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- Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Dan’s Not the Man.
- Replies: 378
- Views: 151521
Re: Dan’s Not the Man.
McCall leaving Sarries and turning down probably a host of quality job offers to come to Ulster, would be a akin to him leaving a high-end 6-figure job in London/New York to go work as a Level 4 Civil Servant job on 30k a year at County Hall in Ballymena. Not. A. Chance. People trading 6 figure job...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Contract Situation
- Replies: 1680
- Views: 644732
Re: Contract Situation
Well let’s see, Jackman does get transfer rumours wrong a fair bit. I’m a fan of Billy, but this could only happen in the context of an IRFU-orchestrated shuffle you’d imagine, in order to get the front-line tens from an international pov getting regular starts at the provinces
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Dan’s Not the Man.
- Replies: 378
- Views: 151521
Re: Dan’s Not the Man.
I think the Italian union shot themselves in the foot by announcing that his contract wouldn’t be renewed before the World Cup, which was absolutely crazy imo. Immediately turned him into a lame duck and robbed him of authority, while injecting uncertainty and instability into the camp as they heade...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Dan’s Not the Man.
- Replies: 378
- Views: 151521
Re: Dan’s Not the Man.
Frustrating thing is that after the last 2 years of chaos in the premiership, the Irish provincial sides are looking like pretty plum coaching jobs - good squads, decently funded and stable due to the union backing. The downsides are union heavy-handedness in international player selection managemen...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Harlequins v Ulster Sat Jan 20 1pm KO TNT Sports 2
- Replies: 219
- Views: 21671
Re: Harlequins v Ulster Sat Jan 20 1pm KO TNT Sports 2
Sad to say it did, and embarrassing is exactly the word.justinr73 wrote:I’m assuming that looked as embarrassing from the sofa as it did at the game.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Provincial an' aither teams
- Topic: PADDY JACKSON
- Replies: 778
- Views: 509375
Re: PADDY JACKSON
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, ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Dan’s Not the Man.
- Replies: 378
- Views: 151521
Re: Dan’s Not the Man.
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...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Reset button required?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 10389
Re: Reset button required?
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 ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Provincial an' aither teams
- Topic: AIL Energia Leage Rugby/Ulster League
- Replies: 166
- Views: 49723
Re: AIL Energia Leage Rugby/Ulster League
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…
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:59 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Dan Soper
- Replies: 23
- Views: 29818
Re: Dan Soper
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...
- Wed May 31, 2023 11:05 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Petries Answering Questions
- Replies: 152
- Views: 188392
Re: Petries Answering Questions
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)HammerTime wrote:He’s pretty much admitting to fcuking up the LAR match. Without actually saying it.
- Wed May 31, 2023 9:55 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Petries Answering Questions
- Replies: 152
- Views: 188392
Re: Petries Answering Questions
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...
- Wed May 31, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Petries Answering Questions
- Replies: 152
- Views: 188392
Re: Petries Answering Questions
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...
- Wed May 31, 2023 9:43 pm
- Forum: View frae thae Hill
- Topic: Petries Answering Questions
- Replies: 152
- Views: 188392
Re: Petries Answering Questions
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...
- Tue May 16, 2023 1:04 pm
- Forum: Stand Up fer the Ulstermen
- Topic: End of the road for Dan??
- Replies: 60
- Views: 21207
Re: End of the road for Dan??
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...