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lots of helicopters overhead this afternoon. swat type police surrounding a building or street nearby to the incident. Suspected where the shooter or shooters ran to. TV showed one body on the tram tracks partially covered with a blanket. not nice to see.

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The biggest downside to working in Indonesia was flying into small regional strips in dodgy aircraft with permanently smiling pilots. My first trip to Tarakan in NE Kalimantan in ancient King air [ notorious for falling out of the air] culminated in a descent through a monsoon storm cloud with zero...

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I have booked flights home to Ireland for the week now. I keep hurting the ones I love with my behaviour and I feel myself spiralling Ireland are going to win the RWC- you need to be around to see that. I would never miss the chance to rub that in Pom and Aussie faces... mate just said to me "Imagi...

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The burns from the artificial pitches are bad and take time to heal. Kids playing in a final a few weeks ago still have burn injuries from the pitch. One kid got some kind of infection from the burns after playing on one in a 7s tournament. My impression from the team I'm involved with is parents & ...

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Blimey- most people seem to know they're being irrational, with avoidance of things etc. Maybe you could have a chat with a good therapist for some guidance? To him it all seems perfectly rational (and in a world of the Donald vs North Korea, climate change, he has ample genuine reasons to be conce...

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Found the 1014 series on the refs interesting during the lions

https://youtu.be/pDMlVRPg-PU

https://youtu.be/gNrrs-7L6eI

Good perspective on why some items are left go & others not.

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https://www.izettle.com/gb

Might be of use for small business. Seen advertised a lot in NL.

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Send Heaslip to Ulster, - pay him enough to make it worth his while. Where are we going to find €10m? Im sure a sponsor could be found to keep him at his current level. Why should the new guys move to get game time if the experienced guy could offer more by moving. probably expectations are given h...

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Heaslip going would be a win all round, I reckon. Save money, still have access to him and Conan gets proper gametime. Not good for Ulster if Nucifora's plan is to encourage player movement rather than the fück over Ulster approach that it appears to be. Ulster f**k themselves over with poor coachi...

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Rip
Shocked & saddened

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Cronin cited. http://www.the42.ie/munster-prop-james-cronin-citing-cited-stamp-3019838-Oct2016/ It gets worse the more I look at it. That's just the kind of incident that leads to us having another Ian McKinley on our hands. Looks nasty. Not good for Munster with kilcoyne on concussion protocol as ...

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http://i.imgur.com/oDp6ySf.jpg 18 months left tops with that haircut as he'll be bald as an egg pretty soon. I'll take some joy in that and not much else from yesterday's showing. Yeah, the bald patch at the back made him quite easy to pick out on Saturday. He better hope he goes Felipe-bald and no...

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/8498 ... th-munster

Is that the new signing for munster?

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Signed

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I don't think Payne has come in for any criticism other than the obvious for his kicking. I assume the Fitz/Henshaw comment was tongue in cheek and that's the only reference to dropping him. I think fitz had his best game for Ireland for a good while even though played in a relatively unfamiliar po...

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The SA lock De jager & Henderson would make some powerful combination. They both look about 15 but put in some amount of effort. ulster should start having a word with their contacts. see if AOC can move to 6 or 8 & have a serious pack.

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Diego wrote:Another Dutchman/woman! What's your story then?

No expat. On here a long time just don't post much.(2003 ish)

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Leinsterman wrote:What struck me about Fitzgerald was his ability to overrun a stationary ball on the deck.
Whatever about overrunning a pass, overrunning a ball on the ground was

Probably saw how much open ground in front of him & decided not to do himself an injury by halfway.

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Beginning to think a large proportion of Irish fans are as dumb as ulster fans were when questioning Jared Payne. Top tackler (none missed), best running game in the outside backs and a score. And suddenly people are talking about fitz/Henshaw. f**k me :x Two poor kicks aside, Payne had a good game...

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You'd have to say that's our starting pack with Healy off the bench. Same bench too. Hard luck Dev but we'll always have Paris. Hopefully Healy is ready to go before France, but yeah, I agree. I think on balance he'll prefer McGrath's match sharpness at the start and Healy’s impact off the bench, e...

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Who's going to win the scrap between Boxy and Stats? Should be a cracker. Boxy 4/5f Stats 5/4 Not the art of fighting anyway Well obviously it would be interpretive dance in true PR tradition This just sprung to mind http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-DTCdJtnn7hYm2/starsky_hutch_2004_dance_off/ :lol:

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From my basic understanding of the conversation in French between Garces & the TMO he was asking initially what his recommendation was & the TMO recommended yellow. Garces asked it to be played more on the screen with emphasis on how Goode landed & if his head hit the ground. When he saw the head hi...

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didnt see this posted yet.

http://balls.ie/rugby/gif-monster-hit-i ... s-italian/

There are some big tackeling centers on the way in the futue.
reminds me of the ferris hit on his return.

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Yup. No nailed-ons please. Especially not in key positions. Of course we're going to have nailed-ons. We don't have two quality players in most positions. Like it or not Sexton, POC, Heaslip, SOB, Healy, Bowe are all about as nailed on as they come. For as long as we meekly accept that, rather than...

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For me he looked very bulky last season - In a picture after the Italy loss in the 6N with him standing beside Best if you didn't know any better you might mistake him for a prop ( possibly genetic). https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCXnBSaYqb69P2D4iBgyiQiBQhei7e_XKSRqo55kZ1CSt...

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Axel Foley's Da played for Munster. Fitz is not slow. Not to start, and not over distance. The 2nd try he scored against Bath, he ran from inside his own 22 to the tryline in under 10 seconds, receiving the ball just inside his own half, slowing up as he scored, throwing in 2 sidesteps along the wa...

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Report on 2nd impact syndrome death inquest. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/boy-14-died-after-two-blows-to-the-head-during-rugby-game-1.1514709 It was in 2011, are the protocols improved around this now? Hopefully the program form the US the family mention or similar can be adopte...

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i don't see any mention of this in the other "mainstream" Irish press; http://www.thejournal.ie/priory-hall-stephanie-meehan-letter-taoiseach-enda-kenna-1060256-Aug2013/ Which bank hounded the poor family in the weeks leading up to his death? Its disgusting what is happening to these families and ot...

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So Pienaar has gone from best SH in Europe/one of the best in the world to only a small step up from Paul Marshall? fudge me! Does that mean Murray, as a test Lion and obviously a fair bit better than Marshall, is now better than Pienaar? I have to admit to being a bit confused as I was told only r...

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Not picking Best because of throwing but picking Strauss who was abysmal out of touch against America ffs. Every other aspect of his game is good. I saw the battle of Nantes (1985) All blacks v France match on you-tube recently & it was the props throwing in. Is there any prop that has any experien...

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Not picking Best because of throwing but picking Strauss who was abysmal out of touch against America ffs. Every other aspect of his game is good. I saw the battle of Nantes (1985) All blacks v France match on you-tube recently & it was the props throwing in. Is there any prop that has any experien...

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Not picking Best because of throwing but picking Strauss who was abysmal out of touch against America ffs. Every other aspect of his game is good. I saw the battle of Nantes (1985) All blacks v France match on you-tube recently & it was the props throwing in. Is there any prop that has any experien...

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Not picking Best because of throwing but picking Strauss who was abysmal out of touch against America ffs. Every other aspect of his game is good. I saw the battle of Nantes (1985) All blacks v France match on you-tube recently & it was the props throwing in. Is there any prop that has any experien...

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So we're meant to cap Nagle off the back of one decent ML game and a tour match even though he can't even make the Munster bench and we're supposed to cap the biggest flake in the history of sport as well in iHumph? I get your point on both but Ireland should have put them in position to try them o...

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So we're meant to cap Nagle off the back of one decent ML game and a tour match even though he can't even make the Munster bench and we're supposed to cap the biggest flake in the history of sport as well in iHumph? I get your point on both but Ireland should have put them in position to try them o...

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JOC was probably the most talented 18 year old outside back in the world when he made his breakthrough into the Aus side. He was already good enough to be playing international rugby at that age. There's always going to be exceptions to the rule, just because JOC started for Aus early doesn't mean ...

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Not saying Murray is in or going to be in the class of either but both Gregan & van der Westhuizen both made their international debuts when they were of a similar age. Age isn't the relevant factor or part of my point. Murray wasn't particularly young making his debut Murray is 24 now & made his d...

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JOC was probably the most talented 18 year old outside back in the world when he made his breakthrough into the Aus side. He was already good enough to be playing international rugby at that age. There's always going to be exceptions to the rule, just because JOC started for Aus early doesn't mean ...

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As I've argued on the future Lion thread and on here in the past, Murray has had to go through his development as a SH on the international stage hence the varying performances and some shockers. He's barely 2 years as a starting pro. The issue many of us had in the past was not that he didn't have...

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JOC was probably the most talented 18 year old outside back in the world when he made his breakthrough into the Aus side. He was already good enough to be playing international rugby at that age. There's always going to be exceptions to the rule, just because JOC started for Aus early doesn't mean ...

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