Babbling 'brook

bank holiday weekend helps too, I think. Munsters' legendary travelling fans helped increase the heineken cup profile & prestige in the early days but this croke park sell out brings it to a new level. 200,000 tickets sold over just three games, within three weeks, to watch Leinster play sets a...

Great pub despite all the shite talked about it. Because of I remember it being always a huge deal and a mark of serious one-upmanship, if, while underage, you could get served after a Junior or Senior Cup match. While most of us managed it by 6th year, true bragging rights accrued to anyone who su...

by a country mile, I reckon. I suspect our team management have "budgeted in" the munster clashes at Aviva in URC now, when doing financial projections for the next year, but, the home fixture setup for the champions cup is so lucrative now, certainly this year, it's incredible. I should ...

Sorry disagree with the views on selection McKee is only back from a long term injury and in the same manner as Milne is being brought back slowly, I don’t disagree that Barron following his poor showing in SA last season has seriously upped his game this season and is a great headache to have 4 st...

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James Ryan "touch and go" for the Northampton semi, according to himself.

LeinsterLeader wrote: ↑April 19th, 2024, 11:07 am

MylesNaGapoleen wrote: ↑April 19th, 2024, 11:02 am

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑April 19th, 2024, 10:39 am 65k tickets sold

Jayzis!
that's 150k tickets sold for leinster games in under a month.
that's amazing.

The IRFU.......... were did it all go wrong

Priceless!!!

MylesNaGapoleen wrote: ↑April 19th, 2024, 11:02 am

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑April 19th, 2024, 10:39 am 65k tickets sold

Jayzis!
that's 150k tickets sold for leinster games in under a month.
that's amazing.

Yes, but is this much success for Leinster bad for Irish rugby?

Jack Boyle rumour now on twitter Courtesy of windbag Jim Demps, self-proclaimed "Munster and Emirates Lions Fan", who's never off the42 rugby comments section. He's just blowing his own trumpet and building his "brand" as ever. Yawn.......... :roll: there may be legs to this yet...

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑April 19th, 2024, 10:17 am Jack Boyle rumour now on twitter

Courtesy of windbag Jim Demps, self-proclaimed "Munster and Emirates Lions Fan", who's never off the42 rugby comments section. He's just blowing his own trumpet and building his "brand" as ever. Yawn..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzGjdI_JlWA Worth a watch, from Michael Cheka. The difference in what he says – they're where we want to be, let's get there – and what you hear at the moment from whingers left, right and centre is stark. Great vid. Cheiks needs to brush up on his Irish history thou...

Observingprop123 wrote: ↑April 19th, 2024, 8:37 am Would be great to have him back for the end of the season. Especially as he has a point to prove.

And he'd be relatively fresh!

Nope - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpc8zsEunQ And it even pertains! Yer man, who only got to make a record, cos his ol' fella owned Motown Records (or circumstances to that effect) That was Rockwell - and thanks to the Michael Jackson sung chorus, his big (only) hit 'Somebody's watching me' is...

The best rumour song ever - courtesy of the delectable Bananarama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-DZQ80vEVI Nope - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpc8zsEunQ And it even pertains! Yer man, who only got to make a record, cos his ol' fella owned Motown Records (or circumstances to that effect) ov...

The best rumour song ever - courtesy of the delectable Bananarama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-DZQ80vEVI

I can't see LAR anymore in my rearview mirror for all the dust. Enough already. We've got a tricky URC quickening to navigate, a Euro semi vs Northampton in Jones' Road and, if we win that, a possible Mother of All Finals vs Dupont, Ntamack and the rest of the Toulouse garcons in London.

Priceless stuff. Leinster replace Ngatai with Barrett so.... Waterfordlad I've been a member of Irish Rugby Supporters Club since 2008, mainly for access to tickets/events. No more, I'm done. The power of one. It's a small thing at 50 euros a year but I'm quitting on principle. I'll still support M...

Wonder will Murphy stay on in any capacity if true or head back to the U20s? He's too good to be bumped around as IRFUs supply teacher. I couldn't see him at this point being interested in any role that isn't Head Coach - he has more coaching experience than Payne. The two of them together? Mightn'...

ronk wrote: ↑April 17th, 2024, 10:25 am Whatever happened to the needing-to-do-the-right-thing-for-my-family trope?

It's a nice statement. Positive about Leinster and Bath.

Sure was. Fair play to Ross and here's wishing him all the best at Bath.

by Colmodon Agree with this. Jackman was talking about the potential Jordie signing on the 42 and said he thought other provinces need more budget. In principle I don't really disagree, but I just don't really understand what they would do with that budget? What does another million get for Ulster ...

I remember being very impressed by a story I read in the press about Anthony Foley during the season he'd taken over at Munster, after Rob Penny got the heave-ho. At the time the Reds weren't getting the desired results and the faithful were making their dissatisfaction increasingly known. Part of t...