Rugby Mad Blog

I have been a bit lax of late about posting more photos to my Flickr album. But since its the end of the season, I thought I would gather together the best of this year’s crop and post them up to Flickr. They are arranged into sets which roughly follow the major teams I’ve taken pictures of.

As the season is closing, I suspect the summer will see a lull in posts here. But if I do say anything, it’s probably going to err towards the Just Mad rather than Rugby Mad of the title. A summer of silliness seems fair enough, especially if it gets really hot and my brain begins to fry in the new office I’ve been forced into (where each developer has at least 3 machines under their desk, the aircon is pants and its so hot already you can bearly think). I must be a bit like one of Terry Pratchett’s trolls – I get more stupid the hotter it is, and perhaps I need to put my head in the fridge for normal thought processes to resume.

And talking of silliness, at least tonight’s telly includes the penultimate episode of Series 2 of the barking mad Green Wing on Channel 4. Its fab comedy, and brightens the end of the week!

In her comment to one of my recent posts, Vixxxie1 raises an interesting question – does my presence at any given game act as a talisman or the Albatross-like kiss of death for the team I’m supporting?

This set me thinking, so I had a quick look at the stats for the games I have been to. It can get a bit confusing as I have several teams which I like – and my support will change depending who’s playing (fickle creature that I am!).

It basically goes like this – first choice for country is of course, England (or the Lions every four years). In the Premiership, it has to be Saracens, then Bath. But then I’ve been to a game between London Irish and Wasps and who was I rooting for then? Not really sure. Wasps, probably! So these figures (as with any stats) should be taken with a pinch of NaCl (that’s a chemically geeky joke, for those not in the know).

To summarise, if Saracens are playing then I’m gunning for them (although if its against Bath then my attentions get distracted by a certain Second Row beef), otherwise its Bath. The stats for Bath and Wasps were only counted when Sarries weren’t playing them, to give their totals below (Lost column includes draws too):

Team Won Lost % Won
England 3 3 50%
Lions 0 1 0%
Sarries 12 11 52%
Bath 1 2 33%
Wasps 2 1 67%

So what to make of it all? Not a lot really, except to say it’s a fairly small sample! And my presence doesn’t seem to make any difference either way. Maybe I should start supporting Wasps on these figures? No, I thought not…