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Zico

No complaints about that team. Schmidt says it's picked on the basis of those who've spent most time together in training, which is fair enough.

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Macsimus wrote:
Conn wrote:I'm wondering will Willie post on page number 1916...
Don't be rising him ffs.

Sommething upset him?

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Quinny and EOS on Against the Head...

..and so is Joanne Cantwell.

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earl the beaver wrote:Dave Kearney being ahead of Trimble makes me sad

He'd be starting if POC had booted him in the head.

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McFadden will play if Jackson's at OH.

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There is amazing clarity in that photo - 1890s, I reckon, no Parnell monument. What was the source, and are there more ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/ Some real "WTF?" pictures there, like this one of Leeson Street in 1903. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7215/7247430400_93bf7755ab_b.jpg

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"Sir, I think the Irish are up to something"

"What gives you that idea?"

"They've opened a Gun Powder office... in the city centre.

"

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anonymous_joe wrote:What credibility? He's a 40-something year old man who dresses like a f**king pirate.

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I think the biggest selection injustice is the absence of Kieran Marmion. Shame on the Connacht lads for not kicking up a fuss.

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First tough-ish call of the job for Schmidt. I think he still might give Jackson the slot. He's in that situation were he doesn't want to be seen playing favourites early on and he might think a show of faith in Jackson might help the lad.

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Kids these days....

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P.T. wrote:
Malahide Mullet wrote:Do the Welsh sign with a giant X or will one of the English sign on their behalf like in Europe and the UN.
Merkel can sign on behalf of the IRFU when they submit to RCC's yoke.

Ireland will be self funded by the time next year's European competition is agreed.

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L. Ron Hubbard wrote:Whoa - 308 pages!

What's the general gist?

So far it's been. How many smug and/or jingoistic ways can you say "I'm right, you're wrong"?

Some time after X-mas it'll switch to "Ha,ha,ha I was right, you were wrong" and "I's not over, just you wait and see"

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Pretty much all the fire against the PRL plan has been directed at the club owner's, not their fans, not the wider English rugby community. The response has been to take it as some kind of Celtic vendetta against the English. I have to admit that it's usually the Irish that take criticism as a natio...

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RCC doesn't even exist yet and it's name is already poison. BT must be licking their lips at the prospect of selling a competition associated with greed, backstabbing, dishonesty and megalomania. Dead in the water as far as sports broadcasting goes but it would make a great fly on the wall documenta...

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Any idea approximately when it happened in the game or has anyone a link?

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I'd be far more sympathetic to the clubs demands if they were run by the fans and had strict controls on their debt levels.

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It's about making club rugby sustainable and not the financial black hole it's been for so long. Money made off the back of it wont get close to recouping the investments made over the years by the owners. What it will do is stop them being a constant financial drain. The clubs haven't proposed any...

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BT is as safe as Kirch Media was 10 years ago. Kirch didn't get enough subscribers for their ambitious pay-TV venture and it brought down the whole thing. nasty BT who are about to go bankrupt - lovely cuddly altruistic Sky :lol: :lol: :lol: I can't stand Sky. It'll be good for consumers if BT are ...

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BT is as safe as Kirch Media was 10 years ago. Kirch didn't get enough subscribers for their ambitious pay-TV venture and it brought down the whole thing.

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If it's such a done deal why are they still hard selling it? Nothing about the clubs plan seems right. The financials are vague, the tv deal is secret, there's too much talking through the media and most of it is confrontational, there are significant legal issues and about the only that's certain i...

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Who goes off and negotiates tv rights on behalf of others without telling them?

Con artists and fraudsters you wouldn't buy a used car from.

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All this stuff about X is rude, Y is stubborn, Z is a wanker is just opinion. The clubs dont have an obligation to "negotiate" any further as they have left the previous set up. They dont have to work out a way to get back under the ERC - that's actually what they dont want. I'm no Donald Trump but...

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It's amazing how belligerent and confrontational the clubs owners are being. They must be under a lot of pressure to be behaving this way.

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This whole mess has shown how dangerous the self interest of club owners can be. Whatever the future of the European Cup the influence of these reckless individuals needs to be curbed. It's not too late to prevent things going the way of Premier League soccer, highly indebted clubs run by speculator...

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The Gardai are damned if they do and damned if they don't. The Roma are transient by nature. The Gardai would have been crucified if they left the kid with the family while they waited for the DNA results and the Romas got spooked by the whole thing and decided to leg it.

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Ireland's Call wrote:Can anyone translate what this rather excitable chap Quin Quin is saying? I can't make head nor tail of it.

I've blocked their posts. First time I've blocked anyone on any website. I doubt I'll miss much.

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I'm trying to avoid this thread because after 270 pages no one has changed their opinion and despite all the press releases and statements nothing has changed outside this board. I'm going to lose interest in this while the AIs are on anyway, maybe everyone can ask Santa for a resolution, he seems t...

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There has to be an EU quota for itinerants hasn't there? If there's a country in Europe with no room for more gypsies it's Ireland.

I suppose it's karma for the mobile crimewaves we've exported to Britain over the years.

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It's like the Republican Party during the last presidential election. They presumed if they kept saying Romney had won loud enough and long enough then it would just happen.

They still don't know how they lost that one.

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Increasing revenue to decrease the deficit is what we are talking about Any financial problems the clubs have are of their own making. How are they running a deficit in the first place? Because they spend money on wages to bring in better players. Why is George North playing for Northampton? Becaus...

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They would like to reach a point where they aren't just forking out 2-3 million (or more in Saracens case) each year just to stay afloat. They could do that now. Stop spending so much on wages. To which you reply "But then someone else would spend more and they'd get relegated." To which I say "How...

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I wouldn't make a very good club owner because I like the game too much to act solely in my own interest. But if I were a Nigel Wray type of person and owned a club like Saracens then my long term goal would be the establishment of an NH version of Super Rugby made up of the best/most marketable tea...

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Free market my ass. The first thing Nigel Wray and his mates will do if they get control is to get rid of relegation from the AP. They're not going to all this effort to risk missing out on the reward. If there was more money coming in from an Anglo-French comp they'd strip a few teams out of the AP...

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He was probably in the Glee club.

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The owners of a handful of clubs are trying to take over European rugby and everyone else is against them. I'd call that a significant dispute.

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Come on Bod say Gatland made a pigs ear of the Lions against a shite Aussie team.

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England are a bit like Spain were for a long time. A squad with some great individual reputations but always seem to underachieve as a team. They may not be favourites but they are capable of winning the tournament if they can get their shit together in the big games.

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