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- 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...
- 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...
- 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?
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bedlam in the Bedpan - Ireland v England, 2023 6N Rd.5. Sat Mar 18th GS Decider
- Replies: 1751
- Views: 40727
Re: Bedlam in the Bedpan - Ireland v England, 2023 6N Rd.5. Sat Mar 18th GS Decider
Some nostalgia from a recent Grand Slam decider in Dublin
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- Mon Dec 05, 2022 8:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Eddie gonnneee?
- Replies: 366
- Views: 9897
- 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
*Why* are Munster favourites?!Liathroidigloine wrote:Back Ulster then with the handicap. PP have it at 15 points. Saracens 15 points favourites with Munster -4 and Racing -5.Willie Falloon wrote:Leinster by 29.
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- 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**
Exactly.CM11 wrote:Shouldn't have played silly buggers two years ago.
- 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...
- 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**
IF they win by 15+kiwigreg369 wrote:Do Wales go 2nd in the world if they beat Ireland?
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
You think the ex-Leinster coach will give the Munster lock that long?earl the beaver wrote:Can't wait for Joe to give him 3 minutes off the bench?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
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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
I hate Brussels sprouts.julian wrote:I hate lettuce.
Must make me a Brexiter.
- 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...
- 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
The Larmour of the 1990s, Fergus Dunlea, should be replacing Kearney.Mr. Very Popular wrote:Didn’t want to bring down the mood by pointing out Phil Danaher should be there.ZappaMan wrote:I'd have started Dom Crotty at 15 but otherwise it's our strongest deck.Mr. Very Popular wrote:About a strong a XV as we could have put out.
- 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...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Austerity Worked
- Replies: 168
- Views: 7761
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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
Was thinking exactly the same myself, they don't even pretend not to be offside. As for the scrums...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
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
France 2000 and 2009.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.
- 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
Mulligan's and then DART down to Lansdowne for me.iarmhiman wrote:Get your arse down to Baggot St and go to Toners or Doheny&Nesbitts.Mr Fedora wrote:Fly into Dublin tomorrow morning. What's a good pre-game venue for an ale or two?
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
Time for a congestion charge, to get ppl out of their cars? It works well in London.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.