I see he has the photo of 1973 heroes on his twitter main page . He canât be that bad then .
Iâve got a kiwi fella based in England I used to work with, heâs asking me where heâd pick up tickets for Oireland v NZ in November. Anyone any ideas? He said tickets were to go on general sale this morning on Ticketmaster but are all showing as sold out already. Anyone know any other avenues? @gilgamboa
Were they even on general sale?
Call a professional services firm in Ireland in September with a âbig transactionâ and say you hope it will kick off in November. Mention you will be over then and are a rugby fanâŚ
Once game is over the big transaction collapses due to commercial issues.
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Best bet is use other kiwi contacts to try and get em for him thru club here. Hard though. My club probably twice or three times oversubscribed for this game id say
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Doubt it
How many corporate tickets will be dished out?
You had to sign up to Irishrugby.ie for âŹ50 to get into the presale, to buy them for another hundred each
A load of these tickets will be wrapped in âpackagesâ for âŹ500 a pop. Youâll get a ticket, Mick Galwey will tell you a few anecdotes and theyâll feed you about âŹ15 worth of grub. If you have the wedge it shouldnât be too hard to pick them up.
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Cheapest on Viagogo is 355 euro and the cheapest I see on Stubhub is 500 euro
Thatâs all these âtoursâ are about - and junkets like the Lions too - Ex players and a couple of corporate types making a fortune off them and marketing them as âtestsâ and âgrand finalsâ 
Could be like the association football ânationalâ team who play on a site leased from the IRFU and struggle to get over 40k for games.
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40k? That would be top top end
Often have less than 15k at games
I always try and be nice.
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Oooft
Maybe too Irish fans should not be denied the experience of wonder at the Ladybird Book lyrics of Irelandâs Call and the passive aggressive audio waterboarding of people into believing it actually holds a position of national importance.
A sop to the Ulster players, who wonât sing AmhrĂĄn na bhFiann because itâs not their anthem, Irelandâs Call has found a place alongside fracking and puppy farms as plain wrong.
Politically gelded, tunefully on a par with âOggy Oggy Oggyâ and because it acts as a numbing agent as meaningful as âI am the walrus, goo goo gâjoob,â it is ânothingâ masterfully captured in song and dutifully belted out every February.
Forever standing tall Andrew Trimble, Rory Best and Iain Henderson, what did they ever do to have to sing it before a match. Victims all of gestural politics, has rugby not matured enough to understand the concept of divergent communities and mutual respect, without throwing them the hospital pass of the ever stillborn terrace tune.
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Thatâs quite a rant about an auld song mate, you ok?
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Thatâs a very eloquent pile of shite
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Woeful
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Interesting interview with Earls on OTB last week. He went into a lot more detail on his mental health issues. It was around this time in 18 that he was getting some good treatment and he put his upswing in form down to it
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