Babbling 'brook

Exeter's tight head prop, Painter, is a big lad!

riocard911 wrote: ↑April 14th, 2024, 3:52 pm HT: 17-16. TV director keeping Toulouse in the game....

Céard a tharla?

Any talk of a citing for Scalvi, for the clear as daylight (what was the TMO doing) punch to the face of Kelleher? That was what enraged larmour I think The ref asked the TMO to check as Kelleher had blood on his nose. We only saw one replay but could see what looked like a punch thrown. He must ha...

Ross Byrne silencing the doubters

That the course I'm taking too, CE - for my blood pressure and sanity: Babbling Brook and the Molecast. The rest of them can jump in the ocean, AFAIC. The BBC Rugby Union Weekly and the Rugby Pod are there if you need a rugby pod fix sans the LAR lovefest, granted from a Premiership perspective. No...

Looked like Healy had cramp. Few more bumps and bruises I reckon. Pre-sale for next week opens at 2pm. Looked like he ended up with a cut from a stray stud. He’ll be grand. Thought he went very well in the scrum actually. Does he need to be seeing more than 10mins a game if he’s locking our set pie...

highlight of the match BTW was just before Coles went off - Healy mullered him in a scrum, slapped him on the back, Coles gave him some verbals and they both bristled and wandered off like two old pack horse props....old school stuff !! Yes I enjoyed that. In sure Healy had a quiet word while patti...

the-goon2 wrote: ↑April 5th, 2024, 2:48 pm I think we missed a trick by not selecting Milne (to 17) or Harry (to start). Very happy with everything else.

J'OB, JmcG, Ringer, JRyan our only major injuries. Jack should be back next week. Could be worse I guess.

Who's JmcG / Jack?

Factoid - Robbie Keane only used the 'boy/childhood dream' line twice, once when he signed for Liverpool, then when he signed for Celtic - which wouldn't be that unusual for an Irish player, most Irish football supporters would support Celtic as, at least, a second team as well as their first choic...

https://m.independent.ie/sport/united-rugby-championship/leinster-ready-to-recall-their-big-guns-to-lock-horns-with-the-bulls/a1937816280.html Sounds like we are brining in the frontliners. Should be a cracker of a game. That headline (and photo) might be a bit misleading. The article adds "Su...

Absolutely. The list is long. Deegan really should be pushing for a Europe spot, based on his performances this season, of which this was again good. You would think we would go 6:2 this week and again against Leicester. Particularly if Frawley is fit. Only two concerns for me: - The lineout. - Ros...

interesting to hear James Tracy call out how dangerous the clear out on Dan Leavy was on the 42 rugby weekly Dan Leavy himself has said it. When I have raised it here, I got criticised for impugning the reputation of Herbst. What surprised me most about the whole saga is that it was hushed up. Ther...

enby wrote: ↑March 15th, 2024, 9:20 pm The English co-commentator is so irritating. Imagine him and Cahill doing a match together. You'd have to deploy the mute button

And throw Jiffy in the mix to make it truly unbearable

Keith wrote: ↑March 14th, 2024, 6:10 pm Please tell me you don't have to make an account to watch it.

I also want to know this.
Maybe someone can cross-post this question in the Schools Rugby thread and report back?

He's retiring from international rugby. Will be playing for Provence in the ProD2 for the next two years.

It is amazing that we could end up with England winning 4 games to our 3 and we still win the championship. This was a scenario they planned for with the introduction of Bonus Points for a no BPs Grand Slam vs 4 wins and 5 BPs e.g. 20 vs 21 tournament points and the team without the GS win, so they...

Thats weird, I get told page doesn't exist at the Domestic tables bit. Must be my server I'm not in Monkstown, I just think it very odd that the Branch is doing nothing to promote one of its main competitions. As for the clubs, I totally agree that they should be doing more to promote themselves in...

Frisch taking a French call up apparently. A big question on how that will effect Munster. This could scupper any planned NIQ signings for next season if the IRFU draw a line on NIQ numbers. Where did that come from? It's fake news. Sure wasn't Antoine dreaming of playing for Ireland since he was a...

sunshiner1 wrote: ↑March 8th, 2024, 8:38 am Rumour that a french team pulled up to Leinsters door with a truckload of cash and asked nicely if Doris was available.

They pulled up to the wrong door so as he's on a central contract.
Would have had be quite the truckload as he has three seasons to go on that contract!

The difference in reaction from Hugh Cahill between Cardiff scoring a try and Leinster scoring a try is kinda hilarious