Babbling 'brook

There was a good bit of talk over the last year about Henshaw being the fourth choice centre in blue and derision at him starting games. The man proved it again tonight, he's a proper test match animal. What a player. He set up Nash's try beautifully. It looked like he was isolated but took on thre...

Welsh tackling has been very poor.

Speaking as someone with 'close experience' of the Irish civil/public service, it is basically all risk avoidance. Keep the show ticking along for the 1-4 years you're in a particular role, avoid potentially brilliant new ideas as they might go wrong and you'll get blamed, and over time, if you're ...

CiaranIrl wrote: ↑April 24th, 2021, 8:05 pm I missed the first few minutes, what kind of injury did Harry ship? Was it bad?

Looked like the medics were strapping up his hamstring.

riocard911 wrote: ↑April 12th, 2021, 11:08 am It's Monday lunchtime, two days since the Leinster victory over Exeter in Exeter and still no appearance on the Grauniad website of the usual article by Robert Kitson or Paul Rees about "What we learnt about European club rugby this weekend"....

Think Paul has retired.

Why break up a well balanced backrow by bringing in O'Mahony? Changes should be at a minimum, Dillane or Baird for Ryan and A.N. Other for Lowe.

Are you a professor of science or medical illnesses? The new strain is completely different to the old one. Its affecting more people and younger, healthier people at that. The original strain wasnt as transmisable than this one. People need to wake the fcuk up and take this seriously. We all know ...

LeRouxIsPHat wrote: ↑January 8th, 2021, 9:27 pm Anyone who ever said Ross Byrne is slow needs to apologise to him immediately! What an intercept!

I thought he had a really good game, popping up at first receiver, great in defence and that conversion was vital in denying Ulster a chance at three points from that last minute penalty.

Tracey redeemed himself!

What's happened our lineout! Suddenly looks good again...

A couple of good lineout steals too!

Leinster much more aggressive in the tackle and producing some great counter-rucking.

Clermont left their rugby brains in the dressing room at half-time. Pretty much had the game sewn up and then just stopped playing. Not sure what they were doing at the end, they should have set up a drop-goal for the extra bonus point.

Ulster maul was superb, Ireland should call up McFarland to coach this element of the game. Ulster really should have won tonight, some unforced errors at vital times set them back. Toulouse indebted to Kolbe's quick thinking and quicker feet.

Stockdale managing to turn the game around on his own, unfortunately it's for Toulouse... Yeah, coz Cheslin Kolbe has never ever beaten a player on the outside except for every player he's ever played against. Preceeded by the stupid forearm to the head when Ulster were in a really good position...

Stockdale managing to turn the game around on his own, unfortunately it's for Toulouse...

Shock: 15 players qualified to play for Ireland are picked to play for Ireland.

All about the speed of pass from JGP!

Dexter wrote:

jimbobjoe wrote:Reported to be just for two weeks

Is that a Munster "two weeks" or a normal calendar two weeks??.....

It's a Leinster injury two weeks...

I wonder if it would be possible to have a three-side permanent structure with a removable stand at the southern end of the ground and still accommodate the horse-show? It would be in keeping with Dublins other three-quarter stadia! Croker, Tallaght, Lansdowne, all with the north end being the outl...