Babbling 'brook

Mostly as expected but Clarkson to start is interesting, and Snyman straight into the starting 15…

Interesting to note that their scrum-half Raffi Quirke qualifies for Ireland next year through an Irish grandparent having been stood down from international duty since 2021. Worth keeping an eye on him.

JohnB wrote:This is another of their favourite tropes that the European Cup was set up for clubs even though it was set up for “representative teams” of the Unions that created the competition.

What’s their gripe here? That provinces have too big of a catchment area or something to be considered a real team?

If there are any tickets going for the North or South stand, I’ll happily take them off your hands.

There’s no mention of Lowe in the injury updates because he’s not injured, we could see him named for this one

The 2 points Frawley missed last year were bad, but no kicker kicks every point, and you have to look at patterns and not individual incidents. He has a low sample size recently as he doesn’t kick that often, but for the record he’s 7 kicks from 8 this season, 5 from 6 last season, that kick against...

Is it basically guaranteed that Frawley gets the 10 jersey for this one now? Harry failed his HIA, can you get back in 6 days within the protocols? Probably means a 6-2 split unless we’re looking to give Prendergast his European debut.

Hang this is the Louvre, what a beautiful image.

Really like what little I’ve seen of him so far. Hope he gets more minutes as he has that dog about him that not many players do.

No timeline for Osbourne, but "having a procedure" probably means a month at least. I honestly can't remember the last time Ross Byrne was injured or unavailable for any extended period of time.

ChrisUppy wrote:

PeteIRL wrote: ↑December 2nd, 2023, 9:32 pm Jack Conan didn't come on, did he?

We once again decide to play 22 vs 23

Connacht didn’t use Michael McDonald on their bench either, so was 22 v 22

I’ve found that printing the tickets gets around the problem of sharing, for now anyway

I actually do pay for Ultimate Rugby (I’m grandfathered onto a very cheap annual sub, might be €10), but don’t trust 90% of what’s in there [emoji85]

artaneboy wrote:Actually Ultimate Rugby had us top of the league on points scored. I don’t do that detailed nerd analysis to know if this is correct.

No analysis needed, Glasgow have one more point than us, so they’re top regardless

In fairness, Zebo got 9 tries in 12 starts in the first season back. If they had left it at that, it would have looked like a genius move.

It’s only last season that he really fell apart, and only managed one try and 240 minutes all season.

No doubt, he'll prove me totally wrong, but I have yet to fully see what other people see in Baird. I haven't been convinced by him either in the row or at 6. I can see he is an incredible athlete, but I have yet to fully understand why a lot of people (including very knowledgeable posters on here)...

Zebo has played 90 minutes of rugby this calendar year, and nothing since March. I don't think he's the kind of player that can hit the game running, but I guess we'll see tomorrow. Overall, it feels like a very strong Leinster team vs a fairly makeshift Munster team. Lots of Munster fans saying tha...

They might as well enjoy it now. They’ll be waiting a decade for another one.

The thing is as well - I feel like South Africa got away with the 7-1 split a couple of times, but I can't point to one game where it really worked well for them to a huge advantage. People cite the pre-WC game in Twickenham, but they were comfortably up by the time they emptied the bench and I thi...

Degz wrote: ↑November 20th, 2023, 1:22 pm I mean, is there no other refs other than Frank focking Murphy???

I think Chris Busby and Andrew Brace would be the other options? For some reason we always use IRFU refs for this game.