Babbling 'brook

The URC needs to sort the level of refereeing quickly. For the biggest attendance of the regular season get the best referee available, someone like Amashukeli. If the IRFU are mandating this game has to have an Irish referee for referee development purposes (& they seem to be) they should rehi...

Why did we kick the ball back to Munster from an attacking lineout on 78 minutes? The same reason all smart teams defending a narrow lead do when nearing the end of the game. It's incredibly difficult to keep the ball for 2 minutes. You're essentially asking the ref to ping you for a sealing off pe...

Ross Byrne is a middling player. Harry likewise .Sorry if my opinion offends you. As I stated I’d keep them around for another 1-2 years until Prendergast is ready to be number 1. Frawley I’d like to see get a shot at 10 aswell and to have those 2 be the long term 10 options for Leinster albeit unl...

Ross Byrne is a middling player. Harry likewise .Sorry if my opinion offends you. As I stated I’d keep them around for another 1-2 years until Prendergast is ready to be number 1. Frawley I’d like to see get a shot at 10 aswell and to have those 2 be the long term 10 options for Leinster albeit unl...

Treadwell showed up well in NZ in 2022. I disagree, everytime I watched him I thought he was terrible, constantly missing tackles but got praised because of "workrate". Treadwell played 33 minutes across all 3 tests. Made 5 tackles and missed 1 so your point on constantly missing tackles ...

I'm delighted to see Ben Murphy starting. Deserved, IMO. Starting Clarkson in a strong team, where the game won't necessarily be decided on scum penos is smart from the coaches. Good luck to Dan Sheehan on his first occasion as captain. That selection doesn't surprise me, as the guy in his media in...

Could be wrong but haven't seen co-captains before, no questions about the personnel though. You are! https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/dewi-lake-and-jac-morgan-named-co-captains-for-wales-2023-world-cup-squad/a1834404700.html https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/arid-41236051.html https:...

He played wing and center in school and they moved him to full back at under 20's. That was driven by Ireland's need to replace an ageing Rob Kearney. Larmour isn't tall enough to play fullback - in that sense he remind me of Jason Robinson playing fullback and getting exposed on height. Think Irel...

2nd week in a row Harry Byrne standing at front of the lineout for the opposition throw. Is that a change in the system or just accomodating individual defensive weakness? He was taken off immediately after Kinghorn stood him up in midfield leading to an embra try. I'm of the opinion this is actual...

I think this thread needs to be titled Nucifora 2: ronk moving the goalposts

In the last 2 seasons I've watched Leinster lose 2 Heineken Cup finals and 2 URC semi finals by a combined total of 6 points.... 3 of those games were 1 point affairs. We have just seen South Africa win their quarter, semi and final by a combined total of 3 points. We can say what we want about thei...

pangurban1 wrote: ↑October 26th, 2023, 4:10 pm I felt he was blown away at at a couple of rucks too.
Guess I am expecting a bit of star quality to early.

By no means a perfect performance for sure. He will take a lot of learnings. But even Doris at that same age was similarly raw and took a while to hit his stride!

Really need to get a win on Saturday to build confidence, bank points and give the supporters a positive first outing. Difficult selection given absence and injuries, particularly in the front row. I’d like to see something like: Boyle, Barron, Mike, Molony, Jenkins, Rhys, Connors, Deegan, Foley, F...

So a 6 day turnaround to the Sharks and McKee looks hamstrung. I'd be shocked to see him this week.

So we are hoping that McCarthy is fit or we genuinely can't fulfil the requirements of a matchday 23!!

McKee and Barron are good quality URC back-ups and may be more as they mature. Both like the scrum and see it as an area of opportunity. That's exactly what we need. Their ball-carrying will improve with exposure. Barron looks like he has acceleration and pace. McKee less so. Both are key ingredien...

Has anyone heard about Kelleher's shoulder. There was a rumour a few weeks back that it didn't fix right after the Six Nations but they were delaying surgery till after the rugby world cup. Doesn't add up to me. We are already extremely light on hooker options. If Leinster knew they were going to l...

Disappointed but not nearly as deflated as previous iterations of quarter final exits. It hurts to have watched Wales and Argentina bumble their way through a mid tier URC standard game in terms of skills and handling and England Fiji play a slightly higher but still not RWC knock out standard of ru...

Still need the last word?? :roll: :roll: Hmm.... EDIT: You edited your post so I'll respond. What is seems to me is you, like the other 10k posts in here are just looking for an argument and a last word. So if you want to keep going have at it. Since you're so keen for a last word then tell me this...

I also agree Doris was excellent. Both things can be true. He played amazingly but had 2 poor moments and I have no doubt he knows it. I thought Keenan, Doris and Ryan had some of their poorer games on reflection. Maybe not overall. But there were big moments that they came off second best with Dor...

Can anybody tell me where I can get a stream / recording of the entire game? YouTube don't have it up and I have no access to RTE Player where I'm located at present. https://yourrugbycatchup.top/index.php/2023/09/23/ireland-vs-south-africa-2023-09-23/ While I have my queries about the website it i...