Babbling 'brook

Fairly accurate appraisal of what happened IMHO. Scotland, Spain, Italy. Teams they would have normally had for breakfast. Under performed, choked, sh!t the bed. Use whatever term you like. Spain were ranked 9th to Irelands 8th (and when they were in the 6 Nations were not unused to beating us, we'...

Stephen Jones on the Times podcast https://player.fm/series/the-ruck-rugby-podcast/red-roses-history-and-deja-vu-in-the-champions-cup Oh my good god! "The Heineken Cup should never be in Dublin" Leinster might win it. Leinster played every game at home (wrong), eh so did Toulouse until the...

Didn't Eddy get the heave-ho for suggesting that the players bore some accountability for not qualifying for the WC? No, having missed most of the significant targets in the overall IRFU action plan and the Women in Action plan, he gave a presser that was not so much a car crash as a demolition der...

Didn't Eddy get the heave-ho for suggesting that the players bore some accountability for not qualifying for the WC?

Sad to see Paddy Patterson's injury in SA confirmed as an ACL. Shame after a great season for him. Earls having an MRI on an injury too. May have played his last in Munster colours (Cap #200 wouldn't be a bad one to bow out on). Bad luck for Paddy he was having a good season. Meant to say it last w...

This bit at the end The financial crisis across the league has deepened in recent years. According to a parliamentary investigation, Premiership clubs each lose, on average, £4 million a year. Premiership Rugby failed to secure an uplift on its broadcasting deal with BT Sport. Every club is now sadd...

Would imagine it’s near impossible to gauge given they’ve been on public sale for a year and it usually attracts neutral rugby fans from all over Europe (and further) but would hope that there should be at least 30k-35k Leinster fans at the final and about 4K-7k LaR (though they may attract some ne...

Indo reporting Greg McWilliams to step down with immediate effect https://m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/greg-mcwilliams-to-exit-role-as-ireland-womens-head-coach/a448594653.html Imagine it will be quite a struggle to find a replacement able to turn things around 191 missed tackles in 5 games suggest...

ronk wrote: ↑May 1st, 2023, 10:01 pm It's hard to know what the Sharks will be like in the knockouts: A South African side hasn't lost to a NH side in the URC knockouts yet.

If we make it to the semi we'll be the only team to have done it.

Ah Ronk. There has only been two such games.

A URC Team in each Final!
Lets turn out in droves for Glasgow on the Friday night.
Leinster for life, Warrior for the day Tshirts and all that.

Aside from that great game, it seems to me that some are forgetting that Sharks have an all-Springbok front-row of props Nche & Du Toit with hooker Mbonami for good measure with Grobelar & Andrews in the row and, even without Kolisi, they always produce a decent back-row. Bosch & Willia...

Yeah, he got 21 minutes off the bench against Gloucester at the RDS. Harry Byrne has seen far more action in this season's competition than Sexton. Thanks, I think thats a sign of how much he has improved but also how the team has evolved and how well it's coached. Ugo Monye and the rest of the BBC...

When we walk out onto the pitch for the Final we will be doing so for the 196th time. And that will be more than any team has ever played in this competition.

We've got to fly to South Africa, Italy, Scotland, Wales, England and France throughout the season. Radge plays two games outside of France all season and whinges about how hard it is. La Rochelle play against teams from pretty little towns in the South of France. We have to play against monster un...

Martin Bayfield on BT after thebgame today saying that La Rochelle had two hard games before the final and that Leinster "dont have that" La Rochelle have games that they can afford to lose, we dont, we lose next week our URC season is over, we win and lose the following week, our URC seas...

Ronan O’Gara: “The month Leinster have this month, we have it every month. You need to think about that for a little bit. We have ten months of a slog.”

And it begins...

probably a good thing that Exeter V La Rochelle game was behind paywall TV. Dreadful stuff. It was like a game of skittles, FFS. Not a great advert for the game and I'm sure the English will be pointing to budgets as they reflect on yet another year with no english team looking remotely possible of...

We've no chance against that lot.

Mike Ross@MikeRoss03 Leinster scrum has been excellent. Looks like they've changed the second rows from a split stance to both knees on the floor Haven't a rashers what he means tbh. Bundee Aki was at the game yesterday, saw him posing for snaps with Will Connors, and a few others after the game. B...

Mike Ross@MikeRoss03
Leinster scrum has been excellent. Looks like they've changed the second rows from a split stance to both knees on the floor

Haven't a rashers what he means tbh.

Bundee Aki was at the game yesterday, saw him posing for snaps with Will Connors, and a few others after the game.