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Sam Grove-White?

Thought he’d picked up a groin strain in Cape Town….?

Good luck to him.

Tried reffing a football game once which was hard enough.

Think I had to give a pen and an indirect free kick in the box. Never again.

Rugby must be miles harder to ref.

Adamson is still useless, mind.

Big-al wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:55 am Whatever his position is.

You mean Hugh, right? He’s not stopping.

Interim means interim in his case.

In Murphy’s case, interim means trying to scrape enough wins to get the job.

I’ll happily say it. If we are effectively going to be playing a side heavily filled with pups, so be it. It’ll likely be the closest thing to a home grown UR side for yrs. Non CC qualified, ok….a yr in the challenge cup with pups might not be a bad thing for their development. I don’t know re part...

horslips wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:17 am So Stu's had enough then King?

I was thinking of our other centre.

I was level with that one. Cooney got something on it. The game is on iplayer and that lineout is about 57.30 on the match clock on screen. The Izzy one is about 67.15. Young did not lose the ball in the tackle, in the normal sense of that expression. He was in the process of placing the ball over t...

I see Sam Carter scored in an 80 minute winning outing against the Crusaders at the weekend.

If Carre touched that ball with a forward motion it was a knock on regardless of where the momentum of the ball took it afterwards. The last 2 decisions were correct and the Cooney one looked wrong. I think i agree with all that. There is some doubt in my mind regarding CI’s timely intervention but...

Izzy may not have admitted to pausing to get his timing right? Kinsella and Casey on the 42 reckon it was a penalty try but were happy enough with the incident at the end. Jackman said the tackle needed looking at but thought the knock on went backwards if he touched at all. There was a general feel...

Cockatrice wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:56 pm Out of interest do we still employ the Sports Psychologist

Nah, I think he lost confidence in his abilities.

They’re allowed to pick up to 10 relevant years. I believe they have to be resident in Ireland or the EU when they retire. Dunno if post Brexit NI counts or not. UR addressed Parliament on this 12 months ago saying that it was unfair they had to pay Irish players more to join. Apparently, as also me...

Apologies to everyone for going off topic.

Hope this link opens up for you Bobbievee and/or anyone who may have seen or heard of Sir Tom turning out in NI….

https://www.pne-online.net/forum/index. ... bio.88015/

Would have loved to have seen those guys play.

Made a 500 mile round trip back to Preston and took time off work for Sir Tom’s funeral.

One of the scorers was so good he got a stand named after him at Burnley.

Bet he wished he was as good as Tom Finney though.

I'd take Murphy playing experimental teams to the end of the season and ourselves finishing 9th/10th. A season in the Challenge Cup, a tournament we could win, if we topped our group (realistic given opposition) we'd be on for home last 16, QF, SF which you'd like to think we are. Home games and ga...