Babbling 'brook

Mathieu Raynal of France appointed to referee Leinster vs. Northampton in the Champions Cup semi-finals. Scrum penalties for the team going forward. Welcome to reffing pro rugby. Northampton have a weak enough scrum, 4th most penalties conceded in the Prem this season. Looking at their first front ...

There have been a couple of "small" outages in the last couple of weeks, but usually it's fairly stable. That said, there are definitely improvements and upgrades that could and should be made around the place. Thanks for the offer FLIP, but I should have the requisite skills to make any ...

cormac wrote: ↑April 25th, 2024, 11:03 am https://www.planetrugby.com/news/epcr-i ... -off-clash

thanks Cormac. EPCR must be fuming and you're right, if they did change the time it would p1$$ off fans who have already booked.

When I was in Leicester in Jan I got a £2 bus from East Midlands airport to Leicester (about 30k) Now they have rolled them out for longer journeys. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/apr/16/coach-service-offers-journeys-across-the-uk-for-knockdown-price-of-2-each-way It means you don't have t...

https://i.ibb.co/RCjFNQk/image.png strikes calendar for may..includes aircraft refuelling. threat is to keep going to the end of may if they don't get a fair deal. the European finals weekend with FA cup on will be a massive threat to the conservatives in england. here's hoping it doesn't come to t...

As long as that figure is more than zero then it would be a really shitty thing for EPCR to do considering they've been advertising the KO time for several months. fair enough but the police only changed the FA CUP start time a few days ago. as others have mentioned it will impact the TV audience, ...

it's not hate.John. It's schadenfreude. The more the person loves the sound of his own voice and chasing down the media to get in front of a camera, the sweeter the schadenfreude is. Only today, the special one has thrown his hat in the ring to be the next french coach!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: https://...

The quote today about being too big to accept an assistant coach job isn't a particularly good look. He's also speculating publicly about another coach getting sacked, again. That's Priceless! A touch of Alan Partridge thrown in too. The gob on the special one is f**king enormé, to borrow a phrase.

Meh. No interest in wasting energy hating anyone. Or letting them "live rent free in my head" as the saying goes. it's not hate.John. It's schadenfreude. The more the person loves the sound of his own voice and chasing down the media to get in front of a camera, the sweeter the schadenfre...

While I see your point, I would be surprised if there were a lot of fans doing that before they knew who was in the finals. No? As long as that figure is more than zero then it would be a really shitty thing for EPCR to do considering they've been advertising the KO time for several months. fair en...

Moving the kickout time doesn't really benefit a lot other than TV audiences who'd watch both or people looking for a better selection of sports bars It's gonna take up your day if you're going. London can take a few big games and the police were happy for the event to stay the same time. It's not ...

Yeah, just screw over the people who’ve booked flights based on a kick-off time they’ve been advertising for months now. Great strategy. that's a fair point for those flying in and out the same day. it's expensive to do that, at the best of times and not many airlines will offer free cancellation, ...

FA Cup Final is confirmed for a 3pm kick off, currently clashing with the rugby (2:45pm). Apparently the EPCR don't want to move the time as their audience in France is impacted with a later kick off with the French Cup Final PSG v Lyon and the Cannes Film Festival. Police moved forward the FA CUP ...

As an aside, I bumped into one of the ECPR team on a flight from Dublin to Zurich a while back. He is from Cork and commutes regularly to Lausanne. I doubt they knew the FA cup final dates when they announced their European rugby weekend dates. It moves around a lot...usually the last sat in May. Lo...

Seaofblues45 wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2024, 3:44 pm
Any tickets pls

there's a separate thread for tickets. https://leinsterfans.com/forum/viewtopi ... 91#p863725

A lot of the tickets already sold for the Investec final with a 2.45pm kick off stated would be a further issue. Especially with many having travel arrangements booked. While FA CUP Final tickets aren't released until after the semis. yep, it would be disruptive but they don't issue the tickets unt...

FA Cup Final is confirmed for a 3pm kick off, currently clashing with the rugby (2:45pm). Apparently the EPCR don't want to move the time as their audience in France is impacted with a later kick off with the French Cup Final PSG v Lyon and the Cannes Film Festival. Police moved forward the FA CUP ...

shame that there's a clash but I think London can absorb two massive events like this. Let's face it...lots of soccer stadia around London fill out most weekends in London, along with Hyde park concerts etc and it doesn't grind to a halt.

John G has collated the run in very well on the Quickening thread:
https://leinsterfans.com/forum/viewtopi ... 3d7b705304

There’s surely no chance of us flying players out for the second game? I’d have rather expected players to fly home. i would put mostly the same team out next week. give them a chance to redeem themselves, so to speak. flying out a cavalry is not a good idea imo. munsters win almost cancels out the...