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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Herring is what, 33? And the wunderkind Stewart hasn't followed up on last season, not to say that he won't. WHo else do Ulster have ? James McCormick is very highly rated and is on a development deal, Harry Walker is in the academy and captaining Ireland u19 alongside Zac Solomon. We do not need a...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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John McKee is at Leinster because the Ulster Academy wanted to turn him into a prop, and he and his Dad told them where to stick it, and he came down to Trinity and Leinster took him into their Academy on a shot to nothing basis. I hope the relationship between him and Ulster has got better, becaus...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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He wants money because themmuns are getting money. Well the original agreement was that the money would be split in a certain way, if the GAA get an additional £100m of funding (potentially up to £200m) and the IFA already received an additional £15m why should Ulster sit back and say, "you know wh...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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So you complain that other provinces dont give you good players (but dont acknowledge its Ulsters fault for actually signing them) and then cite two absolute donkeys that you gave to Leinster. :lol: John McKee is a better hooker than that strawberry blonde fella you had a couple of seasons ago who ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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He wants money because themmuns are getting money. Well the original agreement was that the money would be split in a certain way, if the GAA get an additional £100m of funding (potentially up to £200m) and the IFA already received an additional £15m why should Ulster sit back and say, "you know wh...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528133
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He wants money because themmuns are getting money. Well the original agreement was that the money would be split in a certain way, if the GAA get an additional £100m of funding (potentially up to £200m) and the IFA already received an additional £15m why should Ulster sit back and say, "you know wh...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Of course it would be, if it’s financed by a government grant. There will be a time in the future when we are a highly competitive team where we will easily fill out a 20,000+ Ravenhill. When Ulster have went far in Europe and played big games at Lansdowne road we have always brought 30,000/40,000 ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528133
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A bit market?Son-Of-Ulster wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:22 pm Some ulster fans complain because he’s a bit market and gets involved in scuffles, but I don’t mind that. It’s a sign of a personality and character.
Is this some culchie thing.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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They still have good backs. Good on paper, none of them are really fulfilling their potential bar McCloskey. Balacoune must be one of the biggest disappointments in recent years. Could have been top class. Hume has everything you want in a centre. Not getting the best out of him however. Hume has b...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLcUj10XEAAdci9?format=jpg&name=small So is Doak going to play 10 next season or not, flicking between 2 positions is helping no one. AOC starting and captain probably inevitable because of the players we're missing but he really doesn't deserve to be ahead of Izzy on fo...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
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Cardiff: Cam Winnett; Josh Adams, Mason Grady, Ben Thomas, Theo Cabango; Tinus de Beer, Ellis Bevan; Corey Domachowski, Liam Belcher (capt), Keiron Assiratti, Ben Donnell, Teddy Williams, Alex Mann, Thomas Young, Taulupe Faletau. Replacements: Rhys Carré, Evan Lloyd, Ciaran Parker, Rory Thornton, E...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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God I'd missed Jones on the bench, surely McNabney, Crothers, McLoughlin or Hopes would all be better options, Jones is off at the end of the season and has always been a nothing player.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528133
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLcUj10XEAAdci9?format=jpg&name=small So is Doak going to play 10 next season or not, flicking between 2 positions is helping no one. AOC starting and captain probably inevitable because of the players we're missing but he really doesn't deserve to be ahead of Izzy on fo...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528133
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Someone said it as a joke on twitter, I don't think they're serious.Ulsters Red Hand wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:40 pm If you thought the Barrett reaction was bad, a reputable poster on the Ulster forum has just said Pienaar has signed for Leinster as kicking/skills coach
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528133
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Centre who can cover wing. Good squad option. Which is effectively what we've signed Kok as and already have Moore doing (though I'd like to see Moore be our first choice 15, I think Moore in a back three with Stockdale and Baloucoune could cause chaos. I see Moore ahead and yes, sticking to FB wou...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Turner would be a good fit at Ulster. As a winger? We've just wasted an NIQ spot bringing in Kok. Centre who can cover wing. Good squad option. Which is effectively what we've signed Kok as and already have Moore doing (though I'd like to see Moore be our first choice 15, I think Moore in a back th...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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It will include any primary school who did touch or tag rugby in PE one day.Ulsters Red Hand wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:44 pm Not a chance there’s 107 schools in NI playing rugby. That’s over half the schools.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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246 schools playing rugby
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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But making the Leinster schools system pay such dividends didn't happen overnight. Is it not possible for schools elsewhere to up their game? Apart from that, what's your solution? For about the hundredth time, publicly funded schools elsewhere in Ireland cannot put the same level of funding into r...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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This. Leinster can probably help. As has been suggested, there ought to be some sharing of IP between the provinces, and no, Leinster’s big advantage isn’t having some fancy private schools. Hard to get your act together when one province has nearly double the budget of any of the others and they a...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Leinster have a smaller senior squad though with a bigger academy. Also it's not like the Leinster academy only provides for Leinster. Leinster have a 44 man senior squad containing 26 Irish internationals (21 of whom have been involved with Ireland in the past year) and 3 capped NIQs, Leinster are...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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The solution is simple. Munster, Ulster, and, to a lesser extent, Connacht need to get their acts together. This. Leinster can probably help. As has been suggested, there ought to be some sharing of IP between the provinces, and no, Leinster’s big advantage isn’t having some fancy private schools. ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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He's not going to strengthen your 23 but he will strengthen your squad as a stop gap. We're losing a 2 time world cup winning LH and replacing him with Leinster's cast off. We need a LH to start, that's why we had Sutherland and then Kitshoff. Yes, Kitshoff has really made a difference to Ulster wh...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Jared Payne coming back to Ulster? No room for Richie Murphy up north? Ed Byrne and Max Deegan headed to Ulster? I'll take Deegan. Don't see the point in bringing in Leinster 4th choice LH just reinforces that we are by miles the poor relation. He's not going to strengthen your 23 but he will stren...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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I'll take Deegan.irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:48 am Jared Payne coming back to Ulster?
No room for Richie Murphy up north?
Ed Byrne and Max Deegan headed to Ulster?
Don't see the point in bringing in Leinster 4th choice LH just reinforces that we are by miles the poor relation.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Which players are currently on central contracts? We know Doris and Sheehan are the recent ones. Presumably Furlong, Porter, JvdF, Ringrose and Henshaw as well? Ryan and Keenan? Would Gibson-Park make it 10? I think the central contracts are: Ulster - Henderson Munster - Bierne Connacht - Aki Leins...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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JGP getting onto a central deal - GT long overdue. Which players are currently on central contracts? We know Doris and Sheehan are the recent ones. Presumably Furlong, Porter, JvdF, Ringrose and Henshaw as well? Ryan and Keenan? Would Gibson-Park make it 10? I think the central contracts are: Ulste...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Ah Winnie. That's one of the least offensive posts I've ever read on PR, and doesn't warrant that level of vitriol in response. You may disagree and feel that Statts is ill-informed and his opinions are highly flawed. You may even say that he can't leave an argument lie. And you may be correct. But...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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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...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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It is objectively a bit shit Personally think something needs to be don about central contract situation The South African Snyman was let go by Munster, and picked up by Leinster because he wanted to stay in Ireland (allegedly on a pay per play contract). The Frenchman Frisch, was called up to the ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Comparing the Ulster schools system to Leinster's is laughable.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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A few weeks ago, a daft signing.Leinsterman wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:58 am Hold on, Kok had been announced to be signing for Ulster? FFS, not exactly the most inspiring of signings
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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There are two rounds of URC during the 6N and non-starters are released for them.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528133
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And don't let anyone say we don't take the URC seriously anymore! Let's be fair if you don't win the double next year it must be called our as a massive choke. Because we have Barrett? How do you think he massively improves the squad? Leinster are a top side, no doubt, but we're not unbeatable. As ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528133
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A draft is a nonsense, the provincial identity is important. What needs changed is that the IRFU need to improve the other provinces, not just let them stagnate and regress while Leinster continue to be a European powerhouse and provide 20+ players to national squads. That should be additional fund...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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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 It's clear he never wanted to be here, his family remaining in SA and he was flying ba...