Babbling 'brook

Blaming religion is lazy. Right now religion is copping the blame for what happened in Tuam and elsewhere. However scratch the surface a little. Who for example decided, in their wisdom, that women pledged to a celibate life were the ideal candidates to take in pregnant mothers and then basically t...

What the dickens?

We have an increasing HIV issue in this country that has nothing to do with religion. Point being? Yes, but if they also stuck to the rule banning extra-marital sex, there wouldn't be the same problem. People can't pick and choose which rules to follow and which to ignore, and then blame the Church...

things would be just as bad without religion. Nonsense. When you indoctrinate children from a young age to blindly believe the kind of things that religions teach you're inevitably going to have a much more inhumane society than you otherwise would. I'm not saying religion is the only way that can ...

ichabodscrane wrote: We could do with taking a leaf outta England's book when we go down to NZ. No Fear!

Didn't we do the exact same thing in the first test the last time we toured there? What will be interesting to see is whether England can back it up in the next game.

The pub is now illegally encroaching on another premises but the authorities are somehow blind to it. I'd say you're fierce craic to go for a pint with! You do realise I was making a joke about Leo's famous ability to lie on the wrong side of the ruck? :lol: Was wondering what the fock you were tal...

No Isa?

And that's why the world would be better off without religion. All of it.

Peg Leg wrote:

sid wrote:Just how big is this place?!

Very big

Fair enough!

Just how big is this place?!

I don't understand how everything wasn't snapped up straight away in the STH presale, but was in the public sale. I'd have thought everyone would have tried to get tickets immediately once the presale opened. It does make sense though; I mean if even a small subset of all STHs bought 4+ tickets in t...

I've been fairly critical of our play this year but I grow more and more confident that our attack will bed down. Had our forwards not got mugged by Northampton we may not have been having this conversation. Toulon are a better team than us but in the actual match a couple of key moments went again...

papachino wrote:What?? Knox was much better than Gaffney... The years Knox was coaching us we played some of our best and most attractive Rugby. Toulouse Leinster 2006 for example, in fact, the whole of the 05-06 season.

And the match after was even be... oh, wait... no...

I was expecting everything to be gone within seconds like it usually is, or to start getting timeouts as soon as the sale started. Didn't have any issues though, surprisingly. Are there many tickets left?

I'd imagine they'll be allocated tickets in each price bracket.

Openside wrote: EUR 4.8 million from marketing rights (RCT branded sportswear and income from the club bars (??)]

Well that's not surprising seeing as all of their gear costs like a bazillion euro...

offshorerules wrote:It's not Friday but....

People who order their sandwiches one filling at a time. (Same applies to people ordering drinks in pubs one at a time).

I bet Matt O'Connor does that.

blockhead wrote: Our fans were a lot louder and had more flags with them when Joe was coach. Says it all really about the MOC regime.

Very good

Oh, on a related subject, did anyone else spot the johng lookalike Ulster fan in the north terrace?

Wow, just wow. Can we play Ulster every week please or, failing that, can they rent out their supporters to all our opposition in future? The atmosphere, from long before the start till well after the final whistle, was amazing - their supporters definitely bring out the best in ours. I can't remem...

Looking for one terrace.