Babbling 'brook

propertymad wrote:

arsebiscuits1 wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 12:49 pm

propertymad wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 12:49 pm Not a tighthead .... an Ngatai replacement who can also cover flyhalf and back three [emoji41]

A perfect back to have for any 6-2 split

Is the McKenzie rumour getting legs again??

Not McKenzie

Who is it? Haven’t seen any rumours myself.

Feel bad for Ringrose, but less concerned after Osbourne’s performances over the past couple of weeks.

Hopefully Ngatai can come back into contention soon to give us a bit of depth there should anything happen to Osbourne or Henshaw.

Do Leinster/IRFU get any money out of the Semi or does it all go to EPCR? Think it all goes to ERC with a smallish payment to clubs. I reckon Leinster must have pulled in close on €750k net from the last two weeks. You basically have to go and win the competition to get your gate receipts back.

To all the fan boys in the Irish media who drooled and dribbled at O'Gara's feet for the past 2 years but especially this week - thank you for the extra motivation that you provided to the Leinster team and supporters today. Assume you'll be hoping for a saints win in Croke park? Sent from my VOG-L...

Defence was absolutely supreme today. La Rochelle really never looked like scoring a point, they were gifted all of the points they got and created nothing. Ruck defence was insane. I don’t think we conceded a single jackal turnover in the entire 80 minutes, and made absolute shite of their ruck bal...

When do La Rochelle announce their team? Nothing from the social channels yet

The reality is that home advantage is huge in rugby, we’ve been a top two side in Europe for pretty much six years at this point, we have to be favourites for this game. Yes, we shat the bed against the same opposition last season, but we really should have won that one too.

Presume it was supposed to be Luke McGrath. He’s the only first 23 injury missing there

I see we scored 14 tries, I guess we also converted every one of them too for 98 points? Mad.

The loss at home to Ulster is biting us here. In retrospect, it was a shocking result against an absolute dog sh!t Ulster team, but what can you do.

I always knew Mildly was a red shirt.

Thought the defensive effort was top class again tonight. It’s the first time in a year that the Bulls have been kept to 14 points or lower (last time was vs Toulouse in the last 16 of the Champions Cup). The last phase summed it up for me. The lads thought the game was over and were half way into t...

Absolutely superb pass from Ross Byrne. His clearance kick from the turnover a few minutes earlier that gave us the field position was also excellent. Good few minutes for him.

Try and an assist for Milne in 20 minutes. Feel like we needed that 5th try. Bulls have more points in them.

One of Larmour’s best performances in years tbh.

Yeah I’d agree. We’ve played five 20 year olds this season so far, and still a chance we cap a couple more.

Munster have capped 3 (but also had a massive injury crisis for half the season), Ulster have capped 1 and Connacht have capped none.

You mean first caps this season? I think this is the list:

Dylan Donnellan (I know, not an academy player)
Paddy McCarthy
Rory McGuire
Diarmuid Mangan
Fintan Gunne
Andrew Osbourne
Henry McErlean

Seven total, six academy players. Might have missed someone though.

I really like the direction of defence is going in. We tended to be more passive in defence prior to Nienaber, waiting for the mistake when we didn’t have the ball, rather than forcing it. I think the current system turns over the ball in Marseille in those final 10 minutes, rather than letting La R...

I'm also very curious to see how Jamie Osborne fares at this level. I think we already know Osbourne can do it at this level. He has a few European starts under his belt, most notably at home vs Racing last season, and played the full 80 vs Gloucester away too. Maybe a strong Bulls team is a step u...

The two quarter finals we were involved in generated 14k and 9k ticket sales roughly. There’s relatively little demand for them as they’re seen as foregone conclusions (and were in those cases as we won both games with an aggregate score of 111-19)