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DOB

How long will Healy hang on tomorrow? Even after slowing down to wait for Pog, there was only one EF lad who made it back to the MJ group. I can’t see him having any support by the foot of Hautacam.

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Didn't watch SA/Italy but this just came up on my feed. Legal? https://youtube.com/shorts/z3EQyApXQkI?si=kRIsrh7EQ08gY9VQ I’d argue there’s at least “jumping into the tackle” and “pre-binding” that the ref could call them for, if so inclined, but it’s also just a daft way to do it. If you want to s...

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Didn't watch SA/Italy but this just came up on my feed. Legal? https://youtube.com/shorts/z3EQyApXQkI?si=kRIsrh7EQ08gY9VQ I’d argue there’s at least “jumping into the tackle” and “pre-binding” that the ref could call them for, if so inclined, but it’s also just a daft way to do it. If you want to s...

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It's all guesswork with the Irish players anyway. And a lot of others. 100%, it's all nonsense. Does anyone really believe that our Irish players are all underselling themselves and playing for pennies for the love of the game? Nobody will convince me that these lads are leaving hundreds of thousan...

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They'll be dancing in the streets of Dudley too! A shame he couldn't get a bit more of a lead... make Pog worry.... It is mad that 2 of the best Irish cyclists of recent years were both born within about 15 miles of each other… in the Greater Birmingham area. It’s like “Peaky Blinders; 100 years on...

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They'll be dancing in the streets of Dudley too! A shame he couldn't get a bit more of a lead... make Pog worry.... It is mad that 2 of the best Irish cyclists of recent years were both born within about 15 miles of each other… in the Greater Birmingham area. It’s like “Peaky Blinders; 100 years on.”

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Tadhg Furlong the only one in the Top 30, although the list does include NRL. 11-30 includes only 4 Union players, but has a range of GBP430k-700k. There’s probably a couple dozen players earning in that range in France alone. I can believe that Furlong is our best paid player, and that he’s on abo...

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Yates wins the stage, looks like Ben Healy in yellow, first Irishman in yellow since Charlie Haughey in 1987.

Arensman 2nd on the stage is Ineos’ best performance of the Tour so far.

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Healy looks like he’s 100% going for yellow, and doing all the driving in the break. 5 men left with him, including Simon Yates, Storer and O’Connor from Oz, and Quinn Simmons from the US.

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Oh, and Visma have Yates and Campanaerts in the break, and Soler has just dropped off from the main peloton, so yeah, UAE are gonna be under pressure today.

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Healy’s apparently not trying for KOM points, Lenny Martinez has picked up all the points so far on the road and is leading the polka dots by a lot.

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Ben Healy in a massive break 4 minutes up the road, so he’s in yellow on the road.

I’m 99% sure the last Irish actual Tour yellow was Roche in 87, but even yellow on the road probably dates back to then. I can’t remember Martin or Roche Jr ever getting enough of a lead to be virtual yellow.

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Pog's support riders dropping away though. Probably good enough to win without them, but still makes it harder. The loss of Almeida who was meant to support him toward a launch on the high mountains is a blow indeed. Almeida is a big loss, but he also has Soler, Narvaez and Adam Yates; he should do...

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7(!!!) Cat2 climbs and a Cat 3 in tomorrow’s stage. KOM jersey will definitely change hands.

Expect to see Healy in the break early, but no way UAE doesn’t make sure Tadej is in at the finish. Visma have been hiding Sepp Kuss in the peloton al tour so far, but I think he’ll be working tomorrow.

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No highlights of the Portugal game up yet, just lots of previews and post-game chat

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Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 8:17 pm Is this the first match ever broadcast from a Nokia 6510?

The Fiji v Scotland game was filmed on the same camera that was installed when they built the stadium in 1976 for Fiji’s first ever home game against a touring side.

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Tour irished . Tour less-Irished; Dunbar out after his crash yesterday. Shit buzz for him; he’s been more than good enough for the Tour for years, but team selection means he’s had to wait until 28 to get his first crack at it. Hope he can recover and have a good finish to the season. Milan wins th...

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Stories about journeyman professional athletes are always interesting :thumbup: Seems like it’s often a case of all the sweat but none of the glory or renumeration Have a read of A Four Iron in the Soul. Unless you are one of the very few superstars, life on the PGA tour is about earning enough to ...

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Lads, the Japanese ambassador to the UK is tweeting his visit to Northern Ireland, and it’s some of the most wholesome positive content on teh internetz right now, even if he is eating the wrong colour taytos. https://x.com/AmbJapanUK/status/1942865650621276641 Guinness and Irish coffees*? Are the ...

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Lads, the Japanese ambassador to the UK is tweeting his visit to Northern Ireland, and it’s some of the most wholesome positive content on teh internetz right now, even if he is eating the wrong colour taytos.

https://x.com/AmbJapanUK/status/1942865650621276641

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Mur de Bretagne is tomorrow, which should suit him very well, and there’s a couple more like the Toulouse stage and stage 20 where if the GC riders are taking it easy, he should be the next favourite. But I haven’t seen anything from him so far to suggest he can make a sustained push for a jersey. D...

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We still get Phil Liggett and Bobke Roll in the US. I always prefer the Eurosport comms when I can get it, but I’m thankful for what we can get now.

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Perfectly put. :thumbup: No it's not perfectly put. Momdhani won the democratic primary for NY mayor because of his actual words, beliefs and actions. He is authentic and passionate and his message appeals to most of America. He smashed Cuomo on the white vote aswell Also a filthy commie. Good luck...

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 6:32 pm
Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Fri Jul 04, 2025 6:16 pm
I'd give my right nut to see them on this tour.
I believe that's roughly the cost, plus booking fee.

Not really my thing tbf- i think Blur songs have aged better.

Blur should get together and play same town/same night/different venue as Oasis for a year.

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Projecting last month’s Dauphine TT results onto tomorrow’s Tour TT is a fool’s errand. I was shocked when Tadej lost so much time in June, and I will be very surprised if he loses anything close to that in July.

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Not his race either. There's a theory that as Cofidis face relegation from the top tier then they need all the UCI points they can get, could explain why was up there. I heard that as well last night. Though still looked like he cut across the other cyclist who then bumped him back to take out Phil...

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hermie wrote: ↑Mon Jul 07, 2025 7:09 pm Ma'a Nonu just signed another deal with Toulon aged 43. Blast, I shouldn't have hung up my boots!

I scored a try the week of my 42nd birthday, and then Covid cancelled the rest of the season and effectively my playing days. I could’ve taken Nonu.

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Zohran Mamdani? If he ends up being the Democrat front runner it'll show they have learned nothing and actively want to lose the next presidential election. They should have picked Newsome last time, and if they don't next time they have rocks in their heads. And picking Buttigieg would be a big mi...

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I guess they think they can finally put it away in a box and forget about it forever. Not sure it's going to be that easy. Well, Fox aren't going to report on it for now. But in 18-24 months, when the Democrat frontrunner start to become apparent, I guarantee that the Epstein list will suddenly bec...

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Philipsen out while in green, Ganna and Bisseger both out who would have been contenders for the TT on stage 5. Pog let his teammate Wellens get the polka dot today, so Tadej doesn’t have to do press after the stage and gets to keep his World Champs jersey. There’s a bunch of cat 3 and 4 climbs in t...

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How sure are we on the numbers there as RBAI have certainly claimed in the past to have produced the most Lions. RBAI have claimed in the past, but Ringrose, McCarthy and Keenan are Lions now, and as far as I can tell, BOD, Luke Fitz and Brendan Mullin have all played for the Lions more recently th...

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Eddie Dunbar making his Tour debut, and Ben Healy confirmed as the Irish contingent for the Grand Depart.

G Thomas will be the oldest entry, by a long way.

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All these "very good players" yet we play shit rugby, provide no one to the national team etc Who are the very good players right now at Ulster? Balacoune, Hume, McCloskey, Henderson, Izzy, Stewart, Herring, Timoney, Stockdale are all very good. A) All very good when fit . B) “Very good” doesn’t ge...

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I think Williams could be a bolter for the test side if there's any doubt about Gibson-Park. I think he did a good JGP impression off the bench against the Pumas where as Mitchell didn't really do too much. Agreed. The pace went up a step when Tomos came on. If he gets the coordination with his run...

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Anyone know if there's going to be another season of the netflix tdf series before the tour this year? Apparently yes, they filmed it last year, so will be showing it this year. But they won’t be sending the crews out for this year, so no series next year. That's good, re about there being one more...

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happytramp wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:09 am Anyone know if there's going to be another season of the netflix tdf series before the tour this year?

Apparently yes, they filmed it last year, so will be showing it this year. But they won’t be sending the crews out for this year, so no series next year.

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2009 Elsom 1 year, Thorn 3 months, Hines hardly a superstar 2009-2011, Contemponi again finished 2009, Scott Fardy at 33 who wasn't playing international rugby. So from 2011- 2023 how many superstars did Leinster sign? Contepomi was pretty far from being a superstar when he signed, too. We got him ...

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Lucky, I suppose you missed Leinster signing Elsom, Thorn, Hines, Contemponi and Fardy? 2009 Elsom 1 year, Thorn 3 months, Hines hardly a superstar 2009-2011, Contemponi again finished 2009, Scott Fardy at 33 who wasn't playing international rugby. So from 2011- 2023 how many superstars did Leinste...

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Re: Hodnett I get the vibe that outside of the first choice players, Faz and Co. Have a preference for generalist back rows who can cover multiple positions, instead of specialists. This has led to the selections of Prendergast, Timoney, Kendellan and Deegan over specialists like Coombes and Hodnet...

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Whatever about 3 down with 5 to go, surely if you’re 4 down with 10 to go you take the easy 3 pointer and try to come back for another. I get the feeling the Lions didn’t treat this as a must-win game until they realized too late that they might actually lose it. Sounds like familiar territory for ...

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