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Winnie

Is that unusual? We had Kiwi and Aussie coaches 20+ years ago. Granted, my school had a fair bit of discretionary cash to throw around as they saw fit, and that's at the crux of what enables such good coaching at various Leinster schools. Often guys were playing with a club and coached in school an...

Winnie

The way some of the Ulster lads talk about players from other provinces when they're not in form or fading highlights the problem. AOC was heralded as more Ulster than Leinster when he was putting in a decent shift but as he's faded he's got way more abuse than an Ulster born player would. The iden...

Winnie

I’ve suggested it a lot. I feel we miss out a lot to the likes of the kiwis on this point. Ultimately everything should and has to be about the Irish team. Tell me she was the last time you saw some of the Leinster stars give as emotional a performance as they did on sat in green. I wanted them to ...

Winnie

Ulster may produce schools players, but the pipelines diverge massively after school level, and always have. Decent Ulster schools players often went to England for uni. Lads from Leinster went to UCD and Trinity. Since then, underage coaching and S&C in Leinster have improved enormously, with priv...

Winnie

The way some of the Ulster lads talk about players from other provinces when they're not in form or fading highlights the problem. AOC was heralded as more Ulster than Leinster when he was putting in a decent shift but as he's faded he's got way more abuse than an Ulster born player would. The iden...

Winnie

Ulster may produce schools players, but the pipelines diverge massively after school level, and always have. Decent Ulster schools players often went to England for uni. Lads from Leinster went to UCD and Trinity. Since then, underage coaching and S&C in Leinster have improved enormously, with priv...

Winnie

You know how much funding each irish province gets? You know the finer details of the Thomond financing? You know the split between Leinster's own money with higher gate receipts vs central funding? You know how many games the first teamers miss for Leinster and how that factors into the compensati...

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:07 am So Rory could be off to LIV?

https://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/r ... 54763.html

PGA stabbed him in the back
Wouldn’t blame him to be honest

Winnie

The lads had Piatau and then Kitschoff and they’re playing the poor mouth There was a 5 year gap between Piutau leaving and signing Kitshoff. You’d think you would have been more careful to hold onto Kitschoff so What do you want us to do keep him hostage If he is homesick then no point in him bein...

Winnie

CM11 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:56 am And don't let anyone say we don't take the URC seriously anymore!

It’s alright
Very shortly no one will take the URC seriously
And when they saffers see that it come down to one game v Leinster every year they will fudge off too

Winnie

Munster don't have any problems selling tickets for exhibition matches involving 2nd/3rd choice players (must be really shit players according to this thread). Ulster have a set of outside backs they have continually misused for years. But they've actually started developing more than a couple of g...

Winnie

This is small town thinking. Holding back Leinster won’t help Ulster in the long term Ulster have to look in the mirror and get their house in order You signed a World Cup winning prop that other teams could only dream on and it’s nobody else’s fault that that didn’t work out. Leinster are on the c...

Winnie

Blind arrogance This goes on like this and I guarantee you the game is dead on the island in ten years This is small town thinking. Holding back Leinster won’t help Ulster in the long term Ulster have to look in the mirror and get their house in order You signed a World Cup winning prop that other ...

Winnie

Blind arrogance

This goes on like this and I guarantee you the game is dead on the island in ten years

Winnie

You got a stadium paid for you. You got superstar after superstar for years. Leinster used their first bit of outside investment to develop the best training facilities in Ireland (at the time). Leinster gave you international after international along with a British and Irish Lions. It isn’t Leins...

Winnie

I think this kind of signing isn’t an issue if there a redirection of some younger players to fill problem spots in other provinces. Even as a short term basis. Season long loan for tector up north? Osborne or Boyle head down south. Connacht haemorrhaging players. But every indication suggests this...

Winnie

I think this kind of signing isn’t an issue if there a redirection of some younger players to fill problem spots in other provinces. Even as a short term basis. Season long loan for tector up north? Osborne or Boyle head down south. Connacht haemorrhaging players. But every indication suggests this...

Winnie

Welsh rugby twitter shitting bricks Going to say something I never thought I’d say The Welsh are right The league is a joke Their interest will diminish further Ulster are broke, it’s like Kidderminster harriers trying to compete in the same league as Man City Munster will bankrupt themselves in a ...

Winnie

iarmhiman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:14 pm
Winnie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:05 pm What’s the point in the URC anymore
If Leinster dont win it without losing a game they have underperformed
It's okay we have the saffa teams to test us so we're fine

That’s the spirit
As the game dies on the rest of the island as there is literally no point in playing any longer

Winnie

What’s the point in the URC anymore
If Leinster dont win it without losing a game they have underperformed

Winnie

Frodder wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:57 pm
iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:56 pm
Frodder wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:55 pm

1 league title for the best ever manager
He got 2 with Dortmund as well
OK 1 PL title for the best ever manager

He is up there with Claudio Ranieri for me

Winnie

Klopps end of career world tour is going well
Probably going to finish with the Rumbelows cup or whatever it’s called these days

Winnie

ETH has to be on borrowed time now
United were awful, again

Winnie

That is a fabulous Leinster win
Delighted for them
Sad that we are so far behind that level

Winnie

Is it possible to block posters on this thing? Edit never mind got it, happy days :lol: I do think you need to give Murphy time I quite like the offload game he is trying to play He’s been there about 4 weeks Rome wasn’t built in a day Better teams than us will go to Clermont and get a doing Let’s ...

Winnie

Well

That was chastening

Major work needed in that team
Second row needs surgery
Still think Murphy is the man
There are players out there we need continued better coaching

Winnie

Stewart has been shite

Winnie

Bogbunny wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:58 pm John Barclay is the best of the current northern posse.

Head and shoulders above any other co commentator

Winnie

That’s jenga

Winnie

Two replays of a possible tackle off the ball
No replays of a deliberate knock on

Winnie

Been a very damaging game this for injuries

Winnie

Great Clermont defence but they look out on their feet

Winnie

Good score

Winnie

earl the beaver wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:33 pm
Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:26 pm Clermont are bang average.
They have way more power than us which is the issue

I’m hoping they run out of puff

Winnie

MrJonno wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:22 pm Great kick. If they'd taken their penalties they could have had 6 points by now

Winnie

This crowd are starting to do my tits in

Winnie

If they give that it’s some score

Winnie

French director not showing the deliberate knock on

Winnie

We need to get the next score or it could get ugly

Winnie

Pants down now

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