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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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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
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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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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
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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: 195
- Views: 4774
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: 195
- Views: 4774
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 !
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 modernize...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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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
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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: 528113
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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: 528113
- Views: 28739091
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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: 528113
- Views: 28739091
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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 o...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528113
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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 o...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528113
- Views: 28739091
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A steal considering bluffer Finn on £1 sterling a year and I imagine Kitschoff on close to £500k?
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528113
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Nooooooo Sats you are saying you are a bandwagon fan and only started supporting when we started winning No, I said I supported all the provinces before the league started. I'd have only ever gone to Leinster games, was a season ticket holder from the start and was primarily a Leinster fan but ther...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528113
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Tyler Bleyendaal a coach of interest for Leinster according to Jackman. Jordie Barrett also being linked with Leinster in latest 42 rugby weekly. Jordie Barrett would be such a weird signing, he'd be a guaranteed starter and you've Ireland internationals galore to pick from in his positions Would b...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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ONe from 18,00km as well though would prefer a monster tightheadtriplebogey wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:10 pm Leinster appear to be teasing a new signing on Twitter?
I dunno if they're messing or not.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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- Views: 28739091
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How did he do?irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:41 pmCasper Gabriel played for Ireland u19 at the weekend.irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:57 am Adam Watchorn(TH prop/leinster)
Ryan Connolly(backrow/ulster)
Max Flynn(backrow/connacht)
Charlie Coghlan(backrow/connacht)
Tom Farthing(scrumhalf/connacht)
Cian Brady(Wing/connacht)
some players involved for ireland u19
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528113
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That pic is just taken at the wrong time as he is blinking. On another point, I watched the game again with an eye on Skelton. Played like the fat lazy shite we always hoped he would be. Spent more time sitting on his arse holding guys into rucks than anything else. His laziness led directly to the...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Larmour was excellent I thought, especially defensively. great to see. He has been really really good the last while. Delighted for him. His rucking is really strong. Gets right under people and clears out really effectively. Seems to be taking the right option more and more. Osbourne has been quie...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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The point was that Munster got the 2.30 slot prior to the floodlights being installed and kept it. It was the main/only rugby slot on RTE. Whether it was AIL, six nations or Munster playing. Sweet Jesus the f**king state of this thread and this argument in particular. Some of you need it go to bed ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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It won't be. Their pack bar Lawes isn't good enough. Northampton won't get within 40 points of Leinster, they are very ordinary. I think they are better than ordinary, with a few top class players and they would be able to trade blows with most teams in the tournament. It is just they are a terribl...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Guy is still in the Munster set-up (u20's coach?) so he can't be that bothered by it these days. So it's OK for Munster fans to boo their own players? Guy was never up to it but no. Munster fans grabbing opposition players during a match is that OK? https://www.thesun.ie/sport/11823529/munster-fan-...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Proper disgusting behaviour Ian Keatley Reveals The Profound Effect Being Booed By Munster Fans Had On His Personal Life https://www.balls.ie/rugby/ian-keatley-reveals-profound-effect-booed-munster-fans-personal-life-362409 Guy is still in the Munster set-up (u20's coach?) so he can't be that bothe...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Proper disgusting behaviour
Ian Keatley Reveals The Profound Effect Being Booed By Munster Fans Had On His Personal Life
https://www.balls.ie/rugby/ian-keatley- ... ife-362409
Ian Keatley Reveals The Profound Effect Being Booed By Munster Fans Had On His Personal Life
https://www.balls.ie/rugby/ian-keatley- ... ife-362409
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Leinster fans mild booing is an odd hill to die on. Especially since the Cork kant has being serving multiple bans in France for abusing officials This is hardly a hill I'll be dying on tbf, just think it's weird is all. It will never match the Munster fans boing their own player, remember the abus...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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I was on the old North terrace. Will never forget that day. But we won in Croke Park I was there too. I still best the scars. Wasn't at CP. Was sure that we were gonna lose them as well! :lol: I was on the upper Hogan stand. That year i experience the two best atmospheres ever at a game. That semi ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
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Re: Heineken cup quarter final - Leinster vs La Rochelle
His kicking probably more accurate than Lowes, has to go to SA. Ross very good as was Larmour great pass under for 2nd last try.shabadoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:41 pmHe had a very good game.DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:38 pm I thought Osbourne stood up well, some hard runs down his channel.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Bollocks our backline now very 1 paced would nearly prefer Larmour 15 with Russell on wingPourSomeRuggerOnMe wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:38 pm Keenan out is an absolute disaster.
Frawley will probably go off injured as well, knowing him.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Well it certainly ain't UlsterUlsters Red Hand wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:19 pmSo now Leinster are to thank for Ireland winning so much?Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:17 pmThat ain’t good for Ireland brainiacUlsters Red Hand wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:15 pm
I, along with everyone not from Leinster, hope LaRochelle knock the stuffing out of you.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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RIngrose? Yeah, but Leinster have good cover there and in the context of how these games have gone Ryan a much bigger loss. I'm not quite but almost glad he hasn't made it back in time. It's not the kind of game you would want to be going into with no gametime under your belt. Having said that not ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Yep if he can hold his own in the scrum then he is better than current Healy in every other Metric.CM11 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:59 pmInteresting. Good stuff that they're rating him. If he gets a run of games now, he might make the SA tour.irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:51 pm Leo saying Healy was available but Milne deserved the spot on the bench.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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15. Dillyn Leyds, 14. Jack Nowell, 13. UJ Seuteni, 12. Jonathan Danty, 11. Teddy Thomas, 10. Antoine Hastoy, 9. Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 1. Louis Penverne, 2. Tolu Latu, 3. Uini Atonio, 4. Ultan Dillane, 5. Will Skelton, 6. Judicael Cancoriet, 7. Levani Botia, 8. Grégory Alldritt (c) 16. Quentin Lespiau...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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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 12:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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Did my hammy last night :( Should I still go to this game or is it better to sit this one out so soon after? Have had all sorts of injuries but surprisingly never the hamstring. Old age catching up, how did you manage that? Have done mine loads over recent years, you can still walk etc, I always be...