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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Is the issue with driving not largely down to people using phones, etc, more?
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
If we were going for three in a row large parts of the country would be calling for the province to be disbanded as a rugby organisation. That's how success goes in this country. Bono put it really well: "In America when they see the rich guy in a mansion on top of the hill they think, one day if i...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Is it worth paying for them?triplebogey wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:46 pm Really good bit on the 42 podcast today with James Tracy analysing the mauls from the Leinster game. One of those pieces of analysis that reminds me I know absolutely fudge all about rugby.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Fair play to him.irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:02 am Keith Wood calling it an end to the punditry, presumably as his son moves into Munster academy.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
CarrotGawks wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:36 pmMedical consultants have legal responsibility in the end. If you can convince one of their colleagues to torperdo their career and testify against them.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Pay is now £30k for beginning teachers here which is probably 35k euro. Has there been an increase in the max to go with that? You also need to factor in higher cost of living Unless you live in Ballygofingeryoursister most ROI cost of living is much more than in NI thus the need for higher salarie...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Are the southern posters having a competition to embarrass yourself today? https://www.prospects.ac.uk/jobs-and-work-experience/job-sectors/teacher-training-and-education/how-much-do-teachers-get-paid https://www.asti.ie/your-employment/pay/salary-scales/post-2011-common-basic-scale/ £41k is about ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Are the southern posters having a competition to embarrass yourself today? I have this mental picture of them all sitting naked in a crack den pulling each other off! x( :lol: AJ isn't exactly renowned for being selective with his words! :lol: The problem is I'm very selective. :lol:
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527934
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Earl/Winnie, like I said, I'm ignorant of the situation in Ulster schools and not pretending to know the answer, nor will I pontificate about what should be done. I'm just somewhat surprised that something which was, to me, as trivial as having overseas lads involved in coaching, was worth remarkin...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527934
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Earl/Winnie, like I said, I'm ignorant of the situation in Ulster schools and not pretending to know the answer, nor will I pontificate about what should be done. I'm just somewhat surprised that something which was, to me, as trivial as having overseas lads involved in coaching, was worth remarkin...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527934
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Professionalism. Gotta love it. Also, importantly, the need to accurately value tradition within the system. I'm far from sure that's been done. If it had been, then Munster, for example, would likely be based out of Cork. Demographics and potential upside vs tradition. TP would have been modernize...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Hmmmmm. Forgive us for not building more fee-paying schools in thriving metropolitan areas and restricting them to single sex intake, excluding other team sports and hiring professional coaching staff. Because that's what a secondary school should be for. there's definitely some truth to CM's post ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Obviously great news if you're a Leinster fan as he's a fantastic player. But in the grand scheme of things 200K* that could definitely be spent on loads of other more important things in Leinster (including a TH) or across the Irish rugby system. Yes he may end up making a couple of contributions ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Seething.Floppykid wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:18 pm https://x.com/threeredkings/status/1779929963723985187
The bitterness dripping off this.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
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Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Gent.paddyor wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:29 pmwww.Rugby24.netanonymous_joe wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:28 pm What's that website with the full match replays again?
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
- Replies: 576
- Views: 6393
Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
What's that website with the full match replays again?
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527934
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Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
The last week was ROG's moment of hubris, egged on by the absolute knobs in the Irish media. Dragging munster into that mess as well. Boy his face must be red. Yeah, Radge is a coach playing the game, the media stirring it up are the silly ones. Two sides of the same coin - he fancies himself as a ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527934
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Yeah, Radge is a coach playing the game, the media stirring it up are the silly ones.onesolidunit wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:32 pm The last week was ROG's moment of hubris, egged on by the absolute knobs in the Irish media. Dragging munster into that mess as well. Boy his face must be red.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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No idea if Murphy is the right man, but he's had the team for about two weeks isn't it?
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Ah fúck.BecomingtheMoon wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:49 pm Hugo Keenan might be out the Twitter lads are saying
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146068
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Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Well, their support has dropped to 23%. They were slaughtered in the 2019 locals (or whenever it was) and bounced back. Those local elections were odd. It's why they were cautious in the general election and ran fewer candidates than they could, probably, have returned. SF will definitely make huge...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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They were slaughtered in the 2019 locals (or whenever it was) and bounced back.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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So the case was irrelevant whether won or lost for the plaintiff? I mean we have a legal system based on precedent and the luck of the draw as to which judge you get, you're not convincing me there'd be no retrospective challenges if it had gone the other way. But either way, risk is calculated bas...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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What actually happened CM, and as AJ knows, is that plaintiffs legal teams held back on their cases until the Supreme Court decided. That is they started the cases, which meant the Insurance companies had to make provisions at the old rates, but didn't proceed too quickly whilst waiting for the dec...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Why would it be illegal in any way? The IRFU already fund development officers who go into schools and clubs to help with coaching and talent ID That's not the same thing though. We're talking about teachers who are employed by the British State. 1. The teachers are employed by the schools. 2. And ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Who has taken what the insurers have said at face value? Cam quoted one after the court decision this week - if it's true that cases have been held in abeyance pending the outcome of that case - what have the courts being doing etc? I didn't read about any lying idle so some work was progressing. I...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OJ gone....
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Re: OJ gone....
He was only acting as a lawyer to avoid testifying. He knew.iarmhiman wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:22 pm Who can forget this moment? We all remember where we were.
https://youtu.be/rurKd569xRw?feature=shared
Look at Kardashian's reaction.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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That's not the same thing though. We're talking about teachers who are employed by the British State.earl the beaver wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:22 am
Why would it be illegal in any way? The IRFU already fund development officers who go into schools and clubs to help with coaching and talent ID
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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On the POM rumour mill - head last year that both he and JOD were sat down and compared their playing stats (tackle numbers, completion, ruck effectiveness etc) with with those of Hodnett (and AK oddly enough, redder incoming) and told in no uncertain terms that their performances for Munster in te...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Ulster have a core of historically strong schools but the big, big difference to Leinster is the money spent on rugby at the likes of Inst, MCB and Campbell (the three biggest and most affluent rugby schools in Ulster) compared to their equivalents in Leinster. I vehemently disagree with the draft ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Ulster have a core of historically strong schools but the big, big difference to Leinster is the money spent on rugby at the likes of Inst, MCB and Campbell (the three biggest and most affluent rugby schools in Ulster) compared to their equivalents in Leinster. I vehemently disagree with the draft ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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And their legitimacy/constitutionality being contested for just about the same time. Utterly irrelevant. Judges have been making awards based on the guidelines for (just shy of) 3 years. Where's the decline in premiums that the insurers promised? Surely no one actually believed the spiel the insura...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Every squad needs its journeymen. I'd say the three provinces you mention have a few players knocking about who would aspire to being just that. Or who have been that, perhaps (perhaps not) deservedly, but through age/mileage are no longer hitting those dizzying heights. There are two tasks needing...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146068
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So you now accept the guidelines have been in place for just shy of three years. Well done. And their legitimacy/constitutionality being contested for just about the same time. Utterly irrelevant. Judges have been making awards based on the guidelines for (just shy of) 3 years. Where's the decline ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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So you now accept the guidelines have been in place for just shy of three years. Well done.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Seeing as the court case challenging the constitutionality of the proposed decreases in the 'Book of Quantum' recommended amounts was only decided this morning, do you not think it would be fairer to give insurance premiums more than a few hours to check whether or not they are decreasing ? https:/...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146068
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Following this mornings SC decision, it would appear that the personal injury claims 'payola' is finally coming to an end. And if you won't get any more money by going yo court, the PIRB is going to get lots of business, freeing up lots of court time. https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/202...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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When it comes to land, very definitely. Rogues the lot of them.ticketlessinseattle wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:35 pmisnt it all AJ, isnt it allanonymous_joe wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:59 pmI moved out of PI a long time ago. I do chancery stuff, much safer. PI was only ever a bonus part of my practice.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
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Following this mornings SC decision, it would appear that the personal injury claims 'payola' is finally coming to an end. And if you won't get any more money by going yo court, the PIRB is going to get lots of business, freeing up lots of court time. https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/202...