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Good luck Nick; you'll need it with these two Walesonliners. Banty hen Are the Cardiff Blues recruiting for, and forming vets team by any chance ? DDofHants Indiciplined animal. Let's face it most of the Blues online posters are a bunch sour grapes Back when all of the Pro12 breakup stuff was going...

To be honest with Warwick coming through, and Black being our top dog, we didn't have much room to develop Paddy as well, and the decision was made. If we can't develop a prop, then France can, and Gloucester can mess him about until he comes back hungry for a good team. Sadly Farrell (who I see in ...

You guys complain too much. We have been woeful in away games for a long time, we had a woeful home game last week, we perform well for most of a match in Thomond, and you all get angry when people look for a positive. Personnally I'm just happy for some points, because recent away form dictates tha...

Isn't this said every year? 2 games into the season and it'll be interesting again. BTW does Kiss join the week after the world cup, or the week Ireland exit the world cup?


MattMo

Position requirements are also a major point of the IRFU allowing exceptions. When the rule was brought in there were a lot of positions Ireland were weak in, due to no irish players getting gametime in the provinces, and Declans Kidney picking the same squad for four years in a row. All of that has...

Sadly it is a case of quality players breed quality others due to competition for places. Look at Leinster, there was never any competition there, B'OD and Darcy had the shirts, and there was no questioning that, now they have had to bring in Ben Teo, and are struggling to find an acceptable 12. If ...

I've never seen them in the same room together... Just saying


MattMo

World cups coming up, can get excited after that. Before that, it's just more preseason really


MattMo

First of all, the main problem we have is that we have a nominated parliment, which instead of us voting for what they are saying, we vote for them, and nothing gets done because they have no obligation to complete that. At least with the house of Lords we know what they will do, as they tell us tha...

What with Trimble's rise to Test-level glory, it's easy to forget: in the HC pool matches preceding the selections for the 2013 Autumn Internationals, Trimble made a couple of blunders. Schmidt didn't pick him, and Ulster fans were rightly miffed that Joe had (in our approximate view) missed the wo...

I've never understood why people get so het up about a crooked feed to the scrum. It is patently unfair to expect a hooker to hook! Doing so de-powers the pack, so effectively the side that have the put in have 7.5 v 8. This increases the chance of resets. Why not have 8 v 8 but give the side with ...

Positives - with first team on, we are best in Pro12, nearly beating Glasgow in an away semi, nearly setting history there. - Doak seems to understand who our top players are, and have got shape into that team - Sets us up for next year if we can continue this run Negatives - signings - Fat Nick (he...

Positives - with first team on, we are best in Pro12, nearly beating Glasgow in an away semi, nearly setting history there. - Doak seems to understand who our top players are, and have got shape into that team - Sets us up for next year if we can continue this run Negatives - signings - Fat Nick (he...

They've gone and done a proper Ulster on this one - the press knew before Matt ... and they're talking of Leo as head coach ... could be dramatic free fall. Did they learn nothing from our megaballix coach fudge ... You call it a mega bollix, but he lost us a Heineken cup quarter final, from the to...

Maybe realises his career may be cut short from concussions and is making sure he has something to fall back on.


MattMo