Babbling 'brook

jezzer wrote:

Dave Cahill wrote:TG4 are showing the game live on their YouTube channel

Dave, are you sure it's live? There's a clip on their channel promoting the coverage and it says 21:30, presumably meaning delayed coverage...

Deferred on TV but live on YouTube

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The more I look at the statement, there are only two visible possibilities. Either Leinster have made a major fcuk up, and compounded that fcuk up with awful PR ('no further comment'). Or else Pro14 have made a major fcuk up and Leinster are being passive aggressive with their PR and waiting for th...

Yeah. Don't appear to be any kids' tickets available either so over 200 quid for a family of 4 in the nosebleed seats...

neiliog93 wrote:Is there a chance he'll start Gilroy ahead of Trimble after the former's hat-trick heroics?

11.Gilroy 15.Zebo 14.Earls

23.Trimble

Unlikely given Joe's conservatism but not impossible.

Think you're going to need a full back on the bench if you're starting with any 2 of those 3 wingers.

Any streams for the game?

Zebo for sure. Never thought he would pull it all together. Or at least I thought that if he did, he would lose his magic. Had a great Autumn When Zebo came on the scene I thought he was going to be brilliant. He drifted a bit sideways in his career since then but this season he has been right on t...

Dirk Stickler wrote:Still no sign of highlights of any of the weekend’s games on the Pro12 site or on Youtube. Pish poor.

They were on the BBC site yesterday

If McCloskey has been dropped and Henshaw [Connacht] and Payne [Ulster] are the centres, that's an indication of Leinster bias? What an absolutely batsh*t conclusion.[/quote] Ah settle down. I'm talking about having out of form players such as Madigan and McFadden on the bench instead of in form alt...

Gerry's team has Ferg on the bench. Picking an outside back sub based on his defence is poor. The only positive thing he has done all season was last week, otherwise it is the head down make 2-3 yards stuff. McCloskey out of the 23 entirely so? Hard to argue with accusations of Leinster bias if tha...

Have to say I'm surprised at how quickly people are lining up to sh*t on Madigan. Wasn't too long ago we hammered France in the WC and were singing his praises. Jackson is the better starting 10 but Madigan is can challenge defenses in a way that Jackson probably cant (riskier as that is). Joe's be...

Did Heaslip just Instagram this and then delete it? Think he'd have a bit more cop on. It happened yesterday too. The crowd who do the club videos tweeted a picture of one of the players in the new shirt, then deleted it straight away. A bit careless all round. Carelessness or carefully orchestrate...

LeRouxIsPHat wrote:No Jackson! That the only big omission?

Is he injured? Seems very odd otherwise

Pat Grace making a comeback?

Just hope they hold off till after the world cup before getting rid of PSA...

So - the semi final hasnt sold out. Clearly, winning isnt the only thing fans want. I presume a lot of post 2009 fans want to be entertained. They see it as spending their money on a day/night out to watch Leinster - cant blame them for that. A lot of the rugby this year has been tough to watch. No...

Now I'm worried. Looking at those teams on paper we will be clear favourites, even in Ravenhill, but these interpro's rarely work out that way...

I wonder if they'll accept an AIB Bank Statement or AIB Credit Card bill as proof of address? The Ulster Bank won't accept any statement, bill, letter they sent to me - apparently it's 'policy' that they are not allowed to accept a letter they sent to me as proof of my address - how exactly do they...

Possibly the worst result for the sport/competition in terms of the finalists we've ended up with. No one has a devine right to a final spot but you're not going to get a lot of neutrals tuning in for Sarries V Toulon. Agreed. Hard to cheer either of those two. All we can hope for is a scoreless dr...

Gerry Thornley says "Seminal story of mercurial Sexton exposes penny-wise but pound-foolish Leinster" about a decision that was entirely out of Leinsters hands and was made by the IRFU. He then goes on to say "Unlucky Munster; Once again Munster have been cursed with the draw" w...