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by redderneck
Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

paddyor wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:16 pm
Ulsters Red Hand wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:15 pm
feckwanker wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:46 am

Big money Ulster flashing the cash.
Not happening
Try the knickers so.
Stall the ball lads. That didn't go well before.
by redderneck
Wed Apr 24, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

seems like ulster dont want a leinster man in charge? Have to confess as a Munster man, I'm not over the moon at the appointment of Turnstiles to the Lucifer gig myself. But hey-ho. I look forward to positive and even-handed outcomes proving my distinctly unchristian suspicions unfounded. Ulster ar...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

South African coach Frans Ludeke being tipped to join Ulster next season. https://twitter.com/FreemanrugbyJPN/status/1782985583968895441 Taking over from Murphy? seems like ulster dont want a leinster man in charge? Have to confess as a Munster man, I'm not over the moon at the appointment of Turns...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146252
Views: 7923924

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

I'm Never knock a pool with an indoor slide. Many moons ago was emerging from the sauna in there when I overheard a rather flustered young lifeguard, on watching none other than John Hayes wandering over to the stairs up to the slide, muttering 'ahh, FFS' to herself as she envisioned the carnage wh...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:37 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146252
Views: 7923924

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Was strongly thinking of cancelling, going to bring the dinghy down and rely on the outdoor pool for a swim? Leisure centre open after tomorrow (funeral), outdoor pool not open until kids summer holidays. Down to twomilegate with you. We're full anyways, so keep on into Limerick would be best for a...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Schlaps wrote: Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:14 pm Rowntree says Kleyn will be available for next season. They're happy with how the eye injury is going.
:thumbup:
by redderneck
Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146252
Views: 7923924

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Not all in Lanzarote, Portugal is a Possibility. Going to Amalfi. in October, Killaloe this weekend. I volunteer 2 or 3 hours in the morning twice a week at an addiction centre. At 72 I still work and earn because I like the best things. Lorcan - give the Lakeside a shout to check if their leisure ...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146252
Views: 7923924

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Not all in Lanzarote, Portugal is a Possibility. Going to Amalfi. in October, Killaloe this weekend. I volunteer 2 or 3 hours in the morning twice a week at an addiction centre. At 72 I still work and earn because I like the best things. Lorcan - give the Lakeside a shout to check if their leisure ...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146252
Views: 7923924

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

I am seeing a heart consultant you dope, fairly life threatening. Yeah you’re hanging onto life there with your 7week holidays to Lanzarote Not all in Lanzarote, Portugal is a Possibility. Going to Amalfi. in October, Killaloe this weekend. I volunteer 2 or 3 hours in the morning twice a week at an...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146252
Views: 7923924

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

I know it’s a tough life having to read a magazine for 2 hours before you get your non life threatening medical issues looked after but did it dawn on you that there might be actual sick people who might need his time more? Unlike you, no consultant in the country gets 7 weeks holidays. I am seeing...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The wordle thread.
Replies: 4634
Views: 263196

Re: The wordle thread.

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by redderneck
Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The NYT Connections thread
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Views: 111818

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by redderneck
Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The wordle thread.
Replies: 4634
Views: 263196

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by redderneck
Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: War in Ukraine...
Replies: 53723
Views: 2361635

Re: War in Ukraine...

Put the cnut on ignore and don't quote it.
by redderneck
Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
Replies: 70
Views: 868

Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!

iarmhiman wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:44 pm We'll deliver for the people.

The sell out proves that there are more Meinsters and Ueinsters than ever before. Together we are stronger.
Im sure your folks are generally very proud of you. As it should be.

Don't ever show them that post.
by redderneck
Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

It's a selection picked which for the first time this season (as far as I can remember anyway) gives us a bit of oomph off the bench. One which looks to finally do something about the second half shitsoufflés we've been serving up all year. Won't count for anything if the starters shit the bed, but ...
by redderneck
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I'd advocate a draft for fans, but I'd be afraid the IRFU might agree with that one. Psssssssssst: build it, Cammy, build it. Make it big and bold and shiny and they will come forever more. Build it, you know you want to. I have the perfect slogan for your Morkeshing totty for the 24/25 Season: Lein...
by redderneck
Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Munster: Simon Zebo; Calvin Nash, Antoine Frisch, Alex Nankivell, Shane Daly; Jack Crowley, Conor Murray; Jeremy Loughman, Niall Scannell, Stephen Archer; RG Snyman, Tadhg Beirne (C); Peter O’Mahony, Alex Kendellen, Jack O’Donoghue. Replacements: Eoghan Clarke, Josh Wycherley, Oli Jager, Tom Ahern,...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Tough call to make, some top quality tactical analysis where I learn something new.. or the molecast guys laying into ROG for half an hour. Why not both? Can I be honest? Starting to enjoy the Left Wing podcast. Fitz talks shite a lot but he's not boring. Quick. Get him on a central contract.
by redderneck
Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
Replies: 37914
Views: 2621698

Re: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread

LandOTurk wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:23 pm Ken retires.

One of Wales' finest hookers
Just dipping into the national thread to doff my virtual cap. Bloody fine forward. Hope he goes well in retirement.
by redderneck
Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Listen to your body
Replies: 122
Views: 2646

Re: Listen to your body

Keep her lit :thumbup:
by redderneck
Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Keith Wood calling it an end to the punditry, presumably as his son moves into Munster academy. :lol: Loving the cynicism. Shame Frankie SHeahan wasn't as principled when he was representing lads as their agent, and awarding them MotM as a pundit. Pfffffft. That's Cork Con for you. Compounding on P...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I think one of the simpler solutions, which I mentioned yesterday (and thought to actually be the case) is for the provinces to cover some of the central contract for use of the players. It doesn't fully solve the inequality but it'd help and be fairer. Aki's contract would be approx 1/10 of Connac...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

irishrugbyua wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:02 am Keith Wood calling it an end to the punditry, presumably as his son moves into Munster academy.
:lol: Loving the cynicism.
by redderneck
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:08 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Neinabar, RG and now Tyler. Leinster going after all our cast offs, it's a sorry state of affairs That's the spirit. Rugby in Ireland is dying. Leinster subsisting on Munster scraps. I'm tired of telling ye lads: a draft system for talent could only be to Leinster's benefit, and as we all know; wha...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Nolanator wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:37 pm Go touch some grass, the pair of yiz.
Jaysus, sore point.

Leinster farmers have bought up all the available sileage, the money bagging bastards, and shipped it all away on us.

Famine Joe, there'll be famine. Mark my words.
by redderneck
Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:06 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Professionalism. Gotta love it. Also, importantly, the need to accurately value tradition within the system. I'm far from sure that's been done. If it had been, then Munster, for example, would likely be based out of Cork. Demographics and potential upside vs tradition. TP would have been modernized...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The Leinster ARE producing players for you ungrateful plebs line being trotted out I see. Hmmmm. We're giving a home to your castoffs by and large, so of course you're fine with perpetuating that system. It reinforces the gap. A draft. If there's to be anything other than a pretence at real competit...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

there's definitely some truth to CM's post though. Still happening too - we needed a new Academy head - of all the people in the world we found the best candidate was our current backs coach's brother? Maybe he'll be a visionary, maybe it's jobs for the lads, who knows.... I'll accept we're not yet...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Pray, how will anyone spot any difference from before? You'll need to get yourself into a tat parlour and go for a full Maori sleeve, or maybe a tribal thigh wrap jobbie, in royal blue...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Hmmmmm. Forgive us for not building more fee-paying schools in thriving metropolitan areas and restricting them to single sex intake, excluding other team sports and hiring professional coaching staff. Because that's what a secondary school should be for. there's definitely some truth to CM's post ...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Disingenuous to assert we have not made moves to address appalling lack of talent coming through. We have. I'll accept it was done far too late, but it is being done. However it is where they are coming though from, and both quantity and quality of the raw material provided which remains the crux of...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Munster had this opportunity in the 00s but screwed up their youth development and never capitalised on it. Munster didn't do enough I agree, and the lack of professionalism in certain things was incredibly evident for a long time. But they never had "this opportunity". You had a rake of central co...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Floppykid wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:24 pm Welsh rugby twitter shitting bricks
I'll take my positives from wherever I find them.
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:17 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Kind of a signal to Frawley to look elsewhere imo. Why? There are enough centrally contracted Leinster players floating around to allow generous terms be given to less established players. He might be tempted to leave for minutes but it won't be money. And the benefits of familiarity and remaining ...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Kind of a signal to Frawley to look elsewhere imo. Why? There are enough centrally contracted Leinster players floating around to allow generous terms be given to less established players. He might be tempted to leave for minutes but it won't be money. And the benefits of familiarity and remaining ...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Mr. Very Popular wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:03 pm
Nice signing, watch Welsh twitter explode
:lol:
by redderneck
Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528607
Views: 28790770

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Dwamawama.
by redderneck
Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The wordle thread.
Replies: 4634
Views: 263196

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by redderneck
Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter
Replies: 115
Views: 1469

Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter

iarmhiman wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:04 pm Saints will cause Leinster problems.
Only if Leinster pick eight backs from their squad and use them as their starting pack.