Babbling 'brook

Ruaidhri O’Connor: Leinster have become Europe’s big underachievers – they have to win the Champions Cup this year Ruaidri is jsut re-hashing the same oul shite he did last year. Leinter are the best team in the world and if they fail to win everything they are losers. No mention of how good the Fr...

Also turner while smaller than Osborne is built like a tank and has taken every opportunity given to him so far this season. Osborne and turner have been good together and this could give frawley the opp to play fullback if needed Turner has really surprised me this year. Thats on me not him of cou...

artaneboy wrote: ↑March 31st, 2024, 10:28 pm Does anyone on this forum actually know what a straw man argument is? [emoji57]

I do

However I dont know what a tracker mortgage is.

Thought it was a much improved performance against a quality team. Showed some real character in defence, Fowley offered a quality kicking option, and the front five offered real physicality around the pitch. First time I've wathced them since last year and you could see the massive strides they hav...

sunshiner1 wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2024, 12:43 pm Can't believe Prendergast already has 12 caps. Good to see McKee back and hoping for a good game.

And Baron with 15.

curates_egg wrote: ↑March 18th, 2024, 4:38 pm Some tache!

All the more reason to regret not getting Jager, if only for a few games this year

Such a good signing that. Good player - sure. But Ulster having massive outlay on NIQs at LHP and Winger is absolutely mental when they have one and a half No.10s for next season and pretty short on second row talent also They need character more than they need a 10 if you ask me. That dressing roo...

Such a good signing that.

Enforced changes only for me, though I cant see how they maintain the 6-2 if Frawley is actually concussed (still to be confirmed).

hugonaut wrote: ↑March 9th, 2024, 9:35 pm Didn't actually see a replay of Nash getting KO'd. Did he hit his head off the guy's hip or what happened?

Looked like it yeah

hugonaut wrote: ↑March 9th, 2024, 9:35 pm EDIT: And was Frawley a HIA as well?

put in a big defensive hit. may have hit hip or knee. he was knocked from the collision.

propertymad wrote: ↑March 9th, 2024, 7:27 pm That match clearly showed the urgent need to move on from POM and Murray

Though McCarthy was out played, as was Beirne. Sheehan was quiet too. Why not get rid of them too. We coudl probably get rid of some coaches too.

Hippo wrote: ↑March 9th, 2024, 6:44 pm Also not sure why we persist in throwing to the tail occasionally, it always costs us

But the alternative is the sh!t ball we won at the front. Our Maul didnt funciton so we were feeding the backs absolute rubbish. The English really did a number on our lineout, regardless of how many we won.

Can someone explain to me how a team of professionals are so scared to try to hold on to the ball for 90 seconds? We had the ball, we had control, why did we give them a sniff of it? Dont get me wrong, England were the better team and well deserving of the win, but we could have denied them it. Usua...

I would have thought Baird has been banging down the door to start. Any player that comes on and makes that kind of impact (consistently) has to be under consideration. The captain can just move across to 7.

cormac wrote: ↑February 29th, 2024, 8:30 am Is this a record for the longest gap between a post and a reply?

I saw the thread pop up and I was thinking there was no way I wrote that. 10 years ago ................. jesus.

The linesman, the English one, called it immediately.

its really strange to see so much discussion on this one from people knowledgeable of the game. Honestly I thought it was cut and dry. Its a good example of how stupidly complex the game can be.

If you look at the footage from behind the maul, there was two separate changes from him - first he moves his right arm from the original player he was bound to onto the player carrying the ball but keeping his other arm as it was originally bound. It was the second movement where he dropped his le...

Dexter wrote: ↑February 26th, 2024, 9:45 pm I refuse to to engage in any further discussion about the next world cup..until the next world cup.
The SH sides and the Irish media are overly obsessed with the bloody thing IMO...

100%.

CiaranIrl wrote: ↑February 24th, 2024, 9:58 pm So you're saying he can go faster than that, but he decided not to? Sure.

I think he could run faster in that clip, I think he is one of the slowest wingers in the 6 nations, I also agree with you that I wouldnt want any other winger in that slot.