Babbling 'brook

Brilliant to have Snyman for a year, but I can’t see a renewal so will be interesting to see what happens after that. Eoin Toolan on the 42 podcast (who is generally a very good analyst imo) is talking about this deal blocking the development of Leinster locks and wondering who we pick out of Ryan,...

Personally would like us to go strong for this one and rotate a bit for Ulster who I think we can handle with a mix and match team. Yep fully agree that would be my approach too. Go hard for Munster and try to make their December even worse with another win in Thomond, then rotate a bit for Ulster ...

Personally would like us to go strong for this one and rotate a bit for Ulster who I think we can handle with a mix and match team. Keeping the foot on Munster is key now, been a bad week for them, let's keep it going. Last year was a bit too much to take with a trophy heading down there. Perhaps wh...

After seeing the comments here about MF I went for a look. It’s amazing how in their heads we are. This is from the Exeter match thread; “Nucifora/IRFU condemned us to this very scenario. When Munster tried to sign an elite Hooker it was blocked. We were compelled make do with Niall Scannell, an ho...

Murray had an atrocious cameo (is there a word for a disastrous cameo ??) Literally mistake after mistake for 15 mins.

Munster had that game stitched up but do seem to be struggling second half this year.

Makes our job easier for the 26th - load the bench and wait for the inevitable implosion ??

Sale should give them a good rattle so you never know...

We are immensely proud of our young team’s performance. 18 out of 23 been through our academy. No current international in the 23. Only 6 have played for their country. I know you feel that your team were subpar but Sale must get some credit for the way they played. They played with great passion a...

Job done points wise, much more direct second half made the difference. Plenty to work on.....

Marred by what looks like it will be a long layoff now for Ngatai. Fingers crossed for him.

Feck....Charlie does not look good......

wixfjord wrote: ↑December 16th, 2023, 7:01 pm Ngatai is turning into a real key player.

+1

Yeah it's a simple game really, you push the rush defence back by winning the collisions and getting over the gainline. Don't and its a half like the first one.....

Finally a bit of route one and we start....gotta win the collisions.

Strange half, physically Leinster look like they just can't be bothered winning any collisions. Sale doing nothing remarkable but we are just being very passive.

Am I bothered.......springs to mind. Yes Sale have turned up with a weakened side bit you still need to put em away.

Well didn't see that one coming......... Now please can he just stay fit and play a pile of games for us and cue meltdown down the road as they watch him up rack up the minutes..... Honestly though hope we got a deal, poor guy seems to be injury plagued. Fingers crossed for him. Now time to make a c...

I think the yapping at the ref was planned because a ref might handle one team doing it a bit but both teams on to him all the time was too much and it was always gonna annoy him. They couldn't allow us to be more annoying than them, it's not in their nature. It wasn't a great sight for the game, b...

Carley did okay. Not perfect but he tried to get a flowing game up against teams that were out to test him and influence him. He wasn't overly fussy and he let both teams at it to an extent. I didn't agree with the scrums but it mostly wasn't decisive anyway. Agree, thought Carley was pretty good. ...

I fully expect ROG to send a weakened side to SA given a 6 day turnaround and their Top 14 schedule on return. I expect they will back themselves to win the final 2 pool games and still qualify for knockouts in April albeit with a tough draw. Aldritt was a massive loss to them today and he'll be ba...

Chapeau to the lads - that game was absolutely brutal from the first kick to the last, siege mentality evident there in our lads. They desperately wanted it today and it showed. Have to say Baird was my clear MOTM, he was everywhere always and at times I thought there were three of him on the pitch,...

All about a performance today and being professional going for bonus points etc. If we win it's a major bonus. Fingers crossed.

Allez les Blues.

Actually fancying our changes here. Think after the last two weeks of utter dross and error strewn rugby the lads will be wanting to set things right.

Let's hope they click and ROG's post match cote de beouf is a little less tasty.