Six Nations 2012: Supersaturday survival kit

It's supersaturday eve! AWOOOOOOOOOOGA! Kriss Akabusiesque celebrations aside, the time has come, fair readers, to prepare ourselves for the culmination of seven weeks of blood, sweat, tears and a heck of a lot of manpiles (but sadly not enough Manpilez due to an extreme case of real life getting

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Six Nations 2012: Opening Weekend Reviewpilez

Six Nations 2012: Opening Weekend Reviewpilez

[caption id="attachment_971" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="Stade De France's new star Winger"][/caption] Controversy, pigeons and arduousness coloured this opening weekend of the northern hemisphere’s favourite rugby championship. England managed a win from the jaws of death by b

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The Manpilez Six Nations Drinking Game 2012

The Manpilez Six Nations Drinking Game 2012

If this year’s Six Nations isn’t an exciting enough proposition for you, we’ve resurrected the Manpilez Drinking Game for your enjoyment. You may notice that some of these are repeats from last year, but some of these rugby clichés are as persistent as Rob Andrew... (zing). While drinking

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Previewpilez : Six Nations 2012 (it's competition time in more ways than one)

Previewpilez : Six Nations 2012 (it’s competition time in more ways than one)

The weather may finally have caught up with the season outside, but we’re feeling mighty war at Manpilez towers for one, very important reason. The Six Nations is coming. Though it may not have the knock out drama or the variety of the World Cup, the Six Nations is always a very special tim

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Awardspilez 2011: The Results!

Awardspilez 2011: The Results!

  After weeks of your carefully considered nominations and votes, we can at last announce the winners of our highly prestigious awards! From the sublime, to the ridiculous and the downright sexy, you guys have picked a merry band of players, coaches and even referees as your winners th

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Awardspilez: the Long Awaited Poll of Polls!

After numerous technical difficulties (namely our nominations channels getting hijacked by spammers) and a start to the new year we can only describe as a rollercoaster, we’re back, with your nominations for our annual Awardspilez, celebrating the great, good, foxy and downright daft of the 2011 R

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Adventpilez Bonus window – Awardspilez 2011 Categories In Full

Over the last few days we've been slowly revealing the categories for your nominations in Awardspilez 2011. Now all has been revealed, we've put them all together in one place for you to discuss, swoon and maybe even bring to the annual Christmas family argument if you want! Here goes... The C

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Adventpilez Day 24: Awardspilez 2011 – Your Heroes and Villains

Its been a year of ups and downs in planet rugby, for every divine moment there's been something incredible just minutes away so these are our homages to the individuals who have gone to make 2011 such a rollercoaster. The Alain Rolland Award for Villain of the year Given the way a certain ref

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Adventpilez Day 23 : Awarspilez 2011 – The Rrrrrrrufty Categories

It had to happen sometime. We’re a website by and for women so at some point these awards had to get a little bit, er.... hormonal. So before we all have to be respectable around our families and nod along to midnight masses, here's the categories to make you go rrrrawr! The Oh Daddy Award for

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Adventpilez Day 22: Awardspilez 2011 – the Sublimely Ridiculous Categories

As much as some website may try to make out, Rugby is not all Serious Business. From time to time something so silly happens that it's hard to believe we're not all in it for the laughs. From post match antics to balls hitting cameramen in the face, here's where we let our hair down. The Barry Sc

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