The Loose Association of Wargamers

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:34 pm You are mistaking Bill for RMD, Bill got the AB's that were not hoovered up for wales.

I hoovered up most of the Bush Wars stuff I think...and for some reason a couple of packs of AB British Royal Naval landing party! I was thinking of getting some bicorned Frenchies for some Sharp Practice fun in 18mm.

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:34 pm You are mistaking Bill for RMD, Bill got the AB's that were not hoovered up for wales.

RMD wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:42 pm

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:34 pm You are mistaking Bill for RMD, Bill got the AB's that were not hoovered up for wales.

You've probably got quite a few international wargames caps by now I imagine

levied troop wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:07 am Some 100YW flags from Flags of War. Because they are pretty.

True that.

valleyboy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:23 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 5:42 pm

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 3:34 pm You are mistaking Bill for RMD, Bill got the AB's that were not hoovered up for wales.

You've probably got quite a few international wargames caps by now I imagine

I thought now they didn't have NZ coaches they had stopped poaching?

Unlike Ireland who for this weekends game are in danger of naming a couple of Irish born men in their team, and England nearly have some English born as well.

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:51 pm Unlike Ireland who for this weekends game are in danger of naming a couple of Irish born men in their team, and England nearly have some English born as well.

So your definition of "nearly" is a mere 22 of the 25-man squad being English-born - actually the most home-grown of all the current Six Nation squads? (The three "overseas" players, all of whose parents moved to the UK when the players themselves were children, are the Vunipola brothers, who both went to school in Wales, and Sam Underhill - from that bastion of rugby union, Dayton, Ohio - who went to school in Gloucester.)

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:17 pm ...... Sam Underhill - from that bastion of rugby union, Dayton, Ohio - who went to school in Gloucester.)

They've got a club, the Flying Pigs

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 10:17 pm

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:51 pm Unlike Ireland who for this weekends game are in danger of naming a couple of Irish born men in their team, and England nearly have some English born as well.

So your definition of "nearly" is a mere 22 of the 25-man squad being English-born - actually the most home-grown of all the current Six Nation squads? (The three "overseas" players, all of whose parents moved to the UK when the players themselves were children, are the Vunipola brothers, who both went to school in Wales, and Sam Underhill - from that bastion of rugby union, Dayton, Ohio - who went to school in Gloucester.)

Bit of a fraught issue: nationality & sport.

Related is the story of a rather prominent & elite private school (read "public" for you English types), that regularly cleans up the school boy Rugby comps here. The story goes they offer scholarships to all manner of huge islanders, ignoring their actual ages so they field teams of U17 players in their late 20s.

I'm fairly sure it's not true: which is probably the same of the various tales concerning foreign "ring ins" in international sport. There are rules & if you follow the rules, how can it be dodgy?

https://www.rugbyworld.com/news/rugbys- ... ules-90995

donald

A few of our best juniors have been able to get scholarships to various GPS schools in Queensland. IIRC a couple even made the Queensland Schools side, which is a nursery for the Wallabies. They definitely come back as better players.

Etranger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 8:07 am A few of our best juniors have been able to get scholarships to various GPS schools in Queensland. IIRC a couple even made the Queensland Schools side, which is a nursery for the Wallabies. They definitely come back as better players.

Yes but they weren't in their 20s, as the urban myths go.

And in full disclosure, I have no connection to the elite school I alluded to (though I do have a connection with one of the schools they usually flog) so I think that makes my judgement fairly unbiased.

The standard of Rugby here is pretty good. I often watch a few school boy matches each year (not this year!).

donald