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Our team needed to show greater consistency in attack and defence. The best, on both sides of the ball, was excellent but the lapses were what cost cost us. The simple things of catching and tackling went missing too often. Our Nos 7, 4, 3 and 5 showed great power in attack, from time to time, but n...

LAR up to 4th in table after comprehensive victory over bottom placed Oyonnax

Nure got the win. Conditions were against decent rugby with squally rain and Chris Busby ensured the rest. Two tough defences and Terenure won the try count 3-2, but rugby only appeared in patches. Finished 29-15, but game took almost 100 minutes!

mildlyinterested wrote: ↑March 30th, 2024, 10:49 am Jack Boyle, who has been linked with a move.

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Have not been that excited to go to the RDS in a long time. Felt like a game with proper jeopardy. Got on the wrong side of the ref early doors and then score an absolute worldie through VdF. Bad last 8-10 minutes of the first half and go in at half time 2 points and a man down. Second half perform...

'Leicester scrape past Newcastle in bizarre game' is an unusual headline but certainly reflects last night's game which was in sharp contrast to Leinster's performance against the Bulls.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/68658051

Oldschoolsocks wrote: ↑March 29th, 2024, 11:08 pm

tigerburnie wrote: ↑March 29th, 2024, 10:41 pm Healey thinks he is in charge, he is becoming an irritating little tw@t even to Leicester Tigers fans

I suspect that happened many moons ago…

Great player, mind

'Great' is stretching it a little. A good English scrum-half of his era.

Two strong sides named, although we look a bit stretched in the 3/4s, particularly when you look at the gas of Williams, Moodie, KLA and LeRoux. The back rows look evenly matched so I think it’s the half backs who will have to win it for us by controlling field position and tempo. Fascinating match...

We might even get some new fans from the moves. That is certainly how I would be looking at it. New fans from a 10 game move to the Aviva or Croker? Hardly New fans from a single game in Kilkenny? Perhaps, but unlikely to move the needle commercially I would have thought A really innovative approac...

I'd like to see the following line-up against the Bulls: Osborne, Larmour, Ringrose, Henshaw, Lowe, R Byrne, JGP; Milne, Kelleher, Big Mike, Big Joe, Molony, JVdF, Conan, Baird; Bench: Healy, Barron, Furlong, Jenkins, Deegan, McGrath, Turner. Bulls are a seriously hard-nosed outfit who will test our...

Thanks. Internationals back training today. Jason Jenkins also pictured so hopefully whatever forced him out of the starting lineup on Saturday was only a very short-term issue. https://www.sportsfile.com/more-images/112403136/ https://inpho.ie/assignment/zIYRgIj7fj7gOEIgRb3Hcg..a?ts=uNXMZm7j9dNRvL...

There's a 'break in play' between 10.45 am & 13.00 on Saturday for refuelling & General maintenance. Sunday morning is for catching up on the Women's 6 Nations.

Welcome back and it will be a bit more complex this season without sub-competitions.

Top 14 has it's own rules re Substitutes. The article below from 2018 (Wales online) gives a short interpretation of the " 12 Subs Rule : https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/french-top-14-rule-changes-148695...

Frawley injury curse strikes again. No mention of Will Connors. He took a couple of hefty blows to the knees in the first half. Didn't appear to be icing them in the stands though. Thanks. Internationals back training today. Jason Jenkins also pictured so hopefully whatever forced him out of the st...

Will the Bulls field at full strength against us on Friday? Jake white is the most experienced Coach in the URC, but even he will not have experienced the challenge of battling in two Competitions in different hemispheres over a 3 / 4 week timeframe. Bulls face Leinster next Friday in Dublin, follow...

Quite a lot of positives in that performance. Absolutely. The list is long. Deegan really should be pushing for a Europe spot, based on his performances this season, of which this was again good. You would think we would go 6:2 this week and again against Leicester. Particularly if Frawley is fit. ...

the spoofer wrote: ↑March 11th, 2024, 10:31 am Bective fail to make the round robin this year. Monkstown win LL1A. It will be interesting to compare the strength of the 4 leagues.

And the Play-off Semi-Finals are both in Ashbourne (neutral venue) which is an excellent idea. Monkstown v Thomond

And Bayonne clip the wings of 'the Great one' by 13 - 12 in Bayonne. LAR were not very impressive - although Bayonne is a hard place to win.

A very promising performance. You can see the changes that Scott Bemand and Declan Danagher have made to the organisation of the team, particularly in defence. We had a limited game plan that relied on our defence and a strong kicking game and it pretty much worked the way they wanted it to. We wou...