Babbling 'brook

So with VDF out what does the back 5 of the pack look like? A) Ryan, Molony, Baird, Doris, Conan B) Ryan, Molony, Doris, Penny, Conan C) Ryan, Molony, Baird, Penny, Doris D) Ryan, Baird, Doris, Penny, Conan Very hard to know what to do, Jenkins also to throw into the mix in the second row of course....

Saw some tweets saying the quarter will be Friday….

Pretty unfair if that’s the case

Speaking of spoofers…. Conceding 50 in a knockout Heineken cup game is something usually reserved for the scot teams

Anyone else listen to Wednesday night rugby on Newstalk? Bizarrely short on build up to a champions cup weekend even mentioning there being zero buzz about the inter pro element despite then being corrected that it is a sell out. They’re giving huge amounts of air/podcast time to women’s six nation...

With rumours of Ringrose, Keenan and Doris being out are we potentially looking at: 1. Porter 2. Sheehan 3. Furling 4. Ryan 5. JJ 6. Baird 7. VDF 8. Conan 9. JGP 10. Byrne 11. Lowe 12. Frawley 13. Henshaw 14. JOB 15. Larmour 16. McKee 17. Healy 18. AAA 19. Molony 20. Ruddock 21. Penny 22. McGrath 23...

paddyor wrote: ↑March 27th, 2023, 2:11 pm Ringrose should be fine surely? Scotland game is 2 weeks ago.

He has passed his return to play anyway. Whether he will be picked is another thing

Thank goodness Ireland have finished so we can go back to focusing on Leinster again.

Only sexton is the injury concern out of today, but given how he walked around the pitch after he’ll be ok.

Give me a Heineken cup over this any day

Attendance won't be close to a 50/50 split either. There'll be a far bigger Leinster crowd as there was in 2019 for the Ulster knockout game. Well, they made plenty of noise, I remember there were large swathes of Ulster supporters around us; continually standing up with the SUFTUM refrain. Worse t...

Personally, I would rather play any team at home than the 2 Irish teams (particularly Munster). You’d rather play La Rochelle, Toulouse, Saracens, Leicester, Bulls, Stormers? One thing I will say is that Ulster will have a long time to prepare for this game. But they’ll be missing two leaders from ...

I believe it’s a mathematical certainty now we’ll be playing Ulster in the last 16. One leg rather than two unlike previous years. Personally, I would rather play any team at home than the 2 Irish teams (particularly Munster). If Ulster can rediscover form and we come out of the 6 nations with a few...

Back to the rugby….

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hein ... -9fq9khgdv

According to Stuart Barnes if we’d beaten the top team in England away by less and Toulouse had run us closer we’d be considered a great team.

A big chunk of the conversation over on boards.ie at the moment is about whether or not Doris is a top class player. I would have him as the second best back row in the country behind VDF but apparently boards thinks otherwise

Wow the scrum, maul and line out are huge worries

Baird suffered an aggravation to his injury during the week. Not sure if McCarthy would have been picked anyway. Has Leo said this or are you assuming? Inside source, but as I said not sure if it influenced the decision to start McCarthy anyway as Ireland are looking to fast track him into the squad

Baird suffered an aggravation to his injury during the week. Not sure if McCarthy would have been picked anyway. Is TOB selected ahead of Larmour on form? Big call if so, would rather have Larmour coming on if we needed to chase the game. Scrummaging will decide this game, hopefully furlong is out t...

I reckon Tiger might go with 1. Genge, 2. Montoya, 3. Cole 4. Chessum, 5. Wells 6. Liebenberg, 7. Reffell, 8. Wiese 9. Youngs, 10. Ford 12. Scott, 13. Moroni 11. Potter, 14. Ashton, 15. Steward 16. Clare, 17. Whitcombe, 18. Heyes 19. Snyman, 20. Green 21. Van Poortlviet, 22. Burns, 23. Porter No Na...

Fiona Hayes is to listen to on OTB, really struggled to make it through

I reckon Tiger might go with 1. Genge, 2. Montoya, 3. Cole 4. Chessum, 5. Wells 6. Liebenberg, 7. Reffell, 8. Wiese 9. Youngs, 10. Ford 12. Scott, 13. Moroni 11. Potter, 14. Ashton, 15. Steward 16. Clare, 17. Whitcombe, 18. Heyes 19. Snyman, 20. Green 21. Van Poortlviet, 22. Burns, 23. Porter No Na...

Dan suffers the same problem that cronin does (to a much lesser extent). His offerings in open play against tired legs makes it too easy for coaches to leave him on the bench especially when Kelleher is so good in the tight with his defence.

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑April 26th, 2022, 12:58 pm Charlie Sheridan(13) looks an excellent prospect coming through the club system, Tadhg Brophy(9) is an exciting player too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOp6Zg ... ishRugbyTV

Am I the only one read this thinking this was their ages?