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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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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.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Welsh Rugby Thread
- Replies: 37832
- Views: 2608067
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Listen to your body
- Replies: 72
- Views: 1615
Re: Listen to your body
Keep her lit
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Loving the cynicism.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.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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 ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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- Views: 28726352
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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 ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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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 ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:03 pmNice signing, watch Welsh twitter explodeirishrugbyua wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:01 pm its Jordie.
https://www.leinsterrugby.ie/2024/04/15 ... ter-rugby/
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The wordle thread.
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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Toulouse vs Exeter
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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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It's no fun unless he knows you're busily keeping count Stats.CM11 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:46 pmI really hope he's just laughing his arse off with the fish jumping into his boat as opposed to actually being serious.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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There is a sense of the SA-Ire pool match about about yesterdays game. Leinster fans and the media are celebrating like they’ve won the tournament. Toulouse are the team to beat let’s be real. Hold on yesterday Bordeaux were the team to beat. And Northampton were deadly when they won in Limerick. N...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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Is it possible to block posters on this thing? Edit never mind got it, happy days Here, block me as well while you're at it, cos your comment about Murphy needing to be shown the door is deserving of a far more scathing graphic than a laughing emoji. What has he done to warrant being kept on? Shoul...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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Here, block me as well while you're at it, cos your comment about Murphy needing to be shown the door is deserving of a far more scathing graphic than a laughing emoji.Ulsters Red Hand wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:39 pm Is it possible to block posters on this thing?
Edit never mind got it, happy days
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Don't fcuk it up.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146041
- Views: 7898503
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https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0412/1443203-jamie-marshall/ This is an unbelievable sentence, WTF. There is something deeply wrong with our judicial system. 133 previous convictions to boot. Will 100% reoffend in 2028. That is shocking. 100% will reoffend. Is there nothing in law to keep someo...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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Love watching lads rail against the passing of time, refusing to go quietly into that good night. Usually backs, trying to make up for not having done any work when they were young enough for it to matter, now desperately trying to make up for it. Forwards. Have. More. Sense. There's an implicit op...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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Love watching lads rail against the passing of time, refusing to go quietly into that good night. Usually backs, trying to make up for not having done any work when they were young enough for it to matter, now desperately trying to make up for it. Forwards. Have. More. Sense. There's an implicit opt...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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It's Friday morning lads. By Saturday morning it all counts for nathin' unless the talk has been walked.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146041
- Views: 7898503
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Stop responding.
For the love of God.
For the love of God.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The wordle thread.
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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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Jesus Christ there's some wankfest going on in Cark over La RADGEchelle. where are you seeing this ? i think its kinda hilarious ; i'm picturing him strolling around the English market with a very confused looking Atonio, Aldritt etc.....and then Donncha Ryan bringing and even more confused crew ar...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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I thought he looked off the pace at the weekend, and the workrate of others around him carried him a little. He managed 5 tackles and 5 carries in an hour, which was an hour where Munster dominated possession. Surely if either of the injured locks were available then Beirne would have been the smar...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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some interesting rumours going around about POM and Rowntree that was sort of alluded to on OTB on Monday. Has there been a falling out over the contract? thought it notable POM went straight down the tunnel after being taken off on sunday. Munster offered him nothing when he went to them at the en...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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10 You reap what you sow. Munster were way too slow to get their underage system going even when the golden generation was clearly ageing back in the late 2000s. It was always a matter of painting over the cracks since then. I still think there's a lack of common sense within the IRFU. It's good to...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 527929
- Views: 28726352
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I was always under the impression that the IRFU was fairly wealthy?? Certainly for a country Ireland's size with Rugby's place in it. It's very easy to blow through cash in sports. IRFU have cash and asset reserves that mean we can weather a fair bit of a storm but we're still reliant on revenue st...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
- Replies: 139
- Views: 2603
Re: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
AmenJtah wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:37 pmSpot on.Grandpa wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:05 pmWell articulated article on how size could destroy the game for everyone but the elite......RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:48 pm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union ... -injuries/
Here it is not behind a paywall...
https://archive.ph/7JB4h
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
- Replies: 139
- Views: 2603
Re: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
I keep seeing Ross Tucker saying that about the danger of fatigued players but its nonsense because reducing the subs will result in lighter players. If players are becoming fatigued the fitter teams will run rings around them. This isn't rocket science. If anything what we have now is more dangero...