thecrouch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:14 am
justinr73 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:00 am
HammerTime wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:15 am
All need to go but player power at Ulster needs sorted also. I've heard of plenty of stories about cocky players but one that always annoyed me from years ago is hearing about Robbie Diack challenging Brian McLaughlin in front of the whole group that he didn't rate his coaching. Now, all I remember Robbie Diack for is being soft as sh!te and single handedly costing us the 2013 final at the RDS. Who tf is he to come out with something like that, especially after said coach got us to a European Cup final the year before. These boys think they are something, as said on here many times before ... more happy to be strutting about the coffee shops of the Lisburn Road in their tracksuits or picking up their new motor at Bavarian BMW. The guys at Leinster must be p!shing themselves laughing at these losers. In the grand scheme of things (Irish Rugby) they are absolute nobody's. Also rans. A collective joke. Look at the plethora of coaches we've had and not one of them has been able to do anything with this lot. Does that not say something?? In saying that, DMF out. Cunningham out. Petrie out! And take a third of the squad with you.
This is where some of you need to realise that you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
It’s all very well dreaming of a team of Ulstermen but the reality of that in this tiny place is that you’re ending up with a a bunch of feted over, mollycoddled manchilds whose mums make their tea and wash their clothes until they’re 35.
It’s no wonder they’re found wanting against the likes of a Pacific Islander who’s moved to the other side of the world and sends half his wages home to feed his village.
At least Bowe and Wilson had the balls to test themselves.
Justin, Leinster are one of the best teams in this hemisphere and their entire team is made up of rich private schoolboys who get fawned over from the second they pass out of the womb (and these lads would pass out the womb in serenity and calm in a nice private room in a nice private hospital, no sudden jolt of surprise arriving into a public NHS ward for any of the young Dermot's) . The in-house help bringing them their toast in bed in the morning and putting their socks and jocks on the radiator so that they're nice and warm before the lads have to put them on in the morning.
Ulster ma's are not to blame.
It's the culture of mediocrity, we gave it a go, and complacency that is a big part of this. Whilst this is the standard set by UR, this is what we get. Across a lot of the Southern media, they're asking serious questions about what are the underlying issues- probably what we'll not get from cosy BBC, Beltel , Mulligan etc.. too many cosy relationships.
But DF and his coaching team are supposed to set standards. This is patently not happening.
I'd love them to send a message by dropping he undroppables- Stu, Hume, whoever. Luke Marshall is a warrior and Moore a smart young player. Give them a go. I doubt DF has the cojones and that may be part of the problem. Look to Munster to see how a mediocre team went on an away run of 6 games last year based on guts and pride to win URC. Rowntree and Leamy set and demand standards.
Kitshoff is a two time RWC so is used to excellence. Wonder what he thinks after 8 weeks or so?
Btw if all of Leinster's cast offs play like Timoney, Cooney and even Shanahan, I'd buy into it, as they have. It's our own that are p#shing talent up the wall- I'd say the above are grateful for the chance, whilst our Ulster born? Hmmmm
Now's the time to play Wilson, Sheridan, McCann, McNabney etc and see what happens- Treadwell , EOS, AOC, Matty Rea etc have had their chance. If Postletwhaite is so good, play him ffs. Stu doesnt want to play in Challenge cup anyway, so sit him down..