Babbling 'brook

The speed at which he moves the ball makes some compensation for the quality of his pass, he should definitely be persevered with.

If you've a SH with a perfect pass it's not all that much good if he waits until the defence is set to make it.

There's loads of rugby on 2nd Captains. Often the exact inverse of what the OP says, where they'll start the show and launch straight into rugby and talk about it for about half an hour. Now there's not a huge amount of rugby news and the GAA championships are kicking off, they're going to talk abou...

That was just appalling.

Faith in MOC swiftly vanishing.

Sunday Times saying Leinster linked with Kane Douglas.

Hines has signed for Sale. Mumm is under contract at Exeter. Kane Douglas is out of contract at the end of the season.

tekilapaf wrote:So it is time for us, Clermont fans, to send you back all our cheerings

Leinster Tomorrow, Clermont all the other days!

Please hammer Saracens in the SF.

Dunno where people are going with suggestions Boss should start. Reddan is in great form, no brainer.

simonokeeffe wrote:Sunny day, play like that game in Toulouse; sure if we can do that with Jowett...

prospect of Gopperth defending v Basteraud, or anyone gives me nightmares

That was done with Contepomi, BOD was the best centre in the world, Horgan, Hickie, etc. Don't have any of that anymore.

For what it's worth (and I mentioned this in the Munster thread at the weekend), for the simple reason of not putting an official in an awkward position (and not suggesting bias), why can't they have officials from different unions, let alone different clubs. We were supposed to have a French ref, ...

I can see Munster getting turned over against Glasgow as theyll have to rest guys after back to back monstrous games and theyll want first team to run out against Connacht a week later to get up to speed for a likely HC SF I think you might be writing off Toulouse a bit there, SOK. They still have ...

I'd take Caldwell, no bother. He's a decent enough player and he's IQ.

Is there even a hint of Leinster signing anyone for next season?

Don't think Cullen should be playing (though he will I'd imagine). He's been really poor this season. Would much prefer one of the younger players in there.

Is this televised do we know?

Ruddock is captaining the Wolfhounds, Leavy is captaining the U20s. We have Murphy, Ryan, Gilsenan, O'Brien, McLaughlin, Jennings. I fail to see the business sense of paying Heaslip this much. Nearly all those players are flankers. Murphy is the closest thing to an 8 and even he doesn't have all th...

Comment from the Tigers web site : "You can bet it is all being 'managed' by Sky & ERC to give the Irish teams the best advantage of progressing." Really hope this is true :happy clapper: . Is the poster wearing a tinfoil hat? I would quite like to know, considering we are playing Tou...

Grumpy Old Man wrote:Peter O'Reilly (Sunday Times) tweeting that reports coming from France indicate that Jamie is staying in Ireland.

Midol have said he's staying. Possibly having been tipped off by Toulon.

On the basis of not reinventing the wheel. Is it time for the rugby unions to bring in transfer windows akin to what happens in soccer? Ergo contract renewals are one thing but other clubs can only talk to players if they are out of contract (not nearing the end of their contract) or during transfe...

stuwilson wrote:To be honest Dan who cares whos he's as good at or not, we would miss him so this forum should be asking him to stay in my view, just my tuppence!!

I certainly hope he stays. Was just commenting on another post, that's sort of what message boards are for.

Dave Cahill wrote:

Bogger wrote:he is not in the Read or Picamoles class.

Yes he is, and comfortably so.

I am obviously a massive fan of Heaslip but he's not nearly as good as Read currently.