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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Also, re Beirne, I will never shake the gut feeling that he is too loose a second row to be a starter when we're up against the bigger packs. Especially when we are playing a 6 who is not a conclusive tackler. And an eight, and seven, both of whom are voracious tacklers in terms of quantities, but ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banksy's anonymity
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2306
Re: Banksy's anonymity
It was deduced several years ago who it was.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?
And they published his name.
And nobody gave a sh1t
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wales Vs France • Official 6Nations Match Thread • 10/03/2024
- Replies: 520
- Views: 13569
Re: Wales Vs France • Official 6Nations Match Thread • 10/03/2024
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wales Vs France • Official 6Nations Match Thread • 10/03/2024
- Replies: 520
- Views: 13569
Re: Wales Vs France • Official 6Nations Match Thread • 10/03/2024
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)
Including Wales at the 70 minute mark.
(That burning of a massive overlap should be a capital offence)
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 46164
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 46164
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 46164
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 46164
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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 ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
POM in the post-match interview, I thoughtMr. 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.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U20 6 Nations 2024
- Replies: 1172
- Views: 18494
Re: U20 6 Nations 2024
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.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U20 6 Nations 2024
- Replies: 1172
- Views: 18494
Re: U20 6 Nations 2024
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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U20 6 Nations 2024
- Replies: 1172
- Views: 18494
Re: U20 6 Nations 2024
Let's see how "Ulster-proof" that statement is.
I hope to God it is
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U20 6 Nations 2024
- Replies: 1172
- Views: 18494
Re: U20 6 Nations 2024
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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish rugby thrust into role of pantomime villain: Embrace the Hate
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1376
Re: Irish rugby thrust into role of pantomime villain: Embrace the Hate
God I miss those glorious days!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.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 46164
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
- Replies: 55703
- Views: 9448688
Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
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...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 46164
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
+1redderneck wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:58 amNo, it's not that. It merely reflects the scale of the Wally-sized hole in your life.
All our lives.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
- Replies: 1639
- Views: 46164
Re: The Official and ONLY England v Ireland Match Thread
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’...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Boredies 2024 - Nominations Thread
- Replies: 140
- Views: 18909
Re: Boredies 2024 - Nominations Thread
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...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
His name is Ultan.
Only one place he should be going!
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Reminder: add popcorn to the shopping list...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.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Given how broken the wee lad is, he'd be buried in three different plotslorcanoworms 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
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: A Bit Salty
- Replies: 183
- Views: 11560
Re: A Bit Salty
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...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Irish ☘️ Holidays in July
- Replies: 93
- Views: 1682
Re: Irish ☘️ Holidays in July
Ireland in July (North & South) will probably be a safer place to be than this thread over the next 24 hours
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
- Replies: 528789
- Views: 28850005
Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
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.
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.