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Luckycharmer

I think it has gone a bit under the radar but Harry was very, very good on Friday. I think he's every chance of starting this coming weekend. He really has been wrecked by injury. Yeah that was the first time he’s really take a game by the scruff and lived up to the hype. Now the whole team were co...

Luckycharmer

U18s got thumped by France. They usually do at that level but 50 - 7 was bad. I watched it but it was wave after wave of French attack. Ireland never got into it. France looked like an U20 side, they very well drilled. Yep watched it really was a hosing no one stood out for Ireland, Gibson the wing...

Luckycharmer

Shame ulster have stopped playing this 2nd half, need to stop kicking ball away

Luckycharmer

Very gritty performance from Ulster, hope they hang on

Luckycharmer

How good was Larmour tonight?

Luckycharmer

Trostan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:40 pm
nardol wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:04 pm Rob Russell a big weakness in this team
What!

Between Floppy and Nardol not sure who knows less about rugby

Luckycharmer

Also Turner is turning into a very good player.

Luckycharmer

Great match that I was worried about this game. I presume Larmour is getting as much praise as abuse he got in recent weeks, maybe scrumhalf should be his alternate cover position. Russell was very good too proper pace. Great cameo by milne did his main job and lovely draw and pass for try. Think Ha...

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(15-9) Mike Lowry, Rob Baloucoune, James Hume, Stuart McCloskey, Ethan McIlroy, Nathan Doak, John Cooney; (1-8) Steven Kitshoff, Rob Herring(C), Tom O’Toole, Harry Sheridan, Kieran Treadwell, Matty Rea, David McCann, Nick Timoney. Replacements: Tom Stewart, Andrew Warwick, Scott Wilson, Cormac Izuc...

Luckycharmer

Bulls to play Leinster: 15 Willie Le Roux, 14 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 Canan Moodie, 12 David Kriel, 11 Devon Williams, 10 Johan Goosen, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Marcell Coetzee (co-captain), 7 Elrigh Louw, 6 Marco van Staden, 5 Ruan Nortje (co-captain), 4 Ruan Vermaak, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Akker van der Merwe, ...

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https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/leinster-rugby/hes-certainly-big-and-powerful-leo-cullen-asked-about-leinster-link-with-tongan-thor-taniela-tupou/a1056715651.html While I'd love to see Tupou play for Leinster, I'm not sure it's in the best interests of Irish rugby. Surely at this stage he'd be...

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On the molecast they were talking about the Aviva not being available for a significant period next season and suggested maybe the IRFU could be looking at building the stand at the Havelock end. I imagine they were taking the p*ss as they would need planning permission etc and we would have all he...

Luckycharmer

Evan Moynihan at u19 level is a big talent who could end up at 12 or 13. Is the talent big, or the lad? talent is big, physically he isnt small or big. He is about 6ft 2, stocky quick with good ball skills. I have hear a bit mein fein but that could be down to being a big fish in a small pond. Coon...

Luckycharmer

no idea.. Strange. Maybe picked up a slight knock in training. Tiny bit stronger than I would have expected but I suppose players will need this game back under their belts before next weekend. Should be a cracker. Harry over Ross is interesting. Not a huge surprise but is probably an indicator of ...

Luckycharmer

I played a vets game a few years ago out in Mary's as one team was short. Craziest game I ever played. Think it finished 1-0. Defences were so good but also lads weren't able to break like they used to (if they ever could, unlike myself). Since giving up the real thing two years ago I do a bit of t...

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Ireland U19 Squad (v France U19s, April 2024) Prop Billy Bohan (Newbridge College/Leinster Rugby) Emmett Calvey (Shannon RFC/Munster Rugby) Alex Mullan (Blackrock College RFC/Leinster Rugby) Niall Smyth (Blackrock College/Leinster Rugby) Hooker Henry Walker (QUB RFC/Ulster Rugby) Mikey Yarr (Lansdo...

Luckycharmer

Good stuff, well done. Good craic I assume? What's the level like? Great Craic, we had a mixed blitz Friday night so met loads of the English/Welsh lads. Tournie on v early sat morning 2 Irish teams teams, 2 from Bath, team of true Northerners from wigan/Leeds proper RL lads, than a team from Londo...

Luckycharmer

Good stuff, well done. Good craic I assume? What's the level like? Great Craic, we had a mixed blitz Friday night so met loads of the English/Welsh lads. Tournie on v early sat morning 2 Irish teams teams, 2 from Bath, team of true Northerners from wigan/Leeds proper RL lads, than a team from Londo...

Luckycharmer

Captained winning team, finally playing against my own age group.God I am old!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51lr580jg0o.amp Good stuff, well done. Good craic I assume? What's the level like? Great Craic, we had a mixed blitz Friday night so met loads of the English/Welsh lads. Tournie on v...

Luckycharmer

Captained winning team, finally playing against my own age group.God I am old!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51lr580jg0o.amp

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Leinster Academy/Sub-Academy activity at the weekend: LH Prop Jack Boyle (21/St. Michaels/UCD) - injured. Paddy McCarthy (20/Blackrock/DUFC) - started at 1 for Trinity, 1 try. -- Alex Usanov (Belvedere/Clontarf/U19) Ben Howard (St. Michaels/Terenure/U20) Tom O'Riordan (Blackrock/UCD/U20) - bench fo...

Luckycharmer

I was in Bath for the w/end, it is the most proper rugby city I have been to. It is a beautiful city, very posh with the Rec right in the centre of it. Because the Rec is actually on common ground you can actually walk onto the pitch up to 3 hours before the game. Bath were playing Sale yesterday s...

Luckycharmer

I was in Bath for the w/end, it is the most proper rugby city I have been to. It is a beautiful city, very posh with the Rec right in the centre of it. Because the Rec is actually on common ground you can actually walk onto the pitch up to 3 hours before the game. Bath were playing Sale yesterday so...

Luckycharmer

It’s 100 mostly motorway miles from Ravenhill to the Aviva. Hardly insurmountable for a couple of games. If Earl wasn't so hysterical about it, he'd have a valid point. It is inconvenient and ideally these games are on Sat afternoons to give the best chance for everyone to make the game and not hav...

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Your posts suggests otherwise. It's hilarious you manage to both give out about conservative selection while bemoaning an established player losing his place to a young player. Hypocrisy much? My post was about poor selections. Sheehan, Furlong, Doris, POM to name but a few have had a few low key g...

Luckycharmer

FFS. The amount of hand wringing going on here is unbelieveable. My old man, god rest him, never missed a home international in more than 40 years. Went religiously with his three best mates .. I was in the ground , with my own pals, for the triple ground win in 1983 . I went looking for my dad nea...

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15. Henry McErlean (1) 14. Aitzol King (1) 13. Liam Turner (25) 12. Ben Brownlee (6) 11. Andrew Osborne (0) 10. Sam Prendergast (12) 9. Fintan Gunne (1) 1. Michael Milne (33) 2. Gus McCarthy (0) 3. Michael Ala’alatoa (60) 4. Brian Deeny (16) 5. Jason Jenkins (31) 6. Diarmuid Mangan (0) 7. Will Conn...

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15. Henry McErlean (1) 14. Aitzol King (1) 13. Liam Turner (25) 12. Ben Brownlee (6) 11. Andrew Osborne (0) 10. Sam Prendergast (12) 9. Fintan Gunne (1) 1. Michael Milne (33) 2. Gus McCarthy (0) 3. Michael Ala’alatoa (60) 4. Brian Deeny (16) 5. Jason Jenkins (31) 6. Diarmuid Mangan (0) 7. Will Conn...

Luckycharmer

FFS. The amount of hand wringing going on here is unbelieveable. My old man, god rest him, never missed a home international in more than 40 years. Went religiously with his three best mates .. I was in the ground , with my own pals, for the triple ground win in 1983 . I went looking for my dad nea...

Luckycharmer

Missed tackle percentages are meaningless without context, were the tackles he missed because he was left 2 on 1 trying to cover 2 players or was he flying up to stop a move behind the gainline and therefore him missing but turning the man inside is the point of the defensive system etc. And even i...

Luckycharmer

I think LC is one of those ones that wanted him dropped in 2018 (so Larmour could come in of course, no coincidence there) because the fact he kept scoring intercepts was was apparently because he was a bad defender (talking about you Luke Fitzgerald) and not because he went defended narrow and he ...

Luckycharmer

I wholeheartedly disagree with this and it ignores that Stockdale has missed so much time injured. Stockdale's defence has improved from when he first played for Ireland, that is without question and it was never as bad as is made out. Lowe came into the team when Stockdale was injured, once Stockd...

Luckycharmer

We do do wingers. At their peaks Earls, Bowe and Trimble were all plenty quick (certainly much quicker than Lowe). Before that Hickie Stockdale was very quick pre injury (and I'd suggest he's still quicker than Lowe now), Baloucoune is lightning, JOB is quick, Larmour is quick. In recent years u20s...

Luckycharmer

In terms of pace for Ireland, our first choice team post 6N will have Baird, Ringrose and Hansen in it. Already a big pace increase there. As a general rule, as discussed before, we just don't do wingers. You'd hope there's a bit going on in the background to address this but it's hard as invariabl...

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New season of Full swing so far is much better than Season 1. Bit like Drive to survive the big boys are much involved in Season 2. It also includes the Liv guys and is showing some pro's properly struggling mainly Ricky Fowler (only 2 episodes in). Had an interview with his wife and I recognised he...

Luckycharmer

In terms of pace for Ireland, our first choice team post 6N will have Baird, Ringrose and Hansen in it. Already a big pace increase there. As a general rule, as discussed before, we just don't do wingers. You'd hope there's a bit going on in the background to address this but it's hard as invariabl...

Luckycharmer

What do you mean? He’s basically vocalising what everyone on here thinks - that you know fudge all about rugby and it’s embarrassing when you share your brain dead opinions. In this scenario, you’ve said some players lacking pace need to be replaced. He’s asking you what pacy players we have lined ...

Luckycharmer

Team needs a refresh post 6Nations. Some players lacking pace/over aged need to be thanked for their service. Certain forwards lacking impact and power at the top end need to up their form. Name me all these superfast players who are capable of playing international rugby that we should be bringing...

Luckycharmer

Haven't seen it mentioned much but we badly lost the kicking game, nearly all their kicks were arriving man and ball. They were putting alot more pressure on our kickers than we were on theirs which led to short missed touch by Lowe and some other wayward kicks. It reminded me of the time when we we...

Luckycharmer

We need to nurture and look after those Edogbo boys We have a 6’ 10” teenager in the U20s There is potential of a monster pack in the future (front row could be a problem) But we need to find pace in the backs that was obvious yesterday The English backs were dynamite Had they been able to hold the...

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