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by Adetroy
Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158216
Views: 9098814

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Any chance somebody has an Irish Times subscription and compose the following article? The floppy haired one usually has interesting to say about sports and the economy: David McWilliams: Croatia wins at football, loses in economics – the opposite of Ireland Your wish ......etc. We really should st...
by Adetroy
Sun Jul 15, 2018 6:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158216
Views: 9098814

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Any chance somebody has an Irish Times subscription and compose the following article? The floppy haired one usually has interesting to say about sports and the economy:
David McWilliams: Croatia wins at football, loses in economics – the opposite of Ireland
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 4978583

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Total bullshit. No French government will tolerate one of their own being humiliated.
by Adetroy
Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Italy tourist advice
Replies: 21
Views: 2584

Re: Italy tourist advice

The train system in Italy is both excellent and cheap. A Great location to stay in is Padua. It is only 25 minutes by train to Venice, 25 minutes to Vicenza and about 30 minutes to Ferrara. Each one of these lovely small cities have something different to offer. Vicenza is jam packed with amazing Pa...
by Adetroy
Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL AUSTRALIA V IRELAND TEST 2018 SERIES MEGATHREAD(TM)
Replies: 5728
Views: 286320

Re: OFFICIAL AUSTRALIA V IRELAND TEST 2018 SERIES MEGATHREAD

Jensrsa wrote:
Mr. Very Popular wrote:
Olo wrote:
Mr. Very Popular wrote:
Olo wrote: Next week will be good.
yup, we should have our full first team out :proud:

Us too. Cheika should have made a couple of changes this week but did not. We will see some for next week.
Well done Ireland :thumbup:
Genia?
Didn't look good. Wrist injury?
Broken arm
by Adetroy
Sat Jun 16, 2018 1:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Genia Out with a broken arm.
by Adetroy
Sat Jun 16, 2018 11:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

If fit, big if...maybe it's time for SOB to move to 8 to get our best players on the park I think leavy is outstanding and can't be dropped and I also believe we have a better balance in the pack when POM is there Stander is incredibly solid but limited and Conan is failing to push him out although...
by Adetroy
Sat Jun 16, 2018 10:46 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

If fit, big if...maybe it's time for SOB to move to 8 to get our best players on the park I think leavy is outstanding and can't be dropped and I also believe we have a better balance in the pack when POM is there Stander is incredibly solid but limited and Conan is failing to push him out although...
by Adetroy
Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

We don't know the situation with POM, SOB, VDF, Leavy and Stander and won't unless they're all fit this Autumn. We also don't know the centre situation. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15 look decided I would be flabbergasted if POM and Stander weren't set in stone from here. I'd also be very surprised if R...
by Adetroy
Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Paedo Teacher #3587762
Replies: 39
Views: 4025

Re: Paedo Teacher #3587762

backrow wrote:It’s weird how this always happens in USA - fit teacher shags lucky bastard.
Plenty of other countries have fit women and presumably fit woman teachers , but they never seem to hit the news re cherry popping
Lucky bastard? It could be a girl.
by Adetroy
Wed Jun 13, 2018 5:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Conan for the last game so. Suggests that CJ has been told to empty the tank.
by Adetroy
Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I thought the midfield will pour both in terms of defence and attack. Obviously RingRose will come in next week but the question is who will he partner?
by Adetroy
Sun Jun 03, 2018 8:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Job Interview: Weaknesses
Replies: 90
Views: 8423

Re: Job Interview: Weaknesses

Actually, the answer you gave is an absolute no-no. It’s regarded as one of those fake weaknesses, which are not really meant as a weakness but actually “look at me I’m amazing”. You need to come up with something which doesn’t sound like a reverse compliment to yourself
by Adetroy
Sun Jun 03, 2018 7:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Franno’s Article in the Sindo today, truly top class.
by Adetroy
Sun Jun 03, 2018 9:08 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Jaysus Earl, Do you have to bite every single time?
by Adetroy
Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

David Humphries Performance against the all Blacks in about 2001/ 2002. It was Richard McCaw’s debut game. We lost, but not after giving them one hell of a rattle in the first half. I think at one stage we were about 18 or 19 points up. Humphries was superb that day, one of the times that he deliver...
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

SOB against France in the WC was pretty special too but I suppose ruined by the indiscretion that partly led to our subsequent demise. Heaslip against France in 09? Sexton against Pumas in 2012 (although I'd accept that being discounted as I discounted Trimble against SA). BOD against France in 200...
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

SOB against France in the WC was pretty special too but I suppose ruined by the indiscretion that partly led to our subsequent demise. Heaslip against France in 09? Sexton against Pumas in 2012 (although I'd accept that being discounted as I discounted Trimble against SA). BOD against France in 200...
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

SOB against France in the WC was pretty special too but I suppose ruined by the indiscretion that partly led to our subsequent demise. Heaslip against France in 09? Sexton against Pumas in 2012 (although I'd accept that being discounted as I discounted Trimble against SA). BOD against France in 200...
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Adetroy wrote:Heaslip against France 2009. His absolute peak as a player
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Heaslip against prices Grayco. His absolute peak as a player
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 01, 2018 8:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Yes, I know some people will not respond, How about the greatest single performance given by an Irish player for Ireland in their entire career? My pick: Andrew Trimble v South Africa 2006.
by Adetroy
Fri Jun 01, 2018 4:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/business/thomond-park-firm-revenues-rise-30-to-26m-846306.html Turnover up 30% at Thomond Park, an operating profit of 234k, not bad at all. Just 11m owed on a 40 million stadium. :lol: Jesus you'll swallow any auld sh i te. A net loss of € 774,000 ! :shoc...
by Adetroy
Thu May 31, 2018 1:41 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Did Keatley ever actually line out for Leinster? If so, probably the first person to play for all four provinces.
by Adetroy
Sun May 27, 2018 2:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Depends on the style of player and how they adapt. Billy V wants to maximize contact, Heaslip made a career out of avoiding it. Heaslip was never injured until the big one they ended his career. Ryan looks like s far cleverer player than POC. He hasn’t even reached his peak potential yet and he’s a...
by Adetroy
Sun May 27, 2018 1:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Depends on the style of player and how they adapt. Billy V wants to maximize contact, Heaslip made a career out of avoiding it. Heaslip was never injured until the big one they ended his career. Ryan looks like s far cleverer player than POC. He hasn’t even reached his peak potential yet and he’s a...
by Adetroy
Wed May 23, 2018 5:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Irish reunification
Replies: 2137
Views: 227452

Re: Irish reunification

Since the GFA the British has accepted that the name of the 26 counties is Ireland.
by Adetroy
Fri May 18, 2018 5:53 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread
Replies: 84737
Views: 4978583

Re: OFFICIAL EU/UK referendum thread

Simply agreeing to any old half-arsed bollocks proposed by Downing Street doesn't constitute being flexible and imaginative. And neither does agreeing to an EU /Irish land grab. English and having problems with a land grab :lol: Not one of his specialist subjects in fairness. ;) I'd struggle to sep...
by Adetroy
Mon May 14, 2018 10:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158216
Views: 9098814

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Headline in an article written by Ree Moog in the Telegraph “If the Irish Government obliges us to choose between the Republic and the Union, then we will choose the Union”. The articles behind a pay wall so have no idea what the context is but I can well imagine it would be Along the lines that we ...
by Adetroy
Sun May 13, 2018 9:54 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NTHCSBH Final: Leinster v Racing Official Match Thread
Replies: 720
Views: 37945

Re: NTHCSBH Final: Leinster v Racing Official Match Thread

Finals are rarely great games of rugby and this was no exception. Too tense to really say I enjoyed it, more relief in the end than anything else. Racing are a very good side that will win a Heineken cup in the next few years. Is this the shortest ever thread for a Heineken cup final? Leinster prob...
by Adetroy
Fri May 11, 2018 3:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158216
Views: 9098814

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Anybody got an Irish Times subscription? Noel Whelan appears to have written a stonker of a Brexit article, hopefully somebody can post it here (Not the Brexit Thread as it is full of loons) Thanks in advance!!!!! Here you go : Noel Whelan: Collapse of Brexit talks now the better of two evils Subsc...
by Adetroy
Fri May 11, 2018 2:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 158216
Views: 9098814

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Anybody got an Irish Times subscription? Noel Whelan appears to have written a stonker of a Brexit article, hopefully somebody can post it here (Not the Brexit Thread as it is full of loons) Thanks in advance!!!!!
by Adetroy
Fri May 04, 2018 3:07 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Military History/Pics Thread.
Replies: 2287
Views: 421032

Re: The Military History/Pics Thread.

Finnish troops with anti-tank rifle... https://i.redditmedia.com/utVqVsx33i2ps6ceg7BBRQtp-tkuEt_74kJZQ3-hGQ8.jpg?w=984&s=c14da5c48c59626cb20399be82e1f09c Croatian SS ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Handschar_(1st_Croatian) https://i.redditmedia.com/b13FaFJT...
by Adetroy
Sun Apr 29, 2018 6:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I am just sitting here with a big bowl of popcorn enjoying the action.
by Adetroy
Sun Apr 29, 2018 11:02 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Munster v Ulster
Replies: 272
Views: 23702

Re: Munster v Ulster

That was a shite second half. That is all. Actually you were shite in both halves. One player started from our Hec 15 from last week and you desperately needed a win so put out your ''best''15 Well it wasn't our best 15, but there you go. Best available, but we've plenty of off field problems this ...
by Adetroy
Sun Apr 29, 2018 10:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Warren Gatland or Joe Schmidt to succeed Eddie Jones?
Replies: 69
Views: 6447

Re: Warren Gatland or Joe Schmidt to succeed Eddie Jones?

YOYO wrote:
eldanielfire wrote:Say the Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union ... s-england/
Obviously the NZRFU will have first pick. The RFU looking for the sloppy seconds.
There is no way New Zealand want Gatland.
by Adetroy
Sun Apr 29, 2018 9:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 562338
Views: 32912633

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

If it is Lancaster for the Ulster job It must be a pretty clear indicator that he intends a run at the Irish job when Schmidt leaves after the World Cup. Spend a year at Ulster turning them around and he will become a very strong candidate for the Irish job. There may also have been an element of th...
by Adetroy
Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Repealing the 8th
Replies: 3832
Views: 243982

Re: Repealing the 8th

I hope that any No voters will also be seeking to repeal the 13th ammendment which allows women to travel for abortion. If you believe that abortion is murder (its not) and you idly stand by and watch women travelling to England to get one, you are essentially complicit in what you believe to be th...
by Adetroy
Fri Apr 20, 2018 6:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NTHCSBH Munster v Racing 92, Sun Apr 22nd, KO @ 3:15 GMT
Replies: 679
Views: 28728

Re: NTHCSBH Munster v Racing 92, Sun Apr 22nd, KO @ 3:15 GMT

When was the last time leinster supporters could say that The Munster back three was better? And it is.