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The daughter of Soleimani at his funeral Speaking at her dad's funeral in front of hundreds of thousands who began to cheer, she said: "The families of US soldiers in the Middle East will spend their days waiting for death of their children." She seems nice Her father's just been murdered by the Am...

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Healy
Herring
Furlong
Ryan
Toner
Stander
van der Flier
Doris
Cooney
Sexton
Stockdale
McCloskey
Ringrose
Baloucoune
Addison

Kelleher
Kilcoyne
Porter
Henderson
Deegan
McGrath
Byrne
Larmour

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The daughter of Soleimani at his funeral Speaking at her dad's funeral in front of hundreds of thousands who began to cheer, she said: "The families of US soldiers in the Middle East will spend their days waiting for death of their children." She seems nice Her father's just been murdered by the Am...

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No mention of Frawley in injury report. Ryan sounds like he might be available this weekend. If be safe and rest him anyway. Frawley looked pretty special at the weekend. The way he took the ball flat and passed inside to Connors in the build up to the last (?) try in the first half stood out. Hope...

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I think it's funny.

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Quinlan says he wants to see the best players, like Larmour, playing in Irish derbies.

Maybe Larmour wouldn't have been playing to score the Pro14 try of the decade back in 2017 if the 'best players' were playing back then.

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There's an easy enough fix if Munster need more carriers in their pack. Pick a backrow of 6. Stander, 7. O'Mahony, 8. Botha. I can't see them beating racing with JOD at 7 and POM at 6. How much more of the POM at blindside, Stander at 8 and someone who isn't SOB or Leavy at 7 do they need to see fai...

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I don’t have POM anywhere near a backrow Green Jersey on current form ..... would be interested to see where others place him in the pecking order 6 - Stander/ruddock/Doris/Jordi/Connors/POM 7 - JVDF/Connors/Deegan/JOD/POM 8 - Doris/stander/Deegan/Jordi/JOD/POM 6. Stander, Ruddock, O'Donoghue, Josh...

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Agree with Jumper. O'Mahony has always been suspect at blindside. When he doesn't have a freak openside beside him he gets exposed.

He should focus on openside himself and leave blindside to players who actually have the physical ability to play the position.

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rfurlong wrote:Ireland 23 for 6n .....

Larmour
Stockdale
Ringrose
Henshaw
Conway
Byrne
Cooney
Doris
JVDF
Stander
Hendo
Ryan
Porter
Kelleher
Healy

Cronin
Furlong
Kilcoyne
Toner
Connors
McGrath
Carberry
Addison

Baloucoune instead of Conway.

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Banana Man wrote:
Lazy Couch potato wrote:Isn’t Taylor the lad who picked a ucc degree over rugby? Would move to limerick?
That was Tomas Quinlan - Taylor is a quality player mind.

I thought it was Paul Kiernan.

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If Munster had Leinster's backrow resources they'd probably be picking Max Deegan at openside all the time and Connors and Penny - equivalent to Jack Daly and John Hodnett - wouldn't have been brought through at all. Munster's backrow selections are all over the place, and it's a big problem for Ire...

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It's to be expected with a guy of 6'9''. Defenders are sometimes going to get under him and drive him back. It's just physics. Sometimes those ones where the guy is put back like that lead to very fast ball and can actually be quite useful for the attack.

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Fair comment on VDF, I haven’t seen him since the WC but have been impressed with Connors instead. Two of the Spiv Cup, Lyon away and Northampton away, he was the best player on the park by an absolute mile. Yep - which is why I think/hope Connors will end up as a six - a he gets a bit bigger/stron...

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Why did Hanrahan (?) cut in when it looked to be on to counterattack after the Porter knock on in the Munster 22? I didn't see a replay but it looked as if he could have freed the outside man down the wing if he ran a bit of an arc and drew Adam Byrne before passing.

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I'm seeing a bit of criticism for Darren O'Shea for the way he was tackled backwards by Cronin and Connors. But he takes out two defenders and sets up quick ruck ball. Not necessarily a disadvantage for Munster.

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Why did Munster not take the three on 73 mins or whatever. Did they not want to win? Pretty dumb play.

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Best uncapped Ireland XXIII at the moment? 1. Jeremy Loughman 2. Ronan Kelleher 3. Tom O'Toole 4. Alan O'Connor 5. Gavin Thornbury 6. Josh Murphy 7. Will Connors 8. Caelan Doris 9. Jamison Gibson-Park 10. Billy Burns 11. Barry Daly 12. Dan Goggin 13. Thomas Farrell 14. Robert Baloucoune 15. Hugo Kee...

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Jeez, it must be frustrating being a Connacht fan with stuff like that served up all the time. Friend seems a very middling coach - and I don't remember anything being made of the circumstances he was appointed in. Friend was linked with the vacant Ulster job. That then went to McFarland (the IRFU p...

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Wayde van Niekerk's 400m WR in Rio.

London 2012 was amazing.

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1. Cian Healy 2. Rory Best 3. Tadhg Furlong 4. James Ryan 5. Paul O'Connell 6. Stephen Ferris 7. Chris Henry 8. David Wallace 9. Conor Murray 10. Jonathan Sexton 11. Jacob Stockdale 12. Luke Fitzgerald 13. Brian O'Driscoll 14. Tommy Bowe 15. Jared Payne 16. Jerry Flannery 17. Jack McGrath 18. Mike R...

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Blaine McIlroy's brother looked quite promising coming off the bench for Ulster against Leinster.

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Fitzgerald could have been the best 12 - purely in terms of top-level ability. Obviously didn't play there much.

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Ryan, Ferris, Stockdale, Darcy and Bowe should be in, for me.

Earls has never dominated high level matches like Stockdale did from Autumn 2017 to Autumn 2018.

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Yeah. Or player 'management'. Rest of the squad have had a proper preseason with Larkham so maybe we'll score a try :thumbup: Snakey after getting a sell out. That said I’ll be interesting to get a good few of the young lads. Hopefully Coombes or jack o Sullivan getting a big game start. Maybe a Mu...

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Can't see Sexton leaving now when he's targeting the British Lions in 2021.

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Nordies, friends mam died in a hospice(not sure if that matters), what's the timeline for the body being released? Is there the same delay as the UK because of Shipman? Usually a body will be buried/cremated withing 3 days of death Sometimes 2 if there is a mad rush put on Unbelievable how long it ...

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Wonder what COB's speed is like. His try v Ulster is probably the best example of him running in the open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGrZkrexJ_Y That Ulster defence parted faster than when Moses waved at the Red Sea. It's easy enough just to say it was poor defence. He makes it easier to brush...

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Floppykid wrote:Wonder what COB's speed is like.

His try v Ulster is probably the best example of him running in the open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGrZkrexJ_Y

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The Itoje clearout. That's absolutely fine. Contact isn't with the head or neck. Furlong has a highlight reel of him melting rucks that we all cheer about. Don't like it, no attempt to stay on his feet. It probably isn't safe but you see shit like that at least 10 times a game. Either radically cha...

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TRK is great, but at times awfully one-eyed about Munster stuff. He's particularly prone to defending deeply average play but South African Irish capped locks. Fond of an auld moan, ably backed up by his twitter retinue, but he's not wrong about some of the cheap shots here . Skelton's a horribly d...

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How many Irish players are abroad these days? Given that Leinster now essentially have 2 full match day 23's that are highly competitive, and there are god knows how many Irish pro's dotted across England, France Italy, USA etc, should we be looking at a 5th Irish 'province' in the Pro14 before we ...

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How many Irish players are abroad these days? Given that Leinster now essentially have 2 full match day 23's that are highly competitive, and there are god knows how many Irish pro's dotted across England, France Italy, USA etc, should we be looking at a 5th Irish 'province' in the Pro14 before we ...

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Tuilagi is more of a beast than Fourie.

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Failing to close the deal and get the try bonus point against Quins has probably cost Ulster a Quarter Final berth - unless we win on Friday. Projected QFs (1) Leinster v Northampton (8) (2) Exeter v Saracens (7) (3) Clermont v Glasgow (6) (4) Racing v Toulouse (5) And in the Bic Biro... (1) Bristo...

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themaddog wrote:
RichieRich89 wrote:Didn't know Eanna Madden had taken up rugby. Hows he getting on?
He hasn't. He's playing sevens.
Are you a mate of his?

I just know the name from following athletics.

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Porterbelly1 wrote:Any internationals who went to the World Cup will only be available for 1/3 of the Christmas interpros.

To be expected I suppose, given the condensed nature of the Heineken Cup

Where are you hearing that?

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Didn't know Eanna Madden had taken up rugby. Hows he getting on?

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They took Lee Rigby's killers alive, one has been converting fellow inmates to his preferred strain of Islam. At least that guy wasn't trying to indiscriminately kill as many civilians as possible. There's that picture of a woman confronting him after the attack and he made no attempt to harm her, ...

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If Addison is to be banned surely it would have to be for a headbutt? An accidental head clash isn't a high tackle.

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