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triplebogey wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:55 pm
Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:12 pm
themaddog wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:07 pm TB confirmed to replace Goodman. Must be worth another Munster poaching whinge.
Neinabar, RG and now Tyler.
Leinster going after all our cast offs, it's a sorry state of affairs
That's the spirit.

Rugby in Ireland is dying. Leinster subsisting on Munster scraps.

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Good post. Heard from someone involved with a hospital that they were running at 75% to 66% of their operational budgets for years. Basically told to "suck it up." They'd submit a budget for a year, an accurate budget, by the departments own standards, and be told "Do all that plus hire more people...

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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...

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Go touch some grass, the pair of yiz.

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While all the focus is on Israel: Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Head Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov stated that Ukrainian forces are preparing to repel a future Russian major offensive expected in late May or the beginning of June but noted that this will be “catastrophi...

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I was at Inst during one our most successful periods we had teachers as the coaches for every team, we had a physio who was an ex-pupil and we had a S&C guy who was nominally employed as a gym supervisor and occasional cover for PE lessons (who subsequently went on to become a full time PE teacher)...

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Tbh, I never really appreciate what it means when people say the UK is poor until you read threads like thi s. Teaching salaries there are dire. A previous generation of great coaches in the UK were all teachers now most of those people would never go into teaching. Are the southern posters having ...

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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 Gerar...

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Earl/Winnie, like I said, I'm ignorant of the situation in Ulster schools and not pretending to know the answer, nor will I pontificate about what should be done. I'm just somewhat surprised that something which was, to me, as trivial as having overseas lads involved in coaching, was worth remarking...

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camroc1 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:38 am Alan O'Connor, ex Ulster captain and played more than 100 times for Ulster, and you call him 'cancerous'. He's what would be a 'legend' in every other province.

Hmmm, a poisonous atmosphere at Ulster you say..........

I think you missed the entire point of that exchange, Cam!

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You are a moron at times you really are No wonder URH put you on ignore, to be honest the whole bored could be better if everyone did and we didnt get to see your cancerous shite Ah Winnie. That's one of the least offensive posts I've ever read on PR, and doesn't warrant that level of vitriol in re...

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Is that unusual? We had Kiwi and Aussie coaches 20+ years ago. Granted, my school had a fair bit of discretionary cash to throw around as they saw fit, and that's at the crux of what enables such good coaching at various Leinster schools. Often guys were playing with a club and coached in school an...

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The way some of the Ulster lads talk about players from other provinces when they're not in form or fading highlights the problem. AOC was heralded as more Ulster than Leinster when he was putting in a decent shift but as he's faded he's got way more abuse than an Ulster born player would. The iden...

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irishrugbyua wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:20 am Molony to Bath on a 3 year deal confirmed.

It all becomes clear how we're freeing up cash for Jordie!

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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...

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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 priva...

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I still don’t get it? They have a really strong link to Ireland having lived there as kids. Beauden played U12 Gaelic for Meath. I’ve heard them all talk of loving their time there and wanting to get back to visit. The fact Jordie can do so and get paid well for it, all the better. Agreed but the w...

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piquant wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:29 pm
iarmhiman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:23 pm
piquant wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:23 pm

Bribery for the win?
Yea we're real powerhouses on that front
Doing pretty well on allowing tax avoidance, beyond that who knows.

Or maybe the admins no longer like their money so much

The FAI can't even competently over-pay their senior staff under the table these days.

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I didnt join in the booing of ROG Wouldn't give him the satisfaction. It was all pantomime stuff and he will have lapped it up Nor did I and it was. But I think Leinster supporters were just consciously trying to make themselves heard at every opportunity. Not unlike the players, the supporters hav...

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:55 pm
DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:52 pm What position do you see him playing? He's
We could play him at 6 just to further rip the piss

Pretend we thought we were signing Scott.

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HighKingLeinster wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:53 pm
CM11 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:49 pm Don't really get the Jordie signing.

I mean great to have but totally unnecessary.
Thats the best thing about it. Its the rugby equivalent of that lad at the Galway races drying his face with a 50 quid note

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This is hilarious.

Between RADGE, CC for Sheahan, and now Jordie. Top lolz from Leinster

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Jenkins was a peno machine in the first half, counted at least 4 he gave away. Yeah. I don't mind tight forwards giving away the odd silly one, especially in a game where they're there to just hit everything with malice. Provided it doesn't cost the team too much. I'm just glad that Porter and JoeM...

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As a nation, we're still getting healthier thankfully, at least. Life expectancy hasn't missed a beat, about to hit 83 from 80 in 2010 and around 77 in 2000. i dont think we can put that down to the HSE - given all the advances in medicine, not least with robotics and AI and crazy stuff like having...

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Was there a big jump for covid? it compares 2014 to 2024, not much cost incurred in 2023/2024 dealing with Covid - obviously there was a huge spike in 2020-2022 but in tiem honoured fashion once you allocate funds to a government departments budget even for "once in a lifetime" type events they ten...

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That was more of a tangent, not justifying the poor return on investment. The budget getting bigger every year shouldn't be a surprise. Productivity (patients processed and discharged) going down absolutely is a cause for concern. Secure unionised public sector jobs aren't exactly the ones you can g...

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I was at a seminar a number of months ago in RCSI where this guy made the case that if every year there isn't a new record big health budget, then we're up shit creek. With the aging population, increased complexity of care, increased comorbidities etc, it's going to cost more to simply maintain the...

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Connors. Should have passed it. Yeah Lowe and JGP held up over try line too. That period worried me. Far too profligate with really good possession in the 22. Obviously LaR defended very well, but I expected them to have more periods of pressure later in the game where we'd rue not racking up a sco...

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Connors. Should have passed it.

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I've seen it argued that the HSE staff levels only got back to what they "should" be years after massive cuts during austerity. That's obviously a very subjective definition of "should". Comparing productivity to Headcount is less accurate than comparing to Whole Time Equivalents. Less than fulltime...

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Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:37 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:35 am
Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:28 am

The new and improved Dave Kearney?
Or the less good Earlsie?
Not sure where you're going with this. Or why.
Jaysus your spiky

You're*

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Didn’t think Larmour had this in his locker: https://x.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1779804666903056652 Larmour's passing and offloading has exponentially improved in the last few weeks. He looks like a man on a mission after getting some time in the Irish camp. Certainly not as clearcut that JOB wil...

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Not sure Nols, I certainly didn’t call anyone a wit kant anyway . I don’t need to be emotionally involved in an argument to make some observations on the carnage that’s unfolding either Figuratively calling people kants. :P Anyway, I think we should pivot back to just how enjoyable it was to finall...

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themaddog wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:49 am
Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:42 am
Nolanator wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:33 am Jesus, there's tedious nit-picking and endless pointless tit for tat arguing, and then there's wading in swinging and calling people cúnts without having partaken in the priors.
This thread, in a nutshell.
Fcuk off you cnut.

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Jesus, there's tedious nit-picking and endless pointless tit for tat arguing, and then there's wading in swinging and calling people cúnts without having partaken in the priors.

Guess which one one those you've been doing, Conspic?

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Quins/Saints will be huge underdogs in their semi finals which will suit them but cant seem them winning away in ireland/toulouse. having continual home advantage through RD 16/QF/SF seems excessive as a format though.gives the big teams almost too much advantage. final very likely to be toulouse a...

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Wasn't it that run of KO games in 2003 that really highlighted that Leinster had a support base that could be accessed? Obviously there was a long way to go in terms of actually being good enough, but it showed that people would buy tickets. Went out against Biarritz in the semi in LR with Bommer m...

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Wasn't it that run of KO games in 2003 that really highlighted that Leinster had a support base that could be accessed? Obviously there was a long way to go in terms of actually being good enough, but it showed that people would buy tickets. Went out against Biarritz in the semi in LR with Bommer mi...

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There is a sense of the SA-Ire pool match about about yesterdays game. Leinster fans and the media are celebrating like they’ve won the tournament. Toulouse are the team to beat let’s be real. Hold on yesterday Bordeaux were the team to beat. And Northampton were deadly when they won in Limerick. N...

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It was absolutely marginal, DD, if it was forward.
Not one to bemoan as a bad miss.

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