honestly united

I got 250/1 on Georgia at the start of the week, i think its a cracking song

I think the best explanation for this one (and as there appears to be no records of it happening) is that as the airport had only been operational as an International airport for less than 2 years, if this person was indeed from Andorra, there is a fair chance that the Japanese custom officials would have had no idea where Andorra was or if it was a real country (whole language barrier etc countries called different things by different people) until the man pointed to it on a map, and in a Chinese whispers as these things happen, over the years the whole thing gets exaggerated to a man with passport from country that doesn't exist becomes the story.

Cyprus, France and Georgia my 3 favourites at the moment. I had hoped I was going to have a saturday of Glasgow in the Pro12 Semi, Ayr in the Championship play off final and then Eurovision but Ayr game (as long as we dont hibs it against Peterhead) is on the Sunday now

Was going to say that, haven't seen this weeks yet as still catching up on Payback, but the last few weeks with Shane have been pretty decent

As far as I am aware there is no need to play in any of the qualifiers to be selected for the Olympics, this was only a rule if you wanted to change country to play at the Olympics ie all the New Zealanders who no longer play for the all blacks could have switched country to play 7's at the Olympics and they would then have qualified for that country at 15's - France were murmerming about getting Armitage qualified as French, although he has already played for England, he is eligible for France at the Olympics but would needed to have played a % of World Series events first and there would be no guarantee of France qualifying anyway. For Nakarawa it would more likely be the coach asking him if he wants to play at the Olympics you need to be in the squad now and play a few tournaments prior to it starting

Had totally forgotten about Cuisiter post the world cup squad so surprised he has played that much for Sale but still not great being second choice behind Stringer who is nearly 40 now and I thought would have retired after leaving Bath. Jackson has been a regular in the Wasps squads this season, Gopperth is definitely first choice though, but has had a fair amount of game time. However will be interesting what happens next year with Cipriani joining, as one will likely go, and depends whether Gopperth will want to be second choice or not.

Dont think he has played much at all, I watched one of the saracens games during hte 6 nations and dont remember him playing then

They need to start spreading the fan base out if they want to get any bigger. I think the tours have been a good start, but that needs to be built on to make ICW a UK wide organisation rather than just a Glasgow based organisation. Obviously they need to have FNFC to give them on demand footage - its the fine line between ICW telling people its a TV taping and tempering their expectations, and the fans wanting to turn up to watch a live ICW show.

BT Cup finals day today at Murrayfield, good luck to Carrick boys in their big day out

Finished watching takeover this morning and was a fantastic PPV - without seeing any of the build up all the matches were fantastic I thought. Tag match had a late 80's early 90's feel to it - high energy faces vs the methodical heels (reminded me of the midnight express vs Anderson & Zybzko) I enjoyed Ares vs Corbin, I quite like Ares (not a huge fan though) and this was a good match - would have preferred to see Corbin destroying Ares after the pin, to make it look like Ares skill had got the pin against the much bigger and stronger Corbin but keeping Corbin strong as well. Zayn vs Nakamura - phenomenal stuff from the 2 of them - always helps when the crowd are really in to it but this was in MOTY contendership Womens match was solid, better than most of the stuff the main roster has had. Was really looking forward to Balor v Joe - the cut to Joe's eye really stopped them getting any flow going, still a good match but was ruined by the continual breaks to clean up the blood.

Looks as if that is the strongest starting 15 Glasgow could put out (you could make a case for one or two others being included but not far off) but am assuming that a few will get rested for the Italian games.

Dont know if anyone else has experienced the same, Kodi was having a few glitches so I removed and re-installed. However I had 15.2 and the version on Google play is the new 16. I went with it, but have noticed that non of the mucky duck builds work anymore (I have run the installers but non of the menu's change although you get the add ons installed) and also when I try and watch things from a USB memory stick the dont play in Kodi. Anyone else had this problem. Although have to say the new media player for Kodi is a big improvement on the last one.

The thing is most of the add on's are using the same streams be it for movies or sports, its just a matter of which sites update the links regularly. You need to have a few go to's for when one isn't working you have a backup. I had been using NJM for a week, but it stopped working over the weekend and I was back to UK Turks

Overall so far as much as it pains me to say it England have been the best team, not quite as one dimensional as they have been, but still unspectacular. They are good, but dont have the backs to be a great team yet The Welsh playing Warrenball got slaughtered, it wasn't until the last 10 minutes that they started to play, and that is the best 10 minutes of rugby from any team in the 6 nations so far, just ahead of the 10 minutes Scotland put in against Wales after losing the first try. The welsh really need to vary their tactics as at the moment they are very predictable, they have great backs (apart from Cuthbert who had a shocker) and really should use them more. England on the other hand have backs who are very average but caused Wales problems as they were getting quick ball out to them. Think all the confidence has gone from the Italian side and fear for them next week. They have played some good rugby in patches, but defensively they look poor. I had said to a mate during the game against us last time out, that they look like a Scotland team from a few seasons ago, can have loads of possession and territory, batter away at the line for 10 - 15 minutes, but never look like scoring, then will lose tries from nothing. However yesterday's 2 games were a vast improvemenet on some of the games so far, the last round, apart from Scotland v Italy the other 2 games were some of most boring games I have ever watched!

I would have said when fully fit Dunabr and Bennett are the best pairing at centre but have been impressed with Taylor this season though

Huge difference to the team having Pyrgos back, although disappointed letting them back into the gale, when they should have been trying to kill them off and get the bonus point

Was wondering how we could lose from 14 up when Italy scored still think we can do this if we keep our head's

Cant believe Gilchrist is injured again, on his first game back. The boy is made of chocolate.

The utter panic when I read the updated squad thinking Hart was the 2nd choice behind Laidlaw. The relief when I saw SHC was immense!! Price is a much better scrum half, and I am assuming Townsend was asked who did he want to play on Thursday and the other was called up as cover only. With Blair Cowan out with concussion I wonder if Straus or Harley will start on the bench?

The reason they aren't being dropped is that Glasgow, if they win their 2 games in hand can go above Edinburgh in the league. They will be wanting to be in the European Cup and not the Challenge Cup next season and the only way to do that is finishing in the top 5 or above Edinburgh, so they need the best players on the park given that at the moment the majority of their first choice players will be with in the Scotland squad

nakarawa is off to Racing most probably

Seemingly Naiyaravoro is off back to Australia at the end of the season, disappointing but always thought it would happen. With him and a few others going (Weir & Nakarawa as a start) hopefully there is money to bring in a few replacements oh a decent standard. Also does anyone know what is happening with Blair, he was ruled out with concussion after the 2nd Scarlets games in Europe before Christmas, and is still listed as out with concussion 2 months later?

I would get rid of Laidlaw as well, only problem is Hidalgo-Clyne didn't do himself any favours on Saturday with his performance when he came on and Pyrgos is injured. Also got to agree that Denton brings nothing to the team. Every other country has a big ball carrying number 8 that is always involved and makes yards, yet Denton is anonymous most games, yet seems to get bigged up by the commentators on the odd occasion he gets the ball. Dont think we really have any options at 8, Strauss is a bit to small for 8 at International level (good blind side option though)and I dont rate Taylor, and Beattie isn't the sort of player we need. Dont know if moving Johnny Gray back to 8 would be option, although he might be a bit to slow. I would also like to see Harley back in the squad, as he would add a bit more physicallity to the back row but again he has been out injured for a while.

Scotland have got decent backs that are more than a match for any of the 6 Nations teams, I remember Russell, Dunbar and Bennett playing for Glasgow last season ripping apart the Bath backs of Ford, Eastwood and Joseph who were all in the England Squad at the time. Bennett was on the shortlist for World break through player of the year last year. The problem they have is that the backs dont get quick enough ball to work with

To be fair it looks like Chelsea know he is not going to make the grade and are punting him out on loan anywhere that will take him in the hope of getting some money back for him