Tipoki is ruled out.
is that a TFK exclusiveā¦
I said that 6-10 posts ago!
I donāt read this thread
i knowā¦my tongue was firmly placed in my cheekā¦if you remember i replied to it MBB and posteed up a video of spudās wonder try against saleā¦
Jsut checking, thought you were gone nuts there.
just trying to pass a slow fridayā¦
The New Zealander, Rua Tipoki, has apparently been ruled out for Munster.
Just heard it on the radio there.
Earls to 13 and Warwick to 15 I believe. Got that from a friend and not official source so dont know. Think John O Sull is starting in the back row as well ahead of melck.
think Munster will be up against it, cant believe they are favourites, any non Munster men get on that id say. Sale are evs , Munster 4/5.
Leinster should win easy, that is an average enough Wasp team if you ask me. Staunton is in for some bombardment tomorrow!! Heading down to this one looking forward to seeing Elsom, VD Linde, Fitz, Kearney and Cipriani in action.
Ulster are going to get fookin hockeyed, Quins had a great win away from home last weekend and Ulster are absolutely terrible. Words cannot express how terrible I thought they were last weekend against Stade. Best, Wallace, Cave and Bryn Cunningham were reasonable i.e. looked maybe Mag Lge standard. the rest were like AIl players. Useless shower of cunts.
Connacht had a great win last week so hopefully they can get a result tonight.
FWIW I have had hcap double for tonight
Glasgow +9 @ 10/11 (at home to Toulouse)
Connacht +9 @ 10/11
and match double
glasgow 11/4
Connacht 5/2
Any word on injuries Dan?
[quote=ādancarterā]Earls to 13 and Warwick to 15 I believe. Got that from a friend and not official source so dont know. Think John O Sull is starting in the back row as well ahead of melck.
[/quote]
i was thinking that would be a good idea but when mbb said one change i presumed it was a direct swap with murphy in for ruaā¦it would be good to see o sullivan get a chanceā¦would have liked to have seen wallace moved to eight and ronan brought in at 7 possibly and let him get to the breakdown quickly and let wallace worry about tackling anything that moves around the fringes and carrying ballā¦
your on the money as always danielā¦
from skysports.com
Sale: 15 Rory Lamont, 14 Mark Cueto, 13 Luke McAlister, 12 Rudi Keil, 11 David Doherty, 10 Richard Wigglesworth, 9 Dwayne Peel, 8 JM Fernandez Lobbe, 7 Luke Abrahams, 6 Chris Jones, 5 Brent Cockbain, 4 Sebastien Chabal, 3 Eifion Roberts, 2 Neil Briggs, 1 Lionel Faure.
Replacements: 16 Marc Jones, 17 Stuart Turner, 18 Dean Schofield, 19 Jason White, 20 Charlie Hodgson, 21 Mathew Tait, 22 Chris Bell.
Munster: 15 Paul Warwick, 14 Doug Howlett, 13 Keith Earls, 12 Lifeimi Mafi, 11 Ian Dowling, 10 Ronan OāGara, 9 Tomas OāLeary, 8 David Wallace, 7 John OāSullivan, 6 Alan Quinlan, 5 Paul OāConnell Ā©, 4 Donncha OāCallaghan, 3 John Hayes, 2 Jerry Flannery, 1 Marcus Horan.
Replacements: 16 Denis Fogarty, 17 Fredericio Pucciariello, 18 Donnacha Ryan, 19 Justin Melck, 20 Peter Stringer, 21 Barry Murphy, 22 Denis Hurley.
Surprised to see JOS in, interesting, didnt think Melck had done much wrong. Seems this could be a serious ol school Munster performance perhaps. TOL back as well, good to see.
Surprised to see Wiggles at 10, didnt notice who played there last week, was it him?
wigglesworth was named at fly half last week as wellā¦didnāt see any of the match so i donāt know if him and mcallister switched around or rotatedā¦or what way they played it but i would presume that wigglesworth played the 10 channel in defence and switched to 12 when sale had the ballā¦
āI am going back to my homeland and, yes, I will be judged,ā admitted Reddan, who will be looking to add to his 12 caps in the upcoming internationals against Canada, New Zealand and Argentina.
"This is an important stage to perform on, but the game is more important than any individual because so much is riding on this one match.
"Itās huge for both teams in this tournament. I am not saying we would be out of things if we lost but itās a massive opportunity to push on and put the pressure on Leinster for the rest of the pool matches. I have never had a problem with Ireland in terms of playing my rugby in England because I believe that if I am playing well then I will be picked.
āI am very careful not to put up any barriers because you only need to lose your head once and say you are not being selected for this or that reason and then you are a goner. You cannot worry about what you cannot control; the only aim is to play as well as possible and let things develop. Thatās life.ā
Itās a positive outlook, no doubt buoyed from a national team perspective, by last weekās visit from the Irish management. Kidney and Irish team manager Paul McNaughton travelled to London to meet Mike Ross (Harlequins), Geordan Murphy (Leicester), Bob Casey (London Irish) and Reddan to confirm it would not be a case of āout of sight, out of mindā for non-Irish based players. It was a positive gathering for all concerned.
Reddan enthused: "It was a big step for Declan (Kidney) to take and the fact it went well was probably secondary to the fact he made the effort to come and see us here. It was great. He believes in the squad he has put together and says we can become the best in the world.
āWhile we may be some way from that point at the moment, you have to believe you can push yourself to get there.ā
Nice to see
what injuries?
some kick in the hole for Hodgsomn in fairness. Twas a great idea by Sale but I presumed they would only do it away from home.
To be honest I think this could be the fucking end of Hodgson, every game he ever plays from now on he is going to get targetted more than usual.
Oppo No 8 now having 5 yards to build up a head of steam beforfe he gets to Charlie is def not good news for the fragile young man.
Id be fairly embarrassed if that were me. Ulster used to stick humphreys on the wing on defence for a finish, I know he was 54 and all that but stillā¦if you cant tackle you cant play simple as
[quote=āmyboyblueā]"
Itās a positive outlook, no doubt buoyed from a national team perspective, by last weekās visit from the Irish management. Kidney and Irish team manager Paul McNaughton travelled to London to meet Mike Ross (Harlequins), Geordan Murphy (Leicester), Bob Casey (London Irish) and Reddan to confirm it would not be a case of āout of sight, out of mindā for non-Irish based players. It was a positive gathering for all concerned.
Nice to see[/quote]
Very nice to see, positive from Kidney. Also keeps the home based players on there toes. Youd think when he was up in Wasps at all he might have said hello to Stanuton! Id say Kidney has had his fill of jezza at this stage though. I wouldnt discard Staunton so easy myself though, if he was fit hes still probably the best back up for ROG. Hes a lot of it played.
Saw him in Dublin having dinner last year around xmas and he was well out of shape, thought he had retired to be honest, Id say he had to do two pre seasons to knock the condition off him
Great win for Leinster there. Best game Iāve seen them play in a long time. Would be worried about the amount of injuries they picked up though - Cullen, OāDriscoll, the 2 props but great displays from the back row and Kearney, Fitzgerald and Dempsey as well. Sexton did will when he came on as well.