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earl the beaver wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 5:37 pm Imagine the lols if Farrell called up Stockdale, this thread would melt down, the Lions thread would melt down, the Scottish thread on NPR would melt down etc

I can't tbh. Like the stuff of fantasy really.

paddyor

without cross-checking series with air dates, I'd add Fargo. Also, Gomorrah, Mr. Inbetween, and Severance Gomorroh is good for a few seasons but jumped the shark at like 3 or 4. I loved it but it didn't hold up near as well on re-watch. Coming back for season 5 was an all time f*ck up too, it compl...

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Yesh definitely forgot Slow Horses A few of your others span well over 10 years ago so I left them out if they started a long time ago Oh.. is it when they start, rather than finish? Oops Like you.. I feel I am missing a few... Killing Eve S1 - and maybe a few Scandi ones I liked... without cross-c...

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Whats with ending your questions with "significant other"? If the pope shits in the woods does that make the bears catholic? Who gives a fudge if its the best league in the world? Not exactly a high bar is it? KInghorn (like White) did his audition in the AIs and and the 6n while Willis was playing...

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Who the feck are ye replying to, so? Willis is eligible for the Lions. He's just finished a season as the best back row in the best domestic league in the world. If Blairhorn can get called up from the same team, there's no reason (Farrell's preference aside) that Willis wouldn't be called up as an...

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:38 pm White isn't starting ahead of JGP unless the latter loses a leg in a beach incident, even then he'll be given the opportunity to prove his match fitness.

Yeah this 100%. There's a reason JGP is considered 1st choice and White didn't make the initial squad.

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Jaysus, this is a shite take, so. As rebuttals go, this isn't one. It's such a f**king stupid idea. LIke its 3-5am in the morning in AUstralia when the game was played and he's on a 5hr flght to Brisbane the next day to preapre for another game. He missed the SF vs Bayonne because he was you know a...

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Christ , just looked back at the thread, Jack,Willis is the best 7 in the world right now by a f**king country mile. No one watching last night would be in any doubt of that . Except stupid …. If he’s looking for a point of reference post his ACL’ s and few caps last years European final where the ...

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Comparing yet another player who has played international rugby this season (started all 7 games he played for Scotland) with a guy who hasn't played international rugby since playing against the might of Chile in the WC. :roll: Comparing the leagues 4th place teams second string scrum half …. To t...

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Christ , just looked back at the thread, Jack,Willis is the best 7 in the world right now by a f**king country mile. No one watching last night would be in any doubt of that . Except stupid …. If he’s looking for a point of reference post his ACL’ s and few caps last years European final where the ...

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Christ , just looked back at the thread, Jack,Willis is the best 7 in the world right now by a f**king country mile. No one watching last night would be in any doubt of that . Except stupid …. If he’s looking for a point of reference post his ACL’ s and few caps last years European final where the ...

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Is there a country the Brits colonised that they didn't manage to fvck up in one way or another? Improved almost everything we touched . Let’s start with India, which was at the time that the British arrived, the richest country in the world - how’d that go again? The collapse of the mughal empire ...

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Rumor the Redbull Falcons deal has fallen thru?

paddyor

Even the A1 has some awful parts. The stretch between Banbridge and Spruce field is a dualler with loads of rural lanes joining on. Tractors doing right hand turns across two lanes, etc. Just a really old stretch of road that hasn't been updated to modern standards. Never had the pleasure of drivin...

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Can someone post the article When the final whistle blew in Croke Park last Saturday, crowning Leinster as the United Rugby Championship winners in front of 46,000 fans, the natural celebration was palpably tinged with relief. The team had developed a frustrating habit of falling short at critical ...

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That last puma try was so good. Pleasure to see it live. Not a big lions fans. I care about them the way I care about other Irish teams. Fun to pick the team, shout for players you wouldn’t normally etc. Not impressed with m smith. Just shits himself in possession at times: kicks it away in attack u...

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:35 am
Ted. wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 7:12 am I guess this has raged back and forth between the yays and nays. Anyway, why are the the Lions wearing maroon jerseys?
Sea of maroon

(It's actually redder then it looks)

ITs red up close but its the qatar airways(sponsor) colour on the pitch because of all the embossing

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https://x.com/scrumming_ten/status/1935980099204960631

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Anyone know of any family with three generations of Lions? Just struck me there's an outside chance for the Wood family with Keith's son in the Munster academy. He's not highly rated so probably won't happen but just curious if it's been done. Heritability of "good genes" tends to only pass to the ...

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JoeyFantastic wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 4:28 pm
anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 4:12 pm
The Adam Curtis thesis is they're just idiots who badly misunderstood Milton Friedman.
Yes, but can we really trust Adam Curtis to reach the right conclusions, or is he just cutting interesting video clips with a serious VoiceOver?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg

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Ulsters squad is very challenge cup tbh. Kind of to be expected given the successive seasons of deficit slashing. Expecting a bit much of anyone to be making hay with that lot in a season. The big test for Murphy is whether or not he can geet them to 8th or higher next season and build from their o...

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Ulsters squad is very challenge cup tbh. Kind of to be expected given the successive seasons of deficit slashing. Expecting a bit much of anyone to be making hay with that lot in a season. The big test for Murphy is whether or not he can geet them to 8th or higher next season and build from their on...

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Spurs-esque coaching turnover in Ulster. Sooner or later a province needs to bit the bullet and back a coach to get through a barren spell. I can’t help thinking they jumped the gun when they sacked Small, it’s not like he was gonna get them relegated. Again 6 head coaches in 15 years doesn't seem ...

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I mean- they chose to run into a brick wall for 80 minutes, it was bordering on match fixing. Horrible tactics. Conditions where really bad for most of the match. Really wasn't a day for chuck it about rugby. They couldn't use their scrum to gain field position and their lineout wasn't much better ...

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On that showing i have no idea how they made a final. They played as well as they were let. I thought they held up a lot better than a lot of other teams Leinster have faced this year (except Saints, obv). I mean- they chose to run into a brick wall for 80 minutes, it was bordering on match fixing....

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Yes, good player. Not sure he'd ever have been an international, but you never know. He was named in the Emerging Ireland squad but didn't feature because of injury. His best attribute is probably his knack for scoring tries. Leinster cut him and Liam Turner to make space for Ioane :roll: Barrat ma...

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Rob Russell has just signed for Gloucester. He looks decent from the few clips they’ve posted. Any good or not? Yes, good player. Not sure he'd ever have been an international, but you never know. He was named in the Emerging Ireland squad but didn't feature because of injury. His best attribute is...

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtKB3FcXMAALGMr?format=jpg&name=small Unspeakably grim. Messy divorce coming up innit. Genuinely thought he was celebrating the old fellas death for a windfall. Its just a promo for Remy Martin I think now but he's done it in a fashion that makes it look like they sponso...

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Watched most of Apple Cider vinegar. Based a on a true story about Ozzie health and wellness influencers. Nothing spectacular but a good story and look at that whole scene.

Ray's Bikey friend from Mr Inbetween is in it.

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themaddog wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:34 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 11:18 am
OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 10:40 am Bulls not allowed in Ireland. Foot and mouth disease in Ireland.
The 00s wants its joke back.
That's a joke????

IIRC Yeeb called it "Cobus"

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Unspeakably grim. Messy divorce coming up innit.

paddyor

CM11 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 09, 2025 1:12 pm
He played 13 for Glasgow v Leinster
True but that was inconclusive as we were so dominant and they hardly had any ball. I see he's played plenty of times there before though so probably an option. It's either him or Daly.

I thought it was pretty conclusive and it doesn't suit him.

paddyor

Awful is completely over-egging it. The game largely passed him by. He didn't miss a shit tonne of tackles like Joe McCarthy, nor did he look completely off the pace like Tadhg Furlong. The lineout functioned well when he was on. Henshaw is the one I would have hooked at halftime. He didn't miss a ...

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Disagree. Deegan had earned his place. I've heard some extremely over the top takes on his performance in the SF. He wasn't great but neither were lots of others. Baird is likely the better long-term option but that shouldn't mean rewriting history on Deegan, who has had a generally excellent seaso...

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If Baird can regularly produce performances like Saturday's, he'll have a lot of people eating their words. But even Baird's biggest fans would admit that he has relatively rarely had that kind of a game in his career to date. Hopefully he can hit that level regularly - he'll be very hard to leave ...

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The Baird commentary on here was odd and yet not uncommon. It's a classic journey: - Leinster player emerges as a good option; - Leinster player is quite good; - Other fans bemoan their place; - Other fans claim the player was overhyped and is shít; - Player remains good. You forgot he should move ...

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Speaking of show ponies, Ryan Baird has (inexplicably) 27 caps - has he deserved even half of them? I doubt it. Aged well. If Baird can regularly produce performances like Saturday's, he'll have a lot of people eating their words. But even Baird's biggest fans would admit that he has relatively rar...

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JoeyFantastic wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:42 pm
triplebogey wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:24 pm Our quota of useless backrows who hang around on the wing trying to look flashy was taken up by Ahern.
Speaking of show ponies, Ryan Baird has (inexplicably) 27 caps - has he deserved even half of them? I doubt it.

Aged well.

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Speaking of show ponies, Ryan Baird has (inexplicably) 27 caps - has he deserved even half of them? I doubt it. :roll: Here is the back row options on the tour - Baird has way more caps than the rest combined and he's nowhere near the best of them, imo. Tom Ahern (Shannon/Munster)* Ryan Baird (Dubl...

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feckwanker wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 3:07 pm
ticketlessinseattle wrote: ↑Wed Jun 04, 2025 2:53 pm Hodnett really has pissed off Farrell somehow
I heard he didn't hit his sales figures on the phones for season tickets.

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