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It FEEnomimal all right!! Club rugby heading back to the good old days What brown envelopes in boots before professionalism? :duck: :whistle: Or the Bank of Ireland 'jobs' for Blackrock players etc didn't Blackrock ultimately have to sell part of its ground to figuratively, and indeed literally , '...

Cork Con win AIL cracking final. Queens stay in 1B Malone down to 2B Quins down to 2C Ballyclare up to 2C Bangor down to Championship Next Season Ulster teams 1A-Hinch, Armagh 1B-Queens 2A-Stones,Banbridge,Ballymena 2B- Dungannon,Malone,Rainey CV 2C-Ballycalre,Omagh,Quins 13 teams across 5 leagues ...

Wilson, McLaughlin and Humphreys all development and likely to move on to other clubs for next season. Nothing will change with Queens and the number of academy players. The idea of the partnership is based on player development being accelerated by them playing on the same side regularly, apparent...

Congratulations to Ballyclare on gaining promotion to AIL 2C. Hopefully Bangor can retain their position in 2C by winning the playoff match in 2 weeks time!

Okay , Ferris isn't in the premier league of rugby pundits , and his totally self obsessed comment that Kitshoff's (alleged) improved performance yesterday was in response to a previous Ferris press article, was puerile in the extreme !! However, posting 2024/2014 teams and asking who wins is hardly...

I wonder would Aki, JGP, Hansen and Lowe et al have flourished under recent Ulster coaching tickets had they had this misfortune to end up here? They landed on these shores essentially as glorified journeymen and have been improved. Compare and contrast our mob who, at best, get a sympathy cap for ...

Dublin4 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 11:00 am David McCallum, the man from UNCLE, aged 90.

I remember getting my triangular UNCLE badge and pen with 'invisible' ink...innocent days !!

big mervyn wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:04 pm

tigerburnie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:26 pm I filmed this a couple of weeks back before all the rain arrived
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCy9ub9Qdlk

Excellent work sir

Saw a Kingfisher for the first time last month. We were staying outside Cambridge where there was a stream running through the grounds; stunning colour.

Just reading to -day that 20% of those diagnosed annually are stage 4 which means in most cases the cancer is incurable but it treatable but every treatment has side effects. Prostate cancer lacks symptoms therefore if over 50 it is advisable to have a PSA test . While the PSA test is imperfect it ...

At one point I thought the whole thing might have been a set up to move the Wagner troops into position for a strike from the north. I'm still not absolutely sure it isn't... That thought had also crossed my mind ?? Also, if it was a genuine rebellion against Putin, where does that leave the Wagner...

big mervyn wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:22 pm England is doing so much better out of Europe

Best laugh I've had in ages

Never a bad day when an England team gets stuffed, but I feel sorry for Borthwick and Sinfield who seem to be decent blokes. The 'entitled' English rugby press will savage them, especially over dropping Farrell.

big mervyn wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:42 pm

Gerald the Mole wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 10:11 pm Sorry, can you define “came through the Academy “

It's either Ballymena, Omagh, Banbridge or BRA

or maybe St Patrick's Academy in either Lisburn or Dungannon, Strabane Academy, Breda Academy , Strabane Academy or Bangor Academy ... and there may be more.

You’ll be telling me you want a crowd that came through Ulster schools next…. Warwick, EOS never came through the Academy, EOS had been Leinster Academy and was dropped from the system, iirc , was at Trinity and. Brought in for an A game , impressed and got a “let’s see how ye do “ kinda contract ,...

Laughable how these cabinet ministers are now so keen to distance themselves from an administration that they were all part and parcel of. Watched the Channel 4 debate last night... interesting, but not surprising, that 4 out of 5 of the candidates couldn't/wouldn't say that Boris was untruthful, w...

Was watching the news at 10 last night (It may have actually been the 9 O'Clock news, because it's at 10pm now for some reason). They had a whole piece about this Rooney v Vardy thing. I mean, WTAF?? Some editor has been told to cut down that report from Ukraine so they have room for this! I apprec...