Despot I have no agenda. I just don't think people who act as agents should be offering preportedly independent analysis. Sheehan is just an example. If you watched ath he really singled best out on a couple of occasions without mentioning any of the more obvious targets for criticism. I agree Cron...

The Cordite blog is right in that continuing along the same path when it isn't working is f**king stupid, but he still ruins much of what he is talking about by massively overrating a whole host of players. That slithery fecker frankie sheehan for example absolutely dismissed the notion that someho...

anyone here read the rugby forum on boards?..delusion is not the word, the talk today is Healy, Best, Ross, O'Connell, Ferris, Heaslip, Sexton, Bod, Bowe and Kearney are all in contention to start for the Lions. Plus many more in contention to tour. I think based on our 6N form, and the welsh GS, t...

anyone here read the rugby forum on boards?..delusion is not the word, the talk today is Healy, Best, Ross, O'Connell, Ferris, Heaslip, Sexton, Bod, Bowe and Kearney are all in contention to start for the Lions. Plus many more in contention to tour. I think based on our 6N form, and the welsh GS, th...

I thought POM had very little impact, certainly not enough to see him starting. SOB had very little impact today..he is not a 7 and never will be. I thought POM done reasonably well when he came on, and even though not a 7 either, the backrow needs a bit more aggression at the breakdown, and maybe ...

Changes for France?
Ryan, POM and Reddan

Joe Schmidt for ireland please

2016 6N following the inevitable 2015 debacle, help me out by adding any suggestions to my lack of knowledge - players aged 30 or younger in 2016 Jones / Kearney R. / Conway O'Halloran / Gilroy / Kearney D. Spence/ Cave / Griffin / O'Malley Hanrahan / Farrell Zebo / Earls Sexton /Jackson / Madigan M...

Ireland Under - 20 Team (v France Under - 20, RBS 6 Nations, Stade Des Alpes, Grenoble - February 11th, 14.15 GMT) 15 Shane Layden (Buccaneers - Connacht) 14 Conor Finn (Buccaneers - Connacht) 13 Chris Farrell (Dungannon - Ulster) 12 JJ Hanrahan (UL Bohemian - Munster) 11 Sam Coghlan - Murray (UCD ...

binge90 wrote:Great stuff Deccie, great stuff.

more important question is who is 12

They were saying in the examiner that they were thinking of playing ROG at 10 with Sexton at 12 - great lets just kick every ball to Malzieu and clerc and give them a nice big target to run at. Also Frances lineout is not Wales- we always struggle against the French lineout - then again I don't wan...

They were saying in the examiner that they were thinking of playing ROG at 10 with Sexton at 12 - great lets just kick every ball to Malzieu and clerc and give them a nice big target to run at. Also Frances lineout is not Wales- we always struggle against the French lineout - then again I don't wan...

I'm not trying to be biased when I say we might need to choose between SOB and Heaslip at 8, or SOB and Ferris at 6, but I do believe we need a "proper" 7 (especially with no BOD, who covered up a lot of deficiencies in that area). Whether that 7 is POM, or Jennings, or somebody else, is a moot poi...

Porterbelly1 wrote:

you know it makes sense

Sorry if posted already Ferris and Davis cited. http://www.espnscrum.com/six-nations-2012/rugby/story/159116.html?CMP=OTC-RSS Hope the punishments reflect the crimes not the referees decision on both. At the risk of willie calling a fatwah on my head, this could be a bit of a blessing it could forc...