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A Surprisingly few people know the origin of the name Sheep sh!t on the pitches historically? Nope We just always referred to Terenure as "Manure"... assumed it was because it rhymed. And then became The Gick Didn't realise there was an origin story Sent from my LE2123 using Tapatalk

My concern would be that the England game gives Scotland hope - either shows a chink in our armor or just gives them something to be optimistic about.

enby wrote:

riocard911 wrote: ↑March 10th, 2024, 3:44 pm No dad rock during the breaks in play in Cardiff, which is most pleasing.

Good point

I think there is... Final Countdown or something like it was blaring during a break in play

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I see the telegraph pushing the fact that Molony is English qualified. Would they cap him? No. But it has implications for the club if he is English qualified. Can't recall if relates to financial support from the RFU or rules around squad composition but I believe it is useful for them Sent from m...

Molecast #117 is yet another great bit of commentary / analysis. The lads don't accept the Gervais theory that the atmosphere in Lansdowne is crazy but rather they suggest that the sophisticated, mature attendees are watching a skillful and talented Irish team display how well they have matured int...

The Scottish RFU tried to approach London Scottish with a view to having another pro team, the English RFU were quite firm in their rebuttal and that was to play in the English leagues, would you want Wasps playing home games in Athy but in the English Premiership? fair points. The mooted ospreys/e...

That's impressive. Capacity of Loftus Versfeld is 51,000. 100-130 Rand (€4.50-€5.50) each for premium seats near the 22 . Any Leinster supporters travelled down for our URC Games before know the all-in price for a trip? Wouldn't mind doing it, just for the experience. A few buddies went on previous...

I guess you could look at it this way, Imagine a conversation in a Unilever, Coke or Ryanair board room going "we've massively increased demands but don't have enough bottles of coke or planes. Oh well, that's just the way it is." Wouldn't happen, that's the difference in professionalism ...

artaneboy wrote: ↑February 28th, 2024, 7:32 am
Look- I take your point on the technical illegality. But my point is two-fold: that it didn’t actually prevent the try being scored; and there are variants of Beirne’s illegality going unpunished in loads of mauls.

Disagree on first point - agree on second.

The Lansdowne / Aviva atmosphere & ticket debate is a perennial discussion. Back in the 90's people were giving out about it (at the time it was the "Sheepskin jacket and hip-flask" brigade). When I moved into our house about 15 years ago, I was chatting with the neighbor and talking a...

The linesman, the English one, called it immediately. He called Beirne for changing his bind. We all heard that. But no mention of him holding the ball up as a result. It doesn't matter really... Acting illegally as a maul is heading for the line. The penalty try implies that a try was likely to be...

..... The narrative from ref to TMO was in terms, but simply: “he broke his bind. So, penalty try and a yellow card?” Response, “Yes I agree…”. And the ref trots under the posts as Beirne trudges off. There seems to be a bit of a lacuna in the logic there. And anyway, on breaking his bind, while he...

hand on heart...which do you think is better....URC teams playing away to an empty stadium in Wales in a lobsided 5 point gimme or playing in front of a jam packed stadium near London in a competitive game of rugby? Furthermore, do you think increasing the reach into england will bring more or less...

Man, Ireland are only three wins on from their tenth consecutive failure to win a ko match at the RWC and already at least one Irish media muppet, Eamon Sweeny of the Indo has lost the run of himself, claiming that Faz mór's "juggernaut" is threatening to make a "mockery" of the...

Surely Wasps into the URC couldn't be unilateral on Wasps part? By that, I mean that the RFU would have the ultimate veto on an English club, would it not? [ignoring all of the potential objections by the URC constituent nations] And why would the RFU allow it. The next day the best teams would the...

Yeah, I think it reflects the fact that when the planning was done for the upgrade (beyond the space limitations that Havelock Square creates), the feeling was that a c. 50k seater stadium would be ideal. The past decade plus has shown we would absolutely have the demand to consistently fill a 80k ...

World rugby HQ is just down the road. Could just be here for routine stuff

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I'd like if there was a stream for this game but I understand where Leinster are coming from. I don't get why people are talking about this being anything to do with Leinster (sorry Ronk - I'm quoting you but I know you weren't specifically talking about this game but it has been mentioned a few ti...

Xanthippe wrote:

Laighin Break wrote: ↑February 20th, 2024, 12:03 pm

Dave Cahill wrote: ↑February 20th, 2024, 11:59 am Tht'll b grt

*gr8

Nah Lghn Brk - it’s just the vowels they’re removing at the moment, they haven’t gotten as far as changing letters for numbers yet

Thanks Xnthpp

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Capitán wrote:The stats above are all for England v Wales, which apparently had 18 scrums: https://www.espn.com/rugby/matchstats?g ... gue=180659

A minute per scrum sounds about average.



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