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- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Farrell was such an obviously wrong choice when it was made. I’d be disappointed if the consensus here wasn’t disgust at the time of announcement
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Byrne shovelled shit ball on while standing on our dead ball line. Ireland and Leinster need to concentrate on his brother, much higher ceiling I’d much rather focus on players ceilings rather than floors. Ross has a low ceiling. Solid player, would play a million games in the premiership, but he i...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Good news. Bealham is coming on. Our saviour has arrived.
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Keenan has been no better than Stockdale in fairness. At least you could believe Stockdale might make something happen. He's an empty shirt at this level. Ross Byrne though is worse. It's painful to watch him just shovel shit on. He’s a tidy player. I’d rather roll the dice with a guy who might be ...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Keenan has been no better than Stockdale in fairness. At least you could believe Stockdale might make something happen.
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The most relieving noise in the world
- Replies: 5
- Views: 845
Re: The most relieving noise in the world
You need a poo knife.
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ireland and Wales set up official Saxon poaching programmes
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2799
Re: Ireland and Wales set up official Saxon poaching programmes
I can understand how people might want to limit the qualifying standards to parents only, but there are so many families where grandparents form a core role in raising children that their national identity could easily be influenced by them. I've met lots and lots of "Irish" people born and raised i...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Mungoball to re-introduce scrummaging?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2030
Re: Mungoball to re-introduce scrummaging?
Just make all the forwards go stand on the touch line for 15 seconds and take a quick tap. Its only purpose is to tie up the forwards in a tight bit of space to allow attacking opportunity and a restart after an error, so stop the charade and make it that. No idea why sports administrators try to cr...
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Internet: Yes or No
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2106
Re: Internet: Yes or No
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Internet: Yes or No
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2106
Re: Internet: Yes or No
The internet hasn’t made me a better person, but it did expose me to all of you lot which has made me feel like a better person in comparison.
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 12:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Yes, I am including what players get paid for playing for Ireland and also what the 6 Sarries players get for playing for England. If those 6 played every game they would get 1.8m (25k x 6 x 12) between them from the RFU, so I added that to the 8.5m Sarries can pay under the cap. The two squads wou...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Are you including what players get paid for Ireland in your €11m-€13m figure, because I don't see how you can get to that without it? Even with a larger topline figure, I can't see Leinster's player budget approaching €10M. With regard to Leinster raising money separately, I was under the impressio...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
It's actually very poor tbh. You've settled a lot since the last time I was active here, but the potshots continue.
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
You're absolutely right, but ultimately Leinster Rugby pays huge amounts of money to players considering the vast scale of squad required. Trying to fit that squad into a salary cap that Welsh/Scottish teams could reasonably afford to compete with would be impossible. It's very difficult to figure ...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
He isn't really a "leadership" type.
POM is gonna start at 7. I can feel it.
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why British food is terrible
- Replies: 283
- Views: 10923
Re: Why British food is terrible
For the record, as somebody who visited and doesn't know Dublin well on the same trip, we didn't rate the food in Dublin as particularly good either. Probably better than London for similar type establishments, but not great. Dublin is also my partners least favourite city in Europe, and the one sh...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why British food is terrible
- Replies: 283
- Views: 10923
Re: Why British food is terrible
For the record, as somebody who visited and doesn't know Dublin well on the same trip, we didn't rate the food in Dublin as particularly good either. Probably better than London for similar type establishments, but not great. Dublin is also my partners least favourite city in Europe, and the one sh...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
You're absolutely right, but ultimately Leinster Rugby pays huge amounts of money to players considering the vast scale of squad required. Trying to fit that squad into a salary cap that Welsh/Scottish teams could reasonably afford to compete with would be impossible. It's very difficult to figure ...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why British food is terrible
- Replies: 283
- Views: 10923
Re: Why British food is terrible
For the record, as somebody who visited and doesn't know Dublin well on the same trip, we didn't rate the food in Dublin as particularly good either. Probably better than London for similar type establishments, but not great. Dublin is also my partners least favourite city in Europe, and the one she...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
He said he will be leaning on POM, Henderson, and Earls to help with leadership. Suggests they are all starting IMO.
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
That was a very handy weekend for Irish rugby, Connacht could have won with a bit more composure. Can't help but feel that the league is now on the verge of either radical change or collapse, I think it needs to go to a 2 division format with promotion and relegation included, especially if the Saf...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Wine Thread
- Replies: 6599
- Views: 793237
Re: The Wine Thread
I've had rotten luck tracking down some of those wines recently Frankster. Couldn't find the Malbec from your Five Festive Flagons list in (an admittedlly small) Dunnes today. No sign of the Peter Lehman Shiraz in the local Molloys last week either. The staff member said he hadn't seen it in ages. ...
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 1:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
That was a very handy weekend for Irish rugby, Connacht could have won with a bit more composure. Can't help but feel that the league is now on the verge of either radical change or collapse, I think it needs to go to a 2 division format with promotion and relegation included, especially if the Saf...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why British food is terrible
- Replies: 283
- Views: 10923
Re: Why British food is terrible
Took my Aussie missus to Ireland a few years ago to meet the family and have a holiday etc. Also spent 5 days visiting my brother in London. She was blown away with the contrast of quality of food if you go into a reasonably standard pub. UK basically inedible muck, and Irish very good quality and ...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why British food is terrible
- Replies: 283
- Views: 10923
Re: Why British food is terrible
Took my Aussie missus to Ireland a few years ago to meet the family and have a holiday etc. Also spent 5 days visiting my brother in London. She was blown away with the contrast of quality of food if you go into a reasonably standard pub. UK basically inedible muck, and Irish very good quality and ...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
It’s worth noting that this version of England don’t keep a lot of possession, so there might not be a lot of work for Connors to do, if he’s picked.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: TRI-NATIONS 2020: Pumas v Wallabies MATCH THREAD: Nov 21, 08:45 GMT
- Replies: 238
- Views: 14618
Re: TRI-NATIONS 2020: Pumas v Wallabies MATCH THREAD: Nov 21, 08:45 GMT
Terrible OP. Do better or don’t bother.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:55 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Why British food is terrible
- Replies: 283
- Views: 10923
Re: Why British food is terrible
Took my Aussie missus to Ireland a few years ago to meet the family and have a holiday etc. Also spent 5 days visiting my brother in London. She was blown away with the contrast of quality of food if you go into a reasonably standard pub. UK basically inedible muck, and Irish very good quality and v...
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 2:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Hopefully England play Itoje at 6, because he was dreadful against Georgia. Billy was also poor. Genge was the one I'd be afraid of out of the pack they played on the weekend.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 1:24 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Personally I'd go with
Henderson
Ryan
Stander
Connors
Doris
Put POM will be involved somewhere and he isn't going to give much impact off the bench.
Henderson
Ryan
Stander
Connors
Doris
Put POM will be involved somewhere and he isn't going to give much impact off the bench.
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Definitely a bit more of the "help us with this scaffold. Its amazing what people will leave on the side of the road" to his upbringing than his Mother buying him Lions tours, you'd suggest.
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 5:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Happy to go with the early shout of Healy being the answer at 10 in the medium term. I like him a lot.
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Ospreys are genuinely dreadful, but Munster are putting them away fairly handy. Coombes is an absolute handfull. They used him at 2 in the lineout for that maul try, too, which is interesting. He will be in green before too long.
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 8:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2020 thread
- Replies: 2453
- Views: 115191
Re: Wallabies 2020 thread
The thing that’s happening here, MOG, is you think you guessing selections correctly is a credit to you on this forum, but in reality it discredits Rennie. Every time you and Rennie agree, Australian rugby fans confidence crumbles a little bit more. You strut around with your moronic chest puffed o...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
POM will play like that for 10 more years. He stays in his lane and is highly committed, and you could not play him for 2 years and call him up and he’d do the same. Playing him this morning taught us nothing. Play Coombes or anybody else and we learn something. Good performance, and I’m literally h...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528542
- Views: 28777528
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Look, it was a win. But does it help us? Are we more prepared and informed now than before? Really? Keenan, Doris, JGP, Lowe all putting in good performances at this level, another game for Kelleher (few squinty lineouts tbf), Roux showing up really well, what did you want? Doris and Keenan were th...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What's a good, well priced tablet computer?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4158
Re: What's a good, well priced tablet computer?
I would never buy anything other than an iPad if I was buying a tablet. That’s the sector they truly dominate in. I wouldn’t buy an iMac, and I would accept arguments about Samsung v IPhone, but nobody is close to the iPad. I obviously disagree. The samsung tabs are as close as makes no fifference....
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: What's a good, well priced tablet computer?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4158
Re: What's a good, well priced tablet computer?
I would never buy anything other than an iPad if I was buying a tablet. That’s the sector they truly dominate in. I wouldn’t buy an iMac, and I would accept arguments about Samsung v IPhone, but nobody is close to the iPad.