Babbling 'brook

Not just expected, he has to play in the Madrid 7s, otherwise hes not eligible for Olympic selection. Olympic selection rules demand appearances in 3 7s tournaments in the two years before the Olympics. Isn't that international elibility transfers only? Nope its the Olympic rules. Nothing to do wit...

Would Dupont be available for a potential final or would he be gone with the sevens? Olympics start 26 July so I think we can assume he will be ok to play at Spurs Dupont is apparently expected to play in Madrid the week after the European Cup Final. https://www.world.rugby/news/915450/tickets-go-o...

Toulouse will be missing Dupont from Jan when he jumps over to sevens for the Paris Olympics. I still fancy them to make the finals in London and win the Top 14 again. They are exceptional and are playing hard for home draws in the knockouts. no messing about. Dupont will be back to Toulouse for th...

Why are Leicester at home to us and the Stormers? I thought it was home and away against the respective leagues. It was discussed that way, but hasn't worked out in a lot of the groups. Ulster travel to England twice, and host Racing and Toulouse in Belfast for example. Sounds like shocking managem...

Munster go to Exeter and Toulon. I'd love to know the logic ECPR have behind these fixtures. Seems totally random. I can't think of any other sport were the people running it put their hands out to be smacked as much as rugby. This supposed calculated system only leads to people thinking there's so...

Wonder why we have the Sharks at home again ? Thought we should have being playing them and the Stormers away next season as we had them both at home last season From the URC site Q and A `Teams will play all non-Shield opponents once a season. Over each two-year period they will face those teams o...

FIrst critea if points are even is no of match wins. Currently Con and Mun both on 9 so assuming Connacht beat Cardiff they are ahead of munster 10 wins to 9 in this senario and finish 7th knocking munster out of european qualification. Munster loss to Stormers and Connacht bp vs Cardiff in round 17...

Right Brooksters I need help - I need someone who can speak French to help me with a fairly major ticket issue. I bought Golden Tickets back in 2019 and now when I try to print them I can't find them in my account. I've emailed the LNR ticket address twice and this evening I tried to phone but coul...

What is going on with those pools? Northampton don't seem to be playing Montpellier. Who actually qualifies and how? Each pool has 4 teams from each league (Pro14, Top14, and Premiership) broken into Tiers 1-4. Leinster as Pro 14 Tier 1 play the Tier 4 teams from the other 2 leagues home and away (...

If we get through and Racing beat Toulouse then the semi final could be anywhere in France , what’s the likelihood of them staying in Paris Parc Des Princes ?, might they go with Bordeaux like last year ? or is Nice on the cards ?. Opinions please ?. EPCR have announced a change in the rules allowi...

If we get through and Racing beat Toulouse then the semi final could be anywhere in France , what’s the likelihood of them staying in Paris Parc Des Princes ?, might they go with Bordeaux like last year ? or is Nice on the cards ?. Opinions please ?. All the big stadiums in France are owned by the ...

If we get through and Racing beat Toulouse then the semi final could be anywhere in France , what’s the likelihood of them staying in Paris Parc Des Princes ?, might they go with Bordeaux like last year ? or is Nice on the cards ?. Opinions please ?. All the big stadiums in France are owned by the ...

Here is the press announcement from last December when Newcastle submitted their bid, they were the only English bidder. Cities were asked to apply through their leagues governing body, the IRFU decided not to bid as they didn't think they could win given this years final is in Edinburgh. https://ww...

Not shocked by Munsters loss at all, it has been building for a while. People will say the Coaches/Debt are to blame but the fundamental problem in Munster is the absolutely abysmal way the youth setup is run (and has been for the last ten years). The days of players of a high enough standard coming...

The reason the Munster game is early in the season is to get both sides ready for the first round of the HC and it's always in October not November (except for world cup year) We generally have 3 games per season in Aviva and basically 46k+ at each so why change anything and if we managed to get a ...

You also have to take into account the fact there is a potential (alas not this year) home Heineken cup QF in Landsdowne. I doubt if we played either Ulster or Munster you would get more than 30k if there was another big game a week later. At the moment there is the Munster game in Nov, one Heineken...

Heres my calculations on it Leinster win with with 4 try BP (20 pts). There are 3 runners up who can overtake us: If Munster get a bp win we have to score 2 more tries than them (if we get 6 vs exeter and they get 4 vs racing we overtake them on tries scored). Toulouse score 4 tries but lose to Leic...

Not sure if its been mentioned elsewhere but the Exeter fans are planning to meet at Bewleys Hotel at 1.30 and march to the ground.

http://www.chiefssupportersclub.co.uk/n ... up-travel/

Oldschool wrote:Argentina could well drop further if they are in the Tri-Nations (I know, I know) this season.

From the way the rankings work the only game they can lose points for is the home game to SA (as they are within 6 ranking points of them)

Watched the highlights again and am surprised no one had commented on Earls woeful positional play. He is out of position for at least 4 of the tries and is standing at the centers position for the phase where Kearney gets yellow carded. Same as was seen in the world cup against both Australia and w...