Babbling 'brook

Its a long time since I’ve enjoyed a score as much as that last try. What a mad end to a match, I’d say it was great for neutrals. I’m still pretty down on that performance though, and surprised by the positivity here. I agree there was some really good individual performances. Tadhg looked like his...

Jesus the structure of this competition is so f%~king stupid. So now ourselves & Tigers have to play each other again, and if we win that we’ll likely have a QF against another team we already played? FFS, they had a near perfect competition and they’ve f%~ked it up. I cant decide if they’re mor...

Blue Man wrote:Kelleher had to hold that

Yep, another chance coughed up needlessly. And he gave away the ball with a silly off load about a minute before that.

I’m not picking on Kelleher, the whole squad has been profligate this season and it looks like itll cost us now

It’s very quiet on here when nobody has anything to complain about :lol: There was plenty to complain about I just didnt want to be repeating myself! The second half was definitely better but do you seriously not think we’re wasting chances, kicking good possession away, making a mess of lineouts e...

The bookies had it at -36. They know their stuff!

Could our lineout issues be in part caused by having two tighthead locks in the second row?

Twist wrote:

enby wrote:Ref was sold a pup there by TMO. Yer man was never going to get near Dan

Agreed. He really didnt try.

That said we look blunt inside their 22 yet again

Hmmm

It looks like I’m not going to win the euromillions yet again….

enby wrote:Ref was sold a pup there by TMO. Yer man was never going to get near Dan

Agreed. He really didnt try.

That said we look blunt inside their 22 yet again

I was yelling at the telly for a drop goal during that sustained period of pressure around 72 mins. We were right under the posts, our attack was error-ridden & blunt and Frank was never EVER giving us a penalty. It wouldve been as easy as they get.

Jesus they’re reading our defence so easily. We’ll need to monopolise possession in the second half cos we cant keep them out from medium range Just a small enough thing - right at the end just before Baird played that ball on the ground, was there not an extremely obvious knock on by the jackaling ...

ror wrote:There are serious talks going on with Top Notch second row. Obviously I cant say who,but hopefully we can get this guy across the line...

Well, I guess we know now who it was

I’ll tell you what they had in the 80s; bedsits! You want lower rents? Bring back bedsits by the bundleload. Enough of your dual-aspect, high quality nonsense. I know a lad who can knock ‘em up in a fortnight. We’ll have those 22 year olds paying affordable rents and writing good, miserable music ag...

"Due To" I take issue with. Are you arguing players shouldn't get picked until they reach a certain age? Should you not pick a 20 year old old ahead of a 25 year old even if the former is clearly better? Most great players come through young. Saying he was just back from injury before las...

Bordeaux look very impressive. They’ve a real chance of winning the tournament, imo

Dave Cahill wrote:<pedant> Munster are on three points </pedant>

Ah good for them! That’s a great effort, I’m delighted for them!

offshorerules wrote:

propertymad wrote: ↑December 17th, 2023, 2:32 pm In a real adding of insult to injury, former Leinster lock Jack Dunne has just put Exeter into the lead in Sandy Park

He was clearly delighted, and I was delighted for him.

Edit - Never mind. Dunno what I was thinking.

After seeing the comments here about MF I went for a look. It’s amazing how in their heads we are. This is from the Exeter match thread; “Nucifora/IRFU condemned us to this very scenario. When Munster tried to sign an elite Hooker it was blocked. We were compelled make do with Niall Scannell, an hon...

5-0 in match points which is job done. An optimistic view of this season’s stuttering performances is that we are still winning while playing poorly - and for two seasons in a row we swept all before us (often majestically) and then fell at the final hurdle repeatedly. I’d rather look a bit off dur...

What was the story between JR and the ref?Cahill said he’d been told the referee had told
JR he won’t be speaking with him anymore, but I didn’t spot any precipitating incident?

Ngatai’s injury followed immediately by - I think - a pinch thrown by James Ryan. That could be a costly few minutes. On second viewing, it looked like an open palm actually What’s the Sale 10 doing shushing people? You’re 17 points down, kiddo Mouthy British players. Even when they’re being hammer...