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JoeyFantastic

What do you do when the players with high standards might also be passed it? Cam on here always got pelters for pointing out that Murray's speed at getting the ball out wasn't amazing, but certainly himself and POM - clearly superb professionals - were also too old towards the end. It's a bit like ...

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redderneck wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:14 am
DOB wrote: ↑Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:06 am Felix Jones and RG Snyman doing their part in demolishing the ABs tonight.
Fla' also DOB, flexing away merrily.

Fla and Jones, another 2 coaches who couldn't get much from Munster's squad...

JoeyFantastic

All those senior players are gone now, and if any of this current squad start acting like that they need to be kicked out, apart from Beirne and Kleyn not 1 of them has the kudos to question anything McMillan does. It's coaches too, though and general admin staff. I hate to give Matt Williams any c...

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Ulster beat Edinburgh in friendly ulster v cambridge today. murray is getting ruined on social media, really read the room wrong with his bitter comments- seems he thought the fans would all row in behind him. 90%+ of people on social media know roughly the same as me about the reality of playing p...

JoeyFantastic

Definitely a risk. And with an inferior squad to the one Cheika inherited, though I don't see a whole lot of difference here. He had to rid himself of the Corrigans etc back then and we've just shipped a few of the old guard out in advance. Supposed be an excellent man manager as well so we'll see ...

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lorcanoworms wrote: ↑Fri Sep 12, 2025 9:52 pm 28 all for the turnips.

Ending was a bit of a shambles but there was a very decent 40 minutes there, certainly more focused than I ever recall us being in the preseason.

JoeyFantastic

We all went off on one about JVG (and an old Dylan Moran skit about Ed Miliband summed him up perfectly IMO) but even on the PR bit of his announcement branding him a 'nice' guy who his SA squad played practical jokes on I was worried. Even then you just knew at heart we needed someone carved of mo...

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hermie wrote: ↑Fri Sep 12, 2025 4:35 pm
You'd have to imagine a school like Munchins will definitely be a benefactor from this central contracting pot of money.

Very hard to fix of a culture of endemic mediocrity, imo.

JoeyFantastic

Matt Williams in today's Irish Times. Munster do not have a coaching problem. They have a cultural problem with players and administrators not taking responsibility for their performances. Munster’s scapegoating of coaches has allowed generations of players and administrators to avoid the necessary...

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Rowntree parted company with Munster weeks after that Zebre defeat and, while Murray doesn’t shed a whole lot of light on that chapter, he wasn’t sorry to see Rowntree go. “By this stage a parting of the ways was unavoidable,” he writes. “I won’t be two-faced here and say I was sorry to see him go....

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CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 3:19 pm Speaking of Murray, has he ended up with a contract anywhere or is a quietly retiring?

Still in Limerick as of this week anyhow. A super rugby swansong would be nice but he might just fancy stepping off altogether.

JoeyFantastic

True Blue wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 4:10 pm So they found the gun and are looking for a college aged person. So probably not a pro.

I dunno, the Guardian had a profile of an IDF sniper who was just out of college in Chicago...

JoeyFantastic

Think he meant a false flag to distract from Trump's current problems... 100% going to be part of the narrative. I mean, a kill shot like that only comes from a highly trained sniper... what theatres of war have had a lot of snipers recently etc. Poor guy, poor family to have to navigate all this.

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lilyw wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:27 pm This thread has hosted some nonsense arguments in it's time; this one is right there at the very top of the list.

I think that I heard more sense when I coached under-10s at tennis.

We can't expect a man from a landlocked county like Kildare to understand the vagaries of the Naval Service.

JoeyFantastic

Honestly hope he pulls through - there was an element of punching down about his debates but glad they were being had.

On the other hand, how far will Trump go to deflect from Epstein etc?

JoeyFantastic

Trump Doonbeg to host Irish Open in 2026, as Taoiseach says US President 'welcome' in Ireland The 2026 event will be played for the first time at Trump International Golf Links Ireland, Doonbeg. 3.02pm, 10 Sep 2025 24 DONALD TRUMP’S DOONBEG golf resort in Co Clare has been confirmed as the venue fo...

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feckwanker wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 3:22 pm
We do not have Patriots or S400 style systems. What we have is dogshit.

I'm quite hazy on this point but our systems are so poor we can't even test our SAM's here as the airspace is so busy? Iirc (and that's no sure thing) we'd to do testing up somewhere like Finland...

JoeyFantastic

People also forget how difficult it is to invade an island, especially if you don't have ground based airstrips within striking distance. And yet somehow I'd back the Americans to manage it, if they ever had to. I know it's anecdotal (and admittedly pub talk) but an Army officer I discussed this wi...

JoeyFantastic

i know sweet fa about the military, navy etc but if we pimped out all our military hardware and found people willing to join up .....which army would be pose anything more than a speedbump to ? shouldnt any funding just be towards cyber security ? Very hard to for the lads with fetishes about milit...

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Says the IRA and Hamas symphasisor. Also, you can tell that to the Russians or Chinese when they invade the ROI looking for a land base to target the West from. The Royal Navy can't stop the small boats (showing real Dunkirk spirit in fairness) sailing from France to England - it's a wonder the Rus...

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Says the IRA and Hamas symphasisor. Also, you can tell that to the Russians or Chinese when they invade the ROI looking for a land base to target the West from. The Royal Navy can't stop the small boats (showing real Dunkirk spirit in fairness) sailing from France to England - it's a wonder the Rus...

JoeyFantastic

Says the IRA and Hamas symphasisor. Also, you can tell that to the Russians or Chinese when they invade the ROI looking for a land base to target the West from. The Royal Navy can't stop the small boats (showing real Dunkirk spirit in fairness) sailing from France to England - it's a wonder the Rus...

JoeyFantastic

With all due respect Willie, you are just showing your ignorance. Mark Twains words come to mind, "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt". You are displaying your own ignorance unfortunately - Twain never said that, or at lea...

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And we can't just C&P other nations who have substantial systematic differences. This isn't a serious point but on RTE's Traitors last night a boat challenge had an army guy getting people in the boat 3 metres from the river... I don't think we should overestimate the calibre of candidates in the s...

JoeyFantastic

As for the SAS, could they not have been used to track but not make any contact? Maybe but it's not usual for the army to be called in for police matters. I'm sure the family or the Police could have hired ex-SAS members to track them if they felt there was the need to do it. I'll be amazed if it d...

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camroc1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:55 pm So, FF choose Gavin.

Will he be the first former Defence Forces member to run for (and become,if he wins) President (that is ignoring deValera)?

And will his close association with 'de Dubs' play against him in culchie land ?

O'Kelly? He fought in 1916 afaik.

JoeyFantastic

Why should we foot the bill for a massive navy to stop drugs destined for elsewhere? It should be a joint effort from all nations affected. And we're an island, ffs. It's not like there isn't a way to stop the drugs hitting the UK or mainland Europe but as above, the UK can't even stop illegal immi...

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Some quite damning reports on the ability of the Irish defence forces to prevent the cartels bringing drugs into the country in this article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvplyrrwno Meh, nothing new in it - part of the reason we'll never see a United Ireland is the US wants the British navy...

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Some quite damning reports on the ability of the Irish defence forces to prevent the cartels bringing drugs into the country in this article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvplyrrwno Meh, nothing new in it - part of the reason we'll never see a United Ireland is the US wants the British navy...

JoeyFantastic

The optics of what? As I understand it, she understood she didn't have to pay second home stamp duty because she didn't own a first home. She's not exactly the target for the second home tax (as in her circumstances). Ah, it's definitely a little shifty. Nothing 99% of us wouldn't do probably but s...

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The house purchase was in May. It is now early September. Is the UK tax year still April ? As I very much suspect that as long as she paid the correct amount of stamp duty before the end of the tax year the Revenue wouldn't have batted an eyelid. They have much bigger fish to fry. And as for her co...

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It would be a woeful waste of my lunch break arguing with the irish about terrorism. You do seem the type to be intimidated by protesting grannies and vicars in their 80's, you've certainly changed my mind on it. dont be fooled, those 80 year old grannies and vicars are in fact Hamas terrorists I h...

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 12:32 pm
It would be a woeful waste of my lunch break arguing with the irish about terrorism.

You do seem the type to be intimidated by protesting grannies and vicars in their 80's, you've certainly changed my mind on it.

JoeyFantastic

Yep EdEd and Solanoa injured again…two crocks who could be very good pamyers (esp EdEd who I’ve always been v impressed by) Also Kleyn’s body is banjaxed apparently. We’re light at tight head lock According to a guy on mf.com who is usually pretty accurate both EdEd and Salanoa are expected to init...

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Yep EdEd and Solanoa injured again…two crocks who could be very good pamyers (esp EdEd who I’ve always been v impressed by) Also Kleyn’s body is banjaxed apparently. We’re light at tight head lock According to a guy on mf.com who is usually pretty accurate both EdEd and Salanoa are expected to init...

JoeyFantastic

How do you undo 20 years of economic mismanagement in six months? Tim Harford examined Labour's economic proposals prior to the election and more or less the only way out of their mess is to scrap Brexit. It is both the anchor dragging them back and the hole in their boat etc. Starmer is already in...

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The wrecked the engines of fighter planes under the name of Palestine for action or whatever. Fvck them. As Rory Stewart and others have pointed out, the fact that an RAF base's security is so lax that a handful of protestors could disable planes should be the real talking point but Starmer managed...

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Palestine action group choreographed the targeting of the MOD, costing millions of ££ of damage to defence equipment. Wise the Fvck up Earl. We have a PM publicly undermining the taxman today and backing a tax avoider. So much for socialism. Criminal damage though, isn't afaik, terrorism? Don't thi...

JoeyFantastic

Mostly yes :lol: i think they'll have unstoppable momentum unless Labour perform a miracle which they don't appear capable of. They've been continuity dogshit which is a real disappointment- shouldn't have been difficult to look like worldbeaters following the tories. Pretty much - I'm genuinely am...

JoeyFantastic

Current MPs- they're polling big numbers looking ahead. The only hope is they go in with the tories for some semblance of competence. Saw a prediction that the Tories are (seemingly) running the risk of only have 20 MPs returned - seems implausible to me but first past the post etc... In any event,...

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