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- September 18th, 2023, 3:26 pm
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: RWC: Ireland v. South Africa SAT 23 SEP 20.00
- Replies: 395
- Views: 117625
Re: RWC: Ireland v. South Africa SAT 23 SEP 20.00
I cannot see Murray starting over JGP in this match, well though he played against Tonga. We'll be looking to play at the highest possible tempo and JGP is key to that. Murray will have a part to play though for sure. Last time we played South Africa, Murray did indeed start, but he went off injured...
- September 14th, 2023, 4:29 pm
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: RWC: Ireland v. Tonga SAT 16 SEP 20.00
- Replies: 148
- Views: 59523
Re: RWC: Ireland v. Tonga SAT 16 SEP 20.00
I got this one wrong.
Surprised we are not leaning in to our squad more, and very surprised some players look set for zero playing minutes for the tournament. That I did not see coming. I wonder was it a bit unnecessary to play so many frontliners v Romania?
Surprised we are not leaning in to our squad more, and very surprised some players look set for zero playing minutes for the tournament. That I did not see coming. I wonder was it a bit unnecessary to play so many frontliners v Romania?
- September 11th, 2023, 4:08 pm
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: RWC: Ireland v. Tonga SAT 16 SEP 20.00
- Replies: 148
- Views: 59523
Re: RWC: Ireland v. Tonga SAT 16 SEP 20.00
I don't agree Riocard. Somebody else may have the stats on this but the only world cup I can recall where we didn't get our full squad on the pitch over the course of the pool matches (excluding things like late call ups and emergency cover) was in 2007, and it was considered to be a contributor to ...
- September 11th, 2023, 12:42 pm
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: RWC: Ireland v. Tonga SAT 16 SEP 20.00
- Replies: 148
- Views: 59523
Re: RWC: Ireland v. Tonga SAT 16 SEP 20.00
I would think the selection will look very similar to what CiaranIrl has suggested, though I have a feeling Conan and Sheehan will be in 'a week too soon' territory, and maybe Kilcoyne and Henshaw too. I'd be pretty certain Farrell will want to give match time to everyone who hasn't featured yet. He...
- May 21st, 2023, 7:07 pm
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 124284
Re: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
Devastating defeat. One that rips the heart out of you. I posted after last year's final to say that it was one of those defeats that you never quite get over, well this feels like another one, but even worse, because we were at home, were so far in front and because we lost last week too. It remind...
- May 20th, 2023, 12:31 pm
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 124284
Re: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
We can do this. We’re in our home patch. We’ve a great team. We beat Toulouse to he here. They beat Glaws and Exeter. The media have made them out to be monsters this week. Our lads will have a siege mentality going. We’re going to come out primed for battle. See yis there. Be f*cking loud.
COME ON!
COME ON!
- May 18th, 2023, 3:30 pm
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 124284
Re: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
Just listened myself there and it's quite a good discussion between Gerry, Matt and Joe on OTB. They talk about the points myself and Flash have been debating around the edginess in last year's performance, Matt appearing to agree with my thinking (for better or worse!) that the pressure of being ho...
- May 18th, 2023, 11:33 am
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 124284
Re: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
They're pretty isolated from that. I honestly think the heat, the venue in France (virtually a home game for La Rochelle) and the fact that La Rochelle were brilliantly coached and played out of their skin were the deciding factors. Some of the commentary on winning a European cup is off the wall a...
- May 17th, 2023, 3:26 pm
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 124284
Re: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
I think the narrative that we would just show up and win last year is coming from elsewhere. We were playing a team we'd previously lost to in France in searing heat, no serious commentator and certainly not the players thought that was going to be easy/a gimme, quite the opposite. I remember how s...
- May 17th, 2023, 11:39 am
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
- Replies: 1386
- Views: 124284
Re: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2023
Greetings all. A few thoughts from me before this gargantuan game. Nerves are almost unbearable, the week is crawling along. The loss at the weekend has made it even slower and more tortuous. I thought Gordon D'arcy's piece today summed it up quite well. It really stung. Anyway, enough of that, we h...
- July 12th, 2022, 10:25 am
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: Tour to NZ 2022
- Replies: 1571
- Views: 103370
Re: Tour to NZ 2022
I have to say I thought the sin binning of the Maori wing for the 'deliberate' knock on seemed incredibly harsh, though I was delighted to get it. The touch judge wasn't convinced by it and nor was I. I couldn't really understand the question about 'could he regather the ball'. The player made an at...
- May 29th, 2022, 10:30 am
- Forum: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2022
- Topic: Leinster v La Rochelle Heineken Cup Final Sat 28th May 4.45 Marseille
- Replies: 569
- Views: 203406
Re: Leinster v La Rochelle Heineken Cup Final Sat 28th May 4.45 Marseille
Under pressure decision making not to go for 7 and settle for 3 continuously is not what this team has been doing this season but we did yesterday. Ultimately is it a mix of nerves and just trying to cling on and do enough rather than having the confidence to go out and win it in style ? Who knows ...
- May 29th, 2022, 10:19 am
- Forum: Heineken Champions Cup Final 2022
- Topic: Leinster v La Rochelle Heineken Cup Final Sat 28th May 4.45 Marseille
- Replies: 569
- Views: 203406
Re: Leinster v La Rochelle Heineken Cup Final Sat 28th May 4.45 Marseille
I haven't posted on here in a long time but I was following the comments on here in the week and after the game and a lot of salient points have been made. My two (or three) penn'oth... 1. It was painfully gutting. An absolute sickener, I think this will go down as one of those uber-painful defeats ...
- April 24th, 2015, 2:49 pm
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Leinster 2014/2015 Player of the Year?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7108
Re: Leinster 2014/2015 Player of the Year?
Voted for Heaslip. Sheer bloody-minded will to win on his part almost dragged us to a European final. Not too many players have had stellar campaigns but he has been a big player all season. Toner & Cronin had solid campaigns.
- March 4th, 2015, 2:47 pm
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: Wales vs Ireland - 14/03/2015 14:30
- Replies: 204
- Views: 14113
Re: Wales vs Ireland - 14/03/2015 14:30
I noticed during the England Match, that the choke tackle was not really used. To me it looked like the English players were making a determined effort to get nice low body positions so they wouldn't be held up, but I do wonder if in fact it was an Irish ploy to not utilise the choke tackle and ins...
- January 9th, 2015, 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Rugby
- Topic: Munster 2014/2015
- Replies: 2380
- Views: 157782
Re: Munster 2014/2015
Sexton didn't break into the Leinster team until he was 23 and that was because Contepomi got injured. This is one of the strangest misconceptions I see / hear repeated ad nauseum, as though Sexton made his debut in the Heineken Cup semi final against Munster. Sexton broke through when he was aroun...
- November 24th, 2014, 2:57 pm
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: Ireland v Australia thread
- Replies: 183
- Views: 14500
Re: Ireland v Australia thread
The pass was forward. This business of the trajectory of the ball should only be relevant where the passer has momentum, which he gets from running at pace, which means the pass will drift forward over the ground even if thrown backwards relative to himself 'backwards out fo the hands'). If a player...
- November 24th, 2014, 2:49 pm
- Forum: International Rugby
- Topic: Ireland v Australia thread
- Replies: 183
- Views: 14500
Re: Ireland v Australia thread
On the Folau thing, I think it would have been a penalty but the referee was playing advantage and went back for the original penalty, which was from a more favourable angle than the would-be-Folau incident. I don't think you'd ever get a penalty try for an incident like that, there are just too man...
- October 30th, 2014, 10:44 am
- Forum: General Rugby
- Topic: European Champions Cup [Most Improved]
- Replies: 990
- Views: 119883
Re: European Champions Cup [Most Improved]
The mid-game/half-time interviews are so bad. It's such gimmickery, they offer nothing in the way of insight. The lines of questioning are laughable and what are the coaches going to do other than offer platitudes? When Munster were losing to Ospreys earlier this season they managed to get a mid-fir...
- October 28th, 2014, 12:53 pm
- Forum: Leinster Addicts
- Topic: Castres v. Leinster
- Replies: 344
- Views: 25203
Re: Castres v. Leinster
The game in Bath swung when we brought on Eoin O'Malley. We dominated them for most of the game in spite of playing ordinary stuff, but kept letting them off the hook. O'Malley unlocked the door and we scampered up the pitch to score the match-winning penalty after he put somebody through a gap. We ...