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[quote=“carryharry, post: 900760, member: 1517”]Mike Phillips pucking the head off Niall Horan?
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Phillips looks even more retarded now.
Is it just me or are the welsh a little under-educated?
I can see these twitter exchanges spiralling into an unimaginable cunt fest.
Rob Kearney says he has Horan’s back. :rolleyes:
Who does Horan play for? Kearney is a shit bag.
The Beatles apparently.
[quote=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 900686, member: 377”]What’s the story with this Gerry Thornley guy? What are his rugby playing credentials? Didn’t he start out his journalistic career in the Irish Times as their League of Ireland correspondent? That in itself is disturbing. A soccer type given one of the most important jobs in Irish journalism replacing the incomparable Edmund Van Esbeck. With his earring and scruffy look I’d very much Thornley was ever let near a rugby club.
Every week necessitates a critique of a referee. Whether its province or national team there’s an issue and a whinge. Yesterday it was Wayne Barnes. The problem was Ireland had lost 6 of the 8 matches, Barnes had been in charge of. It would appear that Barnes, not Ireland not been up to the job was the reason Ireland lost. Thornley had issues with Barnes and the two wins as well. One of the wins was the Grand Slam winning game in Cardiff in 2009. The problem was the penalty count was 15-5 to Wales. The other win with Barnes officiating was the 16-14 win over Georgia in the 2007 World Cup. He didn’t elaborate on what the issue with Barnes was here. It was probably his fault that Georgia had the temerity to show up, be competitive and nearly win the game.[/quote]
Wales have lost as many with Barnes reffing as Ireland.
What teams do Horan and Phillips play for? Is there a history of needle between them?
[quote=“caoimhaoin, post: 900768, member: 273”]Phillips looks even more retarded now.
Is it just me or are the welsh a little under-educated?[/quote]
They mostly hail from former mining towns which are now nothing more than slag heaps. Certainly we would have an edge on them in terms of the seats of learning like Blackrock College, Belvedere College, Royal Belfast Aacademical Institute and Methodist College that a lot of our players have been educated in.
All that and inbreeding at Tipp like levels.
Thornley would want to tidy himself up alright
Rugby player suffered stroke a month after ‘tackle’ left her injured, inquest hears
A TALENTED graduate – whose dream was to encourage more women into sport – died a month after being injured in a rugby tackle.
Sarah Chesters was playing for Longton RUFC’s ladies’ team when she hit the ground, minutes into the second half of a match against Dudley Kingswinford.
An inquest heard how the 23-year-old complained of pain to her collarbone, but managed to walk off the pitch and declined the offer of an ambulance.
In the weeks that followed, she made the daily commute from her home in Milton to her job as a research intern in London, getting up at 5.30am and returning to Stoke station in the evening.
That night at her Millfield Crescent home, her family made an appointment with an out-of-hours GP. Yet before she could get there, Sarah was violently sick and was taken to Royal Stoke University Hospital instead.
Tests later revealed she had suffered a stroke. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and she died on November 21 after coming off life support.
Sarah’s father, Michael Chesters, told the inquest his daughter had ‘loved’ rugby ever since being introduced to it while studying at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Cheshire campus.
She had gained a first-class degree and then taken a masters at Loughborough before landing the Women In Sport internship.
Mr Chesters, from Milton, said: “Despite her small stature – she was 5ft 2in – she was extremely strong.”
On October 19, Sarah had been playing full-back when the incident happened.
Fellow rugby player and friend Lesley Thompson, from Cheadle, said: "I didn’t see it, but I believe she was tackled by a lot bigger person. It was just a tackle, nothing malicious or heated.
“She was lying flat on the floor, holding her right collarbone.”
Consultant neurosurgeon Simon Shaw, from Royal Stoke, said her eventual death was caused by multiple brain infarctions.
But the ‘likelihood’ was the initial trigger had been blunt trauma to the side of the neck. This, in turn, had caused damage to an artery, with a blood clot then leading to the stroke.
Recording a conclusion of accidental death, North Staffordshire coroner Ian Smith described Sarah as hard-working and a ‘credit to herself and her family’.
He said: “She was tackled, she went down. When the injury occurred is not totally clear. It may have been the result of the initial impact or the result of hitting the deck.”
Following her death, more than £1,800 was raised through a charity tournament at MMU in her memory.
Football club Bradwell Belles, where Sarah coached youngsters, is also planning a tribute match in aid of the Stroke Association.
Speaking after the inquest, Bradwell Belles secretary Robert Pilkington said: “Sarah put her heart and soul into everything.”
I got as far as ‘her’ and stopped reading…
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She died
We can only assume that she’d be signing into the anti-rugby thread here if she could harness Whoopi Goldberg’s body to do so…
They only raised 1800? Fuck me but the brots are tight cunts.
Top Quatorze final on here in the Nou Camp. Ronan O Garas Racing lead Toulon by 6 despite being a man down since the 18th minute.