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  • I was kneeling on the floor beneath his feet and nearly got trampled to death in the scrum.
  • Former Springbok hooker Shaun Povey and scrumming expert Dougie Heymans have also arrived at the camp to assist coaching staff in preparing the forwards.
  • And, despite some stout defence, a feature of York's game this season, they were unable to prevent scrum half Duffy from scoring from short range.
  • The Buttery in Glasgow will be especially missed - all warm glows and scrumptious food.
  • If league want to continue with the scrums let them watch Union scrums or speak to the players of the 50s or 60s how to pack and play a scrum.
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  • The scrum-half made several telling breaks to earn the Man-of-the-Match award.
  • Annmarie, the cake looks scrump and I like your detour with cherries. The Daring Bakers: Perfect Party Cake
  • His playing career was curtailed after he injured his neck when a scrum collapsed in 1980 but that did not end his involvement with rugby. Times, Sunday Times
  • The identity of the scrum coach is one key appointment that remains unknown. Times, Sunday Times
  • The jalfrezi is a scrumptious curry that originates from the ancient Mogul era of India. WalesOnline - Home
  • When Bath won an attacking scrum on the right and Swift began to drift across his marker did not follow him.
  • But there's an awful lot more to the Exeter scrum than the prop forward. Times, Sunday Times
  • A backline of young, emerging players struggled to capitalise on a strong forward platform, and the home team showed strength in both scrum and lineout.
  • And after a satisfying day of bird-watching, treat yourself to a scrumptious meal of Maryland's famous blue crabs, oysters, or a freshly caught fish.
  • With no lineouts, no meaningful scrums and all players having to be greyhounds, it's a hybrid of rugby union.
  • An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
  • They had their regular BBQ going during the Sunday Market, serving up scrummy snags, egg and bacon sangas, burgers, etc.
  • However rugby league and rugby union are the only two sports referred to as \ "rugby\" today. tackle scrum Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Assistant coach Andre Human said he wasn't entirely happy with the scrumming of the Bulldogs and would be working on that.
  • The card is a froth of glitter and highly scrumpled clumps of tissue paper.
  • We headed back to our holiday home to wolf down our scrummy dinner. The Sun
  • The try-count of 3-1 does not reflect the performance of the Newbridge pack and their control of the scrum and line-outs in a good forward's performance.
  • A change of heart though would certainly offer new coach Stewart McKinney greater options behind the scrum.
  • Garnished with an array of chutneys and delicious sambar, the end product is simply scrumptious for the food aficionado.
  • And good riddance, otherwise it means the death of the scrum. Times, Sunday Times
  • England manager Martin Johnson has called the uncapped Northampton full-back or scrum-half Ben Foden into his elite squad for the 2009 Six Nations. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Sweeney's conversion edged the Dragons a point in front but just as quickly, a stupidly errant hand in the scrum proved their undoing.
  • Tullamore were scrummaging better and their rucking was top class.
  • But the essential task is the scrum. Times, Sunday Times
  • But again due to silly mistakes and the poorest scrummaging I've ever seen from Wales, France got the better of them.
  • Ooooo, geo-tagging, a scrumptious calendar (already mocked up, but needs refining), more Ajax (yay!), a personalized saved search page, fun and easy ways to share and add favourites and a really great way to 'drill down' (that's what I call it, but it's more like 'refine' - needs refinement) your results. Hillary Duff Cant Wait for Riya's Mac Uploader
  • How deep does his Peter Pan-syndrome run when he thinks inviting pre-pubescent boys over to scrump is okay? Paranoid Pedestrian Ponderings
  • I consumed a truly scrumptious chilliburger and hoped, no prayed, that there would be a toilet or pub on the route.
  • Going straight from a shuttle run into a scrum is serious hard work but is invaluable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Brumbies coach David Nucifora was pleased with the performance of his team, especially the forwards, who where able to get on top of the heavier Bulls pack in scrums.
  • Combine kiwis in a fruit salad with scrumptious strawberries (which were reputed to contain a love potion by medieval gardeners) and see what happens!
  • They can meet you when you arrive in each area, which makes dealing with the inevitable scrum of touts distinctly less daunting.
  • There was a bit of argy-bargy in the scrum, but nothing worth reading too much into.
  • Coaches says the scrum is all about the engagement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scrum-half Danny Brough, another player to have a blinder at The Shay, claimed the remainder to stay in touch with the leaders.
  • We have to match them at scrum time and in the lineout. Times, Sunday Times
  • (One afternoon melee at a friend's wedding, as the groom's rugby buddies drank the bar dry and tore up the dance floor in a loud, lewd, men-only kind of gyrating scrum, is about the closest I've come to the sport.) Story pick: The only openly gay male athlete
  • All they care about is scrums, rucks and lineouts. Times, Sunday Times
  • I glared at her while taking a bite of the scrumptious piece of buttered and toasted bread.
  • Furthermore, the driving maul and the scrum began to gain ground and the backs started running on to the ball.
  • Called back for two rounds of encores, he ended this show in a chaotic scrum of group hugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • If they put the scrum where they want it, suddenly the back row and scrum half can look twice as good. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the wintry weeks that followed he remained in the No3 shirt as the Leicester scrum did its worst to high-flying Saracens at Vicarage Road, then – and particularly wince-worthy this demolition job – to a Wasps pack, complete with Simon Shaw and England's incumbent loosehead, Tim Payne, a Lion no less. Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch
  • the dessert was scrumptious
  • Le Viette can only be described as scrumptious and tasty. PhillyBurbs.com
  • Rightwing Chumani Booi went over for a hat-trick but it was nuggety scrumhalf Vido Nako, who triggered the first attacking move of the evening, who got the man-of-the-match nod.
  • The warmth of the restaurant and a few glasses of sherry really hit the spot, and having unthawed, we indulged in mouth-watering Southern cooking eating scrumptious shrimp and grits.
  • Cider comes in all sorts of varieties from the mass produced to the local farm "scrumpy". Barbecues, corn on the cob and other stuff
  • Australia dipped as they lost composure and as series after series of scrums went crashing together. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the first scrum they should pile into Toulon and attempt to gain the initial edge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Twelvetrees does not have the control and consistent goalkicking of Staunton but that hardly mattered against a Leeds side who could not cope with Leicester's power at the scrum and all-round velocity. Billy Twelvetrees revels in new role as Leicester hammer Leeds
  • Air Force hit back to cross the CH line with a dandy try off a scrum close to the line..
  • You can see the difference when they back row is scrumming.
  • The benefits of scrum are greater when complemented by improved or revised engineering, product management, people and organizational practices.
  • But deep down I would love to see kids mooching round on bikes in groups, scrumping apples and being clipped round the ear'ole by paternalistic cops.
  • Our scrumming session this week wasn't too crazy. The Star (South Africa)
  • They combined as early as the third minute, a break by the scrum half putting Dixon through a gap to score.
  • Long after he left the stage, a rowdy scrum of fans were still fighting over this sweaty souvenir. Times, Sunday Times
  • The referee should also whistle immediately if any player in the scrummage is lifted off his feet or is forced upwards out of the scrummage.
  • Mr Kipling caught two young scamps scrumping in his orchard.
  • The 22-year-old scrum half is returning to action at least two weeks ahead of schedule after an intense rehabilitation programme. Times, Sunday Times
  • During my first week working at a tech company I was introduced to scrum through our software development team, and I was instantly hooked.
  • Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down.
  • Here was the situation, as I recounted it to myself: somehow, I was trapped in some unearthly dimension where Baltimore, actor Emilio Estevez, and myself had somehow collided in a big cartoon scrum complete with onomatopoeias and clouds of dust. I'm Not Emilio Estevez
  • Six of Edmonton's most scrumptious purveyors of comestibles along with a dessert and scotch supplier will donate some of their best wares to the event.
  • As a child, scrumping apples was my biggest crime.
  • Pork chops in a Peking-style barbecue sauce are scrumptious.
  • I only ask this because I happened to eaves drop with utter dismay when three of the bloated scrum on that Eurostar lamented about the busy week ahead of them - then whinge about what an "agg'" it was that they had to sign on some time. And the winners were ... les touts
  • You can also choose the house specialty Rainbow soup, conch chowder, fresh lamb soup cooked New England style, or a variety of scrumptious salads.
  • Over the last few months, he has compounded his sins by falling out with the All Black captain Richie McCaw, a secular saint here; only last month, he found himself on the wrong end of some friendly fire from the former Wallaby scrum-half and World Cup-winning captain Nick Farr-Jones, who described him as a "boofhead" for going out of his way to wind up the great flanker. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Today, though, we had Sunday lunch at the hotel in the village, and I had the most scrumptious pasta dish.
  • They scrummaged better, often disrupting their opponents efforts, and in the line-out they were considerably ahead as well.
  • When the scrum was working at full efficiency they played their best rugby of the season. Times, Sunday Times
  • And yes, Richard Armitage is scrumptious (great word BTW:) We've just started the second season of Robin Hood in NZ and in the last episode we had a shirtless Richard .... Blog Takeover
  • It consisted of an excellent party with the most scrumptious food, fruit and minerals, tea and all sorts of goodies served.
  • The structure of a game revolves around scrum and lineout. Times, Sunday Times
  • Part of one of the best Premiership packs, he pushes his weight in the scrums and does his stint in the loose.
  • He scored again from a five-yard scrum with the last move of the game.
  • By this time the vicar had polished off her first bottle of scrumpy and was well on with the next. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • You can never go wrong by serving chocolate chip cookies - they work as well in a scrumptious dessert with ice cream as a school lunchbox.
  • It descended into a bit of a farce in the scrums, which is not unusual these days. WalesOnline - Home
  • The scrumpy middle-aged ones who've begun to sag have nice houses with a couple of tasteful pictures on the mantlepiece and a fresh rug, showing off a house that looks as lived in as the bodies they're revealing. Oscar Nominee Roundup: The Queen and The Departed
  • The Scrum notion of 'backlog' is a single, prioritized list of user stories for the team to implement.
  • Wales work on keeping our legs up so the scrum does not go down. Times, Sunday Times
  • Next door to the Bowmer, Chateaulin offers a Euro-style menu, including scrumptious marinated goat cheese on toast fingers.
  • With 20 minutes left and still a seven-man pack McKay went over following a back row pick up at a scrummage.
  • His white shirt was stained blue to match his scrum cap but he would have been easily identifiable anyway last night. Times, Sunday Times
  • And in the meantime there's lots of scrummy stuff on the website.
  • I know I am old but I always say that when I was young if you did wrong you knew that if you went scrumping apples or whatever there would be a bobby on the beat somewhere around.
  • One Scottish scrum disintegrated completely and the Springboks are not noted for giving a sucker an even break.
  • I'm never gonna live that 'scrumptious' comment down, am I? Trench Coat Leads
  • Durant was very direct in his philosophy and not slow to offer constructive criticism of the Irish approach, particularly in the area of restricted scrumming, training attitudes and informed coaching.
  • Keighley's pack was seldom outplayed by Scarborough's robust efforts up front, even though it was shunted backwards from time to time in the scrummages.
  • Martyn Sowerbutts, now retired after a career in computers, and his wife Cherry like to walk their dogs, Scrumpy and Enzo, along the bridleways and old drovers' roads, many of which would disappear under the foundations of the new housing estates. East Coker, TS Eliot's placid village, resists threat of housing invasion
  • The identity of the scrum coach is one key appointment that remains unknown. Times, Sunday Times
  • With such a formidable pack, introduce more 3rd row and forward play off line-outs, scrums and rucks and mauls.
  • The dishes prepared by Duncan and Gordon, included a scrummy squash and smoked garlic soup, fab pan-fried pork loin and an amazing tomatillo, chocolate and chilli salsa.
  • The key to getting scrums right rests primarily with the officials. Times, Sunday Times
  • We lingered over dinner for three hours, enjoying every hospitable and scrummy minute of it.
  • Wales work on keeping our legs up so the scrum does not go down. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mine were scrumpled up and shoved down to the bottom of my bed.
  • It felt like we spent the past eight weeks waiting for a scrum to be formed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hinch, now with a 3 point lead, had to fight hard in the final minutes to withstand a Belvedere onslaught as the home side pushed for the score with a series of 5 metre scrummages.
  • Our waiter suggested a vegetable side dish for us - potatoes with chick peas, which proved to be an excellent choice: the potatoes were fall-away soft and thoroughly scrummy.
  • A tremendous shunt from the French pack at the first scrum on New Zealand ball saw the visiting front row buckle and pop under pressure, and Dupuy made no mistake from 35 metres after three minutes. Undefined
  • We were concerned how the local constabulary would cope with such a situation, being the sort of remote place the biggest crime would be scrumping.
  • We were making scrumptious veggieburgers din-dins for our menfolk to eat once they jumped out of the surf. Gingerbread
  • For those of you who've never had pumpkin butter before, you're pretty much guaranteed to love it... unless you don't go for things that are completely scrumptious, that is. Organic Authority.com: Make Your Own Pumpkin Butter (and a List of Ways to Enjoy It)
  • The front row, arms linked, took the brunt but when the set scrum collapsed, so to speak, the greater danger fell to the second row. A DEAD LIBERTY
  • His playing career was curtailed after he injured his neck when a scrum collapsed in 1980 but that did not end his involvement with rugby. Times, Sunday Times
  • In that discussion, I also explained that if they desired they could elect for non-contestable scrummages.
  • But the pack showed up well enough in the scrums and recovered from a couple of early lineout jitters. Times, Sunday Times
  • But unlike the rugby scrummage, the American version allowed one team to hold possession of the ball.
  • You don't have to waste your breath chirping at guys or in scrums. USATODAY.com - Ducks winning battle for minds
  • ‘Oh, Em you're far too scrummy to be a hag,’ he gushed and hugged her.
  • Scrumpy is the West Country name for cider, produced by the natural fermentation of apple juice; all you need is a press, a few barrels and a lot of apples.
  • From the first scrum they should pile into Toulon and attempt to gain the initial edge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Going straight from a shuttle run into a scrum is serious hard work but is invaluable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The visitors scrummaged well and had the dominant force in the line-out in the shape of their impressive big lock, Opeta Palepoi.
  • Since they had no replacement front row forward the scrums were uncontested for the remainder of the game.
  • May I have another helping of that scrumptious salad?
  • Forcing the player to release the ball more quickly would lessen the opportunity for the unseemly scrums that can gather around a player in possession, but that's for another day.
  • Flood taps over the conversion –England 14-0 Georgia.19 min: You don't need to be Dr Rugby PhD to tell that's a wonderful kick from the Georgian scrum half, bobbling and boinging its way out of play a metre or so from the England line. Rugby World Cup 2011: England v Georgia – live! | John Ashdown
  • In rugby, played by consenting adults who tacitly accept a degree of how's-your-father whenever they take the field, pretty much anything goes, especially in the darkened recesses of scrum, ruck and maul. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • With time up, Bath had to opt for the scrum five metres out. Times, Sunday Times
  • Around 35 children from four to 11 years of age participated in making scrumptious cheese pizzas and learning how to eat them using cutlery.
  • Just imagine the entertainment possibilities when slightly less time is soaked up by the refereeing of the scrum. Times, Sunday Times
  • I guess that was so they didn't disturb the scrum of journalist crowded round a wide-screen telly watching the football.
  • Hawke's Bay was dominating in the forwards with its scrum and breakdowns decimating the big Mooloo men who were struggling to get decent ball to its lethal backline. Latest All Blacks News
  • The scrum half has played only once in six weeks because of a hamstring injury. Times, Sunday Times
  • After an early set-back where Baildon scored a penalty, the forwards scrummaged well and stand-off Jamie Pinguenet kicked intelligently to establish good field positions.
  • It's great for a front-row forward to look up from a scrum and see the ball trickling into touch 40 metres down the pitch.
  • Australia have long shown that maximising the cunning of the brain is as vital as brawn in managing at the scrum. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said that I was one of the most skilful scrum-halves but I would get outplayed by my opposite number who had less ability.
  • In downtown black, by turns diffident, mischievous, impulsive, even arrogant, she's scrumptious, and the sheep aren't.
  • With good restart possession from scrum and line-out they threw everything at a dogged CYM.
  • Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down.
  • Coaches says the scrum is all about the engagement. Times, Sunday Times
  • The other staple of Argentine rugby is the scrum. Times, Sunday Times
  • We passed on staying in one of the hotel's 12 scrummy rooms and opted for one of the log cabins nestling among a Blair Witch-type forest of birch and ash just behind the Four Seasons.
  • For the first time in ages, the opposition scrum was actually going backwards and the psychological boost that gives you is immense.
  • After my challenging workout we take off to The Boulevard for a scrummy lunch.
  • We've got scrummy cakes and other treats to brighten up your day. The Sun
  • But he is blessed with riches at full back, the back row, scrum half and front row. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wasps held on through a barrage of scrums close to their line and defended well, albeit against some rather predictable attacks. Times, Sunday Times
  • If calorie count isn't a concern, the raspberry oreo cookie crumb pancakes with chocolate crème anglaise is as mouthwatering as waist-enlarging, if you're feeling more subtle the veggie croissant sandwich with melted muenster cheese is scrumptious as well. One For The Table: Our Favorite Mother's Day Brunches
  • Ilkley's powerful front five had worn down the Heath pack and were pushing the Heath scrum backwards.
  • Taylor's slip prevented him from intercepting Robert's cross and a scrum of bodies stopped the ball crossing the line.
  • ADAM JONES The Wales scrummage went well and Jones was the cornerstone of that. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Long after he left the stage, a rowdy scrum of fans were still fighting over this sweaty souvenir. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the first scrum they should pile into Toulon and attempt to gain the initial edge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scrumpy is a type of strong cider.
  • Now, Haffy, my potentate of passion," his lovely wife Karina said, laying a scrumptiously plump beringed hand upon his chest while regarding him from her large and lovely eyes made deepest purple by art and by proximity to the priceless catseye chrysoberyl jewels she bore in abundance upon her shell-like ears, her delicate wrists, and her delicious decolletage. First Warning
  • As a tomboy youngster, it was one of my great regrets that I could not manage to generate a piercing rallying call to assemble my pals for a spot of light tree-climbing or scrumping.
  • They are shy, mostly, though you'd not think so on a scrumpy [rough apple cider] night when things can get rather lively and rumbustious.
  • The 22-year-old scrum half is returning to action at least two weeks ahead of schedule after an intense rehabilitation programme. Times, Sunday Times
  • For some reason, perhaps to differentiate rugby melees from all the other tussles, the word evolved into ‘scrummage’ with a U.
  • The local pudding is the scrumptious cherry flan or clafoutis aux cérises noires. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can't wait for Obama to debate scrumpy old Mcbush. After bad press, McCain goes back to town-halls
  • Hawks pulled further ahead when scrummaging with only seven men.
  • The former hookers traded insults about the scrums. The Sun
  • In union they changed the rules, trying to get referees particularly at schoolboy level to make the scrum safer; is there any evidence of that preventing injuries?
  • Flannery, who has played once since November because of injury, admitted Ireland's scrum had been "panned". BBC - Ouch
  • The client facing teams at $DAY_JOB have regular update meetings that they call scrums, making sure everyone is aware of current issues and the status of projects etc. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Soak raw chipped potatoes in a pint of hot stock, drain them and oven roast for scrumptious, tasty chips.
  • Scrum, he explained, is not a methodology, but a framework for developing complex products.
  • The home-made dips look particularly scrummy.
  • Called back for two rounds of encores, he ended this show in a chaotic scrum of group hugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sponge was moist and the icing simply scrumptious!
  • The scrum is supposed to be an equal contest and you would expect a pack of 900 kg to dominate a pack of 800 kg.
  • Quins' next try came when prop Lou Clancy took the ball on from a line-out and Avon's defence was broken, allowing scrum-half Saskia Brazier-Kobus to run through to score.
  • At Galashiels station there was a huge crowd and a media scrum as I shook hands with the driver and the provost and boarded the train.
  • The England scrum-half looked to be out of the crunch game when he injured a hamstring in last Sunday's match against Georgia.
  • When Bath won an attacking scrum on the right and Swift began to drift across his marker did not follow him.
  • Uncontested scrums ensued for the final 10 minutes of the match. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mexico exports Damiana Liquor, which is quite scrumptious and packaged in a bottle shaped like a curvaceous Goddess.
  • As one of the major rugby pubs in the area it was quite a scrum during the recent Six Nations and Heineken Cup matches with Harlequins and Kingston Rugby Club teams popping in for the odd pint.
  • If your tighthead prop can go forward six inches in the scrum your back row and backs are in the game. Times, Sunday Times
  • Taxi wardens will patrol Manchester city centre to stop revellers brawling in the scrum for a Christmas cab.
  • Kendal remained unshaken by the pounding, the side's fitness and technique plugging any gaps while their solid set-piece work at the scrums and line-outs must have depressed those on the receiving end.
  • The home pack was soon in trouble, feeling the full weight of Otley's controlled aggression from the first scrum.
  • Kendal's pack, missing some key men among six absent first-team regulars, suffered in the set scrummage but rucked and mauled well.
  • He scrummaged well and always used his power correctly, working the right angles.
  • The scrums are going forward, opposition scrums are going back under sheer power and sublime technique.
  • The food was scrumptious and the band, Highway 66, created the party mood.
  • Which chocolatiers worldwide produce the most interesting and scrumptious chocolates?
  • Bored kids and frazzled adults were clustered in every corner and a dangerous-looking scrum had formed by the main door.
  • The scrum, likewise, symbolises the essential futility of human existence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ban body slamming, cut ruck times before the whistle is blown and absolutely instil the physical dangers of a collapsed scrum on young players. Times, Sunday Times
  • I would welcome back the past, where scrumping apples would earn you a clout around the ear.
  • Ma'afu, who parents gave him the christian name Campese after Australia legend David Campese, was in continual trouble at the scrum. WalesOnline - Home
  • Blackburn once again converted but again Vale couldn't hold their lead and just five minutes later they lost possession at an untidy scrum and conceded a converted try.
  • 87 mins: Australia lose possession at the scrum with a Smith knock forward.
  • The formation rugby is famous for is called a scrum, which is where a bound group of players from each team form a tunnel or lane. The Daily Evergreen News Feed
  • Both vegetarian and non vegetarian pizzas are absolutely scrumptious.

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