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[quote="ruckover"]Until we get a coach that doesn't care about world rankings and cares more about our future then Irish rugby is in big trouble. Autumn Internationals and Summer Tests are for slowly introducing new players to the international scene. Kidney does not do that. Who cares if you're whi...

Pocock is having a disturbing similar time to Stevie Ferris - I guess it goes with the terrority of being a world class flank forward!!

Lots of positives in the game for instance line outs and defence but backs were never ever going to score from a passing move due to a combination of the weather and Murrays shocking slow pass. However his style was on the mark for the day but on dry ground his look arround, pick up, four steps to ...

Well done the Baby Shamrocks tonight - a good win over a big French team - despite a msifunctioning line-out! Excellent performances from Olding and Joyce (who scored a very well taken try). Bodes well for the future!

Well done the ladies tonight - onwards to the Grand Slam!!

went on UR website earlier to check the season ticket prices, hyperlink to see them has been removed.... FFS, not only are we (the prom we) being renamed the west terrace, if it were an election night scoreboard, we're shinner green. :terror: Time for a protest to get our traditional name restored,...

Gary wrote:Ah, memories of the Harp Bar.

If you can remember being in the Harp Bar you wern't there!!

Must say that is a pi$h poor waste of a NIQ spot Is he an NIQ, though, Rooster? He has a cap for the Junior All Blacks but were they / are they New Zealand's elected "second" stream international side? Do Leinster currently have a project player? Might not be an NIQ spot after all. His one cap for ...

The Guardian is touting a Steenson return to these shores [but in a green shirt]!! The following appeared in today's edition. While Ireland continue to struggle in a world without Jonny Sexton, perhaps an answer to the problem of who should replace him at fly-half lies in Devon. Gareth Steenson stee...

breakdown wrote:I'd rather rely on Darcy for a big HC game at full back than Gilroy, or any youngster

We relied on him for a big HC game at Milton Keynes as I recall!!

I agree with your analysis Shan - Clubs are all but being bypassed in the Provencial set-up nowadays - just a flag of convenience when it suits! In reality it is the schools where it counts now with young prospects being pulled into the academy system etc. Not all bad - but not necessarily good eit...

Shan wrote:One could say that anybody that much into cars that they'd watch this show religiously deserve to have to endure those three arses.

Touché

Dear Lord, who's heavenly son performed the first miracle at Canaan and turn water into wine, please bless these Rugby folk as they perform the miracle in reverse. Amen. Oh that is good. :D But what if that miracle had been in Hans Indaruck's homeland. "Dear Lord you performed a miracle in Cavan by...

Hey Shan was reading on mf.com (I know I shouldnt) calls to scrap various outfits and put out a united Limerick team in the AIL. Im not sure you'd be all for it! Cant say the amalgamations ending up with the Belfast Harlequins were tremendously successful but hard to disagree that fewer bigger club...

I seem to remember that there was an interview with Mark Anscombe about a week into his tenure were he said that he was making them do more contact work than the squad had ever done before, which he claimed was just normal in New Zealand. Is there any mileage in thinking that might be pushing the p...