Just tuning in and wasn't expecting the comedy straight off the bat. If the margin of Stormer's win is less than 50 I will consider it a moral victory for Leinster.OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:52 pm Top of the weekend clash. Leinster the big favorites
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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: URCR15 Stormers vs Leinster
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- Views: 4642
Re: URCR15 Stormers vs Leinster
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
It's all digital these days. Their STH pre-sale ended at the same time Leinster's did yesterday, so any unallocated tickets are immediately available for public sale. Official sell out now announced by Leinster.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528612
- Views: 28806429
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528612
- Views: 28806429
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Nah, there's a pricing strategy that would get close to selling out but it's probably too much hassle for EPCR to figure it out while making the same/more. There is? Go ahead then, what would your strategy be? Well, I'd start with kids tickets in the main stand. LAR sold out partly because it was L...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
The hill will be full. 20 euro a ticket? Bargain So there'll be 13000 more empty seats then. I think the absolute ceiling of home fans is about 50,000, and I don't see that happening to be honest. Not sure how many Saints will bring but I doubt it will be 30000 to 40000. Our ceiling is probably som...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528612
- Views: 28806429
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
I reckon pricing 50k of the tickets available for the semi final at €75+ will probably scupper their chances of getting close to a sell out. A sellout was always highly unlikely even if they were giving them away Saracens style. Unless Saints come with a couple of divisions worth of support. Nah, t...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528612
- Views: 28806429
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
happytramp wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:34 pm I reckon pricing 50k of the tickets available for the semi final at €75+ will probably scupper their chances of getting close to a sell out.
A sellout was always highly unlikely even if they were giving them away Saracens style. Unless Saints come with a couple of divisions worth of support.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Given that there's only one or two stadia that even occasionally hold a rugby match that are any bigger, this would be true of virtually any team. And whilst Leinster have played at Croke Park (just the once?) before, that was back in 2009, so not desperately relevant Anyway the attendance target t...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Will Crowe park be the highest attendance Saints have ever experienced? Given that there's only one or two stadia that even occasionally hold a rugby match that are any bigger, this would be true of virtually any team. And whilst Leinster have played at Croke Park (just the once?) before, that was ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Favourite Rugby Commentator
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2067
Re: Favourite Rugby Commentator
Mark Robson for me, always good for a funny line. you never give a vampire a taste of blood https://youtu.be/cAWsoLyaKMw?si=KHJoviRnNTYpMTIS&t=292 Yeah he has had some crackers. "that's the full cake for Leinster, but a bowl of cold gruel for Montpelier" as (i think it was Ross Byrne) lined up the ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
- Replies: 576
- Views: 6580
Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
The reason the forward pass was bring discussed was because of an accusation that Dickson favoured us. I don't think he got much wrong to be honest but as I said before, there were a fair few 50/50s that another ref might have gone the other way with. If only we could have transferred a few of them...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
- Replies: 576
- Views: 6580
Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
The reason the forward pass was bring discussed was because of an accusation that Dickson favoured us. I don't think he got much wrong to be honest but as I said before, there were a fair few 50/50s that another ref might have gone the other way with. If only we could have transferred a few of them...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
- Replies: 576
- Views: 6580
Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
Are we really analysing a potential forward pass in a 27 point game? If we're going to replay the game with this level of nitpickery then I want 7 points taken off La Rochelle for the blatant crooked throw in the lineout that set up their scoring maul. Leinster had a man up competing for it but the...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers
- Replies: 425
- Views: 5604
Re: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers
Load of knock ons in the "tackle" by Leinster, refs will be watching this now. Is that referring what counts as "watching this"? The Lowe one was not deliberate for me and it seems to me that the ref pulled the card too quick and then felt obliged to follow through, realising he made a mistake when...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: URCR13 Leinster vs Bulle
- Replies: 183
- Views: 3851
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 3253
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
So how would you reward this "good defensive play"? A 5m scrum, where they can kick the ball 30m up field and directly to touch? A free kick on the 5m line, where they tap and can kick the ball 30m up field and directly to touch? Something else? Coin toss? In my view stopping the score is the rewar...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Gatland gooorne
- Replies: 13
- Views: 742
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 45941
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4015
Re: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
Dont need it, Leinster/Ulster/Connacht can send a full strength teams down in the URC. Won't help - Leinster are there in April, and only have the Lions game at altitude, the other game is Stormers. Any small benefit gained from that tour will have gone long before the test. Neither will an altitud...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4015
Re: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
Kick-offs at 17h00 SAST ; 15h00 Dublin time: Sat. 6 July, SA vs Ireland, Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria Sat. 13 July, SA v Ireland, Hollywood Bets Kings Park, Durban Pity it wasn't a three test series. Interesting to see will Ireland have a high altitude camp to prepare for Pretoria instead of the usual...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 4015
Re: Are the Springboks vs Ireland the mini WC this year?
No. Boks will be undercooked, a new coaching setup, too many retirements, new ways and personell. Ireland to beat Boks in the series. Some fantastic dustups and moaning about refs etc. to follow, though. Ireland will also be undercooked, the last 6N match will be later this month. The first test is...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: car purchase issue
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2226
Re: car purchase issue
Contrary to popular opinion here I do not actually think you've a legal right to abandon it. You agreed a contract to buy the car and copper fastened it by paying a deposit, on the condition that some things were done to the car. Those things were done, but failed, in this instance, to fix the issue...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Boredies - NATIONALITIES
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3648
Re: Boredies - NATIONALITIES
500 post minimum to make this list apparently.
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- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official France vs Italy - 6 Nations Day 3
- Replies: 427
- Views: 6702
Re: Official France vs Italy - 6 Nations Day 3
20.15The opposing team may not do anything to delay the kick or obstruct the kicker, including intentionally taking, throwing or kicking the ball out of reach of the team awarded the penalty. Sanction:Second penalty or free-kick, 10 metres in front of the original mark. The second penalty or free-k...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Scotland vs France Match Thread
- Replies: 912
- Views: 15769
Re: Scotland vs France Match Thread
Scotland deserved to win on the balance of play. And most certainly because they had an ultimately "clear" try disallowed at the end. Whilst a 95% ++ certain try at the end was bizarrely disallowed, generally there are no replays in most games of rugby. Should the referee's initial call therefore a...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528612
- Views: 28806429
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Larmour's form has recovered this season after a lean couple of years for him. TBF neither would get the call if Hansen or O'Brien were fit.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 🇮🇪 vs 🇮🇹
- Replies: 1077
- Views: 24195
Re: 🇮🇪 vs 🇮🇹
Who the fudge is this clown? Ah Winnifred, I've been around for ages. Just because you didn't like the anthem reference doesn't change the fact that they're both Irish citizens. Not sure 'citizenship' plays any part in the eligibility rules. Maybe read the exchange first. I was replying to a post i...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 🇮🇪 vs 🇮🇹
- Replies: 1077
- Views: 24195
Re: 🇮🇪 vs 🇮🇹
We had three kiwis so even that’s wrong So up your doot Gibson Park and Aki are both Irish citizens so one kiwi. when they sing "áta faoi gheall ag Éireann" they mean it. Up your do. Who the fudge is this clown? Ah Winnifred, I've been around for ages. Just because you didn't like the anthem refere...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 🇮🇪 vs 🇮🇹
- Replies: 1077
- Views: 24195
Re: 🇮🇪 vs 🇮🇹
Derwyn needs a history and geography lesson. Cnut. I mean, it's factually accurate based on the number of Ulster players in last week's squad. We had three kiwis so even that’s wrong So up your doot Gibson Park and Aki are both Irish citizens so one kiwi. when they sing "áta faoi gheall ag Éireann"...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Format is fine. Much better than the ridiculous 3 best runners up nonsense. It's a double edged sword. On the one hand it keeps most teams in it all the way through the pool stages, on the other it allows teams to put out shadow sides at the start and target 1 or 2 of the 4 games, knowing that ofte...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 6:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Stormers will know what needs to be done when they run on in Paris. If they win, LaRoh or Sale Sharks wont catch them. Met Éireann predicting a massive wind and rainstorm for Sunday round these parts. Might not affect Manchester that much but if it does that Sale game might be off…. Don’t know what...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
Leinster could possibly top the group without any match points next weekend if (big huge if) Stade can keep Stormers to a margin below 54 and Leinster lose to to Leicester by less than 37 (assuming with smaller margins that Stormers and Leicester both collect 5 match points) That would be fine for ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
and Leinster lose to to Leicester by less than 37 :lol: I didn't invent the maths - that is what has to technically happen for Leinster to top the pool with no match points. I didn't say it was likely and I think Stormers will run over a disinterested Stade by 60+ meaning Leinster will need a match...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
- Replies: 1412
- Views: 69303
Re: 2023/2024 European Champions Cup
So yes, Leinster all but through as group winners if Leicester don't scramble a bonus point. Looks fairly impossible to get top seeding unless Bath do the impossible. Leinster could possibly top the group without any match points next weekend if (big huge if) Stade can keep Stormers to a margin bel...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Loadsadosh Leinster v mega bucks Stade
- Replies: 140
- Views: 8068
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Replies: 172
- Views: 28299
Re: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
WTF could cause that type of crash? No idea, one would expect a plane to glide :) That's what most "uncontrolled flight into terrain" crashes look like. A stall, inoperable or loss of control surfaces (aileron / elevator / rudder) or pilot incapacitation could all quickly lead to this. Even if the ...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wtf is going on in the Brit post office?
- Replies: 170
- Views: 20730
Re: Wtf is going on in the Brit post office?
The Guardian have re-released their podcasts on this today. They've a woman on who was fired, prosecuted, jailed, was forced to sell her house to make up this imaginary shortfall, was threatened with jail again for not paying back the imaginary shortfall, and had her health completely collapse in t...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeffrey Epstein gggooonnnee!!!
- Replies: 819
- Views: 99192
Re: Jeffrey Epstein gggooonnnee!!!
As far as conspiracies go, I would not be surprised if Epstein and/or Maxwell were working for Mossad, getting blackmail material on some of the most powerful figures in the world. Robert Maxwell, aka Hans Koch, was a Mossad operative. Honoured by the state of israel with burial on the Mount of Oli...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Can the scrum be saved?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 23544
Re: Can the scrum be saved?
Maybe not oxygen masks, but rather oxygen deprivation masks are needed for the scrums. An incentive to the players to get the feck on with it so they can breathe again I can see it now: Ref: Penalty, 3 breathing. *Calls captain over* This is the 3rd penalty for breathing in the scrum in 10 minutes,...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Are You Allowed To Kick Conversions / Drop Goals / Penalties In Bare Feet / Socks?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 984
Re: Are You Allowed To Kick Conversions / Drop Goals / Penalties In Bare Feet / Socks?
Is there anything in the rules that expressly prohibits this? Obviously conversions would give you the most time to quickly whip off your shoe, take the kick in your bare foot / sock, and then quickly put the shoe back on before the next restart of play. Now with a penalty or drop goal attempt, if ...