The Rugby Thread

[Buzzo]

Few would have predicted this as the final 6N's table.

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[Irishnev]

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This guy must be a comedian I reckon.....did the Salah chant also.

[Buzzo]

Very good!

Edinburgh beat Munster on Friday night.

[Irishnev]

Very good!

Edinburgh beat Munster on Friday night.

Saw it but they got a bonus point right - v hard for the provincial sides when the 6 Nations is on

[Buzzo]

Saw it but they got a bonus point right - v hard for the provincial sides when the 6 Nations is on

Yeah was a tight game.

Same for our two teams though during the 6N. The best players from our two teams are with the national team.

Richard Cockerill has made massive improvements in Edinburgh, they are a much much tougher team and with the players coming in next season could become a real force.

[labourRed]

I was speaking to a Wallace teacher of Stockdale yesterday who said he played on the school's threes until he turned 16. That summer he just came back and everyone was WTF happened to him. I went with Rory though and he was always that size even at fourteen. We had a few internationals from those years.

[Irishnev]

I was speaking to a Wallace teacher of Stockdale yesterday who said he played on the school's threes until he turned 16. That summer he just came back and everyone was WTF happened to him. I went with Rory though and he was always that size even at fourteen. We had a few internationals from those years.

I see Paul O’Connell, David Wallace, Flannery, Keith Wood fairly often either around Limerick or on flights and what struck me re the first three is how lean they are. Massive men but lean - Wallace looks he could still play.

Was on a flight to London last year and the Munster team who won the first European cup (2006) were in it - sat beside Marcus Horan, sound out and we chatted the whole way over and he is a big Liverpool fan,

[labourRed]

I see Paul O’Connell, David Wallace, Flannery, Keith Wood fairly often either around Limerick or on flights and what struck me re the first three is how lean they are. Massive men but lean - Wallace looks he could still play.

Was on a flight to London last year and the Munster team who won the first European cup (2006) were in it - sat beside Marcus Horan, sound out and we chatted the whole way over and he is a big Liverpool fan,

Yup, that's a far cry from club rugby players though who tend to look like they eat half a field of potatoes for tea washed down with twenty pints.

[Irishnev]

Yup, that's a far cry from club rugby players though who tend to look like they eat half a field of potatoes for tea washed down with twenty pints.

[Irishnev]

Good win for Scarlets last with another Irishman (Munster bound Tadhg Beirne) to the fore

Massive game for Munster today at home to Toulon, Thomond will be pumped but with so many injuries it will be one of their best to win against the Toulon all stars. Toulon beat Clermont last week by almost 50 points whilst resting Nonu and more!

Leinster vs Saracens also intriguing tomorrow but fancy Leinster to win it outright with so many Grand Slam winners in the team and O’Brien due back v soon.

Clermont should make the semis with home advantage usually massive for the French sides.

[labourRed]

I don't think there's been any comments on the Paddy Jackson Trail. What a caddish cohort of scumbags that lot are. He apparently has an English contract lined up if/when Ulster sack him.

[Irishnev]

I don't think there's been any comments on the Paddy Jackson Trail. What a caddish cohort of scumbags that lot are. He apparently has an English contract lined up if/when Ulster sack him.

Better not to say anything as the only people who really know what happened were those who were there. Very laddish behaviour but I suspect it's common for sports 'stars' to have women throwing themselves at their feet. This thing was very prevalent in football a number of years ago and look at Alli recently.

I think he'll get binned off by Ulster and as you say move to England or France where personally I don't he is good enough to cut it.

[labourRed]

Well I know he has a contract from England from speaking to an Ulster player.

I understand about the night, in that we won't ever know an exact account of what happened. But we can take as fact as to how the court case played out and that was an unholy shambles which is why there has been protests and more planned.

The grim reading of the WhatsApp (there is more I can speculate on here not relevant to the case per se but I'll abide by forum rules), let's just say I don't see how he will have a future in Ulster Rugby.

[labourRed]

Also FWIW. Importantly he should never wear the green Jersey either.

[Irishnev]

The WhatsApp stuff is typical of many lads I have no doubt but it doesn't excuse it and the NI legal system is a shambles. I by no means defend PJ and Co but equally can't throw them to the wolves given the fact they were deemed innocent in a court of law.

Really difficult case and a disaster for all those involved.