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Blackrock Bullet

People like you will be forever stuck living in the past. This whole island will be better off when dinosaurs such as yourself from both sides shuffle off this mortal coil and we can all move on with our lives. This is bollicks tbf. Who are we kidding with this stuff? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-no...

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You've never painted an entire group of people based on the actions of a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of them? Really? :lol: Who said Nordies don't have a sense of humour! No just on reality, see what I have to amongst? https://www.balls.ie/gaa/joe-brolly-tyrone-ira-gaa-unique-634418 Anyway, they repu...

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What’s wrong with what Brolly said? Nothing He backs my point up that the GAA is a basically the sporting wing of the IRA . Anyway, Brolly is non-existent in NI, even the GAA people think he is a dose. Not sure how he keeps getting air/media time in the ROI. That’s a disgraceful and lazy statement....

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RA had originally planned to have the team in Sydney but NZR suddenly announced that it was going to start Moana in NZ. IMO they did this specifically to stop the RA plan for 2 reasona. 1. Stop RA from having 6 teams which would've paved the way for an Australian national comp. 2. So NZR can contro...

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Rugby is rapidly shrinking globally and seems to have no answer on how to sell itself. How is it that the NRL have the Australian Government subsidising a team? Let's be honest, Rugby Australia and New Zealand Rugby have utterly failed to both work together and mobilise soft power. There are mot th...

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RA had originally planned to have the team in Sydney but NZR suddenly announced that it was going to start Moana in NZ. IMO they did this specifically to stop the RA plan for 2 reasona. 1. Stop RA from having 6 teams which would've paved the way for an Australian national comp. 2. So NZR can contro...

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RA had originally planned to have the team in Sydney but NZR suddenly announced that it was going to start Moana in NZ. IMO they did this specifically to stop the RA plan for 2 reasona. 1. Stop RA from having 6 teams which would've paved the way for an Australian national comp. 2. So NZR can contro...

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I would say it's fair to though that Leinster and Ulster have significantly (and disproportionately) more rugby nurseries though which is most important pathway. Just looking at the, the same 4 schools have been in every Connacht Schools final since 2000 with the exception of one year. It says 9 sch...

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It’s just typical Irish arrogance, as if O’Driscoll was such an immense threat that the All Blacks would risk losing their captain and starting hooker for the series to take him out specifically as some kind of idiotic strategy. Why would they feel the need when he had never particularly troubled t...

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Holy hell, the ex Principal of St Augustines is an even more evil prick than the majority of these predators. The lads at that schools were all special needs.

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The redevelopment of the death trap that is the A5 has been blocked again. Insanity. This is why climate protesters get so much pushback. There's reasonable and then there's unreasonable. I am honestly of the view that a lot of the cycling lobby don't care about the environment but just better cycl...

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The redevelopment of the death trap that is the A5 has been blocked again. Insanity. This is why climate protesters get so much pushback. There's reasonable and then there's unreasonable. I am honestly of the view that a lot of the cycling lobby don't care about the environment but just better cycl...

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The Adam Curtis thesis is they're just idiots who badly misunderstood Milton Friedman. I'd chill in listening to him Hence my point that they're malign, not morons. No what I am saying is you are giving Adam Curtis too much truck. He weaves an interesting narrative but don't go crazy on it. Politic...

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It's honestly insane how badly they've broken Britain. They deliberately fúcked up deindustrialisation of the North to break Labour's strongholds and now wonder why the UK is collapsing. You are giving the Tories far too much credit there. 2019 is the only time they've shown smarts and they only wo...

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We just expect our coaches to deliver the best with what we have Unlike others who think their coach is great even though with the best squad in Europe he has brought one URC title in four seasons I don't like Leo Cullen and think he should go. But I would not have said that after his first season....

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He is not going to ban travel from the countries involved here. The summer is already shaping up badly tourism wise, particularly in some states he carried in November. He's a loose cannon and could do anything but this is just illogical. Interestingly, Biden continued on Trump's illogical COVID tra...

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Murphy has one year left on his contract, anything less than top 8, & he won’t be here. I’d say Jared Payne, Dwayne Peel or Jeremy Davidson will be next off the block. Mark McCall looks to be well settled in London appears to have the run of the place at Sarries. And will they last for 12, 15, 18 o...

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The most disappointing factor about reunification is the people we'll have to take in. The British have absolutely fúcked over the poor in the North. Left them poor, helpless and angry. Meanwhile, the grammar schools etc churn out intelligent people who generally fúck off to London. They're ruthles...

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I think Ulster have been unlucky. They don’t have lots of internationals. Forwards especially. But I do think the house of pain they have gone through will serve Ulster well as CM11 said. Richie is a good coach. It will click. A few games this year showed that. I think a few people will really star...

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RWC2015 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:56 pm ROC on Indo Sports podcast hinting that Furlong and/or Park would have played but for the Lions.

His comments on on the last six weeks in Leinster were interesting.

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Rugbynut2 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:11 pm
Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 7:39 pm Was the original thread not started by Uncle Fester copy and pasting fear porn from the Property Pin?
Think the first few pages were Camroc and his ilk defending the government over the housing crisis.

13 years later and sure ‘you can’t build them overnight’.

Which poster were you in 2009?

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Was the original thread not started by Uncle Fester copy and pasting fear porn from the Property Pin?

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lorcanoworms wrote: ↑Thu Jun 12, 2025 12:41 pm A house in Clondalkin newly purchased being searched re Annie McCarrick, suspect arrested in Irishtown.

Seems like more Garda incompetence I'm afraid, they just weren't equipped to deal with those kinds of cases.

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Yes, good player. Not sure he'd ever have been an international, but you never know. He was named in the Emerging Ireland squad but didn't feature because of injury. His best attribute is probably his knack for scoring tries. Leinster cut him and Liam Turner to make space for Ioane :roll: Barrat ma...

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There's a lot of people with a lot of time on their hands and it's being put into a lot of unproductive things including protesting (of various virtues and styles). If you ever chat to a politician, they'll tell you that the same people seem to manage to be at where their diary happens to be that day.

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It is all ne’erdowell opportunistic trouble makers There will be trouble again tonight as it’s another decent day and evening There will be no trouble tomorrow because it’s forecast to be pishing down Yes and no. Racism is definitely increasing, especially in working-class communities across the we...

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https://forum.planetrugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=69522&hilit=Farrell Fun thread. You make a cameo Dragster, just about get away with only a little egg on your face compared to some though. Your compatriots are practically omelettes on that thread with their welcome 😂 Did you have a post on there? ...

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For a lad with no experience Johnson had a better RWC off the back of his six nations win, and that vintage kiwi side bears zero comparison. Eddie? Had his standard bounce- got england playing winning rugby, made a RWC final- overstayed his welcome. Again- you're just doing that thing where you pro...

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Do think the player power thing (or self preservation) was bubbling away at both world cups. Doesn't seem to be a feature anymore, thankfully. Burgess went on record in blaming them for 2015 - and of course he would say that, wouldn't he - but with no real reason to do so years later he praised bot...

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What do you suggest the RFU did with them? Create jobs? Strong arm clubs? The post RWC review was scathing. I still maintain Lancasters 'Did Well' at Leinster is subjective. Nothing flash followed by not standing on his own two feet at Racing. They also courted Robertson very heavily- no shame in a...

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What do you suggest the RFU did with them? Create jobs? Strong arm clubs? The post RWC review was scathing. I still maintain Lancasters 'Did Well' at Leinster is subjective. Nothing flash followed by not standing on his own two feet at Racing. They also courted Robertson very heavily- no shame in a...

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He was begging for munster or australia. A lot of the irish stuff around lancaster is framed around 'the brits not appreciating him' and an impression irish rugby has snatched him away from our claws. What did he really win at Leinster? One star early on followed by some pretty (losing) rugby? I th...

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Bad luck to the Saffer posters looking for refugee status.

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But any province didn't, just connacht and he's been pimping his cv to all and sundry for a while. Quite, but all we're really talking about for head coach vacancies is two. McMillan was our preferred candidate around the new year IIRC and who knows what stage the process was at. We didn't need an ...

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I watched his podcast from a few weeks ago and he basically said he’d be happy to go back to the role he had with Leinster, basically saying he was happy to have part of the pressure taken off him. He won’t get the same level of scrutiny in Connacht and they’ll follow him so it suits him. Seems lik...

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I watched his podcast from a few weeks ago and he basically said he’d be happy to go back to the role he had with Leinster, basically saying he was happy to have part of the pressure taken off him. He won’t get the same level of scrutiny in Connacht and they’ll follow him so it suits him. Seems like...

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earl the beaver wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:47 am
camroc1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:43 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:36 am

Let's have a look at the end of season URC table :

1. Leinster
6. Munster
13. Connacht
14. Ulster

Yep, that'd be about right !
Yes we've been atrocious under the leadership of Murphy.

Aren't you moaning that you haven't been given your typical few elite NIQs as well?

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Statement from Connacht. Confirmation that Ulster are very much the 4th province for the IRFU. :lol: Are we going to pretend that Ulster don't have by far and away the worst coaching setup of the provinces now? Munster have a top quality headcoach coming in. Leinster have such a high quality ticket...

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earl the beaver wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 11:34 am Statement from Connacht.

Confirmation that Ulster are very much the 4th province for the IRFU.

Connacht will need to have years and years of signing elite NIQs before you can make that case I'm afraid.

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FFS meant Donnybrook. Don’t know what came over me They have to be able to offer all season ticket holders a seat. 13k. Too big a crowd for Donnybrook. But it's exactly what I was saying a couple of weeks ago when it was being suggested that we've outgrown the RDS. Those number aren't sustainable l...

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