted into a try, I have to disagree. League does not have the dynamic range that union has; the change in pace from the glacial grind of the scrum to fast and furious running. In both codes, there's a lot of slowing down the recycling in the ruck, but I really enjoy watching frantic goal-line defence in both codes. I think League is far and away the better game to watch at the ground, and on the radio, because of its relative openness and simplicity, but I'm told Union is more fun to play, and I think it comes across well on TV. And for all that we whinge and criticise it, for international competition we're more or less stuck with Union and Sevens...

By the way, I've just come away from the Cobra 10s in Petaling Jaya; an entertaining afternoon out, Penguins from the UK held on to the Cup, beating Cobras in the final on a heavily waterlogged pitch

SC

I lived in Twickenham while at secondary school after arriving from Australia as a kid, so played union for my school (2nd row as I was tall and fat) and went to a few internationals before it became super popular post 2003. It has never sat right with me having begun my rugby education in Sydney in the 70s watching league. Now, having spent years watching the NRL, union hurts my eyes and I won't have it on. I also hate the culture of snobbery that goes with it. Not to mention the century of persecution.

My late Dad loved it. He played as a forward in England in the 40s/50s before emigrating to Australia where he was put on the wing as he was considered small.. But for me, once the prematch singing stops, it's time to turn over.

Benji Marshall is a fraction of the player for NZ that he is for the Tigers, where he plays for Australia coach Tim Sheens.

I think England have an excellent chance next week. I don't think Australia are underdogs, but the closest to it for a long time.

Are you going up the road for tomorrow's game?

I doubt I'll stay up to watch it, since its a 2 am kick-off, I think, and its repeated at 11.30 the next morning.

Glasgow Warriors are on Astro again on Sunday, I think, away to Leinster (sorry for the OT digression)

To pull it back a little (I mean back on topic!) Glasgow are moving from Firhill to Scotstoun Stadium, which is where the rugby league internationals are held now, and not too far from where my dear old mother-in-law lives.

SC

Benji Marshall is a fraction of the player for NZ that he is for the Tigers, where he plays for Australia coach Tim Sheens.

I think England have an excellent chance next week. I don't think Australia are underdogs, but the closest to it for a long time.

Are you going up the road for tomorrow's game?

I doubt I'll stay up to watch it, since its a 2 am kick-off, I think, and its repeated at 11.30 the next morning.

Glasgow Warriors are on Astro again on Sunday, I think, away to Leinster (sorry for the OT digression)

To pull it back a little (I mean back on topic!) Glasgow are moving from Firhill to Scotstoun Stadium, which is where the rugby league internationals are held now, and not too far from where my dear old mother-in-law lives.

SC

No, I'll either find a stream or a pub with it on. The trip home will be hard enough without being depressed about the result.

Benji Marshall is a fraction of the player for NZ that he is for the Tigers, where he plays for Australia coach Tim Sheens.

I think England have an excellent chance next week. I don't think Australia are underdogs, but the closest to it for a long time.

Are you going up the road for tomorrow's game?

I doubt I'll stay up to watch it, since its a 2 am kick-off, I think, and its repeated at 11.30 the next morning.

Glasgow Warriors are on Astro again on Sunday, I think, away to Leinster (sorry for the OT digression)

To pull it back a little (I mean back on topic!) Glasgow are moving from Firhill to Scotstoun Stadium, which is where the rugby league internationals are held now, and not too far from where my dear old mother-in-law lives.

SC

No, I'll either find a stream or a pub with it on. The trip home will be hard enough without being depressed about the result.

What about this for a great game of rugby, then?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/15762165.stm

Heineken Cup Pool Two: Edinburgh 48-47 Racing Metro 92

Let's hope this evening's Four Nations final is as entertaining.

SC

Well that all ended up something of an anti-climax; I nodded off just as Australia started to run away with it, and ended up watching the motor racing from Macau this afternoon.

Oh well - the Challenge Cup starts in January...

SC

Well that all ended up something of an anti-climax; I nodded off just as Australia started to run away with it, and ended up watching the motor racing from Macau this afternoon.

Oh well - the Challenge Cup starts in January...

SC

Sounds like you missed the funny bit at the end..

Well that all ended up something of an anti-climax; I nodded off just as Australia started to run away with it, and ended up watching the motor racing from Macau this afternoon.

Oh well - the Challenge Cup starts in January...

SC

Sounds like you missed the funny bit at the end..

Here's the highlights.

And here is some highlights of Lockyers Origin career.. So much for league being stop-start..

I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did.

And I hope my son enjoys it too

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/castleford-tigers/video_super_league_highlights_captured_in_lego_1_4006196

SC

Well, the suspense is killing me... Astro are showing a game of rugby at 9.30 (Thai) tonight, and they won't say what it is. Unfortunately it won't be Edinburgh or Glasgow in the robocop XII, but I'm hoping it will be the Sam Tomkins show against Australia with the Barbarians...

SC

Well, the suspense is killing me... Astro are showing a game of rugby at 9.30 (Thai) tonight, and they won't say what it is. Unfortunately it won't be Edinburgh or Glasgow in the robocop XII, but I'm hoping it will be the Sam Tomkins show against Australia with the Barbarians...

SC

And sure enough - its the Sam Tomkins show. Adam Ashley Cooper sin-binned after 14 minutes for knocking down a pass that would have seen Sam Tomkins in under the posts. 3-3, Australia w 14 men for the next ten minutes

SC

And Brian Habana goes on a slicing run through the Australian defence, and finds Sam Tomkins on the outside and ... Oh Referee! That was Never Forward! Maybe the replay was, but the original was fine...

60 - 6 to Australia, just over three minutes left, and it looks like it might be a long 3 minutes... penalty off the kick off

But the Barbarians are back attacking - it was nearly there for Richard Karhooie...

Barbarians on 8 metres... Bergamasco drives on and Tomkins in at the corner!

at last - he gets a pass that wasn't forward!

Final score 60-11 and probably the worst conversion I have ever seen, scuffed across the park

So he didn't set the game alight, but he did score the Ba-bas only try; I'm off to the pub for a mild celebration (if only I could find some! maybe a stout celebration, or bitter...)

SC

Just in case anyone is passing that way...

Pakistan will take on a British Amateur Rugby League select team (BARLA) in Dubai at the World Famous Sport City stadium on the 29^thNovember, 4.30pm Kick Off.

http://www.rlef.eu.com/news/article/360/pakistan-rugby-league-supports-royal

You'd better get your skate on, mind, even with the time difference

SC

RIP Arthur Beetson

One of the greatest Australian players.

RIP Arthur Beetson

One of the greatest Australian players.

Thanks for that.

Following up on my earlier post

http://www.rleague.com/content/article.php?id=41825

500 is not a bad crowd for a friendly match played at a neutral venue... I assume the numbers were buoyed by a lot of TVers who managed to get along.

SC

I'm listening to Ayr v Bristol from Alloway, and I was quite right; Union doesn't really come across well on the wireless, though the Somerset commentator is no Ray French... "some of the spectators have made up their mind that its Bristol who were at fault, and are offering advice to the referee to that effect... it is frustrating... Tom Slater prepares to put the ball in - how many times have we said that this afternoon". Resetting the scrum really doesn't come across well on the wireless.

SC