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if we went on the win the series in NZ some on here will still want Kidney to be booted out. If we did it would make the existing criticisms invalid, but it would probably mean they were, for the most part, addressed. It would really depend on the circumstances. We could have beaten Wales and Franc...

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I get the impression Kidney's man management revolves solely around the chosen few and doesn't extend to fringe players.I

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I'm actually with Kidney (and poorside & co.) on this one. Of course Ross and POC are being given every bit of leeway possible. As I would expect for Healy, Best, Ferris, SOB, Heaslip, Sexton, BOD and Kearney (I did consider removing Heaslip there) because the drop in standard to the replacements is...

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IC, you might be crossing a line here.....

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He still included him at a time when Sexton was 2nd or third choice 10 for Leinster (who were playing pretty gash at the time) while ignoring HEC starter iHumph and Keatley who was younger and beginning to impress at Connacht at the time. Not ringing I concur, but he still kept him in when others w...

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He still included him at a time when Sexton was 2nd or third choice 10 for Leinster (who were playing pretty gash at the time) while ignoring HEC starter iHumph and Keatley who was younger and beginning to impress at Connacht at the time. Not ringing I concur, but he still kept him in when others w...

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cam, I hope you have better data retrieval skills in your professional life! You gave the 09/10 stats for 08/09, and 08/09 for 07/08. Sorry, spotted it straight away as I knew he'd started more ML games in 07/08. Anyway, it's 13+5 for 07/08 and 10+8 in 08/09. He had a similar amount of points in bo...

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cam, I hope you have better data retrieval skills in your professional life! You gave the 09/10 stats for 08/09, and 08/09 for 07/08. Sorry, spotted it straight away as I knew he'd started more ML games in 07/08. Anyway, it's 13+5 for 07/08 and 10+8 in 08/09. He had a similar amount of points in bot...

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Has to be today around lunchtime I suppose.

Still no coverage? Red button anywhere maybe?

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Lads, the training isn't in Limerick/Munster perchance?

Much frothing over inconsequential picks.

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Just because you repeatedly say it doesn't make it true. Coughlan is fine, he's obviously a big step down from our frontline backrowers but I don't think he'd embarrass us. Maybe Wilson's better but I wouldn't have thought there was that much in it anyway. I happen to believe there's quite a bit in...

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I'm with Earl, Wilson's better. Or at least was, I admit I haven't seen him this season (haven't seen much of Coughlan either for that matter). He has better ball skills, might not pack quite the same punch but is overall more dynamic. He'd be closer to a Heaslip type player than Coughlan. Anyway, r...

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Floppykid wrote:Could Ruddock or Dom Ryan not be considered?

Ruddock's injured. Dom Ryan on the bench on Sunday. I'd say Ryan would have been called in had SOB not been ruled out.

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He may not be interested by Auva'a has played better than Butler and Coughlan this year. Re. tighthead. I think some of you are getting a little hysterical after Twickenham. Yes scrummaging is important but not at the cost of every other skill. If a player cannot fit into the defensive line for star...

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SoB and Healy out for Sunday,bit of doubt about them traveling to NZ And Schmidt making noises about going home after next season Not a great mornings reading. Thats a bit odd. I posted on the Irish squad thread that i heard that SOB was a serious doubt for NZ(As he was due an operation from what i...

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SoB and Healy out for Sunday,bit of doubt about them traveling to NZ And Schmidt making noises about going home after next season Not a great mornings reading. Thats a bit odd. I posted on the Irish squad thread that i heard that SOB was a serious doubt for NZ(As he was due an operation from what i...

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SoB and Healy out for Sunday,bit of doubt about them traveling to NZ And Schmidt making noises about going home after next season Not a great mornings reading. If Healy is out of NZ as well who is going to play LH? Ae we going to play our first qualified project player? Wilkinson probably. Don't ge...

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Folks, ever considered that he may very well have his sights set on a higher goal? Anyway, plenty of time yet. If I were him I'd certainly be nervous about taking on a national side with as many limitations as Ireland, if I was going to kiss goodbye to a set up where I did not enjoy daily access to...

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I watched the O's shitkicking in my local. They've got a cracking photo of the ABs in TP in Nov 08 on one wall and another decent shot of the Munster 22 that day as they lined up for their 'maka'. 3 and a half years ago. That night we were "missing" 10 core players, I believe, through Irish duties/...

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Look, Ulster's experienced campaigners had to ratchet the intensity level up to levels they had rarely achieved all season. To expect Jackson to go from U20s and a handful of low intensity Pro12 games to Leinster intensity with only Edinburgh (when he was hardly passed the ball) as a warm up was ex...

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Look, Ulster's experienced campaigners had to ratchet the intensity level up to levels they had rarely achieved all season. To expect Jackson to go from U20s and a handful of low intensity Pro12 games to Leinster intensity with only Edinburgh (when he was hardly passed the ball) as a warm up was exp...

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Jackson went well for the first 25 or so minutes of the final up until a series of unforced errors knocked him off balance. I reckon the kick out on the full was an inability to control the adrenaline and that's purely an experience thing. He did have an issue directing the Ulster attack leading up ...

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I've just seen Kidinme talking about how he rotated in the 6N. Not only is he doing a pathetic job, he's a proven liar now too. Of course he rotated. Sure didn't he rotate Ryan, POM, Reddan and McFadden into the team? And he also gave Sexton and Trimble a run after not being first choice at the WC....

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camroc1 wrote:Good from the mole as well :

http://dementedmole.com/2012/05/21/hein ... the-bench/

Hope he's right on Cooney, we can't put all our hope in McGrath.

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Willie Falloon wrote: 4

Has Payne managed to change the eligibility rules or have you miscounted.

Just because he's a project doesn't mean he's not an NIQ.

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I think using kicking stats to prove the argument is unnecessary and misleading. It's how we kick not the fact that we kick in the first place. The kicking from both halves against Wales was mostly poor. Whereas in the game against Aus, for example, Sexton kicked 30% of the ball he got but it was ve...

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earl the beaver wrote:
earl the beaver wrote:Oh and two posters on UAFC are saying Ulster are trying to sign Carter, I call bullshit on that but it would leave a pretty f**king tasty squad.
Being ignored

Not sure why Carter would want to join a team he'll be benching for.[/willie]

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earl the beaver wrote: Yes we lost one against the head, well done, where did I say we didn't

The one you lost against the head was for Healy's try.

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Watching the game again. Afoa got dicked in the scrums, but he was phenomenal around the park. His work rate is absolutely incredible. :thumbup: Don't know how you can say he got dicked in the scrums, we lost one against the head with no strike and the rest were mainly fine aside from wheeling bein...

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The difference between Wales and Ireland is your backrow. Take Warburton and Lydiate out of your team and you're an average team. Both those sentences are wrong. The first one because the difference is their power across the field, the second because Tipuric and Ryan are both playing great rugby at...

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The difference between Wales and Ireland is your backrow. Take Warburton and Lydiate out of your team and you're an average team. Both those sentences are wrong. The first one because the difference is their power across the field, the second because Tipuric and Ryan are both playing great rugby at...

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9 of the Leinster team are current Irish internationals. A tenth, Nacewa, would start in nearly every side in the world. An 11th currently holds a WC medal. A 12th is a former Lion and was coming into great form pre-injury and would probably have started for Ireland at some stage in the 6N had he b...

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A change of coach will invigorate but test rugby tends to demand more pragmatism then provincial/club rugby. All forms of rugby are about getting more than the sum of the parts out of the squad. Kidney is not doing that, plain and simple. It's got nothing to do with international being a step up. O...

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Leinster don't kick the ball away because they can keep it till an opening or a mismatch occurs,Ireland can't do tha and not just because the opposition is better. Ireland can and have done that. Most notably against the ABs of all teams in 2010 when kicking to them would have been stupid. We also ...

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binge90 wrote:VDM is the second best loosehead prop currently on this island by a stretch.

I'm deliberately playing him down as I don't want to get into a discussion re. Court.

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The HEC intensity can match international rugby, No it can't. That is delusional. The atmoshere might be just as good but the rugby isn't. Whilst some clubs/provinces playing in the HEC can boast internationals throughout their team the vast majority can't. Therefore there is no way it is at the sa...

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The HEC intensity can match international rugby, No it can't. That is delusional. The atmoshere might be just as good but the rugby isn't. Whilst some clubs/provinces playing in the HEC can boast internationals throughout their team the vast majority can't. Therefore there is no way it is at the sa...

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I will say this about Leinster - and I mean it ABSOLUTELY as a compliment and nothing but one - I do not think there is another side in world rugby at any level who come as close to the ABs in their ability to have the tackler having gone to ground when he cannot immediately regain his feet & compe...

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I'm not saying that HC level is the same as level as the 6 nations but that Leinster team are exceptional and would give most Intl teams a run for their money.They have great individuals but as a team they play with a definite gameplan and approach the game with a great philosophy,sadly something w...

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I'm not saying that HC level is the same as level as the 6 nations but that Leinster team are exceptional and would give most Intl teams a run for their money.They have great individuals but as a team they play with a definite gameplan and approach the game with a great philosophy,sadly something w...

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