Curious rugby phrases used by the curious rugby set

Doyler always seemed a great auld character.
If I recall correctly he had no time at all for Franno.

The ruck inspector he used to call him.

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Cabinet reshuffle

Tadhg Byrne’s blue helmet :astonished:

The chicken wing.

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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Today was my introduction to “the seat-belt” tackle. Who thinks up these daft terms?

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Bernard Jackman

“Furlong corner flagging and Lowe watching him”

“Furlong did a better job but to bite in when you had numbers and touchline with you”

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“Compound mistakes “

Used by Shane Horgan there now

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Helicopter view

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That was Reddan. ROG more concerned with the minus one defender.

Work-ons seem to have become an overnight staple of post match vocabulary

“Fatigue zone” - Ronan O Gara
In a sentence - “Ireland did not bring France into the fatigue zone”

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A lot of the rugby jargon could be adapted for use in useless office jargon environment as well

What the fuck was that about out of reddan??? He’s a very nice guy but that was some horseslop terminology picked up from some middle management seminar.

Would you find yourself needing to pick and jam a lot in a meeting?

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Thinking out loud i guess, its a new phrase tbf

He’s seems married to it as had to have said at least 3-4 times.

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Reddan is working in Financial Services now so is exposed to corporate bolloxology.

Made some career for himself. Not sure.punditry would come to him as naturally as scrum half did