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BT team really willing La Rochelle home here

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Lowe flapping

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Sheehan leading from the front

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DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 5:18 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 5:17 pm
Hoof wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 5:16 pm Leinster never roll away and Peyper just ignores it everytime.
Utter rubbish
They’re crawling through the breakdown.

Both sides are crawling through the breakdown

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Doris not one bit feared of Skelton, good man.

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Memories of last seasons damp squib and forthcoming World Cup selection should keep Leinster on their toes. That said, plenty of Munster lads with a point to prove as well. Keen to see who is going to back up McCloskey in France.

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Yeah, I don't understand that really. If he actually said that then I suppose we have to take him at his word. And then supposedly the reason he didn't stay at Munster was because he'd slipped down the pecking order and also felt that he was not going to get a look in with Ireland. Funny so that he...

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Jack Carty and Billy Burns taking up two out-half slots while Ben Healy a much better and younger player than either is off to Scotland. There is going to be a natural tendency for provincial coaches to want a ten who gives them some consistency in the league. Carty can turn it on but didn’t play w...

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IRFU need to step in and fund a proper coaching team at Ulster. It’s utterly dysfunctional for one branch of their organisation to be bringing in the likes of Jacques Nienaber, whilst another is making do with promoted schools coaches. Well played Connacht - hoping you go all the way. IRFU aren’t g...

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IRFU need to step in and fund a proper coaching team at Ulster. It’s utterly dysfunctional for one branch of their organisation to be bringing in the likes of Jacques Nienaber, whilst another is making do with promoted schools coaches. Well played Connacht - hoping you go all the way. IRFU aren’t g...

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Burns also needs to go

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Time for a proper rebuild.

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Winnie wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 8:32 pm McFarland has 40 minutes to save his job
Ulster are a rabble and you need to look at the coaching ticket

Always seems to be the way with Ulster when a coach has gone stale, but the players are miles off the required standard and intensity.

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Painful to watch that first half. Brace is clueless, doubling down on stupid calls to prove a point and ignoring the TMO. I thought he only got two calls wrong. The last two penalties. Two deliberate fouls from Connacht in five seconds off that Hume breakout. Cooney and McCloskey are going the wron...

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Painful to watch that first half.

Brace is clueless, doubling down on stupid calls to prove a point and ignoring the TMO.

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Brace is out of his depth here

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No working back there, not good enough

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Burns awful so far

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Winnie wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 7:44 am He’s been a bit of a dud

I think he has been great. Maybe he doesn’t have Coetzee’s highlight reel but he has been consistently available, consistently excellent, come up with very big plays in key games and the pack have over performed whilst he has been here.

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Surely if the IRFU can rig European rugby in their favour they can sort out Communion Season.

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happytramp wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 1:40 pm I don't know, that looks ropey. Online speculation types suggesting it's as a pretext for calling off the military parade.

Seems more likely than Ukraine going drone-Dambusters

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Crazy how much difference a ref can make these days, LAR getting Peyper vs Toulouse having Barnes.

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DOB wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:38 pm
danny_fitz wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:29 pm
CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:27 pm

Up until he raised his head up, he was fine.
This is the key, he saw the incoming context and raised his head. A bit stupid.
It’s vdF trying to clear him out; the responsibility should be on vdF to avoid head contact.

He dropped about two foot and then drove his head upwards

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Up until he raised his head up, he was fine. Ah no. VdF charged at him, he has to have the right to protect himself. The Toulouse 14 clearing out McGrath was worse just now. Sorry, what? He initially made contact with VDF's chest. This was absolutely fine. But he then raised his head to chin him. I...

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bimboman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:31 pm
fishooks15 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 4:30 pm Very simple

He stands his ground VDF gives away a penalty

But he throws him a Glasgow kiss and should have been given a red

Usual welsh moron here claiming otherwise

If he stands his ground he risks getting knocked out cold.

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Leading with the head twice in a row

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Class

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Ross was badly holding them back in that first half against Tigers tbf.

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Three Red Kings having a meltdown about Prendergast being hyped too soon, obviously nothing to do with how soon he will be up against Crowley.

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I can’t think of any defensive rugby situation where a player is coached to tuck his arms in like Steward did. Lord Bald said it at halftime, “entitled to protect himself”. These kind of collisions/“rugby incidents” used to be accepted as part of the game, we were certainly coached to turn side on....

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So he was going backwards now?!

Have a day off

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Personally I thought it was probably a yellow with another referee and some discretion but it is hard to argue against a red under the current framework. Twenty plus years ago, when most of the outraged people were probably playing, you used to be able to turn into these kind of collisions, “protec...

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I don’t think there was any malicious intent from Steward, he has probably been coached into turning into contact like that since he was a kid but the game is moving on, and like the high ball rules, if you’re going to be second to the ball you will have to adjust accordingly. I can’t think of any ...

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Personally I thought it was probably a yellow with another referee and some discretion but it is hard to argue against a red under the current framework. Twenty plus years ago, when most of the outraged people were probably playing, you used to be able to turn into these kind of collisions, “protect...

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Bizarre angle to have a go at Cooney, he still trains and performs at a high level. Nordi and Madigan on the other hand, are absolutely phoning it in.

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I don’t see the problem with Byrne, there are game breakers all over the pitch, pick somebody who kicks their goals and makes good decisions. Maybe they’ll look at Coombes over Conan again now. Farrell is very good at keeping them all on their toes. The big takeaway from today is going to be Aki can...

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Fair play to the lads, bodies everywhere at the final whistle

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batterburger wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 3:58 pm Who plays rugby in Ulster, is is exclusively the preserve of the grammar schools and clubs?
Are the clubs exclusively Protestant players or is there a growth in the number of catholic players (the same question could be asked of the GAA in Ulster).

Too much bait

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Tuilagi must be looking at a ban…

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The last couple of matches have laid down a serious marker IMO. Pumping that French team the way they did on Saturday is only going to fuel the fire. Keenan, Ringrose, McCloskey, Casey, Doris, Ryan and Porter have stepped it up another level again from last year. Byrne looks to have decided to take ...

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