it is very possible that he wasā¦
The defending champions have named their team
McCormack
Jackman
Van der Linde
Cullen
OāKelly
Elsom
Jennings
Heaslip
Whitaker
Sexton
Fitzgerald
Contepomi
OāDriscoll
Horgan
Dempsey
Wright
Fogarty
Hogan
Jowitt
OāBrien
Keane
Kearney
I got tickets for this yesterday. My first Leinster game since I stopped supporting us for the Pool Stages of the Heineken Cup. I think Glasgow Warriors in maybe 2005 was my last game. Anyway, looking forward to giving these turnips munsters from Munster with their ugly, weatherbeaten faces a good beating on Sunday night. Why isnāt Rob Kearney playing?
I am also looking forward to Sunday evening in the RDS. Low Lieā¦
The European Champions have named their team
Munster team v Leinster in the Magners League on Sunday at 7pm:
(1-9) M Horan; J Flannery; J Hayes; P OāConnell; D OāCallaghan; D Ryan; D Wallace; J Melck.
(9-15) T OāLeary; R OāGara; I Dowling; L Mafi; R Tipoki; D Howlett; K Earls.
Replacements: (16-22) F Sheahan; F Pucciariello; J OāSullivan; A Quinlan; P Stringer; P Warwick; B Murphy.
Promises to be some game. For the sake of rugby in the country I hope that whoever steals the show will be from these shores rather than the Southern Hemisphere.
Dont give much of a toss about the result as the Magners League is only secondary anyway. Just a good performance from Sexton, McCormack, OāLeary and Earls will do me.
Surprised the Laigheans have left Kearney out. Should be a cracking game.
Spot on Mac. Some serious Irish talent on show though, pity Ledge is on the wing again and no place for Kearns though. Still should be a stormer, pity Quinny or Leamy aint starting, two good lads to start a row there.
connacht got a hammering in cardiff this evening 56-0ā¦
watched the leicster wasps match just there on skyā¦good old game wasps gave a good second half showing to come back and win 28-19ā¦a nice few irish on showā¦geordan murphy and johnn murphy both starting for leicsterā¦johnn scoring a tryā¦geordan was solid but never really got going while johnn seems a good prospect on the right wing, likes to come off his wing and find work and is solid enough in the tackle although i would say he is short of a bit of pace for test rugbyā¦
jeremy staunton started for wasps and it was the first time i had seen him play 80 minutes at 10 since he missed a lst minute penalty to relegate harlequins a few years agoā¦he gave a good performance kicked well 23 points in total for the lad from galbally including two drop goalsā¦he certainly seems to have matured as a player and looked comfortable at out halfā¦
eoin reddan came on with 25 minutes to go and was livelyā¦box kicked wellā¦former garryowen hooker damien varley came on and scored the decisive try for waspsā¦
on a side note i was very impressed with both tom croft and tom rees and the two of them will be more than likely be in the lions team/squad this summerā¦both have huge potentialā¦
should west brit sports have a seperate forum ?- rural sports are bad but colonial sports are even worse
rugby is only played/followed by west brits above in dublinā¦in munster its a game of the peopleā¦but never let the facts get in the way of your ignorance ncc:pā¦
Oh for the love of sweet devine jesus, youāve just sealed IOTM with that fooking ridiculous bullshit Pukeā¦
yeah, rog is sich a man of the people;)
would you care to elaborate franā¦what do you find so ridiculous about my last statementā¦are you saying that it is the private school social elitists that make up the majority of munsters fan baseā¦
whats the story with the British (& irish) lions- is that something to do with the union of Ireland & britain? why arent the French involved if its northern hemisphere going to S africa
i was in S africa last time the british lions played there & the hotel the B lions were staying had a big flower display saying welcome to the british lions - i passed the hotel 2 weeks later when the team was there a week 7 the display was still there- why didnt the west brit Irish players remove it
This āin munster itās a game for the peopleā bullshit, and you think the Leinster fans are up themselves.
Iām a Leinster fan, because Iām from Leinster, and I didnāt go to a private school.
[quote=ānorth county corncrakeā]
i was in S africa last time the british lions played there & the hotel the B lions were staying had a big flower display saying welcome to the british lions - i passed the hotel 2 weeks later when the team was there a week 7 the display was still there- why didnt the west brit Irish players remove it[/quote]
i donāt know ncc i wasnāt there so i canāt speak for the players involvedā¦why donāt you write a letter to either eric miler or paul wallace to find outā¦
a strongly worded letter??
[quote=āFranā]This āin munster itās a game for the peopleā bullshit, and you think the Leinster fans are up themselves.
Iām a Leinster fan, because Iām from Leinster, and I didnāt go to a private school.[/quote]
in fairness a good proportion of leinster fans are from the private schools jocks club and leinster rugby would be seen as far more elitist than it is in munsterā¦
use whatever vocabulary and tone you wish nccā¦