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by redderneck
Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

CM11 wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:46 pm
Leinsterman wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:45 pm
Mr. Very Popular wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:44 pm This is all very odd indeed
It's certainly an unusual hill to die on
I really hope he's just laughing his arse off with the fish jumping into his boat as opposed to actually being serious.
It's no fun unless he knows you're busily keeping count Stats.
by redderneck
Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:57 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

There is a sense of the SA-Ire pool match about about yesterdays game. Leinster fans and the media are celebrating like they’ve won the tournament. Toulouse are the team to beat let’s be real. Hold on yesterday Bordeaux were the team to beat. And Northampton were deadly when they won in Limerick. N...
by redderneck
Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Is it possible to block posters on this thing? Edit never mind got it, happy days Here, block me as well while you're at it, cos your comment about Murphy needing to be shown the door is deserving of a far more scathing graphic than a laughing emoji. What has he done to warrant being kept on? Shoul...
by redderneck
Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Ulsters Red Hand wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:39 pm Is it possible to block posters on this thing?

Edit never mind got it, happy days
Here, block me as well while you're at it, cos your comment about Murphy needing to be shown the door is deserving of a far more scathing graphic than a laughing emoji.
by redderneck
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Don't fcuk it up.
by redderneck
Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146254
Views: 7939063

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0412/1443203-jamie-marshall/ This is an unbelievable sentence, WTF. There is something deeply wrong with our judicial system. 133 previous convictions to boot. Will 100% reoffend in 2028. That is shocking. 100% will reoffend. Is there nothing in law to keep someo...
by redderneck
Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Love watching lads rail against the passing of time, refusing to go quietly into that good night. Usually backs, trying to make up for not having done any work when they were young enough for it to matter, now desperately trying to make up for it. Forwards. Have. More. Sense. There's an implicit op...
by redderneck
Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Love watching lads rail against the passing of time, refusing to go quietly into that good night. Usually backs, trying to make up for not having done any work when they were young enough for it to matter, now desperately trying to make up for it. Forwards. Have. More. Sense. There's an implicit opt...
by redderneck
Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:39 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

It's Friday morning lads. By Saturday morning it all counts for nathin' unless the talk has been walked.
by redderneck
Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:10 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146254
Views: 7939063

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

Stop responding.

For the love of God.
by redderneck
Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The wordle thread.
Replies: 4636
Views: 273479

Re: The wordle thread.

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Bleedin' yanks.
by redderneck
Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Jesus Christ there's some wankfest going on in Cark over La RADGEchelle. where are you seeing this ? i think its kinda hilarious ; i'm picturing him strolling around the English market with a very confused looking Atonio, Aldritt etc.....and then Donncha Ryan bringing and even more confused crew ar...
by redderneck
Thu Apr 11, 2024 11:11 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I thought he looked off the pace at the weekend, and the workrate of others around him carried him a little. He managed 5 tackles and 5 carries in an hour, which was an hour where Munster dominated possession. Surely if either of the injured locks were available then Beirne would have been the smar...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:42 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

some interesting rumours going around about POM and Rowntree that was sort of alluded to on OTB on Monday. Has there been a falling out over the contract? thought it notable POM went straight down the tunnel after being taken off on sunday. Munster offered him nothing when he went to them at the en...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

10 You reap what you sow. Munster were way too slow to get their underage system going even when the golden generation was clearly ageing back in the late 2000s. It was always a matter of painting over the cracks since then. I still think there's a lack of common sense within the IRFU. It's good to...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

I was always under the impression that the IRFU was fairly wealthy?? Certainly for a country Ireland's size with Rugby's place in it. It's very easy to blow through cash in sports. IRFU have cash and asset reserves that mean we can weather a fair bit of a storm but we're still reliant on revenue st...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
Replies: 139
Views: 2688

Re: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad

Jtah wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:37 pm
Grandpa wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:05 pm
Well articulated article on how size could destroy the game for everyone but the elite......

Here it is not behind a paywall...

https://archive.ph/7JB4h
Spot on.
Amen
by redderneck
Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad
Replies: 139
Views: 2688

Re: World Rugby to curtail Bok's Bomb Squad

I keep seeing Ross Tucker saying that about the danger of fatigued players but its nonsense because reducing the subs will result in lighter players. If players are becoming fatigued the fitter teams will run rings around them. This isn't rocket science. If anything what we have now is more dangero...
by redderneck
Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Listen to your body
Replies: 122
Views: 2946

Re: Listen to your body

Jesus Winnie. Glad to hear you're on the mend. +1 + another 1 - fcukin hell Winnie....who knew what you'd find out once you move past page 1 of the forum.... take care of yourselves lads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmg86CRBBtw See. Moving past page 1 of the forum is what happens when you've bee...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers
Replies: 425
Views: 5604

Re: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers

Has it been/is it worth pointing out that in Beirne’s 2nd (and final) season as a Scarlet, Leinster won the Champions Cup/Pro12 double? Beating the Scarlets, with Beirne at 8, in the league final? With Beirne-esque lock/blindside Scott Fardy who Beirne could have shadowed and replaced. Which might ...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby
Replies: 146254
Views: 7939063

Re: Rugby NAMA thread Revisited Rugby

off topic but does every restaurant in Dublin city centre now just automatically add a 12.5% tip ? now that i think of it ; booked a place last year for a week in August in Dingle - could only get the same place for 4 night this August - 4 nights this year in August for same week cost slighly more ...
by redderneck
Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:02 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?
Replies: 82
Views: 3582

Re: Whats the wokest thing you ever read?

I remember reading an article about how the real victims of the war in Ukraine were the women who had to leave their homeland and faced sexual harassment. Not the men going to the front line of course… I have heard the real victims of the Ukraine war are the stray dogs. There was some charity campa...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:02 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers
Replies: 425
Views: 5604

Re: Leinster vs Leicester Tigers

He was forwards coach in 2014. Head coach in 2015. Beirne was released in 2016. Obviously he was a player before that as well (same position). Beirne wasn't a nobody. He played 9 times for the u20s for our best underage side ever arguably, in 2012. Leinster, Leinster A, countless training sessions ...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

100% agree with you on Mitchell's impact. Was massive. Saints bench in general brought impact, but his was the game changer. The idea that reducing the numbers on the bench will improve rugby is a joke Yup, it's the old lads that want to seem to slow it down, feck that. Sorry, disagree. Or agree wi...
by redderneck
Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

Finn Smith is a lovely natural 10, loads of teams will be chasing him. Honestly, the second half of that game was about as poor as I've seen him this season. He was saved by Mitchell coming on. Mitchell's speed of feet and accuracy of long pass was what allowed Saints to score the try when they wen...
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Bit disappointed in Munster. Beirne and POM were superb in the forwards, thought Coombes did a great job as well. Ahern and Hodnett were good but probably outmuscled by their opposition. Thought hte backs were a disappointment. Zebo aside, where was the invention? Didn't think Nankivell or Frisch g...
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Bit disappointed in Munster. Beirne and POM were superb in the forwards, thought Coombes did a great job as well. Ahern and Hodnett were good but probably outmuscled by their opposition. Thought hte backs were a disappointment. Zebo aside, where was the invention? Didn't think Nankivell or Frisch g...
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

Ahem. Did Kendellan light things up? Unfair perhaps. Did he have a noticeably positive impact? Had a nice white head band Quelle surprise. Building a pack around his leadership, which we apparently are, is utter fcuking insanity. It is aspiring to climb the dizzying heights of middle of the road.
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

Depth and power up front. Jager and kleyn and actually Barron has been a big loss this year. Another year on and hopefully you have gleeson starting. Need a fast winger. Much will come down to whether we can get any additions at no1 and 2. McCarthy has gas, just not sure he's up to HeC level rugby....
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

If Northampton are the best english side I don't think an English team will be troubling for honours this season They can play better than that - but it's a young side that has improved drastically from last year, when they lost all of their EC pool games - but, yes, it'd be a surprise if they coul...
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

Ahem. Did Kendellan light things up? Unfair perhaps. Did he have a noticeably positive impact?
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

So. Second half mire sapping us as it has in every game this season? Where we bust ourselves in first half, often grinding our scores from multiple phases, then watch as we lose the ability to impose anything, and get sucker punched for scores off far fewer phases? No power up front. No pace behind....
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

Right. I've a hound to walk and a Spotify playlist to crank up.

Hoping for a performance. Have fun all.
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Lads. The poor mouth routine tends to be more effective if it's not being delivered from a position of unrivalled riches.

Preferred the whole effluence schtick. It was honest.
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

Earls, Conway, big losses this year. Kleyn, Edwin, RG Missing these 3 is a huge power hit. No power. No pace. No win. Geriatric Keey and Conway would hardly add pace! No, but losing Nash and Daly is the equivalent, and we've managed to do just that. We're miles off where we need to be. Forced into ...
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

redderneck wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:03 pm
danny_fitz wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:58 am Jesus, this town is a kip.
Oh you poor bastard, you travelled. Im not sure.who I feel more sorry for, you or the team.
Jeffery West shoes. Mad yokes. Great fun. That'd be about the only reason I think I'd head to Northampton for. Worth it just to annoy the Mrs.
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

Fair dues Danny, enjoy, without all the injuries and Snymans latest bug I’d have given us a chance, don’t see it now How many first team players are still out? Snyman, Kleyn, Nash, Daly, Jager (and Ryan), Barron...anyone else? Earls, Conway, big losses this year. Kleyn, Edwin, RG Missing these 3 is...
by redderneck
Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:03 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

danny_fitz wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:58 am Jesus, this town is a kip.
Oh you poor bastard, you travelled. Im not sure.who I feel more sorry for, you or the team.
by redderneck
Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:59 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Northampton v Munster HEC.
Replies: 317
Views: 4656

Re: Northampton v Munster HEC.

lemonhead wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:19 pm Nice.

We're boney boned.
Asbestos buttplug time.
by redderneck
Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Irish Rugby Thread
Replies: 528618
Views: 28808957

Re: The Official Irish Rugby Thread

Mr. Very Popular wrote: Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:14 pm Fair play Leinster, keeping the dream SF in Croker alive....
:lol: