Babbling 'brook

Watching Toulon win anything is a cruel punishment for anyone who likes rugby I actually miss that Toulon side. It's nice to have a "panto villian" and plus a game between this Leinster side and that Toulon team would be pretty incredible. That's us now. Demographics, no salary, cap, not ...

A schools career that began in the backrow had a couple of trips to the second row. I stopped growing at 14 or 15 and moved to the centre, then wing, then full back. I played every position except hooker and scrum half at various stages (one game went to uncontested scrums and I had one scrum at LH ...

9th May 2023 The backs selection seems muddy at this point for Saturday. This is the area of the team I would expect us to be more talented than Munster. However, it's also the area of the team we will absolutely need our front-liners for LAR. The forwards may be more straight-forward. We could go ...

Leinster Rugby (caps in brackets): 15. Jimmy O’Brien (69) 14. Tommy O’Brien (23) 13. Robbie Henshaw (76) 12. Charlie Ngatai (14) 11. Dave Kearney (185) 10. Harry Byrne (50) 9. Luke McGrath (194) CAPTAIN 1. Michael Milne (31) 2. Rónan Kelleher (45) 3. Michael Ala’alatoa (46) 4. Ryan Baird (52) 5. Jas...

1/12 (92.3% win chance) is shorter than 1/10 (90.9% win chance). Sorry, but I believe you are wrong. That is why 100/1 adds are considered 'long-shots'. The bigger the odds the longer they get. 10/1 and 1/10 are two very different bets. The first is quite long odds: a €5 bet would return €55. The s...

Interestingly the odds on Leinster have shortened from 1/12 to 1/10 while the spread and odds on Munster have stayed the same. I wonder what the reason is for that? Could have been lots of money going on Leinster so bookies give worse odds? 1/12 (92.3% win chance) is shorter than 1/10 (90.9% win ch...

LAR going heavy against Toulon this weekend. Joel SCLAVI, Pierre BOURGARIT, Uini ATONIO, Thomas LAVAULT, Will SKELTON, Rémi BOURDEAU, Paul BOUDEHENT, Greg ALLDRITT (cap), Thomas BERJON, Antoine HASTOY, Dillyn LEYDS, Ulupano SEUTENI, Raymond RHULE, Teddy THOMAS, Brice DULIN. The bench - Quentin LESP...

Bookies have Leinster at 1/12, Munster at 7/1, and the points spread at 14. I think if Leinster were to beat Munster by more than 14 it would appear like quite a bashing, I don't think that will happen, so perhaps a bet against the spread. Opinions? There are no poor bookies. Make of that what you ...

ronk wrote: ↑May 6th, 2023, 10:09 am Football and NBA have bigger crowds, so they're dealing with bigger numbers and it makes life a lot faster for everyone.

Not so sure about that. Madison Square Garden has a capacity of just over 20k for basketball.

Bloody brilliant start to this weekend. Great trenchfare battle for the whole game. What a finish at the end. Unfortunately I’d say they won’t have much in tank for the SA match next week. Can’t wait for the 3 other games tomorrow Is there anyway we could not play the QFs and Semis back to back? No...

CLONTARF: 15 Tadhg BIRD, 14 Aitzol ARENZANA-KING, 13 Hugh COONEY , 12 Matt D’ARCY (c), 11 Michael BROWN; 10 Steve CROSBIE, 9 Angus LLOYD; 1 Ivan SOROKA, 2 Dylan DONNELLAN, 3 Ben GRIFFIN, 4 Fionn GILBERT, 5 Mick KEARNEY, 6 Alex SOROKA , 7 JJ O’DEA, 8 Tony RYAN. Replacements: 16 Cathal O’FLYNN, 17 Da...

No guarantee they will open it. They didn't for the semi Would need to screenshot QR code and send that Sent from my LE2123 using Tapatalk Transfer was available for the semi on the day of the game anyway. Interestingly they have only issued one ticket for each Golden Ticket bought - makes it pract...

When we walk out onto the pitch for the Final we will be doing so for the 196th time. And that will be more than any team has ever played in this competition. Giving one of my recent posts a bump because I think it is very significant and I got no responses when originally posted a few nights ago. ...

2023 EPCR Player of the Year shortlist Grégory ALLDRITT (Stade Rochelais) Caelan DORIS (Leinster Rugby) Antoine DUPONT (Stade Toulousain) Garry RINGROSE (Leinster Rugby) Josh VAN DER FLIER (Leinster Rugby) Judging Panel - Bryan Habana (two-time Heineken Champions Cup winner), Sarah Hunter (former E...

The selection of Byrne and Frawley on the bench reminds me of the 2009 Heineken Cup final, with Keogh, Kearney on the Dempsey on the bench and Nacewa starting. A lot of messing around required in the backline if a winger gets injured. In 2009, it would have been awkward if Nacewa and AN Other had to...

offshorerules wrote: ↑April 26th, 2023, 12:09 pm Leinster currently on 4/1 on to beat Toulouse at Paddy Power. Toulouse are 11/4 and the spread is 7 points. Outright they have us at 4/9, La Rochelle at 7/2, Toulouse 9/2, and Exeter 14/1.

1/4 surely, not 4/1?

Bulls have named their team actually https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuO0oWRXoAAKSCZ?format=jpg&name=large 15. KURT LEE ARENDSE 14. CANAN MOODIE 13. STEDMAN GANS 12. HAROLD VORSTER 11. DAVID KRIEL 10 JOHAN GOOSEN 9. EMBROSE PAPIER 1. GERHARD STEENEKAMP 2. JOHAN GROBBELAAR 3. MORNAY SMITH 4. RUAN VE...

What a mess. They won't come close to getting 27k for both of those games. Awful look, why are they renting the RDS if they won't play there? Not a lot of options if the RDS isn't available. Tallaght and Donnybrook are too small (and you'd have to rent Tallaght too). Loads of GAA grounds but there ...

You forgot Joey! :oops: How quickly that has happened.... A Lesson from History........ Sportsjoe.ie August 2014 - Jack O'Toole "Leinster, and particularly Cullen, hitched his wagon to Byrne as the club's deputy fly-half, and while the young pivot has impressed in the absence of Sexton, Carber...

disappointing but there's No point in crying about it I suppose. This is what squad rugby's all about. Great change for Larmour. He's well capable! Saw JVDF posting photos of himself and his other half on holidays in Paris so doesn't look promising for him either. Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatal...