Hugo Gordon
@hugogordon.bsky.social
Dubliner in London. Sports nerd (and general nerd). Views described as "top bilge" by award-winning journalists
Josh is apparently carrying a niggle but hopefully will be back, I'm assuming Doris and Conan will definitely be involved
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Josh is apparently carrying a niggle but hopefully will be back, I'm assuming Doris and Conan will definitely be involved
Can see it being Deegan but he certainly would deserve a shot
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Can see it being Deegan but he certainly would deserve a shot
If you didn’t see the game, watch the genuinely insane leaps of common sense, physics and duty of care that all four officials are fully in agreement in making to class a dynamic, avoidable shoulder direct to the head as a rugby incident.
Angus O’Brien is all of us here. It’s genuinely shameful.
Angus O’Brien is all of us here. It’s genuinely shameful.
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In fairness Edinburgh will have the same problem and look as unserious as we do atm
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
In fairness Edinburgh will have the same problem and look as unserious as we do atm
Yeah I'm pretty glad they're up next, particularly since our internationals at least are starting to look a bit more locked in.
November 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Yeah I'm pretty glad they're up next, particularly since our internationals at least are starting to look a bit more locked in.
Pretty much, a bit sweeter than that. Basically a heavy dessert wine.
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Pretty much, a bit sweeter than that. Basically a heavy dessert wine.
Was in Porto a couple weeks ago and drank more of the stuff than was healthy. But it's lovely stuff (and, for a drink that's seen as a bit posh, really fairly cheap)
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Was in Porto a couple weeks ago and drank more of the stuff than was healthy. But it's lovely stuff (and, for a drink that's seen as a bit posh, really fairly cheap)
I think the Lions element was significant for the Munster game - burned out players playing their first rugby of the season, key players injured - but I agree our problems go deeper than that. It's a young wider squad this year but even some of the more experienced players look unsure of themselves.
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I think the Lions element was significant for the Munster game - burned out players playing their first rugby of the season, key players injured - but I agree our problems go deeper than that. It's a young wider squad this year but even some of the more experienced players look unsure of themselves.
I think the lawfare question is valid but equally if the alternative is allowing egregious brutal crimes to go unpunished that leads down an arguably worse road. A line has to be drawn.
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I think the lawfare question is valid but equally if the alternative is allowing egregious brutal crimes to go unpunished that leads down an arguably worse road. A line has to be drawn.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not holding my breath. But I think if the people responsible for all of this get away with it (as the people responsible for Bush's torture and extraordinary rendition programmes got away with it) then what happens next will be worse, as it was with Bush's ghouls.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not holding my breath. But I think if the people responsible for all of this get away with it (as the people responsible for Bush's torture and extraordinary rendition programmes got away with it) then what happens next will be worse, as it was with Bush's ghouls.
But much of the British media doesn't want to tell that story, because they mostly agree with his transphobic views (albeit maybe they'd like him to tone it down a little). So they instead try and depict a fictional version of the man, rather than the twisted, hateful, extremely ill man he's become
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
But much of the British media doesn't want to tell that story, because they mostly agree with his transphobic views (albeit maybe they'd like him to tone it down a little). So they instead try and depict a fictional version of the man, rather than the twisted, hateful, extremely ill man he's become
Linehan is a textbook case of online radicalisation: of a deeply unwell man falling down a social media rabbit hole to the point where it radically alters his views, destroys his relationship with his loved ones, and ultimately leaves him miserable and enraged.
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Linehan is a textbook case of online radicalisation: of a deeply unwell man falling down a social media rabbit hole to the point where it radically alters his views, destroys his relationship with his loved ones, and ultimately leaves him miserable and enraged.
Was about to say, Sheehan has 8 in 11 so it must not be looking at the Lions
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Was about to say, Sheehan has 8 in 11 so it must not be looking at the Lions