Babbling 'brook

I don't really buy this idea of ROG as a cheque book coach. He joins La Rochelle ahead of the 2019-20 season with Jonno Gibes as his Director of Rugby. Then he becomes top dog for the 2021-22 season. He certainly hasn't signed most of their best players. Botia and Atonio are over a decade at La Roc...

dougie the flanker wrote: ↑April 14th, 2024, 6:27 pm Do you think that ROGs antics and his standing with of Leinsters fans (and you would assume players) will hurt any future chances of being a future Irish coach?

I do but I'm not really the guy who could tell you. Like I don't think the media profile and "brand" are doing him any favours.

I'd say there will be a very good travelling support from Northampton for this one. The fact they had a home fixture in the Round of 16 and the Quarter Final and are in London for the final means they were always going to travel. The Croke Park curiosity factor will probably get a few more over who...

So the big question from that game is stick or twist on Osborne/ringer?

On the ferry to cherbourg Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk No one cares. He's had his 15 minutes. To be fair to him he was out on the pitch at the end and he shook hands with any of our players who walked past him - he actually had quite a long conversation with James and Nico Lowe No. No intent...

Dave Cahill wrote: ↑April 13th, 2024, 8:35 pm

SaoPaulo41 wrote: ↑April 13th, 2024, 8:33 pm I'm sure it has been mentioned here somewhere , but when is the semi?

Star Wars Day

So it’s the Sunday of the bank holiday weekend?

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑April 12th, 2024, 4:14 pm

paddyor wrote: ↑April 12th, 2024, 4:07 pm Nick MacCarthy wasn't over a decade ago.

We went after Aungier as well apparently.

and i said it was rare not that it didnt happen..

its a huge shame we never tried to bring Beirne back, that was certainly an oversight.

I thought we were blocked?

Nick MacCarthy wasn't over a decade ago.

We went after Aungier as well apparently.

Western spies maybe? Anyway big opportunity for Baird here (if he is) calling the lineout. I think we're gambling on an 80% lineout here to get us over the line. We make it up in maul defense and attack though. With the 2 tractors in the 2nd row we won't be as scared to attack their lineout either I...

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑April 11th, 2024, 8:37 pm appears Tom Farrell joining Munster from Connacht.

Classic Munster move. Opens an avenue to sign another one next season.

Has there been anything else on where we play next season?

Bizarre if bulls are "throwing" this match .... why did they bother against Lyon only to do this? or more pertinently, why didn't they take the risk of playing their B team against Lyon in Pretoria and/or sending their B team to Dublin ? Their last 5 league games are all winnable WITHOUT ...

Where are you seeing that they left 11 front liners in SA? I can't find any such report ..... but if it's true I'll be putting a bet on Northampton to beat the handicap https://x.com/WheresTommyV/status/1778364643079061543 Hmmm ...... that looks suspiciously like a Jake White special to me. I'll aw...

I’ve seen quite a few people hyping up Northampton. Don’t see it myself. I see the Bulls beating them this weekend. They’re the best of the English teams remaining sure but that’s about it. That’s a poor Munster team that they struggled to put away and for large spells of the first half got dominat...

A few thoughts. Firstly I pop in here as it tend to be a different viewpoint. Munster aren’t actually doing too badly at all. We have our strengths and weaknesses. One of the biggest big bears I often have is the comparison business of one province v another. Each have their one unique set of chall...

4m in operational debt seems kind of mad. Kind of funny in the context of them wanting to hang on to Snyman. And yes I realise his wages were paid by outsiders bung money in under the table which when you say it makes the operation debt even more bizarre. EDIT: SO the 4m debt is for a HPU in limeri...

4m in operational debt seems kind of mad. Kind of funny in the context of them wanting to hang on to Snyman. And yes I realise his wages were paid by outsiders bung money in under the table which when you say it makes the operation debt even more bizarre.

The42 Monday podcast was a decent listen. Very little of the ROG sycophancy while actually talking about it. A lot of the talk of the upcoming game was very balanced. I thought jackman was a bit all over the place. Couldn’t seem to decide if it was coming to be the players or the coaches that made ...

The gate money from the quarter-final is split between the two participating teams (as is the previous round) but the semi-final ticket revenue goes to EPCR. There used to be, under the ERC, a situation where, if you moved the game to a larger ground the gate would be split 60-40 provided the away ...