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TMO has really hit the AURA

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Lads Busby was a woeful referee, there is probably a referees assessment in the background that suggests Hansen might have had a point.

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We are surely reaching the peak of the blue spectacles era with all this whinging. If he wasn’t at Leinster he would’ve been dropped and told to learn to tackle. The kid has made it all the way to Lions contention, before everyone has realised he tackles like Iain Humphreys. Farrell obviously sees m...

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If you go through the Ulster squads and see how many surnames match past players or current coaches, you’ll get an insight into whether selection is entirely objective.

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Way too much going on with the try line incident but JGP is constantly being impeded in the preceding phases and the ref has gone full French

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We have had a good run since Nucifora started putting the squeeze on, but it is all going pear shaped now. The blazers are doubling down and trying to get Leinster over the line. The players are all hanging in there hoping to get into that squad. It is no coincidence that the media are suddenly so i...

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It looks like the American strategy is now to milk the situation for everything they can get, put Europe under pressure and sweat the money out of everything. Putin has only got this far because he knows European governments are completely gutless. He is now trying to buy time by tying Europe up in ...

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Lads, we do this chicken littling after every poor game and it's never accurate. The truth is always somewhere in the middle. I mean, I don’t think we’re as bad as the score line says, but at the same time, there are definitely factors to be identified. And one of those is the lack of speed in our ...

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There are things happening now that haven’t happened through this period of success. Conceding a fairly soft try off a penalty advantage. Bielle-Biarrey’s second was an unbelievable finish but it was preceded by a shit kick chase, and then getting rucked off our own ball. McCarthy’s contribution the...

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Now is not the time for discussion

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Easier to take when you’re so completely dismantled. This is not a selection issue, no one of sound mind is changing more than one or two from that pack and they were taken apart. France’s defence was incredible. That’s sport, we went up against one of the better performances in recent years and we...

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The Doris non-penalty and POM obstruction were both bad decisions but the way we let them work their way out, win the turnover off the kick chase, and then carve us up, was the death knell. We are in for a sticky spell now because some of the old stagers are well past it and some of the youngsters a...

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End of an era

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Caught napping

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He has had an earful at halftime about the DuPont thing and is now rattled.

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Irelands kicking game is dogshit. Aimless punts to nowhere being challenged by nobody. Very difficult to get a decent kick chase when back pedalling A big part of this is our multiphase attack is looking dogshit compared to last year. We're seemingly very lively off set piece, but we're not getting...

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Why no replay of the Dupont injury? There were several replays. I initially thought Beirne's clearout was possibly too low, but the impact happens when Porter also comes in and adds the extra momentum. Simply an unfortunate incident when both teams are being so ferocious at the ruck. If there hadn’...

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danny_fitz wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:14 pm
nardol wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:08 pm Our attack is completely shit
Irelands kicking game is dogshit. Aimless punts to nowhere being challenged by nobody.

Very difficult to get a decent kick chase when back pedalling

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Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 3:38 pm
Armchair_Superstar wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 3:37 pm
Rugbynut2 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:35 pm Will be interesting to see the reaction to a Grand Slam in Ulster if it does happen, given they have contributed nothing to the effort.
Uppercut yourself
He'd miss

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Rugbynut2 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:35 pm Will be interesting to see the reaction to a Grand Slam in Ulster if it does happen, given they have contributed nothing to the effort.

Uppercut yourself

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Pipe down Stats

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Is TOT an upgrade on Clarkson? I haven't seen it tbh TOT came off the bench in every game in a GrandSlam and did fine and has never let Ireland down. Fair enough. I just don't remember him which probably means he did his job He is has a good engine and makes a solid contribution both sides of the b...

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The scrum will be a focus in the media the next while and Bealham needs to be wrapped in cotton wool but I do think Wales conned the ref a good bit in the first half

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DOB wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 4:26 pm
Armchair_Superstar wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 4:25 pm Prendergast out of his depth now
This is the sort of test he needs to stand up to if he’s going to be our long-term 10.

Fair play to him, outstanding second half

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Forwards need to just eat them up for the last 30

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Prendergast out of his depth now

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camroc1 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:57 pm Surely the thread title should be "Ireland Vs Their Bunnies" ?

Since 19 Feb 2000 (ie this century) Ireland and Scotland have met 31 times. Ireland have won 26 of those.

It looks like they’ve won once since Kidney got the boot?!

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Sheehan should really be on reduced minutes through the rest of the season considering how quickly he has come back and how important he could be over the next 6-8 years

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Stats is broken again Anyone close enough to plug him out for 15 seconds? Stats is like Prendergast in the tackle. He’s going to keep coming back for more. You can target him all you like but he won’t back down. I am confident that Planet Rugby’s Eddie Jones would describe Stats as a Tier 1A poster

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Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:03 am
Armchair_Superstar wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:56 am Stats is broken again
Anyone close enough to plug him out for 15 seconds?

Ctrl+alt+del

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Stats is broken again

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Some of England’s D and tackling was pretty awful. The funny thing is they won at least 7 or 8 goal line stands but then got cut open in midfield or bulldozed on the wing Ireland seriously need to work on converting chances close in. There needs to be a bit more invention with the running lines in ...

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The Itoje penalty would never have been given if he hadn’t overcooked it with the officials. He had a point with the Kelleher try, but England were obviously trying to play on the edge and he had spent the whole match standing beside the ref at every break in play.

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CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:37 pm
Armchair_Superstar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:34 pm It seems like the scoreboard is the only statistic that Stats doesn’t want to discuss.
Prendergast has won all the games he's started this season.

Let’s hope he can stop the choke this season then

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It seems like the scoreboard is the only statistic that Stats doesn’t want to discuss.

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So you want the cake and to eat it? You want the greater territory and possession that Prendergast's game leads to and the individual ball playing of Crowley when in the danger zone? Btw, I presume you noted that Crowley's break soon after coming on was a result of the first time JGP decided to run...

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We had 69% territory and 58% possession against Aus. Crowley's cameo was good but then so was Prendergast's against Arg. If you want to play territory and take the chances that come your way, that's Prendergast. If you want to attack via the 10/12 channel, Crowley is more useful. I've no problem wh...

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I honestly don't know how you come to this conclusion. Prendergast's kicking game is far superior and way more suited to what you describe. We were banging away rightly with Prendegast for the whole Aussie game, then Crowley came on, pinged a 50-22, and slotted the conversion. I think both of them ...

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You've contradicted yourself a bit there. Picking Prendergast is keeping it simple, more structure and territory. Picking Crowley requires us to play more through the phases as he doesn't have the kicking or passing game that Prendergast does. The structure is the issue, because it has started to b...

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We have been missing a bit of nous over the past couple of seasons and played ourselves into trouble, it’ll be interesting to see if we can learn to keep it simple in this competition. The handling is bound to be a bit sharper at this time of the season but we don’t want to gift England too many sc...

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