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Iain Hay

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Rugby writer and one of the Scottish Rugby Podcast team. Studied film in Newport (the one they used for "Sex Education") and tend to listen to music others call "loud". Not Ryan Gosling

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I once watched a documentary about zoophiles with my mum.

The term "Just right height, no bucket required" will stay with me forever

26.08.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Funnily enough, I was at the AEW event at the Hydro last week.
My pal managed to get floor tickets through an NHS workers' website for Β£3.

26.08.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was Amiga Power and Mean Machines what done it.
Amiga Power's review glossary would then further confuse things by utilising a star system, within which some games would get 5 stars but they scored 1% less than a 4-star game

26.08.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My compromise over the half-points, at least for the Lions tour, was that I'd only give Huw Jones the extra bump solely for being Huw Jones

25.08.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so glad that Eve has utilised the half-point, and forced Dave into it too. (Some 6 and 7s are borderline either way. I once threatened to use percentages.)

25.08.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Disappointments, surprises, and a whole lotta bruises.

02.08.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I forgot to choose POTM in my ratings but Conan and Curry were up there with 8s.

I liked Conan's durability/hard as utter-fuckness.

26.07.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Winning at Thomond Park and being a bigger, shit-housing bastard - and I mean that as a compliment - than Peter O'Mahony turned Matt Fagerson into The Joker

25.07.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I got offered a new job today, which is very nice, but I'm possibly more excited to see if Joe Root can score the 22 more runs needed and move up to 2nd in the all-time Test run-scorers list.

England & Wales - nae Ashes without Simon & Geraint Jones- were rotten when I started watching cricket

25.07.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was complimentary about him and gave him the same as the players who did a lot of the creative and points-scoring - what more do you want? (2 pens against, I believe?)

Huw Jones getting the .5 is... well it's complicated.

19.07.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm only harsh on the ones needing harshed on.

I don't do participation medals

19.07.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I have been beating this drum for a while, and now we're at Neil Peart/Mario Duplantier levels:

Huw Jones is sensational. The lost-Rennie years are a damn shame, but he showed Andy Murray-style balls to come back up here and show what he can do

19.07.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, look at you throwing the insults in early doors to try and get a reaction.

I'll get back to you on your nonsense.

"Four or five people who booed...". That's very funny

06.07.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Keep politics out of metal!" screams person about event organised by Tom Morello.

David Draiman has gleefully, and unrepentantly, signed weapons which do not discriminate when they go boom.

Fuck him sky-high, and good on the people who booed his murder-approving ass.

06.07.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Māori All Blacks v Scotland: Scotland player ratings Iain Hay says Ollie Smith, Arron Reed, Adam Hastings, George Horne and Andy Onyeama-Christie were Scotland star performers versus Māori All Blacks

www.theoffsideline.com/maori-all-bl...

05.07.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I have besmirched someone's favourite by awarding them half a point less than they deserve, therefore I must suffer the consequences

05.07.2025 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

UTA dropped Bob Vylan but represents Chris Brown just so you know where the line of acceptability is

05.07.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2215    πŸ” 710    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Newspaper headline reading "Urgent warning ahead of Chris Brown's Glasgow gig tonight"

Newspaper headline reading "Urgent warning ahead of Chris Brown's Glasgow gig tonight"

The urgent warning isn't that we have a women-beating, notoriously thuggish, tuneless arsehole playing in our national football stadium, but that traffic might be bad.

I live here, traffic's always bad

01.07.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wimbledon ain't Wimbledon until some unheard of journeyman, who's usually very tall and has a scud of a serve, beats one of the favourites.

Mon the Rinderknech!

01.07.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally caught yon "Ted Lasso", I think it should form part of the national curriculum. Loved it.

It could teach, young lads especially, lessons about personal growth and tackled - pun intended - issues with a delicate, humorous touch.

But, if any of you pricks say I look like Roy fucking Kent...

26.06.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jack Conan looks like a 1920's-inspired pugilist character from a mid-90s beat em up.
He's usually easy to beat unless you get caught by a big wind-up punch. When he defeats you, he says "Bully!"

14.06.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pure flaky.

Like a magnificent croissant

14.06.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Got absolutely creamed in the first half, picked himself up, got tore back in, and - I hope I don't jinx him here - comes up with the match-defining moment:

That's Finn Russell

14.06.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Call it pride if you will, but if someone accused me of being part of a paedophile sex-trafficking ring, I would not be accepting any apologies and lawyering up to sue the richest man on the planet.

Unless...

11.06.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They've had a good run, maybe it's the time the USA took some time apart and did some solo stuff/side-projects, then maybe do a reunion tour and consider working again together

09.06.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought that was one on Bradbury's best games in a while, bar at least one knock-on in a decent position.

I've never been his biggest cheerleader but he carried well

31.05.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And they're gone.

The pull of the Cocker is strong

27.05.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone want to go see Pulp 7th June?

Have to sell tickets, Rona gone done ruptured her Achilles. I kept telling her dancing is the devil's work and we should move to Footloose town, but no.

Selling under face value TM have added a wad of charges

secure.ticketmaster.co.uk/rs/3600624BC...

27.05.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Five holidays?!

Get back to work, hippies!

25.05.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Scott McTominay's going to have the worst/best hangover tomorrow morning. The whole city's probably going to be waiting for him to go to bed then shut down until he wakes up. The king must rest.

Delighted for him and Billy Gilmour.

23.05.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0