Babbling 'brook

Cheers thanks for the heads up

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I'm looking for 2 tickets in either grandstand or Anglesea for Leinster v Sale Sharks if anyone has anything available

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Well that didn’t take long! Wagner leader Prigozhin was a passenger on a plane that has crashed near Moscow today. Wondered when it would happen? I'd give it 10 mins... The second Wagner plane is only arriving now. Wouldn't be beyond plausible that he plays around with manifests Sent from my LE2123...

So what do people think about Off the ball going behind a paywall? For those that haven't seen it, effectively all long form podcasts will now cost €9.99 per month (or €99.99 per year). Short form podcasts (ie daily updates) will stay free, radio will stay free, and I think the live youtube stream i...

I remember reading before that the reason the rds pitch is so good is specifically because it's being maintained for horses. They have to go down so far to ensure that the impact absorbancy is adequate for horses landing after jumps. In most grass pitches for soccer or rugby they only went down inch...

paddyor wrote:

Ray Donovan wrote: ↑July 27th, 2023, 5:45 pm That seems a small figure for Saracens to be getting from Castore?

Damaged goods after the salary cap breach and spent a season in the championship

And they have no fans...

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It's the closest big stadium for the 2 teams (Twickenham is twice the distance from Bristol that Cardiff is). It'll be a decent payday for the WRU - so the regions benefit from that. Not sure what the fuss is about. The wru are organising a barbarians game too and both are on weekends when the regi...

People should not conflate Nationality, Citizenship(passport) and eligibility to play for an international team. For example, Vakh was a Georgian national when he got his first Leinster contract, he was a Georgian national when that contract was extended and he is a Georgian national now he is leavi...

I think he uses too many words too

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It's the usual scandalised reaction, endemic in Irish outrage culture. It's really not that bad IMO. The bad part is that RTÉ were deceptive. It shouldn't be such a big story though, and wouldn't be in a more sensible country. In a more sensible country there would be proper mechanisms for accounta...

Looking on recommendations for bikes on the bike to work. Something for carrying a retired prop and 20kg+ of kid on a regular school run. Most bikes aren't rated for that weight. With bike to work covering £3k on a cargo bike I've been looking at some of the smaller ones (no trikes or bakfiets). Mi...

That "algorithm" blurb on EPCR website doesn't make alot of sense. "Fixtures will be determined using an algorithm which will take into consideration the pool draws, league calendar restrictions, individual club calendar restrictions and broadcast requirements." The 4 weekends a...

I can't imagine we will do anything other than play in the Aviva. At the most maybe play the Welsh/Italian/Scottish games in the RDS in the remaining 3 stands. As has been said, the capacity of those 3 stands is 13k max. I'd say nearer 12k. Below is a list of this years attendances. So straight away...

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/ ... t-letter/

Johnny Sexton’s World Cup preparation could be impacted as he faces EPCR investigation

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Nucifora had an interesting take on that. "Unless we want to sit back and lose our players elsewhere because other countries can come and pick off our best young players, we have to give them an opportunity to play. We've got a model that is doing so well that we're not going to have room for ...

And again, if you go back to the list of players I posted earlier in response to your comment that there were no surplus players (which was patently wrong given the long list of names), the list is both long and most of them are good provincial players and many were internationals. But is that list...

Our allocation wasn't based on the league, each union was given an allocation as I've said above. The original comp was run by the unions, ie the only people who know how to run a successful cross border tournament. What this did was avoid English sides playing against other English sides and Frenc...

It used to be 6 from the Top14, 6 from the prem and then a certain number of spots were given to each union that made up our league. The prem could be looking at having 80% of their league automatically qualified next season, which is crazy since they were a driving force behind getting our leagues...

Congrats to the prem, they now have over half of their league automatically qualified to the main comp every year, while simultaneously reducing our leagues representation over the years. I get the sentiment but haven't they and the Top14 (and pre-URC Top1X) regularly had over half the league quali...

I haven't seen it mentioned, but I think there was a opinion/belief abound in premiership circles that rwc2015 was going to be rugby coming home, England were more than likely going to win it, the popularity boost would be immense, rugby would be on a new turbo charged trajectory and the dividend to...