The Rugby Thread (Part 1)

Limerick is the sporting capital of Ireland, there is a great sporting ethos, it is the Mecca of Irish rugby

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Limerick is rubby country. Way More Munster flags hanging around caherdavin right now than na piarsiag ones even though they have Just won a County Final.

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The place has really come to life. It truly is rugby country.

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Limerick people love all psort, Rugby, GAA, soccer, boxing, Athletics, horse-racing and greyhounds, there’s a great sporting tradition

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Munster win
united lose

We won’t see a certain person for a while…

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I hope @ciarancareyshurlingarmy enjoyed the hospitality

Was this Heineken cup?

Conor Murray 14/1 first try. Woop.

After timing cc @Bandage

Disgusting.

We had a very good day out, good company, good grub and loads of Guinness.

The rugby was extremely boring. Only matched by the experts in the crowd telling the ref where he was wrong. We went back indoors for most of the 2nd half.

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:clap:

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Paul O’Flynn’s match report on the RTE news last night said it was an absorbing first hour despite being scoreless.

It was mind numbingly boring. The second half hour was just as bad.

First timer?

No.

Right, I would watch only very rarely but I sat down to watch yesterday and thought it was quite entertaining for a nil all draw, seemed to be lots of goal line defence

I saw the 2nd half of Australia New Zealand yesterday morning. That was enthralling. The munster game was the opposite.

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The French game has been destroyed by an emphasis on power and size .

Was the beer good ?

I met an old workmate afterwards who made the same point.

Joe schmidt was the performing seal for the day and he was impressive, easily held a large crowds attention and gave some decent insights into the out half situation across the Irish provinces (too few in top rank, interviewer did not mention paddy jackson) and the use of overseas qualified players (Simon geoghegan had irish dna but never lived, worked or played here)