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Pog broke his wrist at Liege last year, 3 weeks later in the season, and wasn’t right for the Tour. Not exactly the same, but it’s going to be hard to keep to a training program with broken ribs.

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Look, you lads pay more attention to Munster than I do, but surely he wouldn't say that from nowhere. Presumably it means either senior players or lots of them. I take your point though. There's lots to pick apart in the comment - it's virtually meaningless in its vagueness. What does the phrase "u...

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Kelly in today’s peloton wouldn’t win some of the hilly races he used to (Liege and especially Lombardy are much harder now) but the others (Fignon, Hinault etc) would still be as good today as they were then. Nobody’s going up the Tourmalet in 39-23 in today’s racing. Tour stages are 30-60km shorte...

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And I've just learned the ball can hit the ground and play continues if it's passed backwards. Of course. Play stops if player down with ball in hand only. Re lateral passes, the ball actually has to go backwards, unlike rugby where it is relative to the passing and receiving player. Also, the foot...

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I live in the country, 7 miles from town and its hilly (and never stopped raining for 6 months). Not much chance of me cycling to the shops, or anyone else in my area. The council recently built a 5 mile cycle track at large cost, but there's never anyone on it. Even the lycra crowd prefer to use t...

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fatcat wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:22 pm I don't know how anyone in this day and age could watch films depicting the systematic oppression of native Americans, or showing white men fighting over stolen land. Disgraceful.

I’ll put you down for a “yes” for the screening of “Custer’s Last Stand” then, shall I?

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It's hard to know for sure. I think better than ROL. At least McFadden level. He hits great lines, is fast, has a good pass and great strength. Just not sure he has any step at all. I've yet to see him do much in that regard. He's also only about 5'8 which unfortunately is a disadvantage these days...

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Saw The Magnificent Seven a while back, stands up pretty well by modern standards.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid counts as a Western, right?

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It's generally more subtle than that. Taking lanes out and putting in half-arsed cycle routes in spite of little or no demand, or ridiculous lowering of speed limits with no good reason. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/04/brexit-lack-of-cash-politics-has-the-uk-cycling-revolution-...

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Adding lanes to roads or building new ones etc is how to make it easier to drive 2km or 25km. Not doing so leaves it the same or worsens it over time if population or at least vehicular traffic increases. Doing bugger-all in that case provides the incentive to go elsewhere or find different ways to...

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It's an era where a few riders are so superior to others than they attack 10s of km away from the finish line and manage to hold the chasers and win. A new way of racing. It's also an era where riders won't work together to bring back a breakaway. Not that that happened yesterday Yeah, we’ve seen p...

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But the whole thing with Kerouac was that he did his road trip out in the country on rural roads. If you’re trying to recreate a Kerouac experience in London or Manchester or on the M1, you’re doing it wrong. My brother in law used to bump into Lawrence Ferlingetti, who published a lot of the Beats’...

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Implementing restriction, limiting and undoing is also a lot easier than properly planning and building, or implementing, something lasting that ticks more boxes that eliciting a smug smile from a spotty onanist with a hemp scarf. It's it's intellectually and practicably lazy to say that cars are b...

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triplebogey wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:12 pm Mike has been 99% grand but losing us a Euro final certainly stings.

Last I’ll say on it; it wasn’t his fault we blew the big lead and the game came down to needing a score with 2 minutes left.

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sorCrer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:53 pm

Falling asleep sitting next to each other on the Tour bus. €50 fine each.

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Here's an interesting thought experiment. Would Dupont make it in NFL? It's been years since I watched it regularly but possibly as an RB? I’m going to say no, he wouldn’t. He’d be very small for a RB. Not necessarily in terms of height, there are RBs that are 5’8/5’9, but they’re absolutely stacke...

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Except from the studio teams, as pointed out in the post above. No, they said both should have been yellow. McGrath for the head contact and Ardense for the separation of arm from body. They weren't 'blaming' Ardense for McGrath's tackle. It’d be hard to call that “separation of arm from body”. He ...

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You can barely even see the head contact unless you go super slow mo. The TMO's word "kiss" was apt in this case. None of the force is through the head and the only damage done was to himself. Fair call. This is what I see. The angle from behind looks like the heads barely touch, and if anything Mc...

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Oh he showed up on the biggest occasion of all last May x( Yeah that's obviously the one that sticks out. Mike A has been a solid signing, especially for a 30 year old Aussie prop, and it’d be unfair if that one clean out was all anyone remembers of his time at Leinster. Cameron Jowitt’s highlight ...

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Saw 2nd half, and a couple of the tries from the 1st. Larmour’s best game in a long, long while. Couple of very Leinstertaining tries, Lowe’s and Milne’s especially with the timing and manner of them.

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He’ll be on the Kelce Bros’ podcast before long.

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We'd probably scrape through if we got no more points, just, but qualification for the URC knockouts is far from assured and we'll want to finish top to give us the easiest knockout stages to manage. At a minimum we need all home wins but a big win this Friday would make be massive. We'd then proba...

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Don't think the URC means anything to Leinster, they brought Nick McCarthy off the bench against the turnips. The URC will mean a lot more if we don’t win the ERC. With the URC playoffs after the completion of the ERC, there won’t be any trade-offs between one and the other; qualification for the U...

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Well it did when it hit it. It came to a complete stop. It did indeed, but the force that it had to apply to stop it, destroyed it. It's interesting people have been talking about dolphins not being there...but the force generated by a ship of that size would have been extraordinary, and would have...

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The dolphins appear to be way out in front of the bridge, by a couple hundred feet or so judging by the scale of some of the pics, and the ship came in at an angle behind them. Basically a nautical Maginot line. https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b6481d6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/637...

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Don't think the URC means anything to Leinster, they brought Nick McCarthy off the bench against the turnips. The URC will mean a lot more if we don’t win the ERC. With the URC playoffs after the completion of the ERC, there won’t be any trade-offs between one and the other; qualification for the U...

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The ship is 300m long apparently. Something that size doesn’t slow down just because there’s a bridge in the way.

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Lots of questions.... Firstly htf does a piloted ship hit a bridge pier head on ? I presume the shipping channels were mid-span. Wtf weren't there dolphins protecting the pier from direct hits ? This reeks of incompetence. Suggestion in some of the videos that the ship lost power a couple of times ...

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Deegan not moving province shows a total lack of ambition. That depends on your definition of ambition. The only player ahead of him in the Irish reckoning who’s younger than he is, is Doris. (Baird isn’t really a like-for-like) He could move province, but there wouldn’t be any guarantee of improvi...

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Saw more of Deegan than we needed there.

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Sean Cronin-esque run from Turner there.

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Charger21 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:45 pm Great run by mcgrath

Should have passed inside instead of going to the corner.

Gets in the other corner anyway.

Who else could afford to leave Max Deegan in the dirt tracker side for away trips to Parma?

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I'm all for the hold up over the line thing. It rewards good defense and should hopefully discouraging pick and go after pick and go after pick and go at least to some extent. The held-up dropout has been in place for 2 seasons now. Have the endless pick-and-go phases at the line stopped? I hadn’t ...

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Looking at going to Rome for the 6N next year, any recommendations for areas to stay/eat/drink etc? Hotel The Building. Fantastic. Very good for the metro and 7 minutes walk from Terminii. Great local restaurants on that street. Stayed this January, not a rugby trip. Good for families! Planning a t...

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Ulster v Hollywoodbets Sharks, Hollywoodbets Kings Park, Round 12, BKT United Rugby Championship, Saturday 23 March, KO 1pm UK/Ireland time (Live on Viaplay, URC.tv, BBC Radio Ulster). (15-9) Will Addison, Ethan McIlroy, James Hume, Stuart McCloskey, Mike Lowry, Billy Burns, John Cooney; (1-8) Stev...

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We are the mods.
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https://i.postimg.cc/zJLz7R9V/IMG-1965.jpg 👆 He’s right you know Except Kate has already done her Queenly duty and produced 3 heirs. “Where does the Monarchy go from here?” after Charles is literally Will-George-Charlotte-Louis-Harry-Archie. There’s probably been few periods of time in history wher...

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Hopefully now the cúnts on social media will leave her the fudge alone Piers Morgan was on TMZ (my Mrs had it on) last night blabbing on and on about everything his “sources inside the palace” were telling him. I hope Kate outlives Piers and every human being involved in the production of that prog...

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Wood got a rep as a dodgy thrower in his early years, which overlapped with the pre-lifting days, when Ireland didn’t have much of a lineout to throw to. It affected Byrne a bit too; but the early 00’s when we had a decent lineout, they were both as good as anyone else in the game; we had statistica...

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It definitely wasn't all on Murray's shoulders and if he was playing to instruction he played a minor part in it. By that stage our defence was so passive, we needed to press quickly, instead we did the opposite. If that was he only thing Murray had done wrong, it wouldn’t be mentioned. It was that...

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