Babbling 'brook

johng wrote:Amazingly that now means Leinster have more NIQs on their books for next season than Munster.

Kolpak rather than NIQ? (or non kolpak- ya noo wha i meen, like)

I suspect the Flynn try was a later game. I think O'Reilly was retired and was called into the team late because of injury. Basically he was doing the IRFU a favour cos they were too tight to pay for an airfare for a replacement winger. Allegedly he got a fair bit of slagging off during the match t...

One of our greats.

I know. You started with having so many doubts about the team. I've no doubts. I've absolutely no doubt we'll get a big performance and we'll starve them of decent ball. I genuinely don't see this Scotland team beating Ireland. Yeah I've doubts about lots of different elements of it but still think...

It was a really good tactical match up - England performed really well. Great level of intensity and line speed, excellent kicking and smart blocking up of space for us attacking the high ball. We did manage to get some level of control until their 2nd try, but too many players did had a poor day, b...

Seems like an English selection that could really work and cause us problems. They have seriously powerful ball carriers again at 8 & 13, hence Bundee & Henshaw both starting to hopefully counter that threat. On the other hand - what a mix of power/speed/footwork we have 10 - 15, has the mak...

In fairness, Keatley is a decent player and did some really good work for Munster, but shipped some about of sh!t from the brave and the faitfull. He carried himself with class throughout. Good business by Treviso

Oh hell - This Ulster thread has jumped back 12 months! - please, this time in not just Ulster saying NO....

mildlyinterested wrote:laughable time spent covering leinster rugby on off the ball this week.

along with mot rugby podcasts who barely covered it too.

Carbery and Munster are priority.

Better that than talking pure shite about us!

Of course, the UK would become non-Kolpak (and be in a different colour on the map below) in a no deal scenario...but I think that will be on the lower scale of problems. For England, Wales and Scotland it could be a problem. For Ireland, how would NI be counted? The obvious solution would be for t...

Very rough summary

IRFU priorities:
1)Team Ireland
2)Developing young players for team Ireland
3) Keeping the provinces competitive enough to help with no.2

RFU priorities:
1) Keeping club owners happy
2) Keeping club owners happy
3) Developing Players to achieve no.1&2

blockhead wrote:
Zebo's Mum is from Cork, so him and Tom share a 50% cultural history overlap, no?
I'm assuming Tom is;
from Munster, from Cork, White, Male

Overlooking the fact that Simon himself is from Cork

A fully locked Ulster - ie not the ghost of a team that was sent to the RDS - could be a hurdle alright. Seem to be putting the pieces together again

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/travelling-in-the-common-travel-area-if-theres-no-brexit-deal No change according to the British government. Any change would be massively disruptive, there's a huge amount of people in the Republic of Ireland with British citizenship and vice versa. With ...

Yep, we do seem to be misfiring at some level - playing well but not good, while the potential to be great is simmering under the surface. Apart from the usual things (getting a lineout to the screw at a key time, but only to dick the line out), in 2 key games - Toulouse and Munster, we put them und...

mildlyinterested wrote:Franno had a good question in his article; Have Leinster become easy to read?

Maybe..

Same question can be asked about Franno -- different answer

Keep it at four, Leinster, Ulster, South Munster (based in Cork) and North Munster (incorporating Connacht). North Munster to play their home games in Thomond with the occasional game against Zebre or the Dragons in Galway. Already a motorway between Limerick and Galway so happy days. Independent p...

Lads. The Munster team was named nearly 2 hours ago and no one has seen fit to go through it and point out how many players in it were developed outside of Munster. WTF? Are yiz going soft? Finally growing up? Bored with the joke? Say it ain't so. :( We're busy googling to find out where everybody ...

weather wise, its set up for a re-run of last week. Bath will love to get "in our face" again, I fear a game like the Northampton return in '13 (5 years ago! :shock: ). There seems to be some talk seeping out about how last week was a poor team performance, hopefully enough to keep the fir...

Our flags are made by the same company that makes Bath's flags, but are a different model! (Leinster model?)

Is Bruce Craig from Belfast? they are really into their flegs up there