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by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

We basically had a second string side out. Sheridan is going to be a serious operator for Ulster. He’s a real workhorse. Very impressed by Postlewaithe. He’s a future international. Not many 21 year old skillfull 6ft 4, 100kg+ backs about Irish rugby. Good to hear. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Ewers 7. McCann...
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:31 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Looked like it hit McIlroys elbow. We certainly don't deserve that. The good thing about being as shit as this Ulster team, is games against teams like Cardiff are genuine nail biters :lol: Didn't you hockey them in Cardiff recently. We basically had a second string side out. Sheridan is going to b...
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

El Homerino wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:21 pm Looked like it hit McIlroys elbow. We certainly don't deserve that. The good thing about being as shit as this Ulster team, is games against teams like Cardiff are genuine nail biters :lol:
Didn't you hockey them in Cardiff recently.
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

November2019 wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:36 pm As a Munsterman, I'd always support Ulster against any Irish side beginning in L
Or invaders beginning with R.
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
Replies: 70
Views: 720

Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!

So what's the solution here? Cap the number of supporters who are allowed attend Leinster games over the course of the season? Gate fees for Leinster games get rerouted to the other provinces? This kind of success represents a grave threat to Irish rugby and needs to be addressed. A complete overha...
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
Replies: 70
Views: 720

Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!

Luckycharmer wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:10 pm 82,300 tickets sold in 36 hours for the European semi final. Nearly 175k tickets sold for 3 European fixtures. They really are the team of the people! ;)
All the tickets were bought by rich Leinster fans to sell them dearly to poor Leinster fans.
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Snyman's not forever ...
Replies: 294
Views: 13174

Re: Snyman's not forever ...

Located RG's dopplegänger...Bailey Ober 6'9" 260 lbs; pitcher for my Minnesota Twins. https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-photos/image/upload/d_people:generic:headshot:67:current.png/w_213,q_auto:best/v1/people/641927/headshot/67/current Interesting also since Snyman's nickname is "The Viking" and the lo...
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Really great to see Charlie Ngatai back.
by lorcanoworms
Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

List them. Presuming you mean professional era. You had Simon Shawe and have currently John McKee. Munster have had Chris Farrell. Connacht have had Willie Faloon, Jonny Murphy, Conor Carey etc So you complain that other provinces dont give you good players (but dont acknowledge its Ulsters fault f...
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

irishrugbyua wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:34 pm
Nolanator wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:28 pm Reckon there'll be Hill tickets available tomorrow?
yep but ive a link if your stuck
Hope it's better than Vipbox.
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster
Replies: 23
Views: 724

Re: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster

Mr. Very Popular wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:03 pm Feck off and leave us alone.
Yes dear.
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster
Replies: 23
Views: 724

Re: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster

irishrugbyua wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:44 am
lorcanoworms wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:43 am
irishrugbyua wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:39 am

10, 6 - Leinster, 1 - England, 1 - SA, 1 - France, 1 - NZ

SO'B Connacht.
Nope, he is from Mullingar RFC and played 2 years leinster clubs, u19 and u20.

brother of former leinster centre conor o'brien
Had looked him up and forgot Leinster as will Munster fans.
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:43 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster
Replies: 23
Views: 724

Re: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster

Nine not Munster origin? Or does Haley make it double figures. 10, 6 - Leinster, 1 - England, 1 - SA, 1 - France, 1 - NZ Munster traveling squad Forwards: Scott Buckley, Eoghan Clarke , Niall Scannell, Stephen Archer, Mark Donnelly, Oli Jager , Jeremy Loughman , Josh Wycherley, Tom Ahern, Tadhg Bei...
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster
Replies: 23
Views: 724

Re: URCR14 Bulls vs Munster

Nine not Munster origin?
Or does Haley make it double figures.
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Con v Gick is likely.
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146124
Views: 7905279

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

The 80k limit after Enfield is very frustrating and festooned with Gatso vans.
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146124
Views: 7905279

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Medical consultants have legal responsibility in the end. If you can convince one of their colleagues to torperdo their career and testify against them. :lol: Glad you enjoyed that. Was thinking of you after I posted it. I think Fergus Aherne testified against a fellow consultant. Former Leinster s...
by lorcanoworms
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146124
Views: 7905279

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Lads has anyone else noticed how dangerous the driving is on motorways the past years. The risks people are taking with undertaking at 130km etc just defies belief. There is basically no chance of them getting caught as there are hardly any guards on the roads. It’s getting really bad. My gripe use...
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The general synopsis I am getting from the coverage since our victory is that all the other provinces are at risk of total annihilation by the awesome power of Leinster and the priority for Irish rugby is to somehow make Leinster less amazing. Big turnaround from the schadenfreude of last May. They...
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

rumoured they are releasing Gibbons. one leinster centre for another it appears. Presumably Brownlee would go into the senior squad rather than the academy? I think Gibbons was a poor signing. What are the odds of Gordon Wood going into the academy along with Tom? On paper Gibbons looks potentially...
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Ed Byrne, Max Deegan are latest too to be heavily linked with moves away to Ulster. Ruddock will be retiring afaik. some talk around Soroka and Turner. Brownlee rumoured heading Munster. Hope Brownlee enjoys linking up with Fionn Gibbons in the AIL. rumoured they are releasing Gibbons. one leinster...
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Leinster will be losing more players from senior squad than Molony. Who else have you heard is on the way out? Outside of the known ones like Alaalatoa, Jenkins, Ngatai. Ed Byrne, Max Deegan are latest too to be heavily linked with moves away to Ulster. Ruddock will be retiring afaik. some talk aro...
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
Replies: 197
Views: 4882

Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !

Leinster fans running around the internet like Chemical Ali, telling everyone that everything is fine in Irish rugby, so. :lol: I know it's a troll, but I'll bite anyway. Ireland are currently ranked No. 2 in the world, after more than a year being ranked at 1. Ireland won the 6N this season after ...
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11460
Views: 1240906

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

I've watched the first episode of Sugar and I like it. :thumbup: yup, just posted same above and then saw this ! I saw ep 1 last night and I was a tiny bit deflated after how much I was looking forward to it. The cinematography is beautiful, Farrell looks the business in his suits, LA looks magnifi...
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

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.
So they said if you stop spoofing we will take the kid?
by lorcanoworms
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

themaddog wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:08 pm
Mr. Very Popular wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:06 pm
triplebogey wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:55 pm

That's the spirit.
Thank you.
Wait until they announce the next central contract.
They really really did not want to Tylie....... sure yis no the rest.
by lorcanoworms
Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Conway said the same.
by lorcanoworms
Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The Leinster ARE producing players for you ungrateful plebs line being trotted out I see. Hmmmm. We're giving a home to your castoffs by and large, so of course you're fine with perpetuating that system. It reinforces the gap. A draft. If there's to be anything other than a pretence at real competi...
by lorcanoworms
Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Munster don't have any problems selling tickets for exhibition matches involving 2nd/3rd choice players (must be really shit players according to this thread). Ulster have a set of outside backs they have continually misused for years. But they've actually started developing more than a couple of g...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
Replies: 197
Views: 4882

Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !

The Jordster or Jordsie?
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
Replies: 197
Views: 4882

Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !

waguser wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:45 pm This "Jordie Barrett" character.. He may be OK for the Glamour fixtures but will he be able to hack it on cold Saturday against Newport?
You know very well only third choice players go to Newport, and Jordie is second choice just about.
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:42 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Replies: 576
Views: 6421

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle

I went through it again, Leinster conceded 7 penalties in the last ~15 mins, La Rochelle (I think) conceded 0 penalties in the last 15. Were 4 of those were in the scrum? Either way we've never gotten the better of the penalty count against LaR and that remains the case. Having watched most of it b...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Replies: 576
Views: 6421

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle

Think you're a bit blase about danger, have you scrummaged in the adult game? I'm not dismissing the danger. I'm just curious why you think Milne in particular would be any more at risk than any other 25 year old prop with decent enough experience? What I have seen so far of him scrummaging in the ...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528318
Views: 28744903

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Luke McGrath came through the game at the weekend with no issues after his return from the Graduated Return to Play Protocols. Jimmy O’Brien will be further assessed this week as he nears a return from a neck injury. Charlie Ngatai will be further assessed this week as he nears a return from a calf...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146124
Views: 7905279

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

I was at a seminar a number of months ago in RCSI where this guy made the case that if every year there isn't a new record big health budget, then we're up shit creek. With the aging population, increased complexity of care, increased comorbidities etc, it's going to cost more to simply maintain th...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Replies: 576
Views: 6421

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle

Think you're a bit blase about danger, have you scrummaged in the adult game?
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Replies: 576
Views: 6421

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle

The guy is not so inexperienced that he was in physical danger. Just seemed to me that the LAR TH was refusing to engage properly and tricked Milne into a picture where it looked like he was collapsing the scrum. Certainly for one of the ones I looked at closely. A tight game and I think the ref mi...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Replies: 576
Views: 6421

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle

Milne has to be tested and he'll have learned plenty. To my very untrained eye, he wasn't being helped by the officials in setting. He was being penalised for taking down scrums that hadn't even properly engaged. To my very trained eye it could have been dangerous for him, not suggesting I played a...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Replies: 576
Views: 6421

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle

I went through it again, Leinster conceded 7 penalties in the last ~15 mins, La Rochelle (I think) conceded 0 penalties in the last 15. 3 of those were Milne, shouldn't have been there. They really do give away a lot of penalty's when the oppo are going nowhere. Milne has to be tested and he'll hav...
by lorcanoworms
Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Replies: 576
Views: 6421

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle

I am not going to go and check but I feel Leinster gave away 4 or 5 penalties in the last few mins when the game was long and truly dead. There was definitely some ledger-balancing and favoring of the losing side in the final 10-15. There were a couple calls in the first half when the game was stil...