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by redderneck
Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Râguebi Memorial Tier 2 & 3 Rugby Thread
Replies: 614
Views: 90347

Re: Official Râguebi Memorial Tier 2 & 3 Rugby Thread

Short Man Syndrome wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 5:34 pm How did the US get on against Belgium? My half-hearted searching has yielded no fruit.
USA won 36-17, but know nothing other than result...
by redderneck
Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

It's all very odd. Faz muttered something post match about Fazlet possibly not being available due to jet lag /protocols. First I'd heard of there being such things. Unless he ran two separate considerations into the one. It was more a dismissive answer to the Q posed about whether Fazlet would be ...
by redderneck
Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:31 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

DragsterDriver wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 11:37 am
CM11 wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 11:35 am
DragsterDriver wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 11:33 am I'm extremely keen to see Jnr miles off the pace and fall flat on his face.
Pretty petty attitude.
Yep- i don't mind a bit of petty spite.
:lol:
by redderneck
Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Any danger of Leinster losing Nienaber with Jake White being mutually consented out of the Bulls job? South African media report that the Bulls have spoke to Nienaber about replacing Jake White South Africa Media = Aspire to reach the journalistic heights of the Sindo Group. Their other rumour was ...
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Craig Casey absolutely should be with the Lions.

Baird had a very fine game.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 5:31 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

PUMITA wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:58 pm Live here in an hour:

https://rugbypass.tv/live/286777
:thumbup:
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

That's a unique take on Mitchell, cam. I'm with Cam on this. He has a great skill set, but feck me he makes too many wrong decisions and slow decisions. His speed/snipe cover a multitude of meh. He steps. He shuffles. His midfield get eaten alive. He's not perfect but he was able to change his play...
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Mr. Very Popular wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:08 pm Prndergast pulling a sickie from today's game.
This sickie might well turn out to be the best pass he's pulled back all year.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:17 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

CM11 wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 1:25 pm That's a unique take on Mitchell, cam.
I'm with Cam on this. He has a great skill set, but feck me he makes too many wrong decisions and slow decisions. His speed/snipe cover a multitude of meh.

He steps. He shuffles. His midfield get eaten alive.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 1:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Lads the English crowing about Ireland being Dad's Army is getting harder to defend after today's Lions effort. Bealham was solid. VDF was workmanlike, but. His oppo was deservedly MOM. The rest who started screamed dirt track. Lads off the bench showed up reasonably. Tadhg Beirne I suspect would li...
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

Every Lions tour , ahead of the first test selection, there is a game where too many players are playing for themselves.

This is looking like one of those nights, bar the front row union, tbf. Gents all
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

Dobbin wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:49 pm Again, on field officials should be picking that up.
They'd need a forklift and chauffeur
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

Duff Paddy wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:45 pm
CM11 wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:44 pm Ah ref. Seriously? :lol:
Look at 14 in that last ruck :lol:
It's comical, but you play the clown you're dealt, and we are NOT doing that well enough.

Schmidt will be scheming.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

irishrugbyua wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:13 pm
Winnie wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:11 pm Beirne playing himself off the tour
struggling out of position.

not a good captain.
He'll have been frustrated as fcuk when Pollock dropped out of the starting side.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

Lions back 5 of the pack are playing like individuals. One or two of them like leggy jaded ones.

If that doesn't change, the Tahs have a shot.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Well, every Irish player on the park is doing their level best to play themselves out of a Lions test starting shirt. Parochially abject. Finley is still doing well. It"'s a solid effort, but it's not 'fire lit under him'. And as Stats pointed out to my criticism of VDF on the game thread, VDF is m...
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Well, every Irish player on the park is doing their level best to play themselves out of a Lions test starting shirt.

Parochially abject.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:50 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

lnstr93 wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:47 am
PornDog wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:45 am It wasn't foul play, but you can't get more in at the side! Totally illegal
It was illegal.on every single way lol, in the side, no wrap, head contact.
Yup.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:47 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

CM11 wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:39 am
redderneck wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:38 am Looks to me as though VDF is hurt. He's ambling around not attempting to make anything happen.
Just the 14 tackles so far. Poor.
He is soak tackling what comes his way and making zero impression on ANY breakdown.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

Lucky boy. That was illegal all day long.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:38 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

Looks to me as though VDF is hurt. He's ambling around not attempting to make anything happen.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:29 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

CM11 wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:28 am All very meh so far. Bit of not earning the right to go wide.
Only Earl carrying in pack. Not helping.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:21 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions
Replies: 613
Views: 5288

Re: Match 4: NSW Waratahs v B&I Lions

ChipSpike wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:19 am
bimboman wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 11:18 am Earl is stuoid.
Stupid, had 4:backs outside him
Brain dead.

VDF would want to get into this game or his test start is gone.
by redderneck
Sat Jul 05, 2025 8:29 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158241
Views: 9105419

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Can't rot what you haven't got.
by redderneck
Fri Jul 04, 2025 8:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158241
Views: 9105419

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

1991 chassis. Fully stripped, blasted and galvanised. The 04 Defender (body, engine, gearbox, axles, brakes, transfer box) are off an ex-MOD one so looked after well enough. I got bored of driving boring cars tbh and spending a fortune when they went wrong. This will go wrong but parts are cheap an...
by redderneck
Fri Jul 04, 2025 6:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158241
Views: 9105419

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Agree on all that but I'm importing vintage so flat rate of 200 quid. And it's 30 days, not a week to register it. Nicely done, well wear Curiosity compels, what did you go for? I decided that my kids current car is too comfy, quiet and temperature regulated so now they'll have to suffer in a 1991 ...
by redderneck
Thu Jul 03, 2025 4:42 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

Leinster lads are only too delighted to have Fazlet wibble to chuck around to distract from the fact that there is nobody questioning just how deep on the depth chart you'd need to go to find Prendergast. (You could say the same for us Munsterfolk and Crowley, but really, we know full well how deep...
by redderneck
Thu Jul 03, 2025 4:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

Leinster lads are only too delighted to have Fazlet wibble to chuck around to distract from the fact that there is nobody questioning just how deep on the depth chart you'd need to go to find Prendergast. (You could say the same for us Munsterfolk and Crowley, but really, we know full well how deep ...
by redderneck
Thu Jul 03, 2025 1:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

hermie wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 11:17 am From the tallest backline to the shortest backrow
Sooner or later some side in Oz is going to pillage our lineout and have the ability to make it count on the scoreboard.
by redderneck
Thu Jul 03, 2025 1:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

Masterstroke by Faz. The media frenzy will now focus on Clan Faz, neither of whom will be featuring in a Test match, and the rest of the players can get on with it.
by redderneck
Wed Jul 02, 2025 1:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

Winnie wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:59 pm
earl the beaver wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:57 pm If Daly is ruled out who gets called up? Needs to cover 15 and wing primarily you'd imagine.
You know
And I know a player who has done this at international level
Jaysus, you're right. Still. We'd better get Zebo on a weighing scales before we make the call.
by redderneck
Wed Jul 02, 2025 1:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 3: Queensland Reds v B&I Lions - OFFICIAL!
Replies: 500
Views: 10352

Re: Match 3: Queensland Reds v B&I Lions - OFFICIAL!

Cicero wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:39 pm shame for Daly if thats it-been playing well and covers so many positions.genuinely had a chance of making test 23
Yup. Poor bastard
by redderneck
Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Match 3: Queensland Reds v B&I Lions - OFFICIAL!
Replies: 500
Views: 10352

Re: Match 3: Queensland Reds v B&I Lions - OFFICIAL!

CM11 wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:16 pm
johnstrac wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:15 pm I've said this about other players but it's Aki if you want the door breaking down, Tuipulotu if you want the lock picking. Horses for courses.
Absolutely. And we seem to want to move the ball so Tui it is. He's also got more stamina.
100% this. Be mad to pick Aki over him.
by redderneck
Wed Jul 02, 2025 12:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Do refs (in Irish rugby anyway) have a union do turn to in a similar manner to the players union, or is it every ref for himself? They should have, and all refs should have boycotted the following weekend’s matches until Hansen was given the long ban he fully deserved No argument from me. No truck ...
by redderneck
Tue Jul 01, 2025 4:42 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562712
Views: 32940675

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Munster Rugby can today confirm that the province’s pre-season friendly against Biarritz Olympique on Friday, August 22nd has been cancelled by the Basque club. Biarritz Olympique informed Munster Rugby this week that due to a delay to pitch renovations at the Stade Aguilera, they are unable to hos...
by redderneck
Tue Jul 01, 2025 4:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158241
Views: 9105419

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

It’s just a deeply f**ked up place, I feel sorry for the normal people stuck there. Heard it was a member of Green Pastures congregation. Fundamentalist nut job church if there ever was one. Religious fundamentalism regardless of the sect is a curse on the world Dunno. I wouldn't be so quick to dis...
by redderneck
Tue Jul 01, 2025 4:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158241
Views: 9105419

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

themaddog wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:15 pm I see McRapist's new "witnesses" have withdrawn their "evidence".
Inflation rears it's ugly head again?
by redderneck
Tue Jul 01, 2025 3:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 46391
Views: 2282292

Re: U.S. politics thread and Donald Trump - Putin's Cock-holster of U.S. Presidents

MAGA is going so well the survivalists are laying in 5 gallon stocks, clearly.

That or the bottles are being used as part of the trailer park production process involved in bringing those Trump fragrances to market.
by redderneck
Tue Jul 01, 2025 3:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

In summary: 120 caps worth of props can't lift a jumper in the right place when directed by him. Bring in John Hayes. John Hayes would dig a hole through the centre of the earth, emerge at the other side of the globe and lift the planet upwards to bring the catcher closer to the dropping ball. Then...
by redderneck
Tue Jul 01, 2025 2:17 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Lions Lions Lions
Replies: 2908
Views: 233348

Re: Lions Lions Lions

Da's patented Lions depth chart (trademark pending). To be refreshed after each game, or when I can be bothered. Squad members, by original squad position, in order of likelihood to feature in the upcoming test. Asterisk denotes lack of gametime. LH Prop: Porter, Genge, Schoemann Hooker: Sheehan, K...