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JoeyFantastic

I highly doubt we will be allowed to play fez but it would be great if we could. Williams is more likely than Henderson too sadly. Good - Henderson should be playing lock and lock only. I do NOT want to see another D.Ryan on our hands, not making it until he's 28. You hear me Ulster! :x Playing som...

JoeyFantastic

Apparently international players aren't back until round 3 of the Rabo. Tad harsh on the likes of paddy and cave or even loughney but it would give a Chance to the younger guys. Sason ticket sales up 20% to thank god. Hmm, that will be interesting. 1. Du Preez 2. Varley 3. Botha 4. Nagle 5. Foley 6...

JoeyFantastic

Very inexperienced looking squad all of a sudden. Is that Scott Deasy x2 to make up the numbers? While you are right I was thinking that we'll have plenty of experience for the first bunch of games before the internationals return. There was a time when we were really struggling in those periods, t...

JoeyFantastic

Very inexperienced looking squad all of a sudden. Is that Scott Deasy x2 to make up the numbers? While you are right I was thinking that we'll have plenty of experience for the first bunch of games before the internationals return. There was a time when we were really struggling in those periods, t...

JoeyFantastic

O'Dea has a great step, was it Kearney or Conway he completely side-stepped in the B&I Cup?

JoeyFantastic

LeinsterLion wrote:
DOB wrote:Looks weak.
Looks like they are painfully trying to not claim any sort of ranking - would it have been so hard to list them alphabetically instead of at random?

You wouldn't be the first to suggest Munster could have a better PRO.

JoeyFantastic

Glad to see Troy Smith being kept on, would be rough to cut him if he's fit, which judging by the injury notes above he is.

JoeyFantastic

Conn wrote:Nope. Not marmion. Probably wont mean much to you all

Leader? He seems to have a bit about him. Could be a hooker I suppose. Leinster are only weak there and in the second row.

JoeyFantastic

Gavin Duffy wrote:It's Marmion.

Leinster could do worse, hardly likely with McGrath about though.

JoeyFantastic

Why don't the engineers decay though? Presumably there needs to be some kind of microbiology for decay to occur. Or did the worms eat the aliens but leave the engineers? What were they sustained by? But weren't we seeing them in suits. Maybe they were a bag of bones inside the suits? The aliens had...

JoeyFantastic

Conn wrote:Cant will later when its official. By the way its academy. Still fudge you leinster

Hard to see who Leinster would steal from Connacht's academy. Surely it's time for hints?

JoeyFantastic

A "National Centre of Excellence" might sound great, but what would it entail exactly? Which kids would train in it? How much would it cost? The provincial Academies are all turning out good players. The U20s were one of the best sides in the tournament, their technical ability was top-class. What ...

JoeyFantastic

Shantaram is an affront to the written word and it's presence on this thread offends me deeply. +1 Have bought Tom Hollands 'Persian Fire', and David Stephensons 'History of the First World War' for the holliers next week. Persian Fire takes a few chapters to get going but it's very good after that...

JoeyFantastic

Shantaram is an affront to the written word and it's presence on this thread offends me deeply. +1 Have bought Tom Hollands 'Persian Fire', and David Stephensons 'History of the First World War' for the holliers next week. Persian Fire takes a few chapters to get going but it's very good after that...

JoeyFantastic

Shantaram is an affront to the written word and it's presence on this thread offends me deeply. You'd enjoy the Decameron, it's basically nothing but priests getting off with nuns, young lads getting off with young wans. It's good to see Italy has changed a bit since the middle ages. Thanks, Joey, ...

JoeyFantastic

ZappaMan wrote:Shantaram is an affront to the written word and it's presence on this thread offends me deeply.

You'd enjoy the Decameron, it's basically nothing but priests getting off with nuns, young lads getting off with young wans. It's good to see Italy has changed a bit since the middle ages.

JoeyFantastic

I have just finished Shantaram. I found the first third to be absolutely fascinating as he described the life in the slums in Bombay, but then, to my mind, he tried to make it too much of an epic with the extra adventures. Still I would say that it is well worth the read. Could he love himself more...

JoeyFantastic

The best book I read recently was "One Soldier's War in Chechnya," by Arkady Babchenko. An incredibly bleak book about a conscript whose main problems are not the savage Chechens but the bullies and incompetent officers of the Russian Army. The narrator spends more time dodging the fists of his dru...

JoeyFantastic

Surely they could have found another way to spread that DNA without having to sacrifice one's life, them being such an advanced civilization. So many pot holes. Maybe that alien didn´t want to spread the DNA? Maybe it was just committing suicide? Maybe it was sentenced to death? The black goo durin...

JoeyFantastic

Surely they could have found another way to spread that DNA without having to sacrifice one's life, them being such an advanced civilization. So many pot holes. Maybe that alien didn´t want to spread the DNA? Maybe it was just committing suicide? Maybe it was sentenced to death? The black goo durin...

JoeyFantastic

The best book I read recently was "One Soldier's War in Chechnya," by Arkady Babchenko. An incredibly bleak book about a conscript whose main problems are not the savage Chechens but the bullies and incompetent officers of the Russian Army. The narrator spends more time dodging the fists of his dru...

JoeyFantastic

No I didn't. Heading for pastures new and being put out to pasture are incredibly different things, where the agent of change is different. That isn't being pedantic, something you know fudge tonnes about, that is understanding clear diversion in the language. It is being pedantic. NZ would be gett...

JoeyFantastic

I have just finished Shantaram. I found the first third to be absolutely fascinating as he described the life in the slums in Bombay, but then, to my mind, he tried to make it too much of an epic with the extra adventures. Still I would say that it is well worth the read. Could he love himself more...

JoeyFantastic

So. How soon before the first really big orchestrated rehab meds/oooooh, grey area/roids story breaks in top level rugby? Seriously lads; bodies were not built to take the sort of punishment these lads are taking now. Careers like Leamy's will become the norm for a certain type of player I think. H...

JoeyFantastic

If he doesn't work with Munster Rugby to attend (and get time off for Hurling) then it shows he's not interested in becoming a pro. I don't think anyone would blame him for missing an u20's training camp for a shot at an All Ireland. At some point one or the other will have to go, but not til this ...

JoeyFantastic

Key goal for Munster Rugby in the next 10 years in opinion; Get more than 2 schools from Cork to play the game seriously. Double it. That and a school in Waterford should be very achievable. Speaking of Cork players, in Darren Sweetnam going to go with hurling, football, rugby, hockey or even badmi...

JoeyFantastic

Key goal for Munster Rugby in the next 10 years in opinion; Get more than 2 schools from Cork to play the game seriously. Double it. That and a school in Waterford should be very achievable. Speaking of Cork players, in Darren Sweetnam going to go with hurling, football, rugby, hockey or even badmi...

JoeyFantastic

It'd dilute provincial identities which are key to the rivalries that drive the revenue and spin the money for the IRFU. Among a small bunch of sad bastard fans online maybe, it'd make little or no difference to the average punter. Do you think many really care Ross, Cronin and Reddan are from Muns...

JoeyFantastic

It'd dilute provincial identities which are key to the rivalries that drive the revenue and spin the money for the IRFU. Among a small bunch of sad bastard fans online maybe, it'd make little or no difference to the average punter. Do you think many really care Ross, Cronin and Reddan are from Muns...

JoeyFantastic

It'd dilute provincial identities which are key to the rivalries that drive the revenue and spin the money for the IRFU. Among a small bunch of sad bastard fans online maybe, it'd make little or no difference to the average punter. Do you think many really care Ross, Cronin and Reddan are from Muns...

JoeyFantastic

what are the options? the front row is what it is, so are the locks. back row depth is not what most on here think, McL and POM are ordinary, Henry could make it, but he'd have to be playing at a higher level than normal when he pulls on a green one. half backs are what they are, rog will drift alo...

JoeyFantastic

Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys. Bringing Celtic soul back to their Scottish roots. His grandparents were Gaelic speakers but it had died out by his generation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuYUItahrE I'm reading his autobiography at the minute, great read. big fan of his might be tempted to ...

JoeyFantastic

Next time you're in Terenure take a look in the window of an estate agents, and come back to me and say its no different to Crumlin. What a preposterous notion. Terenure is a millionaires playground, the Beverley Hills of Dublin. And there's no GAA anywhere to be seen :smug: Nice try, as if I'd ris...

JoeyFantastic

I'm glad Dublin got smashed in the hurling. Who even plays that sport in the county? Around Terenure all I ever see is kids playing with rugger balls, I've NEVER seen anyone with a hurley stick. Actually, saw some lads with hurleys in Terenure a few days ago, well, Crumlin, but there's no real diff...

JoeyFantastic

I'm glad Dublin got smashed in the hurling. Who even plays that sport in the county? Around Terenure all I ever see is kids playing with rugger balls, I've NEVER seen anyone with a hurley stick. Actually, saw some lads with hurleys in Terenure a few days ago, well, Crumlin, but there's no real diff...

JoeyFantastic

Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys. Bringing Celtic soul back to their Scottish roots. His grandparents were Gaelic speakers but it had died out by his generation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuYUItahrE

I'm reading his autobiography at the minute, great read.

JoeyFantastic

camroc1 wrote:
JoeyFantastic wrote:
camroc1 wrote:And Joey, fudge off back to An Fear Rua, or whatever other jingoistic sites you frequent.
Sigh, need it be this way?
Irish rugby needs four green fields. And I am very happy that that would appear to be the opinion of the IRFU as well.

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

JoeyFantastic

camroc1 wrote:And Joey, fudge off back to An Fear Rua, or whatever other jingoistic sites you frequent.

Sigh, need it be this way?

JoeyFantastic

Porterbelly1 wrote: Robbie Henshaw possibly?

He's the Irish u19 13

Possibly, heard Hanrahan levels of hype about him whoever he is.

JoeyFantastic

Just on the Ulster thing I'd imagine two successful seasons including being at the pointy end of the HEC twice has freshened up the finances nicely. I'm not talking about gate or perf bonuses for those games but stuff like ST sales, merchandise, appeal to sponsors, bonuses from sponsors etc. Gettin...

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