Babbling 'brook

71 for Blackrock. That’s incredible all the same. They might not do it next year given only 2 starters back next year but they won’t be too far off given majority of the replacements were 4th / 5th year. Who else will be strong next year? Michaels was mostly 6th year so might not be that strong? As...

We need five points this weekend. The fringe players have had a few matches against reasonably strong sides, to build some momentum so that should serve us well. What’s interesting is the list of potential starters in our strongest squad, who are unavailable this weekend. Porter, Healy Sheehan, Kel...

The trophy must be in Cork I assume?

21 year old Michael Moloney got a late call up. Top point scorer in the AIL, plays scrum half with UCD

Barry wrote: ↑March 14th, 2024, 12:12 pm Game will be streamed live on Bath's tictok channel

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very strange to broadcast a game on that stupid app

No Spicer ??

Oldschoolsocks wrote: ↑March 13th, 2024, 8:32 pm

deco wrote: ↑March 13th, 2024, 4:26 pm Marys 27 5 Michael's.

Marys v Gick final.

A Surprisingly few people know the origin of the name

It’s because Terenure are known to be disliked by rivals I’m fairly sure so they just refer to them as the gick

Spicer is a cert for the academy now I think. Always was a cert. This isn't a cut at you Mildly, I suspect you are of the same opinion and just putting it down in writing. Leinster would be guilty of ridiculous over-thinking to overlook a 208cm/130kg lock with Ireland age-grade experience and an ex...

The Grand Slam is the prize, and we've 100% left this one behind us. So the whole 6N is pointless unless a team wins the GS? :roll: We lost our 8th RWC QF so this team has failed like all the others! An attainable world record is the ultimate measure so wining Olympic Gold sucks! This binary era we...

I have heard that Casper Gabriel potentially joining the academy this year. Seems very surprising to me. Similar situation to Lucas Berti Newman and Karl Martin where sub-academy not really a runner, and plenty of interest from other clubs and provinces and Leinster don't want to lose him. As I sai...

uper proud of Ireland. We were terrible today. england fully deserved the win. We are tiny, in rugby terms to england. It's our 4th sport yet england celebrated like they won the world cup!! We will still win the championship next weekend! Looking back it feels good seeing how much England celebrat...

That was a pretty brain dead decision kicking it back to them given the circumstances. Pretty pathetic we didn’t back ourselves to be able to hold onto the ball for 100 seconds. We were poor today.

We need to hire Felix Jones

RugbyRugby2019 wrote: ↑March 9th, 2024, 1:39 pm Who was the last player who joined straight out of school?

Billy Dardis??

Class of 2018. Scott Penny, Ryan Baird, Michael Milne and David Hawkshaw. That was a special year group

Actually wouldn’t be surprised if Niall Smyth gets in ahead of Sparrow. He’s been phenomenal this season.

Year 3s Boyle Lasisi Murphy Cosgrave Presumably Boyle and Murphy will move onto contracts while Lasisi and Cosgrave leave Leinster That will leave an academy with 2 props 1 hooker 1 lock 3 back rows 1 SH 1 OH 2 C 2 W and 1 FB for a total of 14 filled places. I would expect us to bring in 6-7 new ac...

I saw a post on another forum about how u20s is really another level to the senior teams though. I can see a player like Gleeson not translating to higher levels, he makes a lot of yards going through players rather than around and as you go through the levels that becomes tougher to do. Also playe...

Ireland will be kicking themselves .... they'll be delighted to get the draw at the end but they should have won that England have nothing other than one out runners and the Ireland skills were miles ahead O'Connor is obviously a superb athlete but his multi-code focus has stunted his rugby intelli...

Just realised England are playing France next week.Great news

Keith wrote: ↑March 8th, 2024, 9:07 pm Thought Ireland were the better team tbh. Delighted with that performance.

Yes unlucky with a few miss kicks.