Babbling 'brook

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/arid-40221629.html good article on rugby now, also confirms Marcus Kiely was cut from 20's. Very good article alright. Kieran Shannon is a good writer and he's interviewed two men who have good vantage points over quite a range of levels of rugby in Ireland...

The cancellation of both AIL and Womens Interpro competitions is a major blow to Club rugby around the country and suggests that IRFU Committee have limited interest of the impact on Clubs over the past 10 months. The Union should have announced the postponement and revision of the AIL format to co...

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January 16th, 2021, 10:13 pm

Cheers for the correction. Was it Italys 20s side or development too.

Italys 20s. They wouldnt have player depth for 2 sides to be competitive.

France Under 20s played Italy Under 20s today.... France won 25-24 Link if anyone wants to watch it.... https://www.facebook.com/FranceRugby/videos/225256595847352/ Surprised, would have thought under 20s Rugby wouldn't be played at the moment given the current numbers. Edited to add I'm actually n...

More investment and help for the club game is always a good thing but it should be acknowledged that the clubs are producing a reasonable amount of players. Off the top of my head there is: Dooley/Milne, Delahunt/McElroy, Vakh/Tadhg/Aungier, Deeney/Alan O'Connor/Dave O'Connor, Izuchukwu, SOB, Boyle...

No disagreement with that call. Coaching the coaches to deliver the skills, not just the results, has always been a conundrum. The Coach who delivers the results, from Junior or Under 20 rugby, is always more likely to get promotion that the coach who develops, or adds to, the skills of the develop...

No disagreement with that call. Coaching the coaches to deliver the skills, not just the results, has always been a conundrum. The Coach who delivers the results, from Junior or Under 20 rugby, is always more likely to get promotion that the coach who develops, or adds to, the skills of the develop...

Shame the main cups couldnt have done like vinnie murray/godfrey and ran a group stage as well

draws Junior round 1 st marys v blackrock round 2 newbridge v pres bray roscrea v clongowes templecarrig v winner round 1 michaels v Castleknock gonzaga v gerards bray CUS v terenure cbc monkstown v wesley belvedere v kilkenny Godfrey 2 groups top 2 into semi final and final A: fintans sutton, Pats ...

Shane Mallon UCD

Meh. O'Connor has to write a couple of articles a day, some of these are bound to crop up. Clearly Leinster set the standard at the moment, just as Ulster [in the 80s] and Munster [for much of the 00s] previously set the standard. I say this pretty frequently [so apologies for repeating myself], bu...

Confirmed. https://twitter.com/munsterrugby/status/1295670884850638848?s=21 No more toys for Munster until they stop breaking them. All Limerick refereeing team for Saturday. Andy Brace in the middle with George Clancy and Joy Neville doing the line. Would be fairly shocking if true - if there's an...

Good to see more leinster clubs competing in senior cup than the past few seasons

Fixtures are out.
Anywhere with all fixtures?
Leinster website has division 1 conference fixtures.
Ive seen our fixtures in munster division 2

Was there not for years AIL structure with uneven home/away games. Not ideal but everyone plays everyone. It's for one season Aren't fixtures pretty much set/made online so no bias comes into it. The all Ireland plate and bowl are only for this season so the league format most likely is also only fo...

Fixing = improvement I’m saying that if the schools and underage development programs didn’t do anything differently (consciously) but the academy players start consistently breaking fully in the Munster 1st team, then standards would improve in the schools. what percentage of coaches in most of th...

Academies are built on a virtuous cycle. Schoolboys in Leinster know that they’ll get looked after if they make it to the academy. They won’t all make it but they will probably get a shot. Can a kid in a Munster school look at Munster’s squad and say the same thing. Maybe they are less likely to be...

Interesting discussion. Just my two cents as a Munster supporter. Firstly I’ve no interest in a parochial interprovincial shitfight. Bores me to tears. They’re all Irish players and the more high quality guys the Irish system produces the better I think If looking from outside over a 10 year stretc...

Interesting discussion. Just my two cents as a Munster supporter. Firstly I’ve no interest in a parochial interprovincial shitfight. Bores me to tears. They’re all Irish players and the more high quality guys the Irish system produces the better I think If looking from outside over a 10 year stretc...

Will Seymour(Centre/Pres Bray) also in Leinster u18 schools training squad. Where are these squads? Do you have an official squad list? there isnt a full official squad list. Clubs and schools may post their players who've been asked to train with the squads but that's it Wont be a complete list un...