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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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Porter, Sheehan, Furlong O’Connell, O’Kelly Ferris, O’Brien, Heaslip Murray, Sexton D’Arcy, O’Driscoll Hickey, Dempsey, Horgan Doubt many will agree with my second row and back three in particular. Last year’s back three probably better overall and I’m sure one of the more recent second row pairing...

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openclashXX wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:11 pm According to Neil Fissler, LRZ has been made offers from 3 different teams to join their summer training squads. Salary would be $900k

What’s that in Welsh tv money?

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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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BOD made his debut on tour against the soon-to-be-RWC-champs Wallabies. Johnny O’Connor in Lansdowne vs the Boks. Doris was MOTM v NZ on his what, 5th or 6th cap? Joey Carberry came off the bench with the game in the balance v NZ and we won. You can’t build every player up slowly, sometimes you just...

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mdaclarke wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:17 pm One way to deal with the free kick for scrum loophole is to make it clear that any team deliberately doing it will be guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct with a resulting penalty and yellow card (2nd offence) red card (3rd offence)

Don’t refs have the option to do that for any free kick offense?

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Ulsters Red Hand wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:25 pm Sectarianism or whatever else aside, we can all agree that Stats is one of the weirdest blokes on here who needs to go get a hobby and probably a girlfriend.

Stats is married with more kids than Charlemagne. The last thing he needs is a girlfriend to take care of on top of all that.

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On the 20 minute card, I think the bunker review is the best solution; no need to stop the game longer than necessary to determine if a card is needed. A tweak I would add is that in games where the TMO isn’t available, ie the level most of us keyboard warriors play/played, the ref should have the d...

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Clear attempt to reduce the number of scrums. 20min red card is new zealand thuggery Make all scrum offences free kicks would be better than the no more scrum from free kick off the scrum option. Ie prevent the large uncertainty of accuracy at scrum penalties leading directly to 3 points. This. Any...

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Ghost-Of-Nepia wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:52 am Thought this thread was about Karl Wallinger dying.

This is the first I heard! RIP, World Party had some decent tunes in the 90s.

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Gatland first took the Wales job 17 years ago.

He does have the flexibility of a few championships to his name, which probably earns him a bit more benefit-of-the-doubt than Toonie.

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