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The solution is simple. Munster, Ulster, and, to a lesser extent, Connacht need to get their acts together. I'm no Leinster fan (I'll support them against anyone bar Munster and possibly Connacht), but they got a lot right over a few years. They got some calls horribly wrong, but have shown how smar...

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Outer Mongolia ? Thanks for the Tibet stuff , might make that a piority . I live and travel in China. So inner only, and Xinjiang province on the same trip (a lot of traveling!) Tibet is great, but be smart. The reason doesn't go much beyond Lhasa, and after that you're on a bus for 8 hours between...

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Only done inner Mongolia. Not amazing. Big, empty, polluted, very hot...

Tibet is fantastic, particularly the west (as far west as foreigners can go which is about Darchen and Mt Kailash). Getting there is a pain though, even with a Chinese pulling all their Guanxi to help you...

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Don't go. In all seriousness, I haven't lived there for about 15 years, but I visit once a year. Here's my, possibly or if days, advice. Wrexham is a bit of a dump. Obviously do the Racecourse, but the town center is sketchy AF. In that area the nice places are smaller, but lovely. Pontcysyllte is w...

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Exactly what I was thinking. And most online examples of English are US English, when outside English speaking countries India I believe is taught British English. Most Poles too, and most of the EU according to Google. I don't know now, but I lived in China just over 20 years ago, and their Englis...

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I was 18 when I joined. Looking for advice ahead of my first training session in rugby. Stuck arrive for a while after that for the links to streams. fudge knows why I'm still here, I barely even post it easy anything bar the Irish thread.

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I'm down as Irish, which is grand, but probably should be down as plastic as I grew up in Britain (still support Ireland though) - that'll do us I also coached the El Salvador rugby team and have 1 cap for the Salvadoran cricket team if that means I can have tri-nationality. Sadly I now live in yet ...

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Winnie wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:59 pm Is the poor grammar in the subject grinding anyone else’s gears?
Should it not be Are Ireland peaking too early?

Makes my eyes bleed. But it seems to be a common thing when referring to sports teams now and I hear a screech in my head every time.

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Jesus there is some absolute bollocks trotted out in here on a regular basis. Crowley looks better for Ireland than he does for Munster? Only if you’ve ever watched him play once before the 6N and decided he was shite because you wanted someone else to start for Ireland. He’s been superb for Munste...

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The fact that a player of Ryan's qualities is struggling to get into the side is remarkable. This is a man who, even against Italy, played extraordinarily well as a tight forward and it wasn't enough to register. It's not that long ago since Toner was a regular and, while he was great for us, he was...

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Am I the only one who was surprised at the amount of time Irelands back 3 ( Lowe) had when fielding and returning kicks. There was one occasion where Lowe shapes to kick, looks up, and realises he can casually stroll from the 22 to half way before the French line comes up. I appreciate the need to ...

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Am I the only one who was surprised at the amount of time Irelands back 3 ( Lowe) had when fielding and returning kicks. There was one occasion where Lowe shapes to kick, looks up, and realises he can casually stroll from the 22 to half way before the French line comes up. I appreciate the need to m...

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A team being down one man for 60 null and voids any top-end international match, no one should kid themselves. A real shame as this could have been a cracker There's an easy answer. Don't get fvcking sent off. If you let your team down, you let them down. No going around changing the rules and enda...

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ZappaMan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:31 pm Bath is tops but I think the tourist crowds would melt my head if I lived there.

Summer is a little crazy, as is late November. Aside from that it was always fine.

I currently live in China and the tourist crowds here are a different order of magnitude!

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It's been 10 years since I lived there, but there was a pub with the best selection of ales and best pies in Britain. I believe it gained notoriety for the owner kicking out Corbyn a few years ago. Get yourself a pie from there. The Raven. I think they just serve Pieminister ones now . Nice pub tho...

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It's been 10 years since I lived there, but there was a pub with the best selection of ales and best pies in Britain.

I believe it gained notoriety for the owner kicking out Corbyn a few years ago.

Get yourself a pie from there.

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I do find it funny that, once the URC has found its legs and is proving to be an excellent competition, the Welsh are desperately trying to join the premiership again. If you can't make a success of it being a part of a strong and thriving league, how will you make a success of it in a basket case o...

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plenty of commentary this week that all irish scrums have been under pressure in europe. issue with development of props in the provinces? issue with scrum coaching? issue with talent id? Part of it is clearly preferring more athletic players. But Furlong has scrummed well before and Wycherly made ...

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Is it time to splash the cash on the best scrum coach in the world to come to Ireland and spend time at each of the provinces (and national side)? I'm fed up of hearing the scrum is going to be an issue etc etc. It doesn't need to be world beating, but the castle is there for it to survive. If it do...

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El Salvador around El Tunco. I prefer Playa Las Tunas, but the nearest city is El Cuco with is controlled by the marras which some people aren't comfortable with. Only issue is Bukele and his particular strand of dictatorial idiocy. Guatemala has a few places you could do that. Maybe not Antigua, bu...

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Surely the answer, on every side, is rather simple. Greece to admit the marbles were legally acquired and the British museum to sell them back for an equal fee (adjusted for inflation) in the interests of historical preservation. A part of the deal could be a requirement for at least 1 important Gre...

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Let Leinster take these small victories to have something to sing about. Munster should keep focusing on the big wins and winning finals...

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I plan to travel there late next year. I've even been learning Spanish so I can engage with the locals. Every time I come across news from Argentina, it's related to their economy. I hope you are learning Spanish from an Argentinian, because having worked in South America, the Argentinian accent wa...

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I had the 245M and loved it, it was perfect for a first running watch. However, the heart rate was a little slow to rise/fall and the battery with music lasted maybe for 30km before needing a charge. I upgraded to the 955 and I love it even more. It tracks my sleep, which is handy for planning worko...

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I mean, it would be nice to not lose a quarter for once...

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I grew up, for a long time, proud of how long I could "last". I occasionally even had issues cumming before the girl I was with, which I put down to soy things like her starfishing etc. This was until my late 20s,with my first long term partner. She went on the pill and I stopped using protection. T...

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We're getting a great big dose of Ben Healy revisionism thrown in with the Kleyn meltdown. Have people totally forgotten the fact he couldn't make the Munster 23 until about April this season? :? Is true though, do you think Munster would have won if Leinster had added a couple more first choice pl...

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When I started working it was 70-80 hours a week. Now I've moved international and into middle leadership and it's 40-50 a week. I've definitely stopped saying yes to everything and started saying its as good as the time you've given me allows it to be.

I'm a teacher BTW.

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Has Rugby Union ever been in a spot like this before? To be fair, outside of England and Wales rugby isn't doing bad. Ireland is the strongest it's ever been, Scotland is recovering, south africa are song and adding immensely to the URC by providing consistent challenge to the Irish sides (the scot...

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Anyone know where I can watch the full game? I'm living in a good awful timezone for watching rugby and woke to the most miraculous scoreline.

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England ducked up allowing the clubs to become the foundation of the professional game. Imagine how strong English rugby works be now with 8 geographically spread regions each run to help build English rugby instead of as tiny dicked men's overcompensations...

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Floppykid wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 8:13 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 8:03 pm
Floppykid wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 5:07 pm IRFU should step in and make it a 5th province.
Sensible business heads needed. People who know how to make a ship run right
Not the worst idea ever. Close but not the very worst.
Think about it though, a proper Leinster B team/

Isn't that ulster?

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As I said, the other three provinces are able to 'do a Leinster' with decent work at underage level and decent coaching. There are no resources being diverted to Leinster, it's the other way around, our earnings are being spread out to the other provinces. Leinster's squad in 15/16 was bang average...

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Mullin is way, way too good for that division. I think he was league 1 and expected to go up a league but they convinced him to come to Wrexham with a matching contract and a chance to be like 20 minutes or less from his in laws. His missus was preggers so that sealed the deal if I remember the fir...

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Unrugbylike behaviour is a straight red and 10 weeks off. Solely at the refs discretion, no cutting panel. Examples include backchat, diving, stupid over the top celebrations, being Welsh, etc.

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Does anyone have any good tips on how to start investing, and investing effectively? Invest regularly into broad market ETFs. The S&P500 has outperformed most actively managed funds and you won't lose money to management fees. Open an account with interactive brokers and buy VOO, VXUS, and BND. Rea...

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Does anyone have any good tips on how to start investing, and investing effectively? Invest regularly into broad market ETFs. The S&P500 has outperformed most actively managed funds and you won't lose money to management fees. Open an account with interactive brokers and buy VOO, VXUS, and BND. Rea...

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Johnny Sexton was overrated and was only playing because of a board against ROG.

Ollie Devoto was underrated and should have been first choice for England.

George North was a flat track bully with nothing but size on his side.

I'm uniformly terrible at judging players based off of a few games.

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I was speaking to a guy recently who is in the know on this stuff, I think his kid goes to Michaels, but he also used to work in something rugby related (can't remember exactly, I had a feed of pints in me at the time). He said it's basically a professional setup, except it's for schoolboys so it o...

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The problem is that 2 defacto leagues are developing within the URC. Not helped by the Welsh ineptitude. This leads to blow out games which are a big negative. However, creating 2 leagues is a non starter financially as well would pay to watch the second league? Even in a market as large as England ...

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