[quote=“Mark Renton, post: 855936, member: 1796”]@caoimhaoin Having hip mobility problems, said I’d try you before paying out cash.
Had this problem couple of years ago and went to a fairly decent physio/pain specialist and he sorted it in one go…
Some thing is catching in my hip when I am running with the result being that it feels like my hamstrings are tight… Basically I have no flexability in my left leg and when stretching it I can feel major resistance in the sciatic area/lower left back. When lying flat on my back I can probably pull my leg up about 45 degrees unless I stretch the shit out of it first and even then I can still feel the tension at the top of my arse/bottom of lower back area… Like I said, I had this before and the chap who treated it said it was actually a hip problem and the hip was blocking up the groin and lower back joining up and the result was it felt like a hamstring injury…
It was bad last week, but i’ve done a good bit of stretching and come through an hour long game no probs, but I can still feel it there and don’t have the proper flexability I should have nor quite full power when running…
When your man treated it he pushed a few things one way, stretched it another and it was done in 5 minutes, that was 2 years ago and hasn’t bothered me since. I’ve been doing a lot of runnning lately for football and probably not enough stretching or strengthening either…
I know foam rolling should be one thing I need to start doing…[/quote]
Unlike these soft rugger types, I will be fulfilling my sporting commitments tomorrow night!
It will be the first time playing free from an injury of some sort.
He is no more a cookie than you are
That won’t stop them celebrating on the streets of Weston tonight.
Another bonfire so
It’s Samoa for FFS.
The limitations of the number of teams playing rugby aside, they’re actually a decent side Mac and have beaten Wales, Australia and Scotland in the last 12 months or so and they are ranked higher than us. We should beat them but it won’t be a stroll in the park.
Kilcoyne would have made it last year but this year hasn’t shown the same form. DOC should worry about getting his provincial place before being considered seriously for Irl, Toner’s been playing well for Leinster this year and more importantly can run a lineout, something Tuohy doesn’t. I’d say Marshall would have a better shot with Sexton 10, perhaps too little experience for Jackson counted against him. Trimble had had and has wasted his international opportunities to date.
He’s won a Munster junior cup with them def a cookie!
Is this a serious betting opportunity to take Samoa on the handicap?
No. Ireland will beat Samoa out the gate.
Samoa are missing 4 key players, if they had them you never know. Ireland should win by about 10 pints.
What happened to that prop that Leinster brought in last year, think he was a New Zealander, and was put straight into the international squad before even playing a game for Leinster?
Was he fucked out of the country for being a fraud? 
[quote=“tazdedub, post: 857894, member: 312”]What happened to that prop that Leinster brought in last year, think he was a New Zealander, and was put straight into the international squad before even playing a game for Leinster?
Was he fucked out of the country for being a fraud? :)[/quote]
Michael Bent. Recently starred off the bench in Leinsters Heineken Cup victory over Castres.
Sheer charisma, the bit about his pre match meal is riveting 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARHJ6FXwKo
4 minutes is a legendary moment as well 
Why do the rugby crowd get so worked up over a friendly?
It’s not a friendly, it’s a test.
What are you on about you hapless dullard?
“a test”?? a bunch of lads from a Polynesian island are on a booze cruise around Europe playing a few noncompetitive games and the rugby crowd refer to this as a test?
Last year iirc , and i usually do rightly recall in a similar friendly game in November ( it must of been for charity as people paid over 60 quid to get in) the South African team gave them ( the IRFU) a South African player to create a lovely situation where 2 brothers or cousins were playing against each other in the scrum, I presume this is what you mean by a test.
I see also Australia and South Africa are also “touring” as you like to call it, and as that is case as you so accurately put it I presume if they have any common sense they are using this plod around Ireland and Scotland in November at the end of their season for a quality booze up like the A(bbo)FL selection a few weeks ago and have a few non competitive friendly matches at the weekend to blow off the dirty diesel.
“A Test”… well fuck me, you are a proven simpleton so I can see how you would buy into it but it’s a pretty decent achievement for whoever the IRFU marketing fella is to get 40,000 other fools to pay inflated admission prices to some meaningless, mid season friendly match againt a group of tired, hungover “tourists” tomorrow
[quote=“mickee321, post: 857964, member: 367”]What are you on about you hapless dullard?
“a test”?? a bunch of lads from a Polynesian island are on a booze cruise around Europe playing a few noncompetitive games and the rugby crowd refer to this as a test?
Last year iirc , and i usually do rightly recall in a similar friendly game in November ( it must of been for charity as people paid over 60 quid to get in) the South African team gave them ( the IRFU) a South African player to create a lovely situation where 2 brothers or cousins were playing against each other in the scrum, I presume this is what you mean by a test.
I see also Australia and South Africa are also “touring” as you like to call it, and as that is case as you so accurately put it I presume if they have any common sense they are using this plod around Ireland and Scotland in November at the end of their reason for a quality booze up like the A(bbo)FL selection a few weeks ago and have a few non competitive friendly matches at the weekend to blow off the dirty diesel.
“A Test”… well fuck me, you are a proven simpleton so I can see how you would buy into it but it’s a pretty decent achievement for whoever the IRFU marketing fella is to get 40,000 other fools to pay inflated admission prices to some meaningless, mid season friendly match againt a group of tired, hungover “tourists” tomorrow[/quote]
Welcome back, pal.