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I am absolutely sick of LaR.

I would love it, love it if we beat them tomorrow.

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Dillane has a lot more athletic ability than Moloney, TBF! Similar enough for me. Both fairly lightweight as locks go at the top tier of this competition. Dillane a bit better a ball-carrier, Molony a bit better a ball player. Dillane is way better. Not being a prick but Molony has done very well t...

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hermie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:47 pm They've gone 6/2 as well but have their "Molony" (ie Dillane) starting.

Dillane has a lot more athletic ability than Moloney, TBF!

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https://www.irishtimes.com/business/wor ... ompassion/

Tiktok are a shower oc cúnts and treat their staff badly.

In other news, man walk on moon.

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Ross starts, no Harry. 6/2 split Connors starts as does Jenkins. Milne on bench. Wondered if they'd go 6-2 with Connors starting. Presumably has the express instructions to just hit everything he can for 40-50 minutes. Touch on Conan. He'd better bring it off the bench to offset the biff lost when ...

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POM signs on for that extra year.

Edit, missed IRUA up the page.

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Lads! Lads! Lads!

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Did my hammy last night :( Should I still go to this game or is it better to sit this one out so soon after? Have had all sorts of injuries but surprisingly never the hamstring. Definitely heals quicker if you can keep moving, somehow. Yeah I could barely walk at all last night. Maybe marginally be...

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Jesus Christ there's some wankfest going on in Cark over La RADGEchelle.

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Sure you all live in Dublin anyway.

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TBF, they're furiously researching, refining, and manufacturing budget drones and guidance systems that are capable of flying 800km into Russia and hitting distillation columns or hitting surface vessels 300km away in the Black Sea. Some highly skilled work involved there. Crippling that to send tho...

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You can't say nobody could have known how good he could be when Fogarty, Ruddock, potentially others saw exactly that. Ruddock said he was very good in the AIL. Magic Mick McGrath tore it up for years in the AIL, and struggled to get a pro contract in the Championship, and got a season in Leinster ...

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You can't say nobody could have known how good he could be when Fogarty, Ruddock, potentially others saw exactly that. Ruddock said he was very good in the AIL. Magic Mick McGrath tore it up for years in the AIL, and struggled to get a pro contract in the Championship, and got a season in Leinster ...

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Beirne at the time was in no way shape or form comparable to a RWC runner-up! :lol: Comparably type of player. Of course he was. Lock cum blindside, poacher, skillful, tough as nails. In the same way a 20 yr old Sean O'Brien was comparable to Rocky Elsom who had just won Leinster the HEC. This is l...

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Beirne at the time was in no way shape or form comparable to a RWC runner-up!

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This conversation started with the Welsh asking, somewhat ironically, can Cullen/Leinster coaches be criticised for anything (and it seems like they can’t for some). I disagree with the notion that Cullen is a poor selector and feel even more strongly that the Leinster backroom have done a good job...

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My understanding is that their shell shortage is the hugely significant factor in this. It's lack of shells, not men, that's causing them to slowly conceed slivers of land to attackers. In the short-term and in the context of individual battles, yes I agree. But over the medium-term, there's a grow...

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Of course it is, the Britain point was to illustrate appetite. In any event, this argument is becoming circular, so I’ll drop it. Let’s hope it never comes to that. Correction to my post here which I was reminder of in the France videos. France is not fully integrated into NATO's command structures...

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To be clear, you general narrative, as I see it, is that a negotiated settlement can be achieved and maintained with Russia. That is dangerous in the extreme. Absolutely not. My point is that Ukraine has a stated political objective - to reclaim its 1991 borders - that is massively disconnected fro...

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Why is it stupid? Britain has like a handful of regiments and 3 working ships, but they’re going to sail into the Baltic to defend a place your average person couldn’t find on a map? NATO is a combined effort. The logistics and command chains are integrated and coherent. It would be Finnish reserve...

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Are you being deliberately argumentative? The USA was the sponsor of those wars. They did the heavy lifting. Everyone else supplied a few thousand troops. As it stands, Britain could not now replicate even that effort. By various reports, Britain would run out of artillery shells in 6 weeks. Ukrain...

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this looks like a good analysis on french military. 30mins long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1iS6ib45Z8 That's the video that Shanky posted yesterday. Just listened walking back from the gym. Thanks for sharing, definitely enjoyed it. If you want more on the subject, check out the two videos I...

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Also, France is one of the few countries who can sustain an expeditionary fiend far from home. Sure, not at the scale of Uncle Sam, but no-one can do that. France has carriers, heavy lift capacity, modern gen 4 fat jets, a radiant will equipped and sustained standing military (not territorial defen...

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Also, France is one of the few countries who can sustain an expeditionary force far from home. Sure, not at the scale of Uncle Sam, but no-one can do that. France has carriers, heavy lift capacity, modern gen 4 fat jets, a radiant will equipped and sustained standing military (not territorial defens...

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Why is it stupid? Britain has like a handful of regiments and 3 working ships, but they’re going to sail into the Baltic to defend a place your average person couldn’t find on a map? NATO is a combined effort. The logistics and command chains are integrated and coherent. It would be Finnish reserve...

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Never back down, Stats. NEVER NEVER NEVER!
We're right, they're wrong.

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Munster prioritised Killer. Him being older is a mark against that decision, but Cronin being a brain-dead penalty magnet who hadn't achieved the same heights as Killer were serious marks in favour of that decision. Again, the Munster staff had no way of knowing how each guy would go over the follow...

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feckwanker wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:49 pm Whinging about the ref even before the game. Scummy behaviour tbh.

Just happy to be in a position to have a game to whine about.

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I didn't put Penny in that list as I'm not sure where he fits in. I don't think he'd start for any other province but he'd definitely improve their squad. Will he get past Connors, who knows? I like him a lot as a player but I think he's like Turner, great squad player but not threatening any first...

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https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/04/08/garda-to-face-trial-over-crash-on-n7-which-left-three-men-dead/ What in the name of absolute fúck???? Garda to face trial over crash on N7 which left three men dead Three members of a Tallaght-based gang died when their car crashed into truck wh...

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Ah there’s 5 decent outhalves that are all happy to just float around. Think that misrepresents it. One is in-situ, 2 very clearly have designs on becoming first choice. They've had enough game time to suggest it might happen, but have also been injured. 2 more are for the future and don't need to ...

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I sent that to friends who lived there and asked if this was them.

TBF, any McGregor business can fúck off.

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In other news, sky is blue.

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He was just more noticeable. Like a blackhole, he bends light in his gravitational field so your eyes are drawn to him, even when pointing in a different direction. That was funny the first half a dozen times.... His hamstring appeared to twang at about 60 minutes. Before that he was looking Munste...

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Right, let's get into this, why are Munster the way they are? Their best players on the weekend included POM and Zebo. What's going on with the young lads? Zebo was not one of the best players yesterday. He was just more noticeable. Like a blackhole, he bends light in his gravitational field so you...

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"Reclaiming". The lands were never part of Russia (the state), in a modern sense.

Quite Russian in terms of ethnicity, sure, but lots of nations have groups who trace their ethnic and cultural origins to other nations.

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:36 pm Bordeaux leinster final?

Wouldn't be looking past Leinster's next game at all!

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earl the beaver wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:58 pm Didn't see the yellows for Montpellier but have now seen a replay of the red, Willemse is an idiot, no way Ulster win that Vs 15.

The first yellow was comical in its stupidity.

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The only individuals who should be judged for how Beirne's career panned out are Beirne and a little bit Pivac for taking a punt on him. That's nonsense. Fogarty wanted to keep him on the roster, Cullen decided he wasn't worth the punt. We all know why he made that decision but objectively it was a...

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