Babbling 'brook

Jersey was on display in Life Style Sports in the Square today though I'm not sure if this was with the consent of Canterbury...official launch is this coming Tuesday.

Flakey 16 wrote:Great indication of Neil Francis's level of "insider knowledge" hilarious.

It's not as though he writes for the paper that broke the story or anything...

From IRFU site : Defending champions Leinster 'A' and provincial rivals Munster 'A' will clash in the quarter-finals of the British & Irish Cup, following today's draw for the last-eight. The British & Irish Cup organising committee met earlier today to draw the quarter-finals of the 2013/14...

tweet from Sinead Kissane : "Leinster news: SO'B recuperating post surgery. Return is 'a case of months rather than weeks'. Luke Fitz should be fine after bug."

I know he's technically an Aussie but hooker Tom Sexton lifted the Leinster Schools Cup and had 5 yrs with the province before heading back to Melbourne so could be included IMO.

Ruckedtobits wrote:But J Coughlan currently injured......

Yep, he was on crutches at the Northampton game in Donnybrook

Since the Second Captains crowd left the show has become Off The Boil. Case in point - McDevitt & co's first podcast included an interview with BOD. Need I say more. I agree with 'Off the Boil' but in fairness Ger interviewed BOD on the show a week or two before the 2nd Captains 1st podcast Ah ...

Since the Second Captains crowd left the show has become Off The Boil.

Case in point - McDevitt & co's first podcast included an interview with BOD. Need I say more.

i stand corrected on the final being in the RDS. I thought it was in the Aviva. Wow, why did Ulster have it there? Or why is it there? Why isnt it in a neutral ground? I find that bizarre, when Ulster topped the league. (1) Ravenhill not big enough (2) Not in neutral ground because they had to make...

I'm on the anti-Amlin star side of the fence...stars, for me anyway, should be reserved for the highest honour. Also agree that they should only be on the HCup jersey.

Great idea. Erc forego (?) the tiny amount of interest on the upfront ticket sales but still have guaranteed minimum of tickets sold. The 10k that they might sell early still get sold (unlikely two supporters groups will end up taking the entire capacity of the stadium). Likely that biggest allocat...

Has the KO time been established? Will it clash with the Amlin final? I doubt it as SKY will be televising both. Have a feeling the BIC will kick off at 5/5.30pm with the Amlin at 8. I agree they will probably do this. At the moment their schedule has the Amlin final coverage from 7:30 that evening...

Easiest choice ever. Thank you for offering those options. Had a wild ride on my Facebook page with this topic to say the very least, should have done a poll like this.

mtleinster wrote:If next year we get a H-Cup group of Edinburgh, Scarletts and Castres, there is no reason why we cant have two Pro 12 games in the Aviva

Whereas if we draw Racing Métro, maybe not so much

Wow the tweet even got its own topic on the brook!!!! Lads I know us blogger-types go looking for publicity but hand on heart I never thought people would take that seriously. I do the "BREAKING NEWS:" thing all the time, for future ref they're ALWAYS tongue in cheek. My apologies.

AdamK wrote:Word to the wise, ESPNscrum stats are often very, very poor.

There's lies, damn lies, statistics and ESPN statistics.

They even have a tendency to change them...publishing one set at FT, then going over the match again and "re-defining" tackles and such.

bluemagic wrote:Madigan was brilliant bar one moment of madness behind his own goal line which he managed to pull of someho!

That was some serious Quade Cooper s**t right there....

Conor George has Luke pondering a move to Munster for some game time at outside centre? (1) If another Rock boy goes south I may actually cry, and (2) does this mean Keet at 13 has been given up as a failure?

How about Santiago Phelan? Wouldn't be the worst choice, there's an Irish connection, and Argentinians seem to be getting chosen out of left field these days...he got the Pumas job around the same time Kidney was appointed to Ireland IIRC.

Happy enough with my bronze medal. Should have trusted Halfpenny for kicking over Farrell in Rd 5 but this game is all about the shoulda coulda woulda! Congrats to Jim.