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Category Archives: Munster
Down the Blind Side, episode 7
Posted in AIL, All Blacks, Connacht Rugby, Heineken Cup, IRB, IRFU, Irish Rugby, Leinster Rugby, Melbourne Rebels, Munster, Munster Rugby, Old Belvedere rugby, Pro 12, RFU
Tagged Bernard Jackman, Chris Farrell, Ian Keatley, Ian Madigan, James Hart, Joe Schmidt, Matt O'Connor, Paddy Jackson, Paddy Lavelle
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Episode 5 of Down the Blind Side
Posted in ASM Rugby, Connacht Rugby, EPCR, Harlequins Rugby, Heineken Cup, IRFU, Irish Rugby, Munster, Munster Rugby, RFU, Rugby, Rugby News
Tagged ASM rugby, Caolin Blade, Castres, Connacht, Conor Finn, Conor O'Shea, Darragh Leader, Eon McKeon, EPCR, European rugby, Harlequins, Ian Keatley, Irish Rugby, JJ Hanrahan, Leinster, Ronan Loughney, Ronan O'Gara, Rugby World Cup, Wasps rugby
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MCKENZIE TOO HOT TO TROT When you see odds of 1/2 lobbed on someone’s head you don’t so much infer a hot favourite as a race that’s already been run. And the winner is Ewen McKenzie? Eh, not so fast … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Autumn Internationals, Brendan Fanning, British and Irish Lions, Irish Rugby, Munster, Munster Rugby, Saracens, Schools rugby, Sports Comment, Ulster, Ulster Rugby
Tagged Ard Scoil Ris, Castletroy, Christians, Crescent, Glenstal, John Broderick, Keith Earls, Mark McCall, Neil Best, Pres Cork, Robbie Deans, Rockwell, St Munchin's, Trapattoni, Worcester
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Kidney call puts him in make or break territory
We used to look at the decision in 2008 to run with Denis Hurley and Tomas O’Leary ahead of Shaun Payne and Peter Stringer for Munster as the high water mark for Declan Kidney’s capacity to surprise. And then … Continue reading
Posted in Brendan Fanning, IRFU, Irish Rugby, Leinster Rugby, Munster, Munster Rugby, Rugby, Rugby News, Rugby Opinion, Scottish rugby, Six Nations, Sports Comment, Ulster, Ulster Rugby
Tagged Brian O'Driscoll, Conor Murray; Tom Court, Dave Kilcoyne, Declan Fitzpatrick, Declan Kidney, Devin Toner, Donnacha Ryan, Donncha O'Callaghan, Iain Henderson; Eoin Reddan, Jamie Heaslip, Keith Earls; Paddy Jackson, Luke Fitzgerald, Luke Marshall, Mike Ross, Peter O'Mahony, Rob Kearney; Craig Gilroy, Ronan O'Gara, Rory Best, Sean Cronin, Sean O'Brien
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Healy not looking at lengthy sentence
One thing we’ve learned from ugly optics on the rugby field is that what you see is not always what you get. So the seemingly awful stamp of Cian Healy on the ankle of Dan Cole was actually not as … Continue reading
Posted in Brendan Fanning, British and Irish Lions, IRB, IRFU, Irish Rugby, Leinster Rugby, Munster, Munster Rugby, Refereeing, RFU, Rugby, Rugby News, Rugby Opinion, Sports Comment, Ulster, Ulster Rugby
Tagged Cian Healy, Conor Murray, Dan Cole, IRB, Jerome Garces, Leo Cullen, Peter O'Mahony, Tom Court, Tom Youngs
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Umaga favourite for Munster job
Tana Umaga is first in line to succeed Tony McGahan as Munster coach. The former All Black captain is on a shortlist of three with Canterbury’s ITM coach Rob Penney, and local hero Anthony Foley. So what do Munster do … Continue reading
IRFU going wrong way about growing their own
It’s not just turkeys who get bad news in Christmas Week. If you are running professional rugby in any of Leinster, Ulster or Munster then, like the birds who live in big barns with the light on all the time, … Continue reading
Munster’s fate should have been sealed
Now that the ink is dry on Munster’s 41 Phases being written into their glorious history, is it safe to suggest that they should never have got past phases three or five? This has less to do with them and … Continue reading
Posted in IRB, Irish Rugby, Munster, Munster Rugby, Rugby Opinion, Rugby World Cup
Tagged Damien Varley, John Hayes, Nigel Owens, Paddy O'Brien, Ronan O'Gara, Tomas O'Leary
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Flawed system allows O’Connell to walk
I began to fear the worst on the Dave Kearney concussion incident when someone with much better technology than me made reference yesterday to Paul O’Connell’s shin. Not that he was hugely relieved that the tibia was still in one … Continue reading →