We’ve been pondering the useful feedback we received over Christmas, and are trying to address some of the key points.
One comment that particularly resonated was that we are slightly lacking feature articles, the posts designed to start a discussion about the key talking points of the Rugby world.
The excellent Henry Ker has started a new weekly column with this in mind, with Angus Williams taking over the Lions Stock Check, and as I was pondering how we can fit more into the schedules, it dawned on me that we might be able to get you to do some of the work!
I’ve always been wary of starting a forum, which can descend into the dark alley of the internet where you wouldn’t want to venture unaccompanied, but this blog has always been largely good-natured and friendly, with the comments and discussion as important as the articles themselves, and we can potentially extend that slightly.
I’ve seen one or two football sites successfully using moderated ‘user-generated content’ and thought it was worth trialling. If nobody submits anything, we’ll give it up and carry on as we are! If it works well, we might be able to introduce prizes or put you at the top of the list for any freebies we are sometimes offered.
The Rugby Blog has become something of a platform for young writers to practise their craft and gain experience writing for a very knowledgeable audience, and this could open that up to more people. Nick Heath, Ben Coles, Charlie Morgan and Jamie Hosie to name a few – all were regular writers, and now employed in some sort of rugby journalism role.
But this idea is mainly there for those that just want to write a few lines to start a discussion – if there’s something to discuss that isn’t covered by one of our articles, you can start your own topic, share your own thoughts and submit it to get the thoughts of others.
Anything submitted will be sent to me to review, to add an image, edit if necessary and publish, and we’ll see how things go in terms of turnaround times.
There’s a new page here, and the submission form is also copied below if you’re champing at the bit to get started!
Humourless English prawn sandwich eating gits! PEW PEW! DDD
Trying to give some positive criticism here!
I lost interset in The Rugby Blog when it became full of humourless English prawn sandwich eaters who jumped into the TRB club during the world cup.
Too many articles descended into English team lists – no matter what subject was being discussed.
I notice Brighty has left the building too – would be curious as to why. Maybe its because Wales are shite, Pew Pew!
Glad to see Leon is still hammering away at the keyboard – good insights and a sense of humour.
Noticed too that Don Pedantic is still turning up a week late to every party and talking shite.
As with the rule that when someone (on a forum) says “this is how Nazi Germany came about” a forum MUST be terminated when someone posts a team sheet with Owen Farrell’s name on it.
Likewise any mention of the Floating Turd WG.
So how to make TRB more appealing to the potato – haggis – leek eating boggers is the problem for you.
Think an Aussie agitator with an opinion of their own could be interesting – but where would you find one of them!
Regards to all – hope most of you are well
Your friend
Ding Dong Denny
Goodbye!
haha DDD is back from sabbatical to upset the apple cart and tell it how it is
Anyway my England team for France is:
Marler/Mullan, Hartley, Cole, Launch, Lawes, Itoje, Wood, Hughes, Youngs, Ford, Nowell, Farrell, Joseph, Watson, Brown
THIS IS HOW NAZI gERMANY CAME ABOUT!
DDD
Who should we be concentrating on in your humble opinion instead of England?
If England is your bete noire who is your antithesis?
I wasn’t being philosophical so I suppose a Lesbian, single mother would be my antithesis.
As for your first question – They don’t call me Humble Ding Dong Denny for nothing – IRELAND and LEINSTER of course.
Your humble friend
DDD
Rather than the Georgian or Somalian team (joking with the latter obviously)
On a serious note Watson is crooked! May to replace him apparently!
Hurrah! DDD lives!
We only need to locate Brighty now and it’ll be like the good ol’days
Ps – Prawn is the king of sandwiches. Discuss
Yuck I hate prawns
Surely the humble cheese and pickle sandwich is king
Pffffttt…cheese and pickle is fine for the toiling plebian masses. Should you wish to rise above the humdrum herd, prawn and marie rose sauce is the only choice for the wise man
Pah… if you are trying to rise above the herd then surely your seafood of choice must be Lobster or crab
Nonsense. Lobster in a sandwich? Solely for the parvenu and the type of oligarch who owns half of Mayfair. You may as well put caviar in and coat it in gold leaf.
Crab is acceptable in pubs located no more than 100m from the sea.
You two are some prawns!
I can see you two are having difficulty with this – so look upon this as an intervention to set the record straight
A prawn may be in a sandwich if and ONLY IF (this is going to be the difficult bit for both of you) it is an OPEN sandwich on Irish soda bread – – WITH A PINT OF GUINNESS!
Lobster may be in a sandwich if it’s Maine lobster in a bloody great big loaf of bread and you are eating it in PJ Clarkes on 3rd Avenue NYC – WITH A PINT OF GUINNESS!
Glad to put that to rest
DDD
Lord save us! Open sandwiches are the work of the devil.
God did not invent the glory that is the sandwich only to have heretics remove the upper layer of bread
You can tell it was an Anglo Welsh Rugby weekend when the discussion turns to sandwiches. Thank goodness the Six Nations is nearly here…!
For the record, I’m a club sandwich man, packed with as much as possible.
Just be glad that the conversation didn’t turn to biscuit preferences. I’ve seen that turn nasty before
Jaffa Cake – Cake or Biscuit?
DDD