Babbling 'brook

Loved, loved, loved yesterday. When you make yourself the jester and court the attention it’s hard to feel sorry for you when things don’t go your way. There of course might be some truth in the possibility of the toll of having to travel to and back from South Africa over the last two weeks having ...

I watched a lot of the rugby over the weekend and some of it was dreadful, some of it was okay and some of it was entertaining but there wasn’t a game that came close to our match vs La Rochelle yesterday. For atmosphere-it was like a cauldron with insane home support and pockets of a very passionat...

PROUD!!!

Thank you Leinster Rugby!

Dipping in again, god help me. ROG is a great coach. Does whatever he needs to do to win. Once you win though show some humility. He’s beaten us twice in finals in one score games and he’s acted like an arrogant bollix afterwards, he’s dismissed Leinster as an organisation, he’s never acknowledged h...

Great match. The two best games in the World Cup so far have involved Ireland. Both very different games but both could have been the final. I mean this with 100% humility, this Irish side were there to win the whole damn thing and they could have but only one team can do it. We played two teams wit...

Please Leo keep us at the business end of both competitions again next season. Please don’t have us struggling in the Champions Cup or URC like other teams and be making up bullshit excuses for non delivery of results like other coaches. Please don’t change our culture and ethos from one where we br...

Today is the most important game in the last 5 years.

This team and organisation give me so much, they give my family and friends so much. I nearly want them to win more for themselves than for me. There is a changing of the guard to some extent.

Up since 5 this morning.

C’mon you beautiful blue b$&%@#ds!

That is some 23 we have.

Do you know what I think would be magic. If the players hopped off the bus at the Sandymount Hotel and walked to the stadium from there. Soak in that bond and atmosphere for a few minutes, I always found the walk the players do by the river past the fans over in Bath special and very old school. I k...

Really interesting thoughts above on being chill versus being hyped/angry. Hard balance to strike. Get it right and you're a genius (or Andy Farrell). Or get the turnover penalty we should have got at the end last year (Big Mike) and the exact same game up to the 79th minute ends differently and ev...

You’ve done BR8 real dirty here hugo pulling up this thread, he was just looking out for a former alum. It would be like if someone pulled up the thread where the emperor needed new clothing or something like that where Harry was to replace Johnny 3 years ago. You’ve done him real dirty here :lol: C...

Conan has been our go to lineout man over the last 6 weeks. He took the first 4 or 5 against Toulouse.

Well done to Munster.

Hard luck to our boys, we were not brilliant today by a long stretch but we nearly didn’t have to be.

Nice consolation prize next week to try and win, poor us.

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑May 12th, 2023, 12:49 pm

blockhead wrote: ↑May 12th, 2023, 12:46 pm

cormac wrote: ↑May 12th, 2023, 12:15 pm Joey Carbery must have seriously pissed off someone down south

Got married on Tuesday,up in Dublin, so I'm not sure how much focus he had on Saturday's game.

He'd have known by then if he was in the 23.

I expect he will be off to Paris in the summer.

Honeymoon?

ROG showing his petulance there by pretending he was unsure if Tracy was still with Leinster or not, this is a guy who loves showing his knowledge on the AIL and it’s players but he doesn’t know who is in the squad of the team La Rochelle are playing in a Final next week, yeah right. Then he has ano...

If you leave aside McFarland and his coaching pedigree. Is it time for a new coach in Ulster. As an outsider I would think yes. If I was an Ulster fan I would be booing YEEEEEEESSSSSSS. McFarland has had a good crack at it. You can be really successful and that could still be the case eg Ireland’s g...

Not getting the apathy myself. Might not have another season like this in my lifetime (I’m not that old!!), chance to hose the old enemy in Dublin in a semi and follow it up next week with a 5th star in Dublin. Then the cherry on top the next week. Absolute dream land stuff.

https://www.sportsjoe.ie/rugby/ronan-ogara-leinster-final-287102 RO'G is a feckin plonker. He went out of his way to show up Martin Bayfield on TV post-LAR-vs-EXE, wouldn't give a simple straight answer to anything and essentially talked down to him condescendingly. He whinges at the start about wh...

I think they were just thrown in at the deep end because that was the remit. Young players sometimes teenagers playing against professionals, zero experience playing against massive experience. McWilliams did what the higher ups wanted, he started from scratch and tried to upskill at the same time, ...

Only a personal thing but I'd like to see us going back to no head coaches (or DOR's) not on the sidelines or on the pitch dressed as water boys. I love soccer but one thing about it that bugs me is some of the antics on the sidelines with coaches trying to influence the officials or just plain sho...