the rub

It's the X-ray stat, the one that shows how good teams are before hot finishing streaks and the rub of the green come into play.

That’s the rub right there: No one knows for sure what’s coming next.

Such is the rub you may find yourself in with iconoclastic Spanish director Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude,” his first nonfiction film, an unflinching gaze at bullfighting, its hushed, ornate rituals and gruesome realities.

Any inkling that Wigan simply had enjoyed the rub of the green in the first half was ended as Rowe weaved her way in for a try of her own having been laser-focused with the boot during the opening stages.

"Unfortunately we have just not had the rub of the green this season," Houghton added.