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To think there really must be a female cameraperson whenever Wales play in future

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LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 15:21

Because surely any woman would understand that when Leigh Halfpenny has his scrum cap off, the camera needs to be on him in a lingering close up?

We do NOT want to see anyone/anything else. Ok maybe a second or so to see what kind of kick he has to do but then back to Leigh please

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LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 18:56

Also, it's his kindly handsome face and the look in his eyes as he sizes up his kick.
And the fact that he's a genuinely lovely and talented bloke with plenty of time for young fans. His mum must be dead proud of him. He's a brilliant role model as well as being hot as hell
Grin

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Enfyshedd · 09/03/2013 18:56

:P

squeakytoy · 09/03/2013 18:56

Grin I dont need to lighten up, it really doesnt bother me... but next time I see a thread moaning about the grimness of page 3 in the Sun, I will remind everyone to lighten up! Wink

idshagphilspencer · 09/03/2013 18:57
idshagphilspencer · 09/03/2013 18:58

Oh and gordy read my post I know a tad more about rugby than thigh admiration, I just do a bit of that as well

HollyBerryBush · 09/03/2013 18:58

Those were the days when there was a page 7 fella! Grin

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:00

Squeaky there's a huge difference between the exploitation of women/men via page 3 and this. I'm genuinely surprised you can't see that.

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LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:01

And no Gordy I wouldn't slate a thread like this if genders were reversed.

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canutesauntie · 09/03/2013 19:03

Can we discuss the loveliness that is Ryan Jones? My favourite...

Enfyshedd · 09/03/2013 19:03

Back to more serious stuff, Halfpenny is one hell of a talented player. Only caught the end of the match today (friend invited us to his DD's birthday party & hadn't checked the 6 Nations schedule before booking it - he apologised to a LOT of people). When we got home and turned the match on, I caught up with the action on the BBC schedule and saw that he'd missed 3 penalties in 6 minutes (WTF!!!). There's not many players who could recover from a shit spell like that so early in a match.

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:05

He looks as if he'd be amazing in a crisis - a really solid kind bloke. Gorgeous smile too.

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Enfyshedd · 09/03/2013 19:05

For canutesauntie Grin

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:05

I think he was just doubly determined to prove himself Enfyshedd

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LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:07

I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be an ordinary height in the land of giant rugby players and whether he works twice as hard to prove himself.

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Enfyshedd · 09/03/2013 19:09

Sure he was LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance. I used to be on the point of tears if we had Stephen Jones on the pitch and he'd missed 2 kicks - 1 miss, he could recover from; 2 and you knew his game was 90% screwed.

carben · 09/03/2013 19:10

What about Adam Jones and that hair ? He tackled like a demon today too.

LunaticFringe · 09/03/2013 19:12

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acjfluff · 09/03/2013 19:12

YABU!! A female camera operative should focus on the glory that is Jamie Roberts! Grin

carben · 09/03/2013 19:12

Stephen Jones always held it together. Calm and cool he was good boy.

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LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:13

Adam Jones must be 110 now surely - he seems to have being playing for ever - in a good way.

I do wish he's let me sort his hair out with All Soft and Frizz Eaze though

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Enfyshedd · 09/03/2013 19:15

What about when Shane Williams was still in the squad? The last of the little rugby players at only 5'7" with a 6'4" George North as his successor. Not like it was when I was a girl (I'm older than all but a handful of the team these days - wish I'd realised a few years ago that the team used to go out on the lash on St Mary's Street in Cardiff after the matches before they were stopped - silly boy that Andy Powell).

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:16

Stephen Jones always reminded me of the 1940s to look at. Don't know why.

ac you may just have uncovered a problem with women camera bods. Smile

Anyway, I saw Sam Warburton going into the estate agent in our village a couple of weeks back. Glad he had a good game today. Bit of a relief all round really.

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spiderlight · 09/03/2013 19:17

He's not as pretty as Mike Philips.

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 09/03/2013 19:18

Shane Williams - those eyes! That smile!

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