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justinr73 wrote:I’m assuming that looked as embarrassing from the sofa as it did at the game.

Sad to say it did, and embarrassing is exactly the word.

A waste of time posting all that because it will never happen. He's 32 so he's probably looking one more contract. He'll have a tidy little nest egg for himself. Retiring in his mid thirties. The haters will burst a blood vessel at that thought. Whatever else about his various moves since he left, ...

Love this comments from Munster forum "I always found mcfarland a bit of a spoofer. theres a bit of david brent about him" So true Funny enough I used to really like him, and liked listening to him, I always thought he sounded really grounded and talked sense, but since the implosion last...

Absolute embarrassment of a performance. We are currently capable of getting occasional decent wins / performances simply through the players muscling it out - because we do have good players, which is the killer - but systematically we are just so woefully off the pace that when we come up against ...

I went to watch Queens earlier in the season against Buccs (they lost), having watched them a fair few times over the last couple of years, and they looked a shadow of the team they were…

The standout coaches in the province are Doak and Soper, to those familiar with their work. Miles ahead of the rest. Payne a huge loss technically but by all accounts a narcissist. McFarland poses a huge concern. Observing the Irish setup at the end of last season, Farrell has fostered a positive c...

HammerTime wrote:He’s pretty much admitting to fcuking up the LAR match. Without actually saying it.

Yep. But don’t stress too much because it didn’t take £700k out of our budget ‘just’ £500k ‘in real terms’ (whatever he means by that)

And because Petrie is so weasel-worded, all of the interesting things are what you read between the lines - very interesting to me that he is very much placing the onus on the IRFU when it comes to Hendy’s contract negotiations - getting his alibi in place early perhaps, because the last I heard Hen...

Not surprised Petrie’s UR q&a was a damp squib, not likely to get any enlightenment when the whole things on your own terms. In fairness to Bradley, those are some pretty direct questions - not much by way of frankness or introspection in the responses, but the complete lack of engagement with t...

Don’t know what more you wanted from him Mentioned changing the game plan to suit the young back line again but I’ll hold my breath on that. Also said about changing selection policy to increase rotation in the squad (specifically named Flannery and Izzy) Academy intake increasing by 50% with acade...

Something definitely not right... I heard that players who have been at the club for years, including through lots of chaos, were saying that the atmosphere and morale from the Sale away game onwards has been absolutely rock-bottom and worse than anything previous.. Dan's argument is that when he ca...

24 hours later, still furious. Genuine question, how do professional coaches not realise after 10 mins that we need to flood the breakdown cause we’re getting smashed there? Like how was a message not sent on to the pack that for the next 10 mins their job is to hit every ruck as hard as they can? ...

Incredibly depressing weekends rugby. I watched 4 Irish provinces - three were well-drilled, stalwart in defence and played some good attacking rugby, showed plenty of bottle and came up with the win. One looked utterly half-baked, were physically dominated, set piece completely malfunctioned, were ...

I could cry, watching leinsters offensive ruck - compared to our absolute muck last night. What amounted to a series of one out carries against a well-set defence, with no support, against multiple poach threats [emoji2357]

The more I think about this the more dire our situation seems. Leinster lose Lancaster after a few brilliant years, replace him with Nienaber - 2 of the best coaches in world rugby - and we’re stuck with McFarland, Bell and Soper [emoji2357] I’ve come around to thinking that McFarland is actually a ...