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BrendanD88
Roy Keane 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 10009 |
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So a friendly?
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Newryrep
Paul McGrath Just can't get enough of lists Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Status: Offline Points: 15257 |
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Aye was at old Trafford day 4 Sunday late 90’s probably the best Aussie side ever warne 2 Waugh’s etc they were smashing it about till lunchtime then putting England in Sun was shining pints flowing England getting beat - but was destroyed by the evening
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'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
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nvidic
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Looks that way! I don't like how rugby makes more out of friendlies than needs be but this clearly wasn't a friendly
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Het-field
Roy Keane By Appointment to His Majesty The King Joined: 08 Mar 2016 Status: Offline Points: 10656 |
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Rings being Run.
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Shedite
Jack Charlton Joined: 09 Dec 2011 Status: Offline Points: 9820 |
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pre Madonna
Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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The problem, in this case, isn't rugby but football itself. Friendly internationals once used to have a prestige, but because football is been bloating itself for 30 odd years they have become nothing but a waste of time, therefore any similarly organised matches in any other sport must be equally unimportant. I enjoyed two rugby games this weekend in a hastily arranged international tournament, even if I would question the need for international sport at all now, but would have absolutely no interest in watching either football match involving the Republic of Ireland and I doubt I am alone. Before anyone says it, that isn't just because we are sh*te, we are nearly always sh*te, but because friendlies are beyond pointless and the players, across all teams, seem to see the NL as little better. Whatever initial impetis that tournament had seems to have dissipated, not helped by Covid. What we, as football fans, should be doing is questioning how badly our sport is functioning for this to be the case, but it is easier to mock other sports. Rugby's sense of self-importance mixed with its inferiority complex, particularly in relation to football, especially as many involved in the sport were born with an in-built superiority complex, is certainly nauseating, but their ability to keep international rugby the pinnacle of their sport is commendable. |
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Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15748 |
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Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
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irelandfan
Ray Houghton Joined: 13 Aug 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 3655 |
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Come on the Hangar Bar
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I'm the gaffer whatever I say goes.
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Shedite
Jack Charlton Joined: 09 Dec 2011 Status: Offline Points: 9820 |
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Anyone see any of the Rugby European Cup over the weekend? It was my first time seeing the new format, my god what a stupid system. In the past you'd have 6 pools of 4, top 2 going through, standard Champions League style.
Now they're drawn into 2 groups of 12, but each team only plays two of the other teams (home and away so 4 games). Then all the results of those 12 teams are put together on the table, and top 4 go through. On top of that, the choosing of opposition is seeded, and the top teams only play the worst teams. So it's incredibly likely that the top 4 teams will win 4/4 against the worst teams, and all the games that the 2nd/3rd seeds play is pointless. In football terms, it'd be like Bayern or Liverpool playing games against Midtylland, Rennes and Ferncvaros, while teams like Ajax, Porto, Inter, Atletico playing against each other. Ajax would have to get more points against good teams than Bayern get against bad teams. It's an amazingly bad system, totally corrupt to keep the big boys going through to knockouts.
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath Cheese, it’s not just for eating Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Clairefontaine Status: Offline Points: 16469 |
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South Africa, Scotland Asia Pacific 1 and Europe 2 in world cup draw.
Find it a bit odd they have the draw nearly 3 years before the competition
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Devrozex
Jack Charlton Joined: 23 Oct 2010 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 7676 |
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Agreed - it's a comically bad system. And I'd imagine it's a result of a combination of that and also to ensure the English and French sides have less fixture congestion. It shows you the damage that can be done to the sporting integrity of a competition when the big guns are able to call the shots (as we also nearly saw with that attempted power coup in the EPL recently).
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Zinedine Kilbane 110
Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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Tough draw for us- Play NZ or France if we get through the group. England / Wales will be happy with their side. Avoid NZ / Saffa and France.
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath Cheese, it’s not just for eating Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Clairefontaine Status: Offline Points: 16469 |
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Yeah tough as South Africa have really turned their game around the last few years, Can see us getting through the group but again a nice QF exit to NZ looms
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t_rAndy
Robbie Keane Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Online Points: 26244 |
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Defo another quarter final exit on the cards
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deco911
Ray Houghton Reg Hunter Joined: 19 Jan 2012 Location: county kerry Status: Offline Points: 4341 |
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Munster dead and buried after 25mins in Clermont but kept going, some win.
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doherty
Jack Charlton Teenage Kicks, so hard to beat Joined: 30 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 7707 |
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Great win, there looking good again this weather
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gspain
Ray Houghton Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Status: Offline Points: 4682 |
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One of Munster's greatest ever wins. Superb stuff.
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Paulie
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The Ulster and Munster games were 2 brilliant matches. Leinster were sloppy enough but still managed a bp win.
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