Anyway, it's all academic if we don't sort the tactics. fudge all point playing Sexton if he is ordered to kick the leather off the ball. He passed more than he kicked, it's just that try aside, he didn't do either to any great effect. I reckon he kicked a lot more than he does for Leinster. Probab...

If Sexton's general play is going badly, we're f**ked because nothing Rog does will improve on it.

I can understand Kidney's thinking on picking ROG, and I don't out-and-out blame him for doing so; Kidney wasn't to know just how shite ROG would end up playing. But it did kind of ignore the reasons we beat Australia. We beat them with choke tackles in midfield, of which Sexton was a vital part. Wi...

People are quick to forget that sexton played the last 30 minutes of that match with ireland only 5 points down and the game still in the balance. As far as i can recall, Ireland didn't fare any better and were pinned back for the rest of the match. Sexton and Reddan came on after 56 minutes, with ...

I cant be arsed reading the ROG bashing over the last few ages...Safe to day i seriously doubt anyone who is calling him an arrogant,asshole etc etc has ever actually met the man..I have met him on more than one occassion and he was a sound enough bloke like most rugby players..Indeed the vast majo...

redrebel wrote: It dosent have to mean Sexton good=Rog Bad or visa versa..Why cant some of you be satisfied that at the moment we have 2 international standard OH's availible and willing to play for Ireland?

Oh fudge me, I had a flashback to 2002/3 when we used to lose to England for a second there...

Good a place as any to post this;

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... -armstrong

The clue is in the URL.

If Bowe signs for Ulster, their first choice back 3 next season may yet be Trimble, Gilroy, Bowe. Payne? Oh yeah. Forgot him. Remains to be seen what he's like when he comes back, mind. A NIQ back 3 player is a handy player to have. Only if your IQ back 3 players are constantly getting called up fo...

CM11 wrote:

DOB wrote:If Bowe signs for Ulster, their first choice back 3 next season may yet be Trimble, Gilroy, Bowe.

Payne?

Oh yeah. Forgot him. Remains to be seen what he's like when he comes back, mind.

If Bowe signs for Ulster, their first choice back 3 next season may yet be Trimble, Gilroy, Bowe.

So please explain why he is getting shafted. He isn't you moron. He's getting the sack halfway through his second HEC-qualifying season in a row, having finally turned Ulster into a consistent, competitive team, having turned down a chance to ever return to his old day-job to stay on at Ulster for ...

So please explain why he is getting shafted. He isn't you moron. He's getting the sack halfway through his second HEC-qualifying season in a row, having finally turned Ulster into a consistent, competitive team, having turned down a chance to ever return to his old day-job to stay on at Ulster for ...

Hellraiser wrote:I thought this was supposed to be a trolling/shitfighting free thread.

New bored, new laws.

He's not just a specialist place kicker though, he's also a specialist territory kicker - yes Sexton has shown he has that specific ability, but not the same temperament and variation. Sexton should undoubtedly be starting, but ROG's skills are still pretty valuable (Parks who is the same but less ...

Any chance we can agree that Sexton is the future and that ROG is the best backup we have. It seems pointless and crass of people to go on about ROG not having "bottle". There have been many times over the years where he has shown his mettle and it is more of a reflection of posters ignorance to sa...

What do you reckon? Stronger or weaker team now? Probably a bit more solid..hopefully. Makes us stronger in midfield anyway, I think. And no great loss of pace, but a bit more football smarts. If McF has a stormer, you'd hope he'll be kept on and Keet be considered for the back 3. I don't think it ...

Sissyfuss wrote:What do you reckon? Stronger or weaker team now?

Probably a bit more solid..hopefully.

Makes us stronger in midfield anyway, I think. And no great loss of pace, but a bit more football smarts. If McF has a stormer, you'd hope he'll be kept on and Keet be considered for the back 3.

Ah the ladyboys flock to the defence of one of their own. It was a scummy comment and deserves to be called out for what it is. What was scummy about it, exactly? If you need assistance with that, then I can't really help you but for starters, it was crass and uncalled for . Nobody's denying that, ...

Ah the ladyboys flock to the defence of one of their own. It was a scummy comment and deserves to be called out for what it is. fudge me, did you catch something off some young wan in Coppers? It was a joke about a shithole crime hotspot in Limerick and you've taken it out of context as a personal ...

It was a c*nty comment then and it still is now. No it f**king wasn't, stop being so precious. If someone said that about a comparable area in Dublin no one would bat an eyelid. This. Fester and Heller wouldve laughed their holes off if someone had said it about Ballymun or Tallaght. Probably would...

Keet is a dad?! :shock: The boy who couldn't find his toy cuddly lion.... (Ella May is quite a country name, but quite sweet all the same) ''As if he hasn’t enough on his mind, Earls became a father last week when his partner, Edel, gave birth to their first child, Ella May, due to which he was una...

But not as recent as Sexton... :uhoh: Sexton doesn't cover 13 though and that's what needs covering. Whoever we put there will be dodgy. Trimble is used to the shooter role playing for Ulster. Is the Times reporting it as given or just their opinion? It's the Times, so the report could easily be fr...

No mention of injury. There was talk of him being unavailable in training becuase he's had a kid. [s]You're shit stirring and you know it. See Buck's posts which make it clear that there was an injury concern.[/s] Fair enough. Press release says "personal reasons" but Buck did say there was an inju...

Earls child is apparently unwell, so I think any speculation that he has been dropped can end now. Very worried about our backline. McFaddens defence in the Scotland game pre World Cup was poor, he has yet to deliver an outstanding game for Leinster in the HEC in the centre be in 12 or 13. Kearneys...

http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/sixnations/2012/0203/earlsk.html Keet out, McFadden in. OOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhh. I like McFadden big job for him though. What you reckon? Still a brutal centre partnership but at least it explains why D'Arcy was picked to start. No it doesn't. If McFadden was rated better...

The more I read, particularly on MF's, the more likely its looking that Bowe will be off to Ulster. It makes sense too with Downey and Laulala joining. Oh well! Odd that he would join Ulster with the head coach for next season still up in the air. I'm sure Humph has told him Mallett/White/Rassie Er...

The more I read, particularly on MF's, the more likely its looking that Bowe will be off to Ulster. It makes sense too with Downey and Laulala joining. Oh well! Odd that he would join Ulster with the head coach for next season still up in the air. I'm sure Humph has told him Mallett/White/Rassie Er...

Seriously? He isn't exactly the ideal man to allow to take this week off training and still start on Sunday. Seriously. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0202/1224311111099.html It also doesn't really dovetail with Deccie saying that Keet has trained really well in the camp, though tha...

Mentioned a few pages back. Might have been why Buck said there was doubt over the centres for the game on Sunday No - that wasnt the reason. I am still hearing talk over his fitness however. You might still see McFadden playing and Kearney moving up to the bench. Said in the paper yesterday or the...

I'm surprised no one else noticed this: IT IS always an interesting adventure to peek in at an Irish squad training session in the week leading up to the first Six Nations Championship match of the season. So it was that a familiar figure, although not one of Declan Kidney’s assembly, was standing ...

Me, I think he's Eddie mk II, who got a little more luck in the 09 6N, and has been riding it ever since. Nonsense. You'd be defending him to the hilt like you did with Eddie all the way up to the RWC07 fiasco. That's a slight misrepresentation of my position on EOS, but it's become the accepted ve...

We desperately need a new coach. Not because Kidney is a poor one - of course he's not , he doesn't deserve as much stick as he gets by some of the mongs on here - but we need someone in who has no ties at all to Irish rugby and brings a new dimension to the side. Just look at the TOL situation, or...