Babbling 'brook

Is there any possibility we could have this thread merged with the Cian Healy - Legend thread which is already open? There's more information on his records and potential records in there.

Dunne is a big lad. But he's not really a Damien Browne, Jean Kleyn or Jason Jenkins tighthead lock. He's mobile and is more of a back on your feet quick player than a get your rest on the openside/scrumhalf type. Scarlets might go well for him. He's no all-action Beirne either though . To be fair ...

This week's listings are on the usual forums. Thanks Neill Fri Apr 12 – Sun Apr 14 Champions Cup Quarter Finals Sat Apr 13 3pm Bordeaux vs Harlequins TNT Sports 3 / beIN SPORTS / France TV / Super Sport / FloRugby Sat Apr 13 5:30pm Leinster vs La Rochelle RTE2 / TNT Sports 3 / beIN SPORTS / Super S...

I too was there at Aviva that day when the combined Leinster/Ulster team put Munster/ Connacht to the sword. Interesting to see that six of that squad went on to play for Ulster ( 5 home grown and Marty Moore) a great return on Ulster’s youth programme. There is no doubt that Marshall was the star ...

I have two tickets in Row F, Block 524. Cost was €111 with service charges will let them go for €100 if anyone is interested

Thats a pretty incendiary appointment considering that Dickson was one of the officials abused by Jonny after a match between these teams last year. Not only was JS banned but Leinster were fined €7,500 over the affair. This appointment puts Dickson in a pretty invidious position and piles totally ...

God rugby has some really stupid rules. France score a try with a second on the clock and opt to skip the conversion and take the restart but because it wasn’t the captain who told the referee they wanted the restart it wasn’t allowed - the captain couldn’t tell the referee because he was on the gro...

LeinsterLeader wrote: ↑April 6th, 2024, 10:59 pm Now DuPont is awol is there a better scrum half than JGP atm?

Psst LL - he’s not awol anymore. He was back last week for the game against Pau and he’s playing tomorrow v Racing

P.S. In the Champions Cup the highest seeded team gets home advantage in the knock-outs so if Bulls and Munster both win their Round of 16 games, the quarter-final will be in Pretoria, not Limerick. You sure about that cormac. I thought if you beat a higher seeding you take their seeding (or the eq...

A tribute to the DJ, artist and knife maker who also dabbles in the odd game of rugby!! Church's appearance in the match on Saturday brought him to cap 400 (Ireland 129 and Leinster 271) - this makes him only the 3rd Irish player to reach a combined total of 400 caps for club and country (behind Str...

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Billy Barry is an exciting player alright. Loved watching him play.

But can he dance?

This is the unanswered question. We need to know.

Oh come on - how can you have watched France and missed him dancing down the wing!!!

Nominees for POTC. Bundee Aki Ben Earl Duhan van der Meurwe Tommaso Menonoello Link to vote here: https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/m6n/news/vote-for-your-guinness-player-of-the-championship I know we're probably all expected to vote for Bundee but I have to be honest - I voted for Menoncello.

That’s the strangest looking bandaging - looks like something you’d do yourself

Ireland Autumn games taking shape: 9/11 New Zealand 16/11 Argentina 23/11 ?? 30/11 Australia Not Japan, they are playing England on the weekend 22-24 Nov. I wonder would they go with someone like Portugal or Georgia (or Fiji, Samoa or Tonga) in the RDS? I thought all full internationals had to be p...

neill_m wrote: ↑March 13th, 2024, 2:23 pm Ireland Autumn games taking shape:

9/11 New Zealand
16/11 Argentina
23/11 ??
30/11 Australia

Not Japan, they are playing England on the weekend 22-24 Nov.

I wonder would they go with someone like Portugal or Georgia (or Fiji, Samoa or Tonga) in the RDS?

Very peculiar behind paywall article in Indo (republished from Torygraph) today by a Ben Coles on what he sees as increasing number of examples of simulation in rugby. He refers to the Genge on Furlong incident concluding from the lack of action by TMO and citing guy that it must've been shoulder t...

Winning the Championship is clearly not pointless. As an aside, not winning the Grand Slam has cost us a million quid which is 3 central contracts. Sorry Flash where are you getting that number from - there was never any sort of bonus for winning the slam in the past so is this something new? I was...

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...

Thanks a million Mildly

Farrell Names Ireland Team To Face England At Twickenham Head Coach Andy Farrell has named his Ireland Match Day Squad for Saturday’s Guinness Men’s Six Nations clash against England at Twickenham (Kick-off 4.45pm). Peter O’Mahony captains Ireland for the Round 4 visit to London, with Hugo Keenan r...