Nope.
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Donât ever changeâŚ(unless urged to by an addiction councillorâŚ)
I think eb misses the point. I donât draw the dole. Either way it was more the way they moaned about having to do some Manuel Labour as the country which gave them an education fell on its knees.
I think it did funny enough and hell shit if it didnât tis too good a story for TNH
Journalists are quite often weirdos. Itâs par for the course. Theyâve a bizarrely inflated opinion of how important their job is(this is inversely true for actually important types of journalist imo). Any profession which screams âlisten/look at me!!!â Itâs like that. Journalists, politicians, actors, social media types, lads with bags on their heads, other lads with a mysteriously changing history of anxiety/depression/whatever youâre having yourself/recently retired gggaaa types. Itâs like organic compost for egotistical psychos.
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I know that but @mickee321 mentioned Ewan as wum. Like a wum gets enjoyment off it. Like Iâd regularly post stuff i dont believe or stuff ive just made up and youâd see lads on here losing their mind over it. I get a sort of sick enjoyment off it but with Ewan he believes his tripe.
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I thought this chaps injuries were a closely guarded secret?
Munster anxiously awaiting update on Murrayâs neck injury
Head coach Van Graan to give an update on Carbery and Earls today
GERRY THORNLEY
Johann van Graan will today give a clearer update on the apparent neck injury which Conor Murray sustained in the warm-up before Munsterâs Guinness Pro14 win over Connacht on Saturday evening in Thomond Park and forced his late withdrawal from the game.
Knocked backwards onto the ground by what seemed an innocuous counter-ruck in one of the last drills in Munsterâs warm-up, a clearly upset Murray left the pitch holding the back of his neck.
Bearing in mind he missed the first three months of the season with a bulging disc which flared up on his summer holidays after he hiccupped while driving, it will be an anxious wait for the player himself and all concerned with the province.
âIt happened literally seven or eight feet away from me,â said van Graan after Munsterâs 27-14 win. âI got the medical team involved and we made a decision not to play him.â
âHe could possibly have played but we decided to err on the side of caution and weâll give some more info on Monday. Itâs just very stiff at this stage. Thatâs all I can say.â
The Munster head coach will also give an update on Joey Carbery and Keith Earls, who missed the Heineken Champions Cup semi-final defeat by Saracens, but didnât sound particularly optimistic about either.
Overtaking
Van Graan had retained 11 of that semi-final starting XV against Connacht in the hope of overtaking Glasgow atop Conference A and thereby both avoiding a quarter-final next week while earning a home semi-final three weeks hence.
However, Glasgowâs 34-10 win over Edinburgh means Munster must pitch up again next Saturday when they host Benetton â who qualified for the playoffs for the first time ever with their bonus point win away to Zebre â in the dayâs first quarter-final at 3pm in Thomond Park.
Meanwhile, Connacht move on to the dayâs second quarter-final, against Ulster at the Kingspan Stadium (kick-off 5.35pm) comparatively refreshed and healthy after Andy Friend rested a dozen of the starting lineup which had secured their playoff place by beating Cardiff a fortnight previously.
Should Munster beat Benetton, they will then face Leinster at the RDS on Saturday, May 18th in a repeat of last seasonâs semi-final which they lost 16-15, a week after the Heineken Cup final.
Meanwhile, the winners of the Ulster-Connacht tie will be away to Glasgow in the other semi-final on Friday, May 17th in Scotstoun.
The playoffs feature five former champions, and four teams who made the knockout stages of the Champions Cup, although at the same time youâd have got long odds on both Connacht and Benetton making the playoffs at the start of the season.
This, van Graan believes, underlines the heightened competitiveness of the Guinness Pro14 this season.
Ebbs and flows
âSo many teams on the last day of the season got a shot and after 21 rounds, it was a huge league phase. From our side, through the season, (there were) some ebbs and flows, some very good performances, some average performances but very proud to come away the other side with a home quarter-final. Thatâs what we deserved and now weâve got to move forward.â
Ulsterâs former Connacht coach, Dan McFarland, rested the entire starting lineup which sealed their home quarter-final against Edinburgh a fortnight previously and yet achieved a satisfying 14-13 over an equally experimental Leinster lineup.
However, McFarland is still sweating on Rory Best and Jacob Stockdale, while Connacht can also take heart from their first win over Ulster in Belfast since 1960 last October.
âThe important thing is that we know we can win up there,â said Andy Friend. âWe have played them twice this year, we know we have beaten them twice this year. It is knockout football, it is another four months into the season since we last played them, there will be a different rugby side but we are a different rugby side. You are always looking for different mental edges if you can but we certainly know we can go up there and win because we have done that.â
There is no Welsh team in the playoffs, although there will be one in next seasonâs Champions Cup, with the Ospreys set to face the Scarlets in a qualification playoff. This followed the Judgement day double header when the Ospreys beat Cardiff 26-23 in a straight shootout while the Scarlets ultimately scraped into this qualifier after picking up two bonus points in their shock 34-32 defeat by the Dragons thanks to Edinburgh picking up nothing in Glasgow. Like Cardiff, Edinburgh are now consigned to next seasonâs Challenge Cup.
Conceivably though, both the Ospreys and the Scarlets could qualify without recourse to a play-off should Leinster beat Saracens in this seasonâs final, and the four Challenge Cup semi-finals secure a passage into next seasonâs Champions Cup by finishing in the top six in the Premiership and the Top 14.
@Ewan 's article has been the topic of discussion between the few Munster Rugby Football fans in my office this morning. One of them happened to be on a âRugby Tourâ on the mainland since Friday and is back today. I can just about hear them over the partition and they are far from happy about the thing. I could try and defend Ewan (and the ramblings heâs pulled from here) but Iâd be afraid Ewan would say something completely bizarre in the future and that wouldnât look too good on me so it wouldnât.
Stick the knife in now while the going is good⌠You have the right to distance yourself from Ewan in the future.
The angle Iâd go for is âAh sure here, 2 years ago they were calling the cops on lads at Thomond Park for booing the kicker and now every Munster fan boos the kicker and not a word said. How do things change so much in two years?â
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Lots of people were talking to the talk on this one, including our own Ewan.
Seems to be a very serious issue for him.
Hiccups are a very serious business.
There was a poor hoor in the Guinness book of records back in the day got them when he was slaughtering a pig, and had them for sixty odd years til he died. Twould be an awful affliction.
Ah but what caused the hiccups for poor old Conor?
Itâs nothing to be sniffed at
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Tom Savage is the lad that runs the ThreeRedKings account
Dick Roberts has been banned from Irish Independent Park and Thomond Park.
Doesnât go far enough though, should have been a country wide rugby football ground banning order.
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Who is she?