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Leinster Rugby Academy Manager, Simon Broughton has this afternoon confirmed that Josh Ericson and Joshua Kenny have been added to the Academy intake. https://www.leinsterrugby.ie/2025/11/07/joshua-kenny-and-josh-ericson-added-to-leinster-rugby-academy/ This is what I like to see re Kenny "A talent...

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Stepping back into the Beirne red card thing again..... A thought went through my head at the time, and I haven't seen it really discussed by anyone since. A player on the defensive side is not obliged to move out of the way of an attacking player. While they do have an obligation not to obstruct, t...

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I think a lot of people are unnecessarily agonizing over the squad transition. We're all looking to South Africa as the model right now. Their 2023 had the following new additions/replacements (caps/age at the time in brackets) from the 2019 squad: Ox Nche (21/28), Jean Kleyn (4/30), Marvin Orie (14...

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This is where people were kicked off trackers or something? Or initially refused one? Or just not charged the right rate? generally people who got into some sort of difficulties with payments. Encouraged by the banks to 'temporarily' switch to fixed rates, and were told the trackers were no longer ...

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LC, I still think you're focusing on the negatives rather than positives. The guy is still 22. His development is being accelerated rather than been given token caps. Not sure why you're arguing with/engaging with him Statto. If you're looking for a reasoned discussion that might lead to enlightenm...

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Not yet but his 1.94m combined with his speed should enable him to compete the high ball if well timed by his own team. He's genuinely the worst I've seen at dealing with any sort of kick put down his channel. The better sides seem to take full advantage of this. I meant on attack but that means he...

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I think it's their best chance in ages but haven't seen their injury list. Anyone notable not available? Possibly is their best chance alright (maybe 20%), especially with the Barrets (Scott and Jordie) probably out, and NZ possibly rotating a little before England and because of the travel. As for...

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Not giving Scotland a chance, DeDoc? They'll get a decent jump if they beat NZ and might then be able to push for top seeding? Not really to be honest. Bookies have them about 30% to win - I think that is very generous. Deep down I don't think the Kiwis believe they can/will lose to Scotland, and t...

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So, this weekend sees: 1) Georgia - USA 2) Ireland - Japan 3) Samoa - Brazil 4) Belgium - Namibia 5) Portugal - Uruguay 6) Scotland - NZ 7) Romania - Canada 8) England - Fiji 9) Italy - Australia 10) France - SA 11) Wales - Argentina From the perspective of the World Cup seedings then the important ...

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who gives a fk about the rankings anymore ? top 2 from each group and 4 best 3rd places qualify for the next stage, none of the top teams will miss this, unlike previous rwcs Being in Band 1 doesn't guarantee you an easy group but if you draw one of the weaker sides then it gives you more ability t...

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who gives a fk about the rankings anymore ? top 2 from each group and 4 best 3rd places qualify for the next stage, none of the top teams will miss this, unlike previous rwcs Maybe for the very top of the tree - SA, NZ or those more or less guaranteed to a be a number 1 seed. But the difference bet...

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Commentators and pundits have been quick to latch onto the buzzword of the moment – that Ireland are “coming in undercooked” for the Autumn Internationals. Yet, history tells a different story. Since 2016, Ireland’s opening fixtures in this series have consistently delivered strong performances. In...

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The context is that RWC seeding takes place at the start of December. Unlikely previously where this was bands of 4 (because of 4 groups), now the bands will be of size 6, thanks to the shitty new structure :x The way the rankings work means that ranking points are exchanged - from losing team to wi...

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Health warning: Sit down and take a deep breath before reading. You will doubtless be shocked that there could be conduct like this in this industry: https://archive.ph/ymTHU I'm still a bit confused by the whole thing but it's not really a consumer issue. Yeah my feeling too. Can someone explain t...

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Health warning: Sit down and take a deep breath before reading. You will doubtless be shocked that there could be conduct like this in this industry:
https://archive.ph/ymTHU

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https://www.unitedrugby.com/latest/disciplinary/disciplinary-decision-josh-murphy/ The Disciplinary process related to Josh Murphy 20 minute Red Card in the BKT United Rugby Championship Round 4 game against Vodacom Bulls on Friday 17 October has resulted in the card being rescinded. The Player (Jos...

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Have heard from a good source that Irish management were not happy with Coombes challenging Sam Prendergast in the scuffle last weekend. Golden boy has to be protected at all costs and this is the end of Coombes Irish career. Sounds totally legit. Please keep us informed, and let us know if you nee...

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Deegan and Penny probably not worth a look, particularly the latter. Coombes and Hume should really be there unless they're happy with where they're at and want to look further down. I'd imagine it is a combination. Penny is the youngest of those at 26. Deegan is 29. I'd say they, generally, want t...

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I am talking to techy guys who run another forum to get help. Though not letting them have access obviously. To do a lot of the above requires access I don't have DeDoc. I have managed to prune a couple of million posts though. And things have sped up. It is going to keep hapeening until there is s...

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If only there were some fancy gadget where you could type (or even speak) a problem that you faced and it could give you some answers...... :roll: I have a phpbb webforum. Users regularly complain that they can't access it - they see a 'site not available' message. Sometimes when they do access it, ...

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DeDoc I think reacting to something could be deemed, tenuously, not deliberate (as in not pre meditated) but that begs the question that if that logic was used then you could mitigate it to yellow. I'd say Adamson would have loved the get out of jail of a bunker review but didn't want to be reprima...

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Absolutely shameless. Madigan, R Byrne, Frawley, H Byrne… Prendergast? And now Gabriel. The list is long. It is (a long list). Although I don't think Ross Byrne ever had much of a hype train - a brief period where people were arguing for a 'safe pair of hands as a backup' was about the height of it...

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The size of individual threads really has bugger all to do with the forum being slow It is 90%+ likely to be crappy setup of the server (or not paying bills!) with the remaining possible causes including not attending to the software (keeping it up to date), ignoring security patches, poor configura...

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Watching at the time (so not just with hindsight), I couldn't believe that Adamson didn't talk to the Bulls player before deciding on a sanction (which I'll return to). If I was the ref, my instinct would be that the player (Murphy) is reacting to something. I'd be asking my TMO was there anything. ...

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Noncing 101 is to focus on kids from dysfunctional family backgrounds - they're often desperate for attention and lack the safety net and guard rails provided in normal families. Giuffre certainly fits that mould - don't know about the others, but I'd expect they do too.

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A significant element of the riot (perhaps the majority), as it was for the previous riots in the city centre is a feral underclass who revel in creating mayhem as an end in itself, and a further add-on who see it as an opportunity to benefit (e.g. looting). I'm talking here about kids from 10-20 ye...

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Next week's fixtures will be interesting Glasgow should be too good for the Bulls at home. Can Ulster back it up vs the Bulls - especially as they'll presumably be losing some big guns to the Irish squad. Surely Sharks will turn up vs Scarlets - if they don't win comfortably here, it is hard to see ...

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Congratulations to Paraguay - that is a grear pair of results. I can't see any of Belgium, themselves or Namibia threatening Samoa in the repechage, but hopefully they all take some growth back to their next championships and are even more in the mix for the 2031 qualifiers

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Just reached the Frawley Penalty Try, and I’m not even mad about it as a Leinster fan, I’m mad about it as a rugby fan; that’s just a horrible decision that has no place on a rugby field and the ref needs to be sent to a reeducation camp where the changing rooms smell of stale beer and old ciggie s...

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Actually, a more interesting piece of analysis might be to look at 8 tiers of 6 teams each - as that is related to the actual structure of the tournament, and the 44 teams that were involved in qualification Considering teams ranked 1-6 as tier 1, 7-12 as tier 2 etc, the distribution by region is: A...

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Be easier just to do qualifications for a sport competition based on rankings at a set date, like the ATP finals . FIFA WC has long had plenty of utter chod from around the globe whilst omitting decent European & South American teams It’s the World Cup ‘finals’ - it’s not the entire tournament. We ...

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The structures for qualifying for pretty much every sport (including football and rugby) are based on trying to get the best teams to the tournament For example, other than the 12 teams who qualified on the basis of the last world cup, there were 4 places for europe, three for pacific, and one each ...

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I didn't see the game, but according to reports Brazil were 19-10 up after 30 minutes and failed to score again! :shock: A reference point is they lost by an aggregate 29 points over a pair of home and away games vs Chile in July. Paraguay lost by an aggregate 116 points in a pair of games vs Urugua...

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I agree it is almost certainly not an issue of the number of posts.

The place has always been been a bit chaotically run. I suspect they didn't pay a bill or something and got their bandwidth throttled.

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Irish Independent reporting today that "the IRFU and the majority of rugby's leading unions are set to ban players who join the rebel R360 competition from representing their countries"

https://archive.ph/elGmc

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OupaStruisbaai wrote: ↑Fri Oct 03, 2025 11:23 am Cant find Leinster's team?

You mean last Friday or this week?

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I refuse to believe that so Samoa regressed so badly. They probably didn't have anybody lined up for November tests, so decided to go into repechage where they will have three opponents decided for them. Plus, the weather in Dubai in November is better than in Europe. They had Romania, Georgia and ...

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Chile good value for their win today vs Samoa. They progress to the World Cup, with Samoa going to repechage with Namibia, Belgium and Brazil (or possibly Paraguay)

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I have watched quite a few with sometime poster Ragyboy. Top man and a host-par-excellence. Very occasional poster and sometime lurker 4PP an accomplice to some of those occasions. I think it does depend on the match. A WC game (or other rare occasions) where Ireland get to play a Portugal, USA, Geo...

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First of all, congratulations to Ireland who certainly coulda, shoulda and esp. woulda, had Berthomieu's bite had been addressed at the time. Even without justice there, that felt like the closest game since USA v Aus. What I like about TMOs is that reviews do often come up with the RIGHT decision....

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