Babbling 'brook

Best Tweet I've seen so far
"Financed by all the tickets bought for last Saturday's game by Cork based La Rochelle fans."

La R are the best team in Europe. 3 Finals on the bounce. Back-to-back wins would be epic. It'll be close - real close - but I have La R by less than 6. No shame in losing to this team. The problem is, if Leinster lose, there's nothing to play for next week. 80% of the games Leinster play week on w...

Won't be in this life. Foolishly thought that giving her a premium level seat for clermont v toulon the following day would get me off the hook Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk Watching Toulon win anything is a cruel punishment for anyone who likes rugby I actually miss that Toulon side. It's ni...

Ten years to the day we won the Challenge Cup at the RDS. Seems like a lifetime away, the team that day: LEINSTER SCORERS: I. Madigan (1 try), S. Cronin (1 try), R. Kearney (1 try), C. Healy (1 try), J. Sexton (4 conversions and 2 penalties) STADE FRANCAIS SCORERS: J. Sinzelle (1 try), J. Plisson (...

That's 2 seasons in a row we have thrown away a home Final by playing the B team in the semi.

cormac wrote: ↑May 12th, 2023, 12:15 pm Joey Carbery must have seriously pissed off someone down south

Got married on Tuesday,up in Dublin, so I'm not sure how much focus he had on Saturday's game.

That is a weakened team no doubt.
3 +1 on the bench likely starters for next week.
Then again, a bunch of lads with a chance to impress.

DHL Stormers: 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Angelo Davids, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Leolin Zas, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Hacjivah Dayimani, 6 Willie Engelbrecht, 5 Ruben van Heerden, 4 Ben-Jason Dixon, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Joseph Dweba, 1 Steven Kitshoff (captain). Rep...

I'd say I wasn't alone in the great days of 2018 thinking that with the arrival of JLo and the emergence of Larmour it was the end of the road for DK and the like. He was yesterdays man, time to head west. But he recovered from his injuries and in 2018-19 scored 6 tries, followed by 12 the next seas...

Stormers have already shifted 35,000 tickets for the Connacht game, (which they had not expected to play at home), 5 days after having 45,000 in the the same stadium. Getting tired of watching their team win the Stormers fans are not. Tickets start at €3.80, and the most expensive ones are <€19. E1...

Massive credit to Munster, their away form has been pretty spectacular in recent weeks. They were all high pressure games too against quality opposition, which makes it more impressive. It'll be interesting to see how they get on this weekend. Blow smoke up their arse? Great idea Keith, they love t...

WalesOnline Comparisons to the Irish teams as ususal United Rugby Championship boss Martin Anayi insists Wales' four regions can be competitive over the coming seasons despite their playing budgets dropping to as low as £4.5million. The game in Wales is in a parlous state with player wages getting a...

cormac wrote: ↑May 11th, 2023, 8:52 pm Nick McCarthy has been called up to a USA training squad

https://eagles.rugby/news/usa-mens-eagl ... ed-2023511

That's Grrrrrrrreeeeaaaaaat!

Dave Cahill wrote: ↑May 11th, 2023, 8:33 pm Nick McCarthy named in the "USA Eagles 2023 Player Pool"

Good for him.

Stormers have already shifted 35,000 tickets for the Connacht game, (which they had not expected to play at home), 5 days after having 45,000 in the the same stadium.
Getting tired of watching their team win the Stormers fans are not.

Ruckedtobits wrote: ↑May 10th, 2023, 10:58 pm

Xanthippe wrote: ↑May 10th, 2023, 10:17 pm Really disappointed that Hollie Davidson didn’t make it - thought she definitely deserved to be there

+1
She certainly deserved at least an AR appointment.

"at least " Interesting. Has she even had a Teir 1 appointment yet?

Blue Man wrote: ↑May 10th, 2023, 10:30 pm The optics are ridiculous. It’s a crazy appointment (again!)

In our last 11 games against Munster (incl this saturday) the ref has been from the Munster Branch on 7 of those occasions.

the spoofer wrote: ↑May 10th, 2023, 9:18 am

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑May 10th, 2023, 8:47 am Frank Murphy reffing the semi final.

That makes no sense.

Well games against Munster usually have a Munster branch ref.

I never played pro rugby, well it wasn't invented in my day, and the height of my career was 3rdB. I have been a fan of the game for over 50 yrs and in my opinion Coughlan is one of the best experts on TV. She is particularly good when co-commentating a match when her insight is usually very shrewd...

Grafting on a quarter-final stage to a league is one step too f*cking far. Really don't like it. There was a lot of criticism of the European Cup schedule for taking four rounds of pool games to eliminate eight teams out of twenty-four. The URC has taken eighteen rounds of games to eliminate eight ...