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- Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Italy tourist advice
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2364
Re: Italy tourist advice
The train system in Italy is both excellent and cheap. A Great location to stay in is Padua. It is only 25 minutes by train to Venice, 25 minutes to Vicenza and about 30 minutes to Ferrara. Each one of these lovely small cities have something different to offer. Vicenza is jam packed with amazing Pa...
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL AUSTRALIA V IRELAND TEST 2018 SERIES MEGATHREAD(TM)
- Replies: 5728
- Views: 258558
Re: OFFICIAL AUSTRALIA V IRELAND TEST 2018 SERIES MEGATHREAD
Broken armJensrsa wrote:Didn't look good. Wrist injury?Mr. Very Popular wrote:Genia?Olo wrote:Mr. Very Popular wrote:yup, we should have our full first team outOlo wrote: Next week will be good.
Us too. Cheika should have made a couple of changes this week but did not. We will see some for next week.
Well done Ireland
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Genia Out with a broken arm.
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 11:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
If fit, big if...maybe it's time for SOB to move to 8 to get our best players on the park I think leavy is outstanding and can't be dropped and I also believe we have a better balance in the pack when POM is there Stander is incredibly solid but limited and Conan is failing to push him out although...
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 10:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
If fit, big if...maybe it's time for SOB to move to 8 to get our best players on the park I think leavy is outstanding and can't be dropped and I also believe we have a better balance in the pack when POM is there Stander is incredibly solid but limited and Conan is failing to push him out although...
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
We don't know the situation with POM, SOB, VDF, Leavy and Stander and won't unless they're all fit this Autumn. We also don't know the centre situation. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15 look decided I would be flabbergasted if POM and Stander weren't set in stone from here. I'd also be very surprised if R...
- Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Paedo Teacher #3587762
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3764
Re: Paedo Teacher #3587762
Lucky bastard? It could be a girl.backrow wrote:It’s weird how this always happens in USA - fit teacher shags lucky bastard.
Plenty of other countries have fit women and presumably fit woman teachers , but they never seem to hit the news re cherry popping
- Wed Jun 13, 2018 5:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Conan for the last game so. Suggests that CJ has been told to empty the tank.
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
I thought the midfield will pour both in terms of defence and attack. Obviously RingRose will come in next week but the question is who will he partner?
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 8:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Job Interview: Weaknesses
- Replies: 90
- Views: 7803
Re: Job Interview: Weaknesses
Actually, the answer you gave is an absolute no-no. It’s regarded as one of those fake weaknesses, which are not really meant as a weakness but actually “look at me I’m amazing”. You need to come up with something which doesn’t sound like a reverse compliment to yourself
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 7:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Franno’s Article in the Sindo today, truly top class.
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 9:08 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Jaysus Earl, Do you have to bite every single time?
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
David Humphries Performance against the all Blacks in about 2001/ 2002. It was Richard McCaw’s debut game. We lost, but not after giving them one hell of a rattle in the first half. I think at one stage we were about 18 or 19 points up. Humphries was superb that day, one of the times that he deliver...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
SOB against France in the WC was pretty special too but I suppose ruined by the indiscretion that partly led to our subsequent demise. Heaslip against France in 09? Sexton against Pumas in 2012 (although I'd accept that being discounted as I discounted Trimble against SA). BOD against France in 200...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:37 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
SOB against France in the WC was pretty special too but I suppose ruined by the indiscretion that partly led to our subsequent demise. Heaslip against France in 09? Sexton against Pumas in 2012 (although I'd accept that being discounted as I discounted Trimble against SA). BOD against France in 200...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
SOB against France in the WC was pretty special too but I suppose ruined by the indiscretion that partly led to our subsequent demise. Heaslip against France in 09? Sexton against Pumas in 2012 (although I'd accept that being discounted as I discounted Trimble against SA). BOD against France in 200...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Adetroy wrote:Heaslip against France 2009. His absolute peak as a player
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Heaslip against prices Grayco. His absolute peak as a player
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 8:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Yes, I know some people will not respond, How about the greatest single performance given by an Irish player for Ireland in their entire career? My pick: Andrew Trimble v South Africa 2006.
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/business/thomond-park-firm-revenues-rise-30-to-26m-846306.html Turnover up 30% at Thomond Park, an operating profit of 234k, not bad at all. Just 11m owed on a 40 million stadium. :lol: Jesus you'll swallow any auld sh i te. A net loss of € 774,000 ! :shoc...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: So, Canucks think that New Zealand has become China’s bitch
- Replies: 1
- Views: 564
- Thu May 31, 2018 1:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Did Keatley ever actually line out for Leinster? If so, probably the first person to play for all four provinces.
- Sun May 27, 2018 2:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Depends on the style of player and how they adapt. Billy V wants to maximize contact, Heaslip made a career out of avoiding it. Heaslip was never injured until the big one they ended his career. Ryan looks like s far cleverer player than POC. He hasn’t even reached his peak potential yet and he’s a...
- Sun May 27, 2018 1:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Depends on the style of player and how they adapt. Billy V wants to maximize contact, Heaslip made a career out of avoiding it. Heaslip was never injured until the big one they ended his career. Ryan looks like s far cleverer player than POC. He hasn’t even reached his peak potential yet and he’s a...
- Wed May 23, 2018 5:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish reunification
- Replies: 2127
- Views: 208978
Re: Irish reunification
Since the GFA the British has accepted that the name of the 26 counties is Ireland.
- Fri May 18, 2018 5:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4614844
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Simply agreeing to any old half-arsed bollocks proposed by Downing Street doesn't constitute being flexible and imaginative. And neither does agreeing to an EU /Irish land grab. English and having problems with a land grab :lol: Not one of his specialist subjects in fairness. ;) I'd struggle to sep...
- Mon May 14, 2018 10:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146309
- Views: 7950327
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Headline in an article written by Ree Moog in the Telegraph “If the Irish Government obliges us to choose between the Republic and the Union, then we will choose the Union”. The articles behind a pay wall so have no idea what the context is but I can well imagine it would be Along the lines that we ...
- Sun May 13, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NTHCSBH Final: Leinster v Racing Official Match Thread
- Replies: 720
- Views: 35150
Re: NTHCSBH Final: Leinster v Racing Official Match Thread
Finals are rarely great games of rugby and this was no exception. Too tense to really say I enjoyed it, more relief in the end than anything else. Racing are a very good side that will win a Heineken cup in the next few years. Is this the shortest ever thread for a Heineken cup final? Leinster prob...
- Fri May 11, 2018 3:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146309
- Views: 7950327
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Anybody got an Irish Times subscription? Noel Whelan appears to have written a stonker of a Brexit article, hopefully somebody can post it here (Not the Brexit Thread as it is full of loons) Thanks in advance!!!!! Here you go : Noel Whelan: Collapse of Brexit talks now the better of two evils Subsc...
- Fri May 11, 2018 2:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
- Replies: 146309
- Views: 7950327
Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Anybody got an Irish Times subscription? Noel Whelan appears to have written a stonker of a Brexit article, hopefully somebody can post it here (Not the Brexit Thread as it is full of loons) Thanks in advance!!!!!
- Fri May 04, 2018 3:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Military History/Pics Thread.
- Replies: 2289
- Views: 401224
Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Finnish troops with anti-tank rifle... https://i.redditmedia.com/utVqVsx33i2ps6ceg7BBRQtp-tkuEt_74kJZQ3-hGQ8.jpg?w=984&s=c14da5c48c59626cb20399be82e1f09c Croatian SS ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_(1st_Croatian) https://i.redditmedia.com/b13FaFJT...
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
I am just sitting here with a big bowl of popcorn enjoying the action.
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 11:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Munster v Ulster
- Replies: 272
- Views: 22009
Re: Munster v Ulster
That was a shite second half. That is all. Actually you were shite in both halves. One player started from our Hec 15 from last week and you desperately needed a win so put out your ''best''15 Well it wasn't our best 15, but there you go. Best available, but we've plenty of off field problems this ...
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 10:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Warren Gatland or Joe Schmidt to succeed Eddie Jones?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 6154
Re: Warren Gatland or Joe Schmidt to succeed Eddie Jones?
There is no way New Zealand want Gatland.YOYO wrote:Obviously the NZRFU will have first pick. The RFU looking for the sloppy seconds.
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 9:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528705
- Views: 28831395
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
If it is Lancaster for the Ulster job It must be a pretty clear indicator that he intends a run at the Irish job when Schmidt leaves after the World Cup. Spend a year at Ulster turning them around and he will become a very strong candidate for the Irish job. There may also have been an element of th...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Repealing the 8th
- Replies: 3832
- Views: 228134
Re: Repealing the 8th
I hope that any No voters will also be seeking to repeal the 13th ammendment which allows women to travel for abortion. If you believe that abortion is murder (its not) and you idly stand by and watch women travelling to England to get one, you are essentially complicit in what you believe to be th...
- Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NTHCSBH Munster v Racing 92, Sun Apr 22nd, KO @ 3:15 GMT
- Replies: 682
- Views: 25871
Re: NTHCSBH Munster v Racing 92, Sun Apr 22nd, KO @ 3:15 GMT
When was the last time leinster supporters could say that The Munster back three was better? And it is.
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4614844
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
without trying to come across as a Thatcherite right winger, the unions were already running amok in the 50s and 60s with antiquated work practices which left British industry unable to compete with the Germans, the French and the Italians. It also didn’t help that because of the destruction of the...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4614844
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
The UK received more Marshall Aid than any other European country. Way more. And pissed it away. Austria 468 Belgium and Luxembourg 777 Denmark 385 France 2296 West Germany 1448 Greece 376 Iceland 43 Ireland 133 Italy and Trieste 1204 Netherlands 1128 Norway 372 Portugal 70 Sweden 347 Switzerland 2...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
- Replies: 84737
- Views: 4614844
Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
The UK received more Marshall Aid than any other European country. Way more. And pissed it away. Austria 468 Belgium and Luxembourg 777 Denmark 385 France 2296 West Germany 1448 Greece 376 Iceland 43 Ireland 133 Italy and Trieste 1204 Netherlands 1128 Norway 372 Portugal 70 Sweden 347 Switzerland 2...