Babbling 'brook

Rob Baxter If Irish rugby, Leinster and the United Rugby Championship can get their house in order to allow them to invest in players, their programme and their coaches like they do, you have to say, ‘Fair play.’ “My response would be, ‘Let’s not try to say it’s not fair and limit Leinster, let’s lo...

Could just go to 20 central contracts, max 7 per team, minimum 2-3 and tier them so that a gold label player (say Beirne) gets 3 years and a provincial quota alone (say Casey) gets 1-2 year. Or 18 or 16 or whatever That would seem to maximise the negatives of central contracts (centrally funding pl...

Could just go to 20 central contracts, max 7 per team, minimum 2-3 and tier them so that a gold label player (say Beirne) gets 3 years and a provincial quota alone (say Casey) gets 1-2 year.

Or 18 or 16 or whatever

Can’t see much point in that signing at all. We need, in that order, a second row, wing and tighthead. With Henshaw, Ringrose, Osborne, Turner, Frawley, JOB, Keenan and some good academy prospects, I can’t see the point in signing at 12/15. It’s a hell of a lot of money for not much need. However, ...

Can’t see much point in that signing at all. We need, in that order, a second row, wing and tighthead. With Henshaw, Ringrose, Osborne, Turner, Frawley, JOB, Keenan and some good academy prospects, I can’t see the point in signing at 12/15. It’s a hell of a lot of money for not much need. However, ...

Not sure how I feel about this. Electric signing, makes us better, triple-A no debate. Presumably offset by Ngatai leaving - he’s never let us down but fitness killed his time here. Sad to see him go but hardly a massive loss Only 6 months - is ot worth it for all the opprobrium? Presumably means a ...

Delighted for Leo. He’s taken a bit of sh1te for losing 4 games in 2 years but always stayed classy. Small margins, went our way today and we ran away with it. Last couple of defeats to LAR it didn’t and we got pipped at the post. Agree. Think we’d have won anyway but such small margins - Ross goin...

Think it'll be Healy from here

SoupyNorman wrote: ↑April 13th, 2024, 7:09 pm Well done to Ross Byrne. Stood up firmly in defence, took a few late hits and managed the game well without looking to doing anything out of the ordinary.

Targeted with a lot of bullsh!t hardman stuff and never stayed down. Nailed a lot of tricky kicks to set the base. Triple-A performance

No let up - fugging sew it into them

No let up. Foot to the gas

Baird really playing all or nothing with his reputation on taking that on himself

Cheeses of Nazareth wrote: ↑April 13th, 2024, 6:26 pm Thought Jenkins was unlucky to get pinged for one where he turned over the ball and presented it. Think Dickson said he didn’t realise in the tackle but he wasn’t part of it.

Agree - that could have gone our way. Dont think I'd blame JJ there

FFS. Theyve had every point so cheap. Killer. Killer

101% territory and possession, with a wind, and our kicker on a heater, and only 10 points up. LAR probably happier.

This is a huge moment - come on lads

Cant be angry at Karl so far - we've been on his better side

Murdering ourselves for every point and then handing them cheap 3s. Think we'll regret not being far more ahead by now with how game has gone

We can absolutely win this game of course - we’re a fine team and at home. The cumulative gap in the games is basically zero. I’m interested in whether people feel were better worse or on or with last year. A wee dip would be very understandable given change in coaches, Sexton etc. Maybe LAR have di...

This a huge opportunity to get a home semi final by knocking out the holders. If we play with the proper mix of accuracy, power, commitment and common sense, we will win. It is up to how WE prepare and play. Get it right, we win. Get it wrong, we don't. I know we will get it right Where is the idea...

This is a fairly disgraceful performance. We’re miles better than Leicester but are half arsing our way around the pitch. We’re a Henshaw intercept 14 point swing from being in big trouble. Really really shabby stuff