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From BRFC website:


Our Emirates FA Cup replay at Bromley will take place on Tuesday, 19th November (KO - 7:45PM) and will be shown live on BT Sport 1.

The fixture between two sides at the Mem ended 1-1 - with the replay at Bromley's Hayes Lane ground now confirmed for November 19th.

The FA live broadcast fee is £33,750 per Club.

Perhaps not!!
So much rain down here last night put the mockers on that.
UTG!

No you didn't.  And I didn't mean to imply that you did, but it probably came out that way so apologies.   Re the handbags - that I think is the key difference.  Rugby supporters seem to accept defeat quite philosophically.   My brother's a big rugby fan and for him it's about whether it's a good game or not, rather than the result.   I find that strange. 

Made a mistake! Have you seen it? She didn't know the numbers. She wanted to be Home Secretary at the time. Why are you defending her?

Sorry, whether she attended Newnham college or not, she's an idiot.

I probably am as well, but I don't think that I'm fit to be in a position of authority and to make decisions relating to running the country.

As you seem to think she's so super, can you explain what the good was that Mao did that offset the tens of millions that died both on his orders and as a direct result of his policies? 

Are you serious ? She is vilified on every single thing she is involved in. She is an highly educated person but just is not good in front of cameras. I’m not a fan of hers btw but just stating a fact. The papers have a field day as does antisocial media, at her expense. 

It is. Football is inherently tribal.

Get this: I know a few rugger fans who DO like football and they all watch champions league and kind of sneer at lower leagues. “Oh, you don’t watch THAT do you?! I watch quality football”

I think a lot of this is kind of class based. Rugby in England is very much middle class and it’s a middle class attitude to value achievement and excellence and outshining others. Working class values are more about loyalty and backing up the group. Having worked on sites, and currently in a white collar career, it’s undoubtedly more ruthless in white collar work. Not in the same way, but WC folks have more of a sense of fair play and not selling out your colleagues. The opposite is true in white collar - it’s seen as “getting on” and “of course, you want the best for you and yours” type thing.

I think this plays out between the sports. Football is about loyalty and pride and the group. Rugby is more about a day out for the family, a chat about your holidays and double garage being built and above all, not losing face by showing ones disappointment. This is reflected in the generally snobbish attitude towards football.

Probably over analysing. I know tons of great rugby fans but none who have a passion for a local team. It’s more about the event than the deep seated fanatical pride in ones team.

In fact, it’s so true the “game played by hooligans watched by gentleman”. Such is life. The wealthy organising the hooligans into a pitcher battle for the pride of the better-offs. Much like much of history. And this is coming from a true blue tory 😆

I also think rugby is very much an outlet for better heeled folks who couldn’t express their base instincts as children and adults and have a strong social veneer to uphold. It’s natural to want to watch a more violent sport.

For men from fairly violent places, entertainment is about watching refinement.

In a physical job, I wanted to get home and watch tv and read.

Now in a white collar job, i want to exercise and go to the gym for relaxation.

It’s a funny old world

You are thinking a bit too hard about this.

Shame we didn't have Gretta back then, she would have explained the environmental implications of the industry, everybody would have listened to her well reasoned arguments and agreed to shut the mines and go straight back to a zero emissions, pre-industrial revolution way of life. Problem solved. As long as we can have the telly on at 5-30 on a Saturday for Bullseye.