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I wasn't sure about this fat lying tub of orange lard, but now Truss is endorsing him people might need to take him more seriously

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Yea we're real powerhouses on that front Doing pretty well on allowing tax avoidance, beyond that who knows. Or maybe the admins no longer like their money so much Was listening to LBC last week. Seems your not too bad at it yourselves. How much are McDonalds paying in the UK 5% is it? I can't say ...

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:23 pm
piquant wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:23 pm
iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:29 pm

That's not how venues are decided
Bribery for the win?
Yea we're real powerhouses on that front

Doing pretty well on allowing tax avoidance, beyond that who knows.

Or maybe the admins no longer like their money so much

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:29 pm
RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:27 pm
iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:58 pm

Aviva stadium hosting.

Croke Park gets the rugby
Yes but Ireland? When was the last time an Irish team reached knockouts in any European comp?
That's not how venues are decided

Bribery for the win?

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Helps to make the argument for just one prop on the bench and dropping the number of bench players to 6, or even 5.

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Does Devon consider the SEC going after Trump for making false/questionable claims about his company?

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The epic around DJT is an odd one. Massively overvalued from the get go, reminiscent of the best of the dotcom bubble, and now being shorted in a way that doesn't afflict most stocks. That said even with the aggressive shorting it still looks over priced, then again plenty of online firms considered...

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Very few Leinster players will have had no senior gametime exiting the academy and even fewer who are going to go on to be internationals will complete their full 3 years on an academy contract. Haif of our academy have appearances this season and nearly all of the rest have appearances last season...

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Lots of players come through the academy without a broad body of work, it's rather in the nature. So the question is judging where their ceiling is, hardly an exact science, and nobody is getting it 100% right, clearly letting Beirne go wasn't a good call even if there were reasons at the time. Ver...

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None of these territories are Russian. Any ethnic Russian presence is the result of genocide, deportation, and plantation, from the Tsarist through Soviet eras. I'm not saying they could/should only be viewed as Russian. But certainly some of the territories I would concede they could present a rea...

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Lots of players come through the academy without a broad body of work, it's rather in the nature.

So the question is judging where their ceiling is, hardly an exact science, and nobody is getting it 100% right, clearly letting Beirne go wasn't a good call even if there were reasons at the time.

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If Ukraine is forced to accept a loss of territory the question then is to what extent, if any, is Russia welcomed/accepted back into the international fold. I'd go with not at all, although I also wouldn't be currently pretending Russia O&G isn't being exported on a vast scale. We perhaps can't, o...

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If Ukraine is forced to accept a loss of territory the question then is to what extent, if any, is Russia welcomed/accepted back into the international fold. I'd go with not at all, although I also wouldn't be currently pretending Russia O&G isn't being exported on a vast scale. We perhaps can't, or...

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How did he know it better than anybody? He'd only just been made head coach, Beirne only made it back from years of being out injured that season and he's been asked does he want to give a contract to this guy that didn't fit into his plans, had no real body of work and had a poor injury profile. O...

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Quite a few missing for Leicester too, not a classic Leinster performance I know it might not materialise tomorrow, Munster are brilliant in the European cup, but Saints would have beaten Leinster tonight . You really think so? I certainly don’t having watched a fairly scratch Munster side almost b...

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He can get better. May went from a varied approach to the aerial game to being very good, and really this isn't an area that relies on natural talent so its down to him and the coaches if he wants it

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fudge off Am I wrong in what I said you miserable wit kant? You think LaR aren’t completely stacked. The fact is that Leinster/Ireland aren’t as good as our media want to believe. They consistently come up short when it really counts. LaR have had us in their pocket for years now, so winning that i...

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If you carry on playing long enough after your testimonial do you get another one?

He'll be pushing towards a decade long career post testimonial if he hangs around another couple of seasons. And he still never learned to box kick, which is almost impressive, obstinate certainly

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How old is everyone in the neighbourhood if a 7 mile cycle ride seems too much?

Okay you're not going to carry much even with panniers, but on the face of that's a nice gentle roll there and back

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there should always be a clock counter, the amount of time until the ball gets back into live play once a scrum is called, and that's until the ball is back in contestable play, not until the awarding of a free kick or penalty

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And ref should command the put in, so that scrum-halves don't mess around for seconds, hoping to draw a free kick. Does anyone know why they stopped enforcing the straight put in at professional level? Still in the laws and still enforcing at lower levels as I understand it. Went to a coaching clin...

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We don't know if OHC and Arundell were told to stay wide. If they were encouraged to come off their wings and still didn't look for work that would be more of a thing.

And they both have potential, so they remain of interest

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lilyw wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:35 pm
True Blue wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:29 pm The scrum was designed to restart the game not be a random penalty magnet
Is it a restart or a contest?

For it to be a contest the ball has to be fed in such both sides can hook for the ball. So it's a restart

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TopNacker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:29 pm If Murley is the answer, the question must be who is the seventh best EQ winger in the GP. He’s gone now but I’d take Lynagh before Murley whose best form was 2 years ago.

Lynach was similarly too slow as a wing option. Might've made an interesting 15 but that ship has indeed sailed

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Cokanasiga is more an example of does he help make a better side than is he simply the best player in isolation. I continue to think he's potentially a useful option for England, much harder to stop our 1st phase moves if you don't know if the move is using Earl, Lawrence or Cokanasiga. And for all...

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Even before I've seen him work off his wing it's possible to suggest other tactics and it's possible to coach a player in developing their game. Or you could just give up in advance. None of which is to say Cokanasiga must play, or even make an EPS. But given more often than not England get stuck i...

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Caught upon the political commentators rift on The Daily Wire between Ben Shapiro and Candice Owens. Have to say Shapiro comes out looking like an utter dickhead and hypocrite over the matter. It's especially telling when his big gimmic for years was stating "facts don't respect your feeling" and b...

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Even before I've seen him work off his wing it's possible to suggest other tactics and it's possible to coach a player in developing their game. Or you could just give up in advance. None of which is to say Cokanasiga must play, or even make an EPS. But given more often than not England get stuck in...

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Cokanasiga is more an example of does he help make a better side than is he simply the best player in isolation. I continue to think he's potentially a useful option for England, much harder to stop our 1st phase moves if you don't know if the move is using Earl, Lawrence or Cokanasiga. And for all ...

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I don't know and I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference

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You can barely even see the head contact unless you go super slow mo. The TMO's word "kiss" was apt in this case. None of the force is through the head and the only damage done was to himself. Fair call. This is what I see. The angle from behind looks like the heads barely touch, and if anything Mc...

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Agreed on Muir, and frankly Roebuck, neither should be in the england squad at all. Were they going to a capture selection? Do they qualify for Scotland? Well, Roebuck does, but even then I think Scotland have enough depth that it doesn't really matter. Very confusing selection in hindsight. I supp...

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and yet we're selecting Cole, so Sinckler is naturally of interest. I've never liked the rule, but yes in part it's a bridge builder between the RFU and the clubs, and the RFU get to give the clubs something without paying for it. so there are reasons, even if on balance I don't happen to like the p...

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Saints norm is to run around break even through to a small loss, or at least what passes for a small loss alongside their peers. They could be lying every year I suppose

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everyone, or 2 or 3 souls who claim to represent the one true position?

the Tory party is going to struggle if they've giving up on being a broad church, and that does rather leave them continuing down the route of populism, nationalism, division and indeed Trump

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They all voted on typical. Conservative policy, of course the whip will account for a lot of that. But 'dyed in the wool' is a high bar. You don't try and bring down your own party if you are 'dyed in the wool'. He's a wet, not dyed in the wool. And that attitude is why America gets Trump. Donuts. ...

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it seems questionable in the extreme there's only one way to be a conservative and anyone who steps away from one strand of conservatism should be derided for not having a sufficiently pure take on conservatism. Rory Stewart , Amber Rudd, Dominic Grieve, these people are dyed in the wool conservati...

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it seems questionable in the extreme there's only one way to be a conservative and anyone who steps away from one strand of conservatism should be derided for not having a sufficiently pure take on conservatism. Rory Stewart, Amber Rudd, Dominic Grieve, these people are dyed in the wool conservative...

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Starmer isn't a socialist, and even the degree to which he's centre left will be becalmed by him thinking of the country and not just what he wants. And, as things stand, his chancellor is to the right of him, so Starmer's inclination to spend will not get past Reeves. Which begs the question how lo...

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Nice! 👍 It is good news Hopefully we get more details going into the election about what Dems will actually do to restore rights to the many woman (and girls) who've had them ripped away I don’t want to be unfair to the many thoughtful Dems who are trying to shape a meaningful response to that ques...

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