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by CambridgeFergal
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Replies: 18094
Views: 819634

Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents

Joe Biden is military medium, but he a) reads briefs b) knows a little bit, so may not need extensive briefing and c) if he does need extensive briefing, will attempt to pay attention and absorb something. Trump doesn't read. He knows almost nothing about most matters, so needs more extensive briefi...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Aug 14, 2023 3:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Ah that's shit for France. Wouldn't wish it on any team. Remind me who their second choice is? Jalibert, who is arguably a better player, albeit doesn't have the day to day connection with Dupont. No idea who is further down the list, so that might come to bite them. Baille out for 6 weeks too Hast...
by CambridgeFergal
Thu Jul 13, 2023 5:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sexton may not make the World Cup!
Replies: 518
Views: 18412

Re: Sexton Ban Obsession

I suppose it distracts them from the usual stories about Irish WW2 U-Boat bases?
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Liathroidigloine wrote:
Willie Falloon wrote:Leinster by 29.

46-17
Back Ulster then with the handicap. PP have it at 15 points. Saracens 15 points favourites with Munster -4 and Racing -5.
*Why* are Munster favourites?!
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **Official Cymru vs Iwerddon Match Thread**
Replies: 2219
Views: 79174

Re: **Official Cymru vs Iwerddon Match Thread**

CM11 wrote:Shouldn't have played silly buggers two years ago.
Exactly.
by CambridgeFergal
Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Saville's legacy
Replies: 275
Views: 26705

Re: Saville's legacy

I presume Bradley will go now. It is a real sign of the contempt with which the North is held by mainstream conservatism that she is still in post. At the time she said it I was astonished but I didn't realise for a few days she said it with this decision imminent. That made it more sinister than a...
by CambridgeFergal
Tue Mar 12, 2019 11:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **Official Cymru vs Iwerddon Match Thread**
Replies: 2219
Views: 79174

Re: **Official Cymru vs Iwerddon Match Thread**

kiwigreg369 wrote:Do Wales go 2nd in the world if they beat Ireland?
IF they win by 15+
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:06 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

We've got good stocks in the row, indeed in the pack in general, though I'm not so sure the reserve FR did themselves too many favours yesterday. FB and 12 would be my worries for decent back up when Kearney and Henshaw are injured. Larmour is still learning the position, and Aki, good and all as h...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm
Replies: 1212
Views: 39216

Re: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm

the annoying thing was that the refs conversation on the field was rightly saying that no downward pressure was needed and he just needed to touch it, but they changed their mind when the tmo came back The downward pressure thing is ridiculous, the law 22.1 has been updated to remove the requiremen...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm
Replies: 1212
Views: 39216

Re: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm

Watched the game in the pub and haven't had a chance to see it again but thought Ireland were a bit lucky at times. It looked to me that Best had been tackled to his knees before standing up and scoring his try. Maybe I missed something? No ref would ever give that against best - he wasn’t held or ...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm
Replies: 1212
Views: 39216

Re: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm

Watched the game in the pub and haven't had a chance to see it again but thought Ireland were a bit lucky at times. It looked to me that Best had been tackled to his knees before standing up and scoring his try. Maybe I missed something? No ref would ever give that against best - he wasn’t held or ...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:42 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: **Official Cymru vs Iwerddon Match Thread**
Replies: 2219
Views: 79174

Re: **Official Cymru vs Iwerddon Match Thread**

We have home advantage, but this is the best Irish side ever, so if we play badly we’ll only win by a score. Hope we turn up for more than half an hour this weekend. As Grand Slam and World Champions-elect, you'd hope Gatland's Legends would win by at least the 15 points required to take that world...
by CambridgeFergal
Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm
Replies: 1212
Views: 39216

Re: 6N Rd.4 Ireland v France, Sun Mar 10th, KO @ 3pm

earl the beaver wrote:
ticketlessinseattle wrote:cant wait to see Tadhg Beirne playing ; feel like its going to be a cracker of a game with Ringrose and Henshaw in the center
Can't wait for Joe to give him 3 minutes off the bench?
You think the ex-Leinster coach will give the Munster lock that long?
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Feb 01, 2019 5:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

We don’t do over 1/2 our trade with the EU. FTA’s contain services provision, CETA does for example. We will happily sign deals on us selling services and buying goods and agriculture. Half is a good approximation. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7851/CBP-7851.pdf Howeve...
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Feb 01, 2019 3:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

We don’t do over 1/2 our trade with the EU. FTA’s contain services provision, CETA does for example. We will happily sign deals on us selling services and buying goods and agriculture. And so it begins... Bimbo will continue to talk shit, split hairs and wilfully misinterpret posts in an effort to ...
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Feb 01, 2019 3:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

We don’t do over 1/2 our trade with the EU. FTA’s contain services provision, CETA does for example. We will happily sign deals on us selling services and buying goods and agriculture. Half is a good approximation. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7851/CBP-7851.pdf Howeve...
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

So, "temporarily going to WTO rules" - given those rules are an intolerable basis for trade with those countries the EU doesn't have a FTA with - is hardly an "acceptable price to pay" when it comes at the price of a massive backward step in the terms of trade with your largest, and geographically ...
by CambridgeFergal
Thu Jan 31, 2019 8:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

We can buy stuff from all over the world as we have loads of trade deals. Currently its not clear if you will have any trade deals on the 1st April You can but at massively inflated prices ..... We will have WTO rules. Loads :lol: WTO? Brexit proposition 1: The UK must leave a deep and preferential...
by CambridgeFergal
Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

We can buy stuff from all over the world as we have loads of trade deals. Currently its not clear if you will have any trade deals on the 1st April You can but at massively inflated prices ..... We will have WTO rules. Loads :lol: WTO? Brexit proposition 1: The UK must leave a deep and preferential...
by CambridgeFergal
Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

We can buy stuff from all over the world as we have loads of trade deals. Currently its not clear if you will have any trade deals on the 1st April You can but at massively inflated prices ..... We will have WTO rules. Loads :lol: WTO? Brexit proposition 1: The UK must leave a deep and preferential...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Jan 28, 2019 4:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bellicose Boris bonkers Brexit bonanza....
Replies: 47602
Views: 2026934

Re: The ongoing English Nationalist/Brexit thread

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1078526/brexit-news-lawyer-paul-diamond-conservative-party-remainers Nice. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1078398/brexit-deal-uk-better-off-european-commission Looking forward to the EU folding. WTF? :lol: :lol: If it weren't so pathetic it would be ...
by CambridgeFergal
Tue Jan 22, 2019 5:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: A thread for discussing issues related to Brexit, without...
Replies: 24
Views: 3403

Re: A thread for discussing issues related to Brexit, withou

julian wrote:I hate lettuce.
I hate Brussels sprouts.

Must make me a Brexiter.
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Nov 19, 2018 5:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Thread: Ireland vs All Blacks 17 Nov 2018 1900 IST
Replies: 2499
Views: 118143

Re: Official Thread: Ireland vs All Blacks 17 Nov 2018 1900

That's the ABs indemnity from the 'repeated infringements' rule coming into play. From memory, that indemnity with World Rugby dates back to a 1997 Test in NZ, with the Wallabies attacking their line, the ABs infringing over & over & over to avoid conceding a try, and referee Ed 'lily-liver' Morris...
by CambridgeFergal
Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Mr. Very Popular wrote:
ZappaMan wrote:
Mr. Very Popular wrote:About a strong a XV as we could have put out.
I'd have started Dom Crotty at 15 but otherwise it's our strongest deck.
Didn’t want to bring down the mood by pointing out Phil Danaher should be there.
The Larmour of the 1990s, Fergus Dunlea, should be replacing Kearney.
by CambridgeFergal
Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Ireland v Scotland, March 10th, KO @ 14:15
Replies: 1017
Views: 50176

Re: Official Ireland v Scotland, March 10th, KO @ 14:15

I remember two years ago it was the very same crap towards Heaslip. He was in Stander's way so all the Munster fans on here game after game rounded on him. Actually it was just before the 6 Nations starting when Wasps routed Leinster...the knives were out for Heaslip. Right now who would you play a...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Ireland v Scotland, March 10th, KO @ 14:15
Replies: 1017
Views: 50176

Re: Official Ireland v Scotland, March 10th, KO @ 14:15

If Sexton has a meltdown off the tee again I'd like to see the kicking duties go to Murray straight away - those missed kicks could have been so costly. The missed kicks didn't cost us as much as people think because the first miss was actually a two point gain, not a 3 point loss. Yup, and touchli...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Feb 26, 2018 4:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

The penalty against Kearney was the correct call but how it was arrived at pissed me off. Jackson claimed it was foul play. That's not what I understand foul play to be and if that's the case let's just get rid of the ref and have a couple of lads looking at screens making the calls. It was a ridic...
by CambridgeFergal
Tue Jan 30, 2018 2:34 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The top try scorer in the Six Nations
Replies: 33
Views: 3959

Re: The top try scorer in the Six Nations

Jordan Larmour 8)
by CambridgeFergal
Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:20 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

DiscoHips D'Arcy wrote:Scotland are great in that they're getting away with it but Peyper is ludicrous. Do Scotland have barnes at any stage because they would be down at least two men here
Was thinking exactly the same myself, they don't even pretend not to be offside. As for the scrums...
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Feb 03, 2017 5:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scotland v Ireland. RBS 6Ns Championship 2017 Round 1
Replies: 1393
Views: 79124

Re: Scotland v Ireland. RBS 6Ns Championship 2017 Round 1

First game up of this years 6N with a rather anal ref in charge.......... one slight error could see one of the teams down to 14 men for the duration and cast an entirely new perspective on the match. I used to hope for Nige/SH refs and would dread the French refs. Since the scrum has become good, ...
by CambridgeFergal
Sun Jan 22, 2017 2:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: What else changes once Mr Trump takes the oath?
Replies: 72
Views: 7514

Re: What else changes once Mr Trump takes the oath?

He has a point on the Clinton Foundation, though. And on Clinton's relationship with the house of Saud and Qatar. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774 I think Brumbieman is more interested in being contrarian/a rebel than in being a conservative (at least that's my reading of it based ...
by CambridgeFergal
Sun Jan 22, 2017 2:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leicester v Glasgow. NTHCSBH Round 6
Replies: 217
Views: 19555

Re: Leicester v Glasgow. NTHCSBH Round 6

Sale lost 62-0 at Toulon back in Dec 2012. But that was the Galacticos and Sale were a mid-table make-weight. Next worst (until this season) was Leicester losing 33-0 at Ulster in 2004. Gloucester lost 27-0 at home to Stade in 2004/05. This season: Leicester lost 38-0 at Munster Northampton lost 10...
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Nov 25, 2016 5:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Mullet 2 wrote:Can anybody name me and Ireland victory against a team higher than us in the rankings we won by playing out an out attacking rugby?

You people live in some delusional dream world.
France 2000 and 2009.
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: AIs: Ireland V New Zealand II Official Match Thread
Replies: 2855
Views: 181803

Re: AIs: Ireland V New Zealand II Official Match Thread

iarmhiman wrote:
Mr Fedora wrote:Fly into Dublin tomorrow morning. What's a good pre-game venue for an ale or two?
Get your arse down to Baggot St and go to Toners or Doheny&Nesbitts.
Mulligan's and then DART down to Lansdowne for me.
by CambridgeFergal
Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: AIs: Ireland V New Zealand II Official Match Thread
Replies: 2855
Views: 181803

Re: AIs: Ireland V New Zealand II Official Match Thread

I believe it's the 1 year anniversary of Jonah Lomu's passing tomorrow. I remember Ireland going 20 pts up against the AB's in the old Lansdowne Road in the early 2000's and the AB's and in particular Lomu putting Ireland to the sword in the 2nd half, eventually winning by about 20 pts. http://c2.t...
by CambridgeFergal
Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: AIs: Ireland V New Zealand II Official Match Thread
Replies: 2855
Views: 181803

Re: AIs: Ireland V New Zealand II Official Match Thread

So Hansen used the term underdog but clearly he doesn't believe it. Very arrogant selection by Hansen. Won't be adjusting the NZ style of play with Barrett selected at 10. It wasn't good enough in Chicago. Why would it be good enough in Dublin? Also selecting two half backs that are badly out of fo...
by CambridgeFergal
Mon Nov 14, 2016 12:00 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 525358
Views: 28517037

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

danthefan wrote:Even on a f**k Sunday the traffic in Dublin is complete havoc these days. The city is so f**k in this regard.
Time for a congestion charge, to get ppl out of their cars? It works well in London.