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by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45547
Views: 2983390

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

Barca have completely shat the bed here
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

shabadoo wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:43 pm
Ulsters Red Hand wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:12 pm Cruden to Ulster apparently, a washed up ex-AB without a club is exactly what we need. Bryn ffs
Surely there is a way to blame the IRFU for this?
Well they did make us get rid of our ten
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

All the lads with the personality disorders just trying to get back to discussing how brilliant Leinster are ASAP Not true. I feel bad for how Ulster have been mistreated by the IRFU https://media3.giphy.com/media/BAaeOq5HGYIUw/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952wlw1v7kyqut82ml28lhfu0fywsaqzubeg7xl86b1&ep=v1_in...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The Ulster Rugby Medical Performance team has issued a squad update ahead of this Friday’s BKT United Rugby Championship Round 14 fixture against Cardiff Rugby at Kingspan Stadium. Ulster suffered a number of injuries in last Saturday's EPCR Challenge Cup Quarter-Final defeat away to Clermont. Iain...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

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by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Alan O'Connor, ex Ulster captain and played more than 100 times for Ulster, and you call him 'cancerous'. He's what would be a 'legend' in every other province. Hmmm, a poisonous atmosphere at Ulster you say.......... I think you missed the entire point of that exchange, Cam! :lol: Apoliogies to Wi...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Earl/Winnie, like I said, I'm ignorant of the situation in Ulster schools and not pretending to know the answer, nor will I pontificate about what should be done. I'm just somewhat surprised that something which was, to me, as trivial as having overseas lads involved in coaching, was worth remarkin...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

TBH, that sounds like schools in Ulster need to get the finger out and appoint coaches properly. Reminiscent of the old days of one of the priests coaching the SCT in the Leinster schools. That hasn't been the case in decades. Do the coaches that are in-situ do coaching courses with the Ulster Bran...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Bogbunny wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:52 am
Winnie wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:42 am
earl the beaver wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:40 am

Christ on a fúcking bike.
Cant wait to wade in on Ulster but instead makes a real tit of himself
Typical cammy
TBF he has just opened the third decanter.....
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by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Alan O'Connor, ex Ulster captain and played more than 100 times for Ulster, and you call him 'cancerous'. He's what would be a 'legend' in every other province. Hmmm, a poisonous atmosphere at Ulster you say.......... Christ on a fúcking bike. Cant wait to wade in on Ulster but instead makes a real...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:40 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

camroc1 wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:38 am Alan O'Connor, ex Ulster captain and played more than 100 times for Ulster, and you call him 'cancerous'. He's what would be a 'legend' in every other province.

Hmmm, a poisonous atmosphere at Ulster you say..........
Not AOC you fu.cking idiot CM11
jesus christ
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11443
Views: 1238984

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

Jensrsa wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:41 pm
JPNZ wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:35 pm Finished the gentlemen on NF. Typical guy ritchie storytelling arc. Can’t wait for season 2. 8.2/10
I've been eyeing that, just haven't taken the plunge
Its a cracking show
Go for it
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Is that unusual? We had Kiwi and Aussie coaches 20+ years ago. Granted, my school had a fair bit of discretionary cash to throw around as they saw fit, and that's at the crux of what enables such good coaching at various Leinster schools. Often guys were playing with a club and coached in school an...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The way some of the Ulster lads talk about players from other provinces when they're not in form or fading highlights the problem. AOC was heralded as more Ulster than Leinster when he was putting in a decent shift but as he's faded he's got way more abuse than an Ulster born player would. The iden...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I’ve suggested it a lot. I feel we miss out a lot to the likes of the kiwis on this point. Ultimately everything should and has to be about the Irish team. Tell me she was the last time you saw some of the Leinster stars give as emotional a performance as they did on sat in green. I wanted them to ...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Ulster may produce schools players, but the pipelines diverge massively after school level, and always have. Decent Ulster schools players often went to England for uni. Lads from Leinster went to UCD and Trinity. Since then, underage coaching and S&C in Leinster have improved enormously, with priv...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The way some of the Ulster lads talk about players from other provinces when they're not in form or fading highlights the problem. AOC was heralded as more Ulster than Leinster when he was putting in a decent shift but as he's faded he's got way more abuse than an Ulster born player would. The iden...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Ulster may produce schools players, but the pipelines diverge massively after school level, and always have. Decent Ulster schools players often went to England for uni. Lads from Leinster went to UCD and Trinity. Since then, underage coaching and S&C in Leinster have improved enormously, with priv...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:47 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
Replies: 121
Views: 2977

Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !

You know how much funding each irish province gets? You know the finer details of the Thomond financing? You know the split between Leinster's own money with higher gate receipts vs central funding? You know how many games the first teamers miss for Leinster and how that factors into the compensati...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Golf Thread
Replies: 6764
Views: 659219

Re: Official Golf Thread

Grandpa wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:07 am So Rory could be off to LIV?

https://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/r ... 54763.html
PGA stabbed him in the back
Wouldn’t blame him to be honest
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:11 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The lads had Piatau and then Kitschoff and they’re playing the poor mouth There was a 5 year gap between Piutau leaving and signing Kitshoff. You’d think you would have been more careful to hold onto Kitschoff so What do you want us to do keep him hostage If he is homesick then no point in him bein...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

CM11 wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:56 am And don't let anyone say we don't take the URC seriously anymore!
It’s alright
Very shortly no one will take the URC seriously
And when they saffers see that it come down to one game v Leinster every year they will fudge off too
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:33 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Munster don't have any problems selling tickets for exhibition matches involving 2nd/3rd choice players (must be really shit players according to this thread). Ulster have a set of outside backs they have continually misused for years. But they've actually started developing more than a couple of g...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:07 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

This is small town thinking. Holding back Leinster won’t help Ulster in the long term Ulster have to look in the mirror and get their house in order You signed a World Cup winning prop that other teams could only dream on and it’s nobody else’s fault that that didn’t work out. Leinster are on the c...
by Winnie
Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Blind arrogance This goes on like this and I guarantee you the game is dead on the island in ten years This is small town thinking. Holding back Leinster won’t help Ulster in the long term Ulster have to look in the mirror and get their house in order You signed a World Cup winning prop that other ...
by Winnie
Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Blind arrogance

This goes on like this and I guarantee you the game is dead on the island in ten years
by Winnie
Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

You got a stadium paid for you. You got superstar after superstar for years. Leinster used their first bit of outside investment to develop the best training facilities in Ireland (at the time). Leinster gave you international after international along with a British and Irish Lions. It isn’t Leins...
by Winnie
Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I think this kind of signing isn’t an issue if there a redirection of some younger players to fill problem spots in other provinces. Even as a short term basis. Season long loan for tector up north? Osborne or Boyle head down south. Connacht haemorrhaging players. But every indication suggests this...
by Winnie
Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I think this kind of signing isn’t an issue if there a redirection of some younger players to fill problem spots in other provinces. Even as a short term basis. Season long loan for tector up north? Osborne or Boyle head down south. Connacht haemorrhaging players. But every indication suggests this...
by Winnie
Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Welsh rugby twitter shitting bricks Going to say something I never thought I’d say The Welsh are right The league is a joke Their interest will diminish further Ulster are broke, it’s like Kidderminster harriers trying to compete in the same league as Man City Munster will bankrupt themselves in a ...
by Winnie
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

iarmhiman wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:14 pm
Winnie wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:05 pm What’s the point in the URC anymore
If Leinster dont win it without losing a game they have underperformed
It's okay we have the saffa teams to test us so we're fine
That’s the spirit
As the game dies on the rest of the island as there is literally no point in playing any longer
by Winnie
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

What’s the point in the URC anymore
If Leinster dont win it without losing a game they have underperformed
by Winnie
Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45547
Views: 2983390

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

Frodder wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:57 pm
iarmhiman wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:56 pm
Frodder wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:55 pm

1 league title for the best ever manager
He got 2 with Dortmund as well
OK 1 PL title for the best ever manager
He is up there with Claudio Ranieri for me
by Winnie
Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45547
Views: 2983390

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

Klopps end of career world tour is going well
Probably going to finish with the Rumbelows cup or whatever it’s called these days
by Winnie
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Replies: 45547
Views: 2983390

Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread

ETH has to be on borrowed time now
United were awful, again
by Winnie
Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

That is a fabulous Leinster win
Delighted for them
Sad that we are so far behind that level
by Winnie
Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Is it possible to block posters on this thing? Edit never mind got it, happy days :lol: I do think you need to give Murphy time I quite like the offload game he is trying to play He’s been there about 4 weeks Rome wasn’t built in a day Better teams than us will go to Clermont and get a doing Let’s ...
by Winnie
Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Well






That was chastening


Major work needed in that team
Second row needs surgery
Still think Murphy is the man
There are players out there we need continued better coaching
by Winnie
Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:00 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 527767
Views: 28715257

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Stewart has been shite
by Winnie
Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Favourite Rugby Commentator
Replies: 81
Views: 1754

Re: Favourite Rugby Commentator

Bogbunny wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:58 pm John Barclay is the best of the current northern posse.
Head and shoulders above any other co commentator