There was a ref removed from the Ireland game?? WTF?
And that article says that the Spain match was played in the Rugby European Championship ---- I thought going by the lads here, that the 6 nations was the European Championship?
Does anyone involved in rugby have a single clue as to whatās going on?
The Romanians do.
Yurt.
Good to show some of the newer bandwagon fans that there is a rugby world outside if the glamour of the 6N
Rugby is a serious business
Whatās your definition of taking it seriously? Itās the most participated in sport in the country and we regularly punch above our weight
regularly get hammered you mean
Ah mate, what are you doing.
He should know better really.
Iād expect much more from him. Iām shaken from this if Iām being honest.
Is Eire the only team to have ever competed in the soccer World Cup without a single squad player from their own domestic league?
Ireland in 1982 ??? Felix Healy ??
Iām not sure mate. Iām sure some of the South American and African lads would love to be so close to the richest footballing country in the world and to have the chance to make more money than they would at home
How many of the Irish rugger lads played AIB this year? very few iād imagine.
There was no EPL in 1990 when Eire played in the Soccer World Cup. Its a damning indictment of what the soccer types would lead is to believe is soccer country that thereās such a shit domestic league that Eire couldnāt provide a single domestic representative to a World Cup Finals squad. If thereās all this supposed interest in soccer in Eire, why canāt Eire sustain a domestic league, which is something above pub standard?
The AIB, Irelandās domestic rugby league, is worse than the LOI, mate.
You mean that we actually picked up a lot of British born players, who were nurtured in British soccer academies and lived there all of their adult lives and got them to play for the ROI.
By what metric?
Far more people who tog out in the Ulster Bank League will end up playing international rugby.
Thatās because itās easy to play international rugby mate
Sorry answer the question.
You mean that Ireland progressed due to many of the British born and soccer educated players.
Without them we wouldnāt have had the likes of Jason McAteer, Mick McCarthy, Jonathon Walters, John Aldridge, Andy Townsend, Ray Houghton et al lining up for us. Before Big Jack, the ROI game was nowhere, despite having major academies on our doorstep picking up our youngsters.
Irish rugby is criticised here for developing a competent and sustainable professional game. Developing proper academies. Nurturing player development at home.
Funny stuff.
You havenāt asked me a question