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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 248
- Views: 12156
Re: LRZ
He’ll be on the Kelce Bros’ podcast before long.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
We'd probably scrape through if we got no more points, just, but qualification for the URC knockouts is far from assured and we'll want to finish top to give us the easiest knockout stages to manage. At a minimum we need all home wins but a big win this Friday would make be massive. We'd then proba...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Don't think the URC means anything to Leinster, they brought Nick McCarthy off the bench against the turnips. The URC will mean a lot more if we don’t win the ERC. With the URC playoffs after the completion of the ERC, there won’t be any trade-offs between one and the other; qualification for the U...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2589
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
Well it did when it hit it. It came to a complete stop. It did indeed, but the force that it had to apply to stop it, destroyed it. It's interesting people have been talking about dolphins not being there...but the force generated by a ship of that size would have been extraordinary, and would have...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2589
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
The dolphins appear to be way out in front of the bridge, by a couple hundred feet or so judging by the scale of some of the pics, and the ship came in at an angle behind them. Basically a nautical Maginot line. https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b6481d6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/637...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Don't think the URC means anything to Leinster, they brought Nick McCarthy off the bench against the turnips. The URC will mean a lot more if we don’t win the ERC. With the URC playoffs after the completion of the ERC, there won’t be any trade-offs between one and the other; qualification for the U...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2589
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
The ship is 300m long apparently. Something that size doesn’t slow down just because there’s a bridge in the way.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 92
- Views: 2589
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
Lots of questions.... Firstly htf does a piloted ship hit a bridge pier head on ? I presume the shipping channels were mid-span. Wtf weren't there dolphins protecting the pier from direct hits ? This reeks of incompetence. Suggestion in some of the videos that the ship lost power a couple of times ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Deegan not moving province shows a total lack of ambition. That depends on your definition of ambition. The only player ahead of him in the Irish reckoning who’s younger than he is, is Doris. (Baird isn’t really a like-for-like) He could move province, but there wouldn’t be any guarantee of improvi...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Saw more of Deegan than we needed there.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Sean Cronin-esque run from Turner there.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2808
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
I'm all for the hold up over the line thing. It rewards good defense and should hopefully discouraging pick and go after pick and go after pick and go at least to some extent. The held-up dropout has been in place for 2 seasons now. Have the endless pick-and-go phases at the line stopped? I hadn’t ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Looking at going to Rome for the 6N next year, any recommendations for areas to stay/eat/drink etc? Hotel The Building. Fantastic. Very good for the metro and 7 minutes walk from Terminii. Great local restaurants on that street. Stayed this January, not a rugby trip. Good for families! Planning a t...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Ulster v Hollywoodbets Sharks, Hollywoodbets Kings Park, Round 12, BKT United Rugby Championship, Saturday 23 March, KO 1pm UK/Ireland time (Live on Viaplay, URC.tv, BBC Radio Ulster). (15-9) Will Addison, Ethan McIlroy, James Hume, Stuart McCloskey, Mike Lowry, Billy Burns, John Cooney; (1-8) Stev...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Who are the current mods?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 776
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kate Middleton gooiiinnnnnggggg???
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2341
Re: Kate Middleton gooiiinnnnnggggg???
https://i.postimg.cc/zJLz7R9V/IMG-1965.jpg 👆 He’s right you know Except Kate has already done her Queenly duty and produced 3 heirs. “Where does the Monarchy go from here?” after Charles is literally Will-George-Charlotte-Louis-Harry-Archie. There’s probably been few periods of time in history wher...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Kate Middleton gooiiinnnnnggggg???
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2341
Re: Kate Middleton gooiiinnnnnggggg???
Hopefully now the cúnts on social media will leave her the fudge alone Piers Morgan was on TMZ (my Mrs had it on) last night blabbing on and on about everything his “sources inside the palace” were telling him. I hope Kate outlives Piers and every human being involved in the production of that prog...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your best ever national team by unit
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3597
Re: Your best ever national team by unit
Wood got a rep as a dodgy thrower in his early years, which overlapped with the pre-lifting days, when Ireland didn’t have much of a lineout to throw to. It affected Byrne a bit too; but the early 00’s when we had a decent lineout, they were both as good as anyone else in the game; we had statistica...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
It definitely wasn't all on Murray's shoulders and if he was playing to instruction he played a minor part in it. By that stage our defence was so passive, we needed to press quickly, instead we did the opposite. If that was he only thing Murray had done wrong, it wouldn’t be mentioned. It was that...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Your best ever national team by unit
- Replies: 95
- Views: 3597
Re: Your best ever national team by unit
Porter, Sheehan, Furlong O’Connell, O’Kelly Ferris, O’Brien, Heaslip Murray, Sexton D’Arcy, O’Driscoll Hickey, Dempsey, Horgan Doubt many will agree with my second row and back three in particular. Last year’s back three probably better overall and I’m sure one of the more recent second row pairing...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: LRZ
- Replies: 248
- Views: 12156
Re: LRZ
What’s that in Welsh tv money?openclashXX wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:11 pm According to Neil Fissler, LRZ has been made offers from 3 different teams to join their summer training squads. Salary would be $900k
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
It definitely wasn't all on Murray's shoulders and if he was playing to instruction he played a minor part in it. By that stage our defence was so passive, we needed to press quickly, instead we did the opposite. If that was he only thing Murray had done wrong, it wouldn’t be mentioned. It was that...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
BOD made his debut on tour against the soon-to-be-RWC-champs Wallabies. Johnny O’Connor in Lansdowne vs the Boks. Doris was MOTM v NZ on his what, 5th or 6th cap? Joey Carberry came off the bench with the game in the balance v NZ and we won. You can’t build every player up slowly, sometimes you just...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
- Replies: 176
- Views: 2600
Re: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
Don’t refs have the option to do that for any free kick offense?
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Stats is married with more kids than Charlemagne. The last thing he needs is a girlfriend to take care of on top of all that.Ulsters Red Hand wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:25 pm Sectarianism or whatever else aside, we can all agree that Stats is one of the weirdest blokes on here who needs to go get a hobby and probably a girlfriend.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
- Replies: 176
- Views: 2600
Re: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
On the 20 minute card, I think the bunker review is the best solution; no need to stop the game longer than necessary to determine if a card is needed. A tweak I would add is that in games where the TMO isn’t available, ie the level most of us keyboard warriors play/played, the ref should have the d...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
- Replies: 176
- Views: 2600
Re: Proposed Rugby Law Changes
Clear attempt to reduce the number of scrums. 20min red card is new zealand thuggery Make all scrum offences free kicks would be better than the no more scrum from free kick off the scrum option. Ie prevent the large uncertainty of accuracy at scrum penalties leading directly to 3 points. This. Any...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Waterboys crossing the line
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1461
Re: Waterboys crossing the line
This is the first I heard! RIP, World Party had some decent tunes in the 90s.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Gatland first took the Wales job 17 years ago.
He does have the flexibility of a few championships to his name, which probably earns him a bit more benefit-of-the-doubt than Toonie.
He does have the flexibility of a few championships to his name, which probably earns him a bit more benefit-of-the-doubt than Toonie.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
15, 9, 10 and 1 Not worried about 15. Frawley was 4th choice (and nowhere near as bad as suggested) and Larmour 5th choice (again nowhere near as bad as suggested). When you're comparing Keenan to Frawley, of course it's stark. No different to any best in their position in the world compared to mos...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10529
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
True but often it makes no difference. Luke McGrath was probably the best scrumhalf i remember from Irish u20's in the last decade or so but he plateaued despite all the experience he's gotten at senior level. It's very hard to fix halfbacks, imo, they kinda are who they are, within reason. McGrath...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10529
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
Casey is like that tbf. Just needs to improve his decision making. How often do we see established professionals improve their decision making though? I've seen players like Charlie Hodgson lose faith in their decision making and get worse, not sure it's as easy to improve. Eoin Reddan was a differ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10529
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
Don’t get me wrong Aki is absolutely brilliant but he’s keeping another very good player McCloskey out of the squad. I’m not attacking Aki he has been very good for Irish rugby but as a policy we are correct to move away from the project player strategy Aki didn't look Sharp yesterday. Gibson Park ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10529
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
I don’t think you’re disagreeing with me; I don’t think any of our players should be playing 320+ minutes of a 400 minute campaign. So yes, we should be moving pieces around, giving lads a week off here or there, so that when they come back in, like Bealham today, they’re chomping at the bit. Beirne...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10529
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
Could that last win by Ireland be their swan song? Possibly. Really need another season or two from JGP keeping his zip and the back row needs to be sorted out. The first choice backline is fine, Hansen was a massive miss tbf all tournament as was Ringrose (and Keenan today). The squad isn't lookin...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10529
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
Cheers both for the answers. Looking at the stadium layout again (very slow Friday for me) its the perfect advert for the need for Chinese style planning laws. Landsdowne Rd (the road itself) should have been closed fully. Traffic should have been diverted down Serpentine Ave instead and the level ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
The Wobs have appointed Laurie Fisher as assistant coach.
Has Joe completely lost the plot?
Has Joe completely lost the plot?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 525367
- Views: 28519782
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Excellent article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2024/03/13/six-nations-would-consider-bonus-points-rethink/ :uhoh: Shitehawkery masquerading as an article. The Pigdogs were all in favour of try bonus points when they thought it would advantage themselves in perpetuity. I’ve said since the...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
- Replies: 858
- Views: 10529
Re: The Official and ONLY Ireland v Scotland Match thread
Thorney going with same team again but 5/3 split on bench with Byrne and Ringrose coming into the 23 and Hendo dropping out. Larmour to start if Nash has to drop out. Just don't get dropping Henderson to play a guy who has barely played 2nd row all season, especially after Henderson played well off...