Turpin Crock

Ireland will definitely not make it out of the pool stages. England Wales and Scotland are all in at least some doubt. What are the chances that not one of the four "Triple Crown" teams will make it?

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I'll go way out on a limb here. The Southern Hemisphere would appear to be doing better than the Northern.

Now I know what they mean by "................round the horn before the mast"

On the other hand I read a great review in MOJO of their performance in San Francisco. As grinderman have only about 6 songs they finished the set and did two encores of Bad seed songs, And guess who made a guest appearance - Blixa They are essentially the same line up as tour with Nick when he is sans Bad Seeds. Which is Half of the Seeds. Don't want to hijack the thread but I'd say if The V11 Sport was a rock performar it would be Nick Cave!!!! Who would you nominate???

I like the Boks new kit

Told you Ireland looked bad

I am a big Nick Cave fan but I have to say that every now and again he drops a clanger. I think the thing with Kylie was one of those. Maybe it's me but I can't even think of one duet by anyone that I like. At the weekend as it happens myself and a few friends were listening to The Bad Seeds and Loverman from let love in came on. I hadn't heard it for a long time and it just blew me away. The big thing at this stage is just the sheer volume of great songs that Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have done. I am not that thrilled with Grinderman though.

The band Johnny Marr is with now are pretty good as well. Modest Mouse. Yeah Blixa is some character. Everytime I ever saw him he would have his cloths and hair as out of step with current trends as could possibly be imagined. The band is not as good without him. Like you say he brought anarchy but always at exactly the right time and in the right amount. Dare I say it controlled anarchy!!!

Pity Contepomi missed that last Penalty. Typical Leinster Player.

We just did a pool at work and i got Namabia. Luckily there is a prize for worst team.

It was 20 years ago today (more or less) when The Smiths broke up. Anyone here like Nick Cave and the bad Seeds??

I have to agree but you take any one of the following out of the Irish team and we slip from a debatable third to 6th at least Hays, Stringer, O Gara, Leamy, O Driscoll.

I wish I could say Ireland will win it but on recent form we will be lucky to get out of the group of death (France and Argentina). My money is on New Zeland even though France are looking great and at home (worth 7 points a game) NZ are awesome. Our only hope is that they all get seduced by some local girls and decide to go surfing to Biarritz for the month. By the way if anyone has a spare ticket or two for either Ireland Vs France or Ireland Vs Argentina I will gladly find a good home for them!

I just came back on too late to say I know what MJ means. I was buying the battery and saw the metal jacket version with Motorworks UK. The metal jacket adds 3.5mm all round, Does it offer much benefit?

I think it's excellent that the three dimensions of an irregular cube can generate such an amount of dialog. When i posted this first I was afraid it wouldn't get a response. How wrong I was! Thank you all. Well I ended up checking out the battery holder this weekend. The length and width are a squeeze but will work. These were the most critical as the frame and a resevoir, ( lack of time has stopped me from identifying but I'm sure one of you will put that right) define that space. The resevoir would have to be moved in my bike to get anything much bigger in. The added height would not seem to be an issue either. I put a 12mm (as it was all I could find) flat bar on top of the battery and the seat fitted back on without difficulty. I am going ahead and will order the pc545. What does the MJ some of you mentioned earlier signify ????

How important is the size? I was ordering the odessey PC545 and decided to check the stock battery which is in the boot of my car (i'm at work). The stock is 175x80x130 The PC545 is 177.8x85.6x131.3 All round slightly larger. Unfortunately my bike is at a friends house 30 miles away and I won't be near it untill the weekend. I'd like to order this today. will I need to take the dremmel to the seat and if so is it worth it?

I need to replace the battery on my 02 V11. Has anyone a strong opinion on this fairly mundane issue??

If you draw a line between Ghandi and Freidman. I'm half way between them which is a little inside the right and a bit more towards libratrian. I knew I'd be in that quadrant I was suprised that I wasn't more so. All the good looking girls are going to be in the left/lib quadrant because they are young and haven't thought anything through yet. Even if you pretend to have the same opinions that still won't get you laid

Micheal Richards It's OK I googled it. He called a black man a nigger

Whadiddy Say, Whaddidy Say??? I missed it on the news, just heard his name mentioned on what was coming up after thte ad break but was gone out of the room when it came on. The link didn't work for me either. I'm itching with curiosity.

Here's another vote for Richard Thompson. I just saw him live a couple of months ago and he did a great version of it that night in a brilliant show. The Black Lightning in a recent "Classic Bike" didn't have a kick start never mind keys! I've always loved Vincents but I've learned to appreciate red haired women late in life. Is this like getting to like olives or Guiness ? Am I on my own on this?

This is not one of those genteel weeps. It would make a triumph primary case (never mind the rocker cover) look as tight as the door of the space shuttle (maybe thats not a good example ) I had a couple of Triumphs in my youth. As they said it was a good sign if they leaked oil because that meant there was oil in em.

Jrt, Thats a clever trick with the talc but would you need to use something to make the talc stay on the metal like a light film of clean oil or something?