The Rugby Thread (Part 1)

Dermot Kennedy is playing there

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There’ll be plenty of rucks in the middle.of the pitch with Wolfe Tones gig

It’s the way it should be really but I take your point.

Yeah it’s a nonsense. It gets big ratings on French FTA and they pay good money for it. It was always the English moping about Europe despite the fact that similar to here it drove most interest in club rugby.

Remember those dullards claiming that it was the likes of Sale driving ratings for Sky. Just not backed up by facts. The highest non BBC rated final was Leinster v Northampton. The next year when Ulster played Leinster in the final it got the exact same rating as the All English 2007 final. That was just for the U.K. too. Those idiots completely turned Sky off rugby when the competition was growing every year and getting pushed like mad by them.

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No but I still think it should move that way.

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Once Craig Doyle was involved European rubby was dead

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Parking your car is a bit of an issue even in Capetown. It’s like the door of the hacienda, various gangs trying to assert control over “I’ll mind your car mister”

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Laughably biased commentary from Austin Healy here.

Nice 3pm kick off for the Toulouse game, delighted with that. Train; get off at Dun Laoghaire for 10:15, up to Wetherspoons, few pints of Murphy’s and the breakfast, spend the bones of about €30, match, away home, back at north station for 9. Delightful!

Beat Toulouse hopefully, off up to the final with my €35 West Stand upper ticket :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Cracking game between Leinster thirds and the presumably Gauteng Lions here. Lions have just about the fattest lad I’ve ever seen in a professional shirt here playing prop.

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He’s an awful butterball

Ah Jaysus

Some win by the Leinster kids

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The Leinster lion cubs

Different Munster team altogether this week.

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Entertaining game so far.

Munster going in level would be a disaster for them giving how well they started and the yellow card advantage they had.

That’s some win for Munster

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Great win. Different team to the last game. Good season overall now, if they can recruit a decent front row or two they’ve a decent squad for next season.

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Healy a loss now in my opinion. John Ryan coming back is a plus.