Leicester Tigers

I can see the feeling behind objecting to the use of the Aviva for a semi-final involving Leinster and I'm no supporter of EPCR but in practice where else could they hold it ? Thomond Park ? Not very big; only 26,000; only 7,000 more than the RDS. A shame to move so many fans across Ireland like tha...

So much could be said in answer to (not many) posters complaining about how unfair it is that there are only 4 Irish provinces, they have huge budgets and it's not even worth playing in Europe. A few points: 1. A transnational competition will always involve apples playing pears playing oranges - an...

I think we can't go back to the old pools with one more home match because the Top14 clubs insisted on a shorter Champions Cup so they had an extra weekend for their league. I imagine the PRL agreed with this. It was the representatives of the three leagues who allowed EPCR to do away with seeding b...

This thread seems to have: - issues which are arguable either way - the lifeblood of good forums like this one - quite a lot of unintentional factual errors about Leinster, Irish and URC rugby; Irish & other posters provide corrections - quite a lot of intentional factual errors about Leinster, ...

In amongst the sense (on this excellent forum), there is so much misunderstanding about Irish rugby I don't even know where to begin so will limit my comments to the following (bearing in mind that I am NOT a Leinster supporter): 1. Leinster have good players who therefore play for Ireland. It is no...

Sean Jansen to join Connacht next season. See:
https://www.irishrugby.ie/2023/03/10/ir ... -connacht/

Do you think it's a loss for Tigers and/or a good signing for Connacht ? Thanks

Has the Munster heart been rekindled by the sad loss of Foley? [/quote] A bit of that no doubt but possibly mainly because this is the first season ever that Munster have trained in one place. Until this summer, the Cork guys trained in Cork Mon-Wed and the Limerick guys trained in Limerick, then t...