Babbling 'brook

Leaving aside JIFF, I wonder how the english players in France get around the Non-EU citizen rules (e.g. 90 day rule), post brexit. Jude Bellingham was nudged by real madrid to get an Irish passport to get around the non-eu player quota on teams...which is, I guess, like JIFF but EU-wide. I'm prett...

johng wrote: ↑January 15th, 2024, 8:55 pm

Oldschoolsocks wrote: ↑January 10th, 2024, 10:11 pm I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is

Who let the prop into the backs discussion.

Backs can't afford mortgages

Planning on heading to this. Any idea where the OLSC will designate before/after the match as a meeting pub/point? I can't seem to be able to access the away guides for any previous fixture on the Leinster Rugby website. They really need to tidy up the back end of the site. We've not played a game ...

Caelan Doris seemed to discount his chances of being named captain in an interview with the 42 - saying he thinks there are "quite a few" ahead of him in the queue at the moment. James Ryan or Ringrose both ahead. Caelan is a great player but if he was a contender why isn't he for Leinste...

Maybe, just maybe, and this is a wild idea so hold on to your hats and strap yourselves in.... Are you ready... Hang on tight... ...Sheehan and Kelleher aren't very good at throwing the ball in. That doesn't pan out with them previously being much better at it. I think the system at Leinster and Ir...

riocard911 wrote: ↑January 14th, 2024, 2:49 pm But now Barbery, the Bath no. 8, has copped his second yellow card, which means red.

If he gets cited will he be the only player to be red carded twice for one game?

Switching arms is not losing control

Another very, very mixed performance. Defence is great. Not much else is. We look a bit unimaginative at times. Henshaw kicking turnover ball on halfway straight down the pitch stands out in the last 5mins of the half. The box kick off lineout ball. It’s a style of rugby England and Sarries had a l...

No way they'll make up a reason to undo that try

How is a player who joins a ruck and is then held in obstruction?

offshorerules wrote: ↑January 12th, 2024, 11:37 am I'd ignore twitter.

It's not just Twitter, it's on every forum, newspaper comments section, their media, their boardrooms. From top to bottom.

Loads of Welsh Twitter noting that they are getting big crowds for Anglo Welsh European games and longing for an AW league. We should give them their wish. They wouldn't be missed from URC Paul Williams at least being rational about it. But if this continues much longer, the URC should chuck them o...

allezlesverres wrote: ↑January 12th, 2024, 8:43 am I see zebo on the 42 discussing his chances at a call up. If he has a good run this weekend I think he will get the call.

He'd be exposed faster than a flasher if he was

It would be folly for Munster to consider an outhalf battle at this point. Crowley has pushed Healy and Carbery out of the nest, they need to take every chance they have to develop him. They've gone all in on him, now they have to call. I think it's 21 years between Staunton getting capped and Crow...

The downgrading of Carbery and the attempt to rationalise it by the "We should move players around" crowd leave a bad taste. He was actually never good enough etc. Nothing wrong with the concept, it's just the players that fail. It's an easier sell than Munster development of players is t...

the spoofer wrote: ↑January 8th, 2024, 11:59 pm So Jackman has doubled down.

The Munster grift pays better than the truth

When was this changed? It's always been my understanding for years that you had to be bought onside after a kick regardless of how far the carrier takes it

Why would anyone leave Leinster to go to a vastly inferior organisation? If there was any doubt, Carbery is the case study they should read. Even if someone was bundled into the back of Nucifora’s car and driven down the M7, surely they’d realise that local boy Crowley is untouchable and they would...

Surely any Leinster 10 will see how poorly treated and developed the other ex Leinster 10s have been in Munster and give them a wide berth.

betty swallocks wrote: ↑January 8th, 2024, 3:25 pm

ronk wrote: ↑January 8th, 2024, 2:36 pm Stockdale, Baloucoune, Nash and Larmour

If you have to go down the depth chart that fast you should also go wider.

Ralston would be an upgrade on at least 2 of that 4, but our Southern friends would self-combust!

Let them, they broke Hansen