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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Aviva Stadium Tickets
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Re: Aviva Stadium Tickets
The Autumn international tickets generally go on sale to the public but NZ game will sell very fast and tickets will be pricey.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
- Replies: 362
- Views: 9010
Re: Women's 6 Nations 2024 thread
I am going to twickenham this weekend with about 100 people from the club my daughter is at. Looking forward to it. But for the long term growth there has to be a chance Ireland will win (besides a massive upset). The growth has been great but part of the enjoyment in sport is jeopardy. Hopefully t...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
As a winger that is the problem with a 6/2 bench.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146149
- Views: 7912128
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
I've said for years that the RSA needs to run a serious media campaign on motorway driving. How to use lanes and overtake. Clear the overtaking lanes to serve the purpose for which they're designed, and it'll eliminate the opportunity for people to choose to attempt dangerous manoeuvres. Agree but ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Unfortunately the halfbacks who should have given a bit of cohesion to the game weren't very good and some of the young players such as Osborne and Brownlee were, simply, awful. Both very young of course but if Brownlee is going to Munster I'm not sure that he'll be that much of a loss from what I'...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
The passing was shockingly bad on Saturday. He’s usually a bit better than that. Was a truly awful Leinster performance, I’d say there were killings at the team meeting today Worst bit is, that with a bit of composure, Leinster could have been right in that match. Did you see the match stats? Whate...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
If that's a shoulder injury for Osbourne , then he could miss the semi final You know it's his brother? He had an absolute mare in his cameo, all over the place in defence for 2nd try, threw intercept for 3rd try than off injured. Mangan was not quick as I thought on the chase back for 2nd try firs...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Fair enoughwaguser wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:34 amJust seen a conclusive angle on Twitter. Fairly clear. Knocked on first deliberately. Hair's breath but clear.Luckycharmer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:53 pmExcept no conclusive evidence he even touched the ball.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
RagingWinnie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:30 pmLC is just raging that Ulster wonearl the beaver wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:28 pmLooked to me like he touched the ball on the replay and TMO and ref agreed.Luckycharmer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:53 pm
Except no conclusive evidence he even touched the ball.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Not sure about the uproar regarding the last penalty. Looks like a deliberate knock on to me? Except no conclusive evidence he even touched the ball. You think the TMO only looked at the pics we saw and didn't check for whether he touched it? So you saying there is conclusive evidence he touched it...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
One of the biggest hometown decisions seen in a long time. How did they not check Cooney knock on from lineout before Ulster try? Doak was horrendous it was harder to miss touch than hit line for early peno, so slow in everything he does. Stockdale awful till last 5 mins dropped 2 kicks under zero p...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Looked like it hit McIlroys elbow. We certainly don't deserve that. The good thing about being as shit as this Ulster team, is games against teams like Cardiff are genuine nail biters :lol: Didn't you hockey them in Cardiff recently. We basically had a second string side out. Sheridan is going to b...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 817
Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
It would be very harsh on the fans, you'd be hard pushed to find a Lunster in this day and age. Remember when all the kids were Man Utd supporters and now they’re all Man City supporters. Fickle fuckers I have a few mates who are Blackburn rovers fans :lol: The f**king dickheads If they are still B...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 817
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 817
Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
the thread title calls leinster the most supported club. there is a big difference between a club side and a provincial side which represents a much greater area. How many Premiership clubs are there in London? Also, it'll come as a huge surprise to the successful soccer clubs that instead of havin...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 817
Re: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
What's the difference? Leo Cullen refers to Leinster as a club, that's good enough for me. No need to word police. the thread title calls leinster the most supported club. there is a big difference between a club side and a provincial side which represents a much greater area. How many Premiership ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Nice team. Great to have Ngatai back. Still light in the back 3 though it seems. Lot of experience among the forwards on the bench if the game is in the balance. I wonder have Gunne and Culhane travelled? Would be nice to see them get a bit of gametime next week. Looking forward to seeing Mangan. A...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
To Hell or to Munster!!anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:55 pmIt's a disgrace. Some of those fans should be forced down to Munster.triplebogey wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:52 pm Officially sold out. Remarkable.
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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
- Replies: 70
- Views: 817
Leinster Worlds best supported club team- The people's team!
82,300 tickets sold in 36 hours for the European semi final. Nearly 175k tickets sold for 3 European fixtures. They really are the team of the people!
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
15: Ciarán Frawley (82) 14: Rob Russell (28) 13: Liam Turner (27) 12: Charlie Ngatai (22) 11: Andrew Osborne (1) 10: Harry Byrne (64) 9: Luke McGrath (206) 1: Cian Healy (273) 2: Lee Barron (16) 3: Thomas Clarkson (36) 4: Brian Deeny (16) 5: Jason Jenkins (34) 6: Diarmuid Mangan (1) 7: Scott Penny ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
List them. Presuming you mean professional era. You had Simon Shawe and have currently John McKee. Munster have had Chris Farrell. Connacht have had Willie Faloon, Jonny Murphy, Conor Carey etc So you complain that other provinces dont give you good players (but dont acknowledge its Ulsters fault f...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
I'm estimating about 30k tickets gone so far, maybe a bit under. General sale tomorrow and 2 more weeks to sell them. If the bottom tier+premium is totally full I think that'll be a good outcome. I wonder how many upper tier tickets they'll need to think they'll sell to commit to opening it. Don't ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Assuming they're going sell 60k tickets as it stands... Were they to cut €10 off the cat 1,2 and 3 tickets to 65, 45 and 28 euros respectively they'd lose the guts of 500k... Which they'd recoup if the sold an extra 10k tickets as a result..everything after that would be a net gain. Got 2 tickets t...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
- Replies: 201
- Views: 5298
Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
Well it was one of the schools had a big island looking fucker taking the boys Pretty sure it was castle knock but all those private paying schools roll into one after a while So you made it up? Def was not Castleknock - you also realise if he is island looking like you claim he probably wasn't Kiw...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
- Replies: 201
- Views: 5298
Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
Ah come on now The schools that produce the vast majority of the Irish and Leinster teams are private paying schools that have money to burn I can remember going down with my son to Castleknock on medallion year and they had a fúcking kiwi coach and castleknock aren’t even one of the big rugby scho...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
- Replies: 201
- Views: 5298
Re: Jordie Barrett to Leinster !
It's the trickle-down system, so. IF anything its the exact opposite. Schools being the bedrock (get next to no IRFU funding) feeding the systems above. The whole IRFU set up is devoted to the national team. You're confusing it with the spiv model where the union hopes private clubs - who get no mo...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Not a chance there’s 107 schools in NI playing rugby. That’s over half the schools. I presume some primary schools play rugby as well. In 2022/23 there were 1,079 schools in Northern Ireland, compared with 1,178 in 2010/11. The majority of these schools are primary schools, of which there were 794 ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
The solution is simple. Munster, Ulster, and, to a lesser extent, Connacht need to get their acts together. This. Leinster can probably help. As has been suggested, there ought to be some sharing of IP between the provinces, and no, Leinster’s big advantage isn’t having some fancy private schools. ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Munster myths dispelled mainly by Redder about Leinster having advantage of most of their players going to fee paying single sex (bit weird) schools. Munster team that started against Saints and were the players came from, 9 Munster lads 6 went to fee paying schools, over half went to single sex sch...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Dublin GAA is multiples the size of Leinster rugby in Dublin, within 2 miles of St Marys/Terenure RFCs who both struggle to put out 4/5 senior adult rugby teams. There are a number of huge GAA clubs including one that puts out over 100 teams each week. They are also going to building a new state of...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
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 modernize...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
TBH, that sounds like schools in Ulster need to get the finger out and appoint coaches properly. Reminiscent of the old days of one of the priests coaching the SCT in the Leinster schools. That hasn't been the case in decades. Do the coaches that are in-situ do coaching courses with the Ulster Bran...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Incidentally, and completely supporting the thesis that Leinster schools coaching isn't like elsewhere in the country. I discovered last week that the Leicester, Dan McKellar, coach used to coach us at Senior2s in 5th year. :lol: He was a player coach with Wicklow RFC, and did some coaching in Gera...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Impressive surprising there have been no highlights put of these u19 games?irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:04 pmstarted at 10, scored a try and kick 3 from 4.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Ulster may produce schools players, but the pipelines diverge massively after school level, and always have. Decent Ulster schools players often went to England for uni. Lads from Leinster went to UCD and Trinity. Since then, underage coaching and S&C in Leinster have improved enormously, with priv...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528481
- Views: 28769731
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 o...