Babbling 'brook

Hard to judge where we are as folks have said given coaching changes, late return of coaches, RWC and weather. Better to be struggling a bit now than in April. Some players are benefitting hugely from changes and/or are in great form regardless. Baird and McCarthy chief among them. Larmour also. Cla...

Tricky game to come back for but Luke is heartbreakingly up and down

blaker wrote: ↑December 16th, 2023, 7:12 pm The consistent value add of everything Charlie and Dan do really stands out

And now it looks like he’s done his Achilles

The consistent value add of everything Charlie and Dan do really stands out

Awful stuff.
2 kick offs have bounced.
Scrums a lottery from ref
Crooked lineout
Our shepherding of kick chase very weak

Magic

Rightly or wrongly ref is turning agin us now. Feels like the usual strangle of LAR. Need a release

Scrum is going to be the death of us

Are they “filthy” or just extremely aggro and niggly? No punches, kicks, gouges etc. no tip tackles. Lots of headlocks in the ruck or squashing a face into the ground - not pleasant at all but a bit more “old school” than filthy. I’d not be against us showing a bit of it in past games truthfully - b...

We’re (excellently) hanging on. Fear the bench will eventually hurt us. Again seem to be kicking for territory not touch - I’ll defer to experts on the wisdom of that

Osborne has to play next week for all the reasons imaginable. Penny over VDF is closer but I’d not be surprised either way. Deegan is behind Doris and Conan which is tough. VDF isn’t in form at all. Either you pick guys who are pushing hard or you’re just sticking to a 23 that’s pre determined. The...

Osborne has to play next week for all the reasons imaginable.
Penny over VDF is closer but I’d not be surprised either way.
Deegan is behind Doris and Conan which is tough.

Leinster are allowing Munster perform. Up by 1 on the bord but set up for a Munster try around minute 67 and a bunch of ineffective huffing and puffing thereafter

Another quite passive performance where Leinster allow things to happen rather than mandate the outcome

Keenan is in very rarefied air - he’s an incredible player.

enby wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2023, 5:26 pm Imagine this scrum out in South Africa. On second thoughts, don't.

This is it - have to assume Furlong barely plays league this year. Healy is on the wind down. Decent chance that this group make up the majority our tight head group most matches

No Porter, furlong, Kelleher, Sheehan, healy, al'alatoa, Ed Byrne, or Milne in our front row ..... and it's showing Having said that the 3 tries resulted from some shocking midfield defence ..... and the likes of Jenkins needs to take a look in the mirror at scrum and maul time Our front row has an...

You don’t want to make decisions based on a single game, away, second string etc but I struggle to see the basis for which Tom C has a career at this level in front of him. If we view him as 4th or 5th choice then I’d rather just have kids in there who may have upside

This is the worsr RWC I can remember. Sure, 2007 or 2011 might have less quality but the hype around this tournament is not remotely close to being matched on the field. Rugby is in a weird place now where some games you see scheduled (Fra v NZ v Ireland v SA) could go on to be the greatest games e...

I said before that IRL and Leinster have “let games happen to them” a few times recently. Demonstrably if you lose a game something has gone wrong so hindsight is always 20/20 but I think we all agree that the margin in 2x LAR games and the NZ game were wafer thin. Holding up a lineout throw and mak...