The UAFC

Is there an attitude problem with it?
Is there a refusal to play/attempt play to a script?
We all know talent is just part of the mix. Has there been UR contact and they’ve thought better of it, for one reason or another?

Could the option of retaining Alby for a second season be a possibility? Perhaps Shanahan May leave end of next season, and push on the youngsters? Personally I don’t think Cooney will have a particularly long Ire career maybe 12/18months. I think he is a quality professional, brilliant for us, but ...

If I was at LI I’d be lifting the phone to him asking his plans. Kidney & Kiss I think will be going into their final yr of contract? Definitely room for improvement across the board for me - has the experience of building a club. As an aside, happy retirement to Willie Anderson. Good to read the od...

Court Best Afoa Henderson Muller (c) Ferris Williams Coetzee Ruan Jackson McCloskey Cave Trimble Payne Piatau The lineout probably wouldn’t be the best. SMcC at 12 to give me gainline, and JP at 15 as a 2nd playmaker to compensate (absolute tragedy he wasn’t Ireland’s 15) CP too good a player to mis...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-z13MmDpoC/?hl=en

PJ kindly presented an award at our virtual rugby club awards night.

“I’ve not had a welcome like this for a while”

Really good gesture-good to see him on top form.

PJ very kindly did a virtual prize giving vid for my club Harborne RFC as our annual dinner is obviously on the back burner. The lads managed to wrangle Tindall Robshaw Greenwood Nonu O’Brien & PJ. PJs vids are up at his usual standard.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-z13MmDpoC/?hl=en

Seems to be a persistent rumour that Leinster (Irfu pressure) will be moving on a BR...Deegans name has been mentioned. We are definitely 1 light for 1st team selection. Anymore developments re Nordi contract?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/rugby-union/52156708

https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/ul ... 44393.html

Interesting signing

Some thoughts: Cian Healy looks like a tired prop with a lot of miles on the clock. Although I’m not fully convinced re kilcoyne as a long term starting solution, I think Healy is a shadow of his former self....and on borrowed time - I’d give him the it game off. Toner isn’t the way forward for this...

Naturally family comes first & I wish him and them the very best. For me he is a critical player for Ire against big packs, a real loss in the physical stakes. I’m interested to see how Dillane will perform, very talented when first appeared, but kind of not kicked on. The bench pack now looks very ...

I concur Big Merv,
Bono is a total shaft, although please let’s not exclude Geldof either....nothing like a multi millionaire tax avoider to spout moralised brad pitt about how I should live my life in a more meaningful way.

Once had a good chat to him after the clermont game in 2011, his dad & friends had gone over to watch - he came across as a good fella. I always got the impression he enjoyed his time at ulster, although his departure may have left a bad taste ( am I right in saying he wasn’t a big fan of LK, and le...

For me it was a penalty all day long. That said we should never have been in that position in the match anyway, where that one brain fart cost the game. We should have pinned them as much as possible in their 22, giving them defensive line outs In Those high winds and put on a jumper at the front, a...

Ospreys won the physical battle. Our kicking strategy was dreadful. We should have kicked the corners & made ospreys throw in the lineout from deep. Johnston was pretty good, burns was tom kite, and showed cooney needs to hold his hand. Shanahan wasn’t helped by osp not rolling away at the breakdown...