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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Bankruptcy case against Brendan Mullin has been stopped, according to the newspaper today. One less financial headache for the former Irish centre. He was some player. still looking at jail time or whats the story ? The bankruptcy case was a civil law case. The DPP criminal case (different case inv...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Favourite Rugby Commentator
- Replies: 82
- Views: 1915
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Favourite Rugby Commentator
- Replies: 82
- Views: 1915
Re: Favourite Rugby Commentator
Sherwin was good. He always got the France away fixture.
McLaren was the gold standard.
Of the more recent commentators?
Nick Mullins is pretty good.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Bankruptcy case against Brendan Mullin has been stopped, according to the newspaper today. One less financial headache for the former Irish centre.
He was some player.
He was some player.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official UCI Pro Cycling Thread
- Replies: 4111
- Views: 380829
Re: The Official UCI Pro Cycling Thread
Ignoring the likelihood/probability/possibility of doping there are plenty of factors that mean it is not quite the same The bike and clothing tech is worlds different. The riders are younger and braver - it used to be very rare a young tyro would have been given chance to lead a team. They race li...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official UCI Pro Cycling Thread
- Replies: 4111
- Views: 380829
Re: The Official UCI Pro Cycling Thread
It's an era where a few riders are so superior to others than they attack 10s of km away from the finish line and manage to hold the chasers and win. A new way of racing. I don't know what we are seeing these days. When I started watching the sport in 1980s, such as the TDF, the stage winners looke...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9105
- Views: 285887
Re: Israel declares state of war
Hopefully.iarmhiman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:50 pm Oh fudge
That's all I'm going to say
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68708923
This will escalate like hell
It's time for Israel to face its own reckoning.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: It’s official, Brits are soft.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1194
Re: It’s official, Brits are soft.
San Mig is trendy now? It's a big Philippine brand. So basically, all you've gotta do to attract a "discerning palate" is ship the thing ten thousand miles. It's no longer ubiquitous and therefore seems boutique. Not saying it's total shit, but it's just a beer. Put it this way: it's everywhere in ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: It’s official, Brits are soft.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1194
Re: It’s official, Brits are soft.
The only beer to drink, Weissebier.
You pay more for it than other stouts/ales/beers but it's worth it for Weissebier.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2113
Re: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
JVW
FDP
NFJ/DK
FDP
NFJ/DK
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
His daughter apparently. Nice girl, we have some mutual friends. Ffs Whore of a wife allegedly aided and abetted So she either helped or knowing stood aside Bloody hell. If that is true, I hope that his daughter finds justice and peace. God help her Unbelievable that an adult can do such things but...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
FFFG merger. There is very little of substance to differentiate between both main parties. Both of them appear to sing from the same hymn sheet and have done for the past decade. Both parties have abandoned their hard core support, leaving them closer to one another in reality. What does their hard...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
FFFG merger.
There is very little of substance to differentiate between both main parties. Both of them appear to sing from the same hymn sheet and have done for the past decade.
Both parties have abandoned their hard core support, leaving them closer to one another in reality.
There is very little of substance to differentiate between both main parties. Both of them appear to sing from the same hymn sheet and have done for the past decade.
Both parties have abandoned their hard core support, leaving them closer to one another in reality.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
That would include banning this place too, presumably.Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:42 am Social media has been a complete pox upon our world, we need to ban it completely it has been overwhelmingly bad for everyone
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ban Irish horse race participation in UK because they’re too good
- Replies: 29
- Views: 758
Re: Ban Irish horse race participation in UK because they’re too good
Tax breaks for the breeders aside, the Irish Equine industry does receive other subsidies and subventions from the state in terms of financial support. It's seems to be the view that the Horse Racing industry is worth preserving and growing. (Whether or not this industry should be preserved/supporte...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
You can't have someone with a lisp as leader. Not in the current climate. Petty and sad as that sounds. I also don't think he inspires much. Accountants rarely make good leaders! Would be interesting going head to head with Mary Lou in their constituency though! Donohoe isn't an accountant. He had ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Pascal for me. Has to be a man good with the purse You can't have someone with a lisp as leader. Not in the current climate. Petty and sad as that sounds. I also don't think he inspires much. Accountants rarely make good leaders! Would be interesting going head to head with Mary Lou in their consti...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527992
- Views: 28734345
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Gregor Townsend
- Replies: 137
- Views: 3183
Re: Gregor Townsend
Scotland’s Eddie O’Sullivan. Stabilised and improved a mess but couldn’t make a breakthrough. The Scots real problem is they have no Declan Kidney ready to take over and bring them to the next level EOS and the IRFU fcked over Garland, the first Irish coach in almost forever to beat France and Engl...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Gregor Townsend
- Replies: 137
- Views: 3183
Re: Gregor Townsend
Cotter turned Scotland. Townsend was riding in his coattails. Cotter certainly improved Scotland hugely. The point about player numbers though is reasonable. Scottish pool is small. To think Scotland held the hex over us throughout the entire 1990s beating throughout home and away. 90s was a differ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Gregor Townsend
- Replies: 137
- Views: 3183
Re: Gregor Townsend
Cotter certainly improved Scotland hugely.CrazyIslander wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:33 pm Cotter turned Scotland. Townsend was riding in his coattails.
The point about player numbers though is reasonable. Scottish pool is small.
To think Scotland held the hex over us throughout the entire 1990s beating throughout home and away.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527992
- Views: 28734345
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
I'm not convinced by Crowley. He did fine At no point in the championship did I think we are missing Sexton He’s a young lad and will be all the better for the last two months For his first championship, Crowley had a good one. He had big boots to fill and he did the job. He should only improve fro...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10758
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
Could that last win by Ireland be their swan song? The production line is still ok. May take a few years to integrate the young lads. At least we won't peak mid cycle We were missing our most creative back, Hansen, and Keenan was either unavailable or had to play wing for the last three games. Fran...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10758
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
redderneck wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:17 pmI hope it's a big bowl of prunes, doused in vinegar.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527992
- Views: 28734345
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Backrow have a lot to prove this week as a unit. As others have agreed with me on the need for pace in the backline, it'll be interesting to see how things develop on that front post 6nations. Scotland have always had good backrow units and individual backrow players. It's always been one of the st...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Yeah, don't fly boeing planes at the moment
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2626
Re: Yeah, don't fly boeing planes at the moment
Merging with McDonell Douglas was a disaster. Remember that is the company that made the DC-10 which is one of the most accident prone passenger planes ever manufactured. Boeing started prioritizing speed to market. The company workers were actually told explicitly that the stock price is the most ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Yeah, don't fly boeing planes at the moment
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2626
Re: Yeah, don't fly boeing planes at the moment
Some guy recently gave a potted history of companies who were engineering greats but are now gone or next to it. I don't remember the names except for General Electric. When they were at the top of their game they had mission statements like engineering is our passion . Then they get the financial ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Brain Injury and Career Length
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3087
Re: Brain Injury and Career Length
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-12791167/Ex-Wales-star-Alix-Popham-offers-hope-former-rugby-stars-suffering-dementia-revealing-life-changing-impact-experimental-brain-treatment-Mexico.html Unsure if anyone has seen this outside of Wales, but maybe a glimmer of hope for dementia...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527992
- Views: 28734345
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Anyone been over to Cardiff in recent years for a match ? How bad is it for getting accommodation on 6N weekends? Terrible. Maybe it's me getting older but Cardiff is not a venue that I want to socialise in any more. Its become very rough over the past decade or so. If we go to Cardiff for an inter...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Royals photoshopping pictures of Kate
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2277
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146106
- Views: 7901818
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
and shows how a few very well-connected and vocal lobby groups have a completely disproportionate influence on social commentary in Ireland. Even on Saturday night the head of the NWC said that the result was bad for women and her group would continue to push for change; she just blithely ignored a...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Tbf England played well today and probably deserved to win. Congrats
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Bundi josh jgp and Hugo are the pick of this Irish team today
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Still some way to go, 15 mins left, only 3 pt game.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
Thankfully Ford has left his place kicking boots at home
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45853