Babbling 'brook

Hadnt heard that one before myself, would be a slight surprise even with some backdoor IRFU shenanigans (they cant offer more money than us)

Bit of a nerdy tangent but including schools and underage etc how many players have played for 3 provinces?

Keatley
Fogarty
Cooney

Wikipedia check

McCormack
Reddan
Willis

Dexter wrote:Fair play to him. Probably the Most Underappreciated Irish Player Ever too...in some quarters anyway.

Kinda odd that the top 2, assuming Heaslip is second, are reviled in many quarters

Definitely. We need to play the best rugby we've played this season to have a chance of winning this one. A big question is does Eddie Jones stick with his one man ruck or bow to reality. THey changed it in both games so far so I'd imagine yes. With Lawes and Hughes out he's already looking at chan...

Cheers

Dagger is getting a revisionist bump all over the place now

Overtaking England in anything is good

As an aside how badly are Samoa run consideringbthe talent available (even ignoring unavailable)

fourthirtythree wrote:I must be a person because I enjoyed liam Williams' walk of shame just so much.

Fixed that for you

I think spoiling a party suits our mentality more than theres

Would love Haskell to play. He is not going to come roaring in with composure

Via @SimonGleave on twitter

Ireland have scored on 12/22 vists to not Italian 22s

England 4/22

The ebb and flow of psychic energy is in a waning phase for them

Would love to see it again but theres a blog/article about how Jones generally has a big impact and then fades off horribly

They had a bullyboy mentality and now their psyche has cracked.

Twist wrote:

simonokeeffe wrote:I have a feeling France might do us a favour

Edit; Cancel that, I misread the date

Ha

Werent we also second when the rankings first started?

France England is turgid so far (from a neutrals pov)

Halfbacks especially Murray didnt seem fully fit

Think thats the first time let alone in an international Ive seen a team have a clear ploy of targeting/provoking Healy

Williams had one great year and one for luck

The aussie 12 they just had made a decent fist of 10
Maybe they see it as he can ALSO cover 12 as they cant rely on Olding at the best of times and Payne looks goosed

FLIP wrote:

simonokeeffe wrote:Good "If its a Humphries type role then why not but hes been out of the game for a while

He's coming on as a technical consultant. Which could mean anything really. Is he just there to make it look Irish?

Hes just therr to walk their dog mascot while wearing a flat cap

Lam especially loved him but hes had a heap of serious injuries

I wonder did Lowe play himself out of a starting jersey for this last night. For all his good going forward, Sarries in particular would be licking their lips at isolating him and making him make decisions. He has given away three tries in his short Leinster career already through almost the same d...

Peg Leg wrote:

CiaranIrl wrote:I think Byrne will become top class personally.

Yeah, hard not to appreciate the progress there. I can see scannell and byrne sharing the green jersey.

wouldnt go that far meself but he has improved/hit form

Cronin is only a front row baby, Strauss is definitely circling the drain though sadly

by letting Nig ref his own cousin the league were making a rod for their own backs to begin with That kick pen was wrong on grounds it went backwards alone? But of the 9 or so penalties we conceeded 4 or 5 shouldve been the other way and 2 were just wrong eg offside kick one and IMO the off feet nea...

According to Telgraph Deccie and Kissy are taking over at London Irish :shock: Good to see Kiss moving on. Good coach that got caught in the Ulster mess. Not sure why they want DK. I never thought he was that great a coach. Good "man manager" / motivator but not a coach that would bring n...

I see Scotland have 9 Scottish born players to start. England have a fair handful of non-English born as have Italy. And France and ourselves have a few, and they tell us that rugby is booming. Doesn’t add up. We have two non native Irish in the starting 15 and four in the squad if you stretch the ...