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November2019 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:21 am The man's made a fortune and must have loads of collaborators in order to pull off his various stunts.
Why the pretence that no one knows who he is?
Why hasn't he been definitively outed?

It was deduced several years ago who it was.
And they published his name.

And nobody gave a sh1t

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While kicking might have won us the game, it's a poor excuse for why we lost. We left four points out there with two missed conversion kicks from the touch-line. England missed 4 kicks for 10 points including a gimme virtually in front. We lost that game because we were in control, ahead on the sco...

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Feels like the moral victory lines are wearing a bit thin now. That's not a particular good France team and they've just put 45 on Wales in Cardiff. Hard to see where Wales go until they pull a half decent 10 and some non-useless props out of somewhere. "Not a particularly good French team", are yo...

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The teams all look a lot more even by the end of the Championship that they all did at the start...

Including Wales at the 70 minute mark.
(That burning of a massive overlap should be a capital offence)

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I watched the game slightly late as I had to take my son to the hospital (all okay now, he's on the mend) so I've just had a little read if this thread. It didn't disappoint :lol: I'm guessing that Farrell told his boys to treat it like a knockout game and they delivered 8) Good news on your son, a...

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:21 am
Hawk97 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:17 am What did Heaslip say/do during the week?
Said the only way England could win was if Ireland were down to 13

tbf we did have Healy & Murray on by the end.

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Charger21 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:00 am Are there any other angles of that genge clear out on furlong btw. Anything in it? Citing or Furlong making a meal of it?

He was back in the defensive line a few seconds later so obviously not a hit to the head.
Maybe a flailing arm to the face?

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I went to every championship home match in the 90s and saw something like 3wins in the f**king decade. I watched us lose to f**king Argentina in Lens in 99. I was in Murrayfield in 2001 when we were f**ked by Scotland. I bought that triple crown dvd as I had, at that point, been watching Ireland fo...

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tc27 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:48 pm Very surprised Ireland kicked it away with 90 seconds left..was expecting endless pick and go's.

YOU were surprised!!!!

I thought it was game over when we secured the lineout.

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Going to be a lot fewer Irish lads on the Lions starting XV than many on here have been predicting for yonks now. Yeah. Bit of reality check. Ireland has two massive coaching decisions that we need to get right in the next year or so. Who replaces Mike Catt and keeps up the attacking innovation (al...

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England superb today. Deserved to win. Even when we got our noses in front for the final time it felt like a smash and grab raid. First team to genuinely outplay us since France did it two years ago. Now I just need to head over to the Official England Rugby thread to call those doom-mongering briga...

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Murray is getting abuse on here tonight, but it's not like there's a better back-up 9 available right now. Casey couldn’t have kicked any worse than Murray did. We would’ve been better off hiding Murray out on the wing and leaving JGP at 9. Other countries would have used this 6N to get Casey up to...

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Lineouts becoming a serious problem area POM Leading it pre hendo coming on right? You feel James Ryan starting could have won us that tbh. No, Tadhg Beirne I think. It looked like Henderson. He meant BEFORE Henderson came on. I'm guessing it must have been POM - who let the very first through righ...

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Also, we’ve a huge issue at Loose Head. Porter is a liability in the scrum and we don’t seem to have anyone coming through. Furlong also a liability in the scrum. This loss hopefully will bring everybody back down to reality that we are an average team when our attack is shut down, which all teams ...

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Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:32 pm Was it Madigan who slagged off the Scots during the RWC?
Looks spot on now.

POM in the post-match interview, I thought

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Since Wales beat Italy in the opening round of the 2021 U20 Six Nations, neither Scotland or Wales have beaten any team not called Scotland or Wales.

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So Ulster fans. You must be excited. If he can instill that never say die spirit into Ulster like he has with u20s only good things lie ahead For all the talk about Ulster not producing players, especially forwards, I think our greater problem is player development. How many of our players have act...

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Great to dig out the draw in the circumstances and especially satisfying to sit the English subs back down like that. Still only two Six Nations Under 20 losses for us since we lost to England in March 2018, an unbelievable record that should survive into next year now. Interesting that Ireland kic...

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Charger21 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:09 pm
Irish wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:08 pm If we have learnt anything over Richie’s tenure, his teams NEVER give up.
They are well coached and it makes a difference against these bigger and more powerful teams

Let's see how "Ulster-proof" that statement is.

I hope to God it is

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Anyone know what each side has to do next week? Too knackered to do the sums England get a bonus point win then they win the Championship. England win, Ireland bonus win = tie breaker which is points difference. Currently England have a +17 advantage over Ireland. England fail to win and Ireland bo...

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Over here the greatest anxiety has concerned the lack of atmosphere at the Aviva, with many of the old stock pining for the days when Irish tries were so rare they used to spark an impromptu pitch invasion in the corner they occurred.

God I miss those glorious days!

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Lads, Kidney was a very good coach at taking a "good but not great" and turning them into a great side. He could get a group of players to gel together as the best possible team. He did it with the U21s (World Cup Final), Munster (HEC) & Ireland (Grand Slam). Where he wasn't so good was developing a...

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Clearly he fears too much running rugby might break out so he keeps George on to help slow things down. Cutting edge stuff. I'm not sure you beat this version of Ireland with "running rugby". NZ did it. Scored two long range tries in the RWC QF. BNZ's astonishing low error count had more to do with...

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Is your memory that bad? ROG was shot after about 2009/2010. He struggled on playing second fiddle to Sexton apart from the 2011 QF. He finished his career on the bench in a loss to Scotland, in a campaign we shared the wooden spoon. And it wasn't even Sexton ahead of him that day, it was 21 year o...

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Ok, clever perspective and all that, but even if it's not six and a bit humans long it's one hell of a size. I suspect it wouldn't have to waste a ml of its poison on me to kill me. I'd have shat the entire contents of my body out my arsehole on seeing it. Oh, how big is it, then? I mean, I can't t...

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redderneck wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:58 am
feckwanker wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:28 am Fcuk me I'm getting old.
No, it's not that. It merely reflects the scale of the Wally-sized hole in your life.

All our lives.

+1

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Seriously, who selects Wigglesworth to be the national team’s attack coach? :lol: Think about that for a second All he did as a player is box kick and “control” an already dominant pack, and his coaching resume is nowhere near sufficient for the national team. It’s bizarre. “Attack coach” :lol: it’...

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Skiaddict, as an adoptee, did some queries about his past in Fck me, I'm Irish Seems we all have some skeletons (even Martin Crowe who's direct descendant was the last beheading in England). Does "descendant" have a different meaning in New Zealand? D'oh - I meant the other way of course. Pedant th...

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In terms of the OP. WR have to do what they can to avoid litigation so they can't wait around to see what works or doesn't for any length of time. The gumshield thing is an example of this. It'll have teething problems but better to have it and get stuff wrong than not have it until everything is p...

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FidesEtRobur wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:33 am Dillane to Leinster would be amusing

His name is Ultan.
Only one place he should be going!

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Trostan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:37 pm Too late for him now.
But one of the smartest loose heads in Irish rugby is Denis Buckley.
Don't know how he would go against Antonio though

Backwards.

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What’s the view on Scott Wilson at Ulster? He’s a loosehead isn’t he? Isn’t he the decent tight head I couldn’t think of? Not sure tbh. I think he was on one of the recent U20 GS teams. Edit: seems he is a tight head. He was Tight head in the game against Munster earlier in the season where he came...

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lemonhead wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:30 pm Really depressing watching any game with Scarlets these days. Effectively over as a contest after 15mins.

I'm sure Ulster could make a game of it

Good win tonight

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AwayFromHome wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:10 pm Jesus stats gave us 8 pages of bitching at Winnie for calling Flannery a disgrace when Ulster lost a game. This thread might implode when he starts on redder’s views on Kendellen’s performance in a bonus point win.

Reminder: add popcorn to the shopping list...

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lorcanoworms wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:25 pm Here lieth the bones of Joey Cadbury
he was injured from Monday to Saturday
AKA the brylcreem boy

Given how broken the wee lad is, he'd be buried in three different plots

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how on earth is mack hansen irish? he was born in australia,his father is australian,he was schooled in australia and lived all his life there until his early 20s. he played for australia u20. he has a strong aussie accent. yes he has a mother who left ireland to go to australia but that does not m...

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Ireland in July (North & South) will probably be a safer place to be than this thread over the next 24 hours

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Whatever about Jager being gassed... https://twitter.com/Ringo26/status/1761833387134792025?s=20 The fall at the end :lol: Still moved quicker than most of our outside backs tbf. Feel bad for him - he's absolutely shattered. There's a half elbow to Crowley's head in one of the earlier phases too. H...

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Duhan van der Merwe is going to smash the Six Nations try scoring record this season.

A brace against Wales plus a hat-trick against England.

That's 5 tries and even if we shut him out he's got Italy to come.

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I thought he looked absolutely gassed about 5 minutes after coming on. You could see when they came back into it in the second half / TB had the YC, and we were camped on our line he was lagging behind in joining the D line and looked punctured as he did join Yeah, thought he was fairly conspicuous...

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