Comments on: Fantasy Rugby: Dinosaur XV

By: Ginger Ali

Ginger Ali — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:39:35 +0000

Great work, I’d forgotten all about these times and am delighted to rediscover them. To say this is the strongest team is bold. The bearded XV contained God, Jesus and the Devil if I’m not very much mistaken.
I agree that separate animal XV’s should be made – the seal in the aquatic XV excites me greatly.

By: luke

luke — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:37:30 +0000

put the Oviraptor at 6 or 7 or even 9

Name’s meaning: “Egg stealer”

Pronounciation: O-vi-rap-tor

Physical Description:
A full grown Oviraptor measured about 7 feet long, and weighed about 55-76 pounds(weight estimates vary greatly for dinosaurs).
It had long legs, was fast, and walked on two legs. The Oviraprot had an S-shaped neck, a long tail, and curved claws. It had a parrot-like beak, and a horn like crest.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:24:59 +0000

I think Dino was a brontosaurus and he’d be ideal as a rangy 6 offering extra lineout options, much in the mould of Tom Croft.

I’d be interested to find out if Ankylosaurus’s club on his tail is IRB approved. We might have to brand a kitemark on it or something. Let’s leave that to Attenborough.

By: Rob Watson

Rob Watson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:57:32 +0000

What, no replacements??

I’m kidding of course – great research!

“the vicious little venom-spitting one…” – doesn’t sound all that different from Gregan or Kelleher does it? Good choice at 9.

Gutted for Godzilla that he missed out, but Barney the Dinosaur has only himself to blame – just too soft!

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:33:10 +0000

You need to ditch the velociraptor. You are probably basing it on Jurrasic Park however it was increased in size for the film it’s actually only about 1m tall (at hip) and 6ft in length! What you want is it’s big cousin that was discovered after the film and is called Utahraptor which was about 2m tall (at hip) and 25ft long.

Also think the Spinosaurus has to get a place! It’s a bigger carnivore than a T-Rex. Maybe at 15 so it can do some devastating couter-attacking rund from deep!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:27:03 +0000

I think technically Yoshi from Mario Bros. is a dinosaur. Surely his ability to eat the ball and then lay it at a later date could create some revolutionary rugby tactics?

By: Kemlo

Kemlo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:18:28 +0000

Must be the strongest XV yet. Incredible size and ferocity and the T-Rex/Velociraptor combination is just downright frigthening.

By: Hutch

Hutch — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:33:30 +0000

Love the research that has gone into this, Spike. My limited dinosaur knowledge means that I can’t think of any other suggestions.

Doyouthinkhesawus…classic!