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- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:12 am
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Leinster mind games begin? - Champions Cup (A) - Saturday 06th April 2024 - KO:8:00pm
- Replies: 416
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Re: Leinster mind games begin? - Champions Cup (A) - Saturday 06th April 2024 - KO:8:00pm
"I think about 12 of that starting 15 are international players, and 3 from the bench (ish)? Tigers are playing worse than the sum of their parts currently because that is a team/squad littered with top drawer talent." An obvious question is "why?" In their (brief) golden period ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Leinster mind games begin? - Champions Cup (A) - Saturday 06th April 2024 - KO:8:00pm
- Replies: 416
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Re: Leinster mind games begin? - Champions Cup (A) - Saturday 06th April 2024 - KO:8:00pm
I don't know why many teams bother when you end up playing 90% of the current 2nd in the world squad. Never been a level playing field. According to Wikipedia, England has five times more adult male players than Ireland. All other things being equal (and that's not necessarily true), if Ireland has...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Leinster mind games begin? - Champions Cup (A) - Saturday 06th April 2024 - KO:8:00pm
- Replies: 416
- Views: 21518
Re: Leinster mind games begin? - Champions Cup (A) - Saturday 06th April 2024 - KO:8:00pm
I don't know why many teams bother when you end up playing 90% of the current 2nd in the world squad. Never been a level playing field. According to Wikipedia, England has five times more adult male players than Ireland. All other things being equal (and that's not necessarily true), if Ireland has...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: LEICESTER TIGERS 2023/24 - KANGAROO MCKELLER: Do you come from a land down under? (Squad thread pt 2)
- Replies: 915
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2023/24 - KANGAROO MCKELLER: Do you come from a land down under? (Squad thread pt 2)
I need to check today's date.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: LEICESTER TIGERS 2023/24 - KANGAROO MCKELLER: Do you come from a land down under? (Squad thread pt 2)
- Replies: 915
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Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2023/24 - KANGAROO MCKELLER: Do you come from a land down under? (Squad thread pt 2)
Excellent though not unexpected news re Perese. On Beets personally I would be surprised if we spent cap money on another back rower. If the coaches feel he has the ability then sometimes youth needs to be given its head as Baxter has proved at Exeter. Slight aside a poster asked for explanations o...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Tigers v Gloucester - Premiership Cup Final - Friday 15th March 2024 - KO:7-45pm
- Replies: 273
- Views: 21716
Re: Tigers v Gloucester - Premiership Cup Final - Friday 15th March 2024 - KO:7-45pm
Oh dear - yet more rants about the ref. Perhaps all professional players should be equired to pass a test on the laws of rugby? ( a bit like a theory exam before a driving test). There are plenty ofexamples of players and ex-players not knowing the laws (eg Haskell/England vs Italy a few years ago w...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: French rugby 2023/24
- Replies: 116
- Views: 39855
Re: French rugby 2023/24
I guess that the Welsh players didn’t anticipate THAT pass so made the chances of an interception less likely than for a normal floated pass?
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: 2024 Six Nations Chat
- Replies: 1217
- Views: 72956
Re: 2024 Six Nations Chat
A similar situation arose 25 years ago, at Wembley. It finished Wales 32-31 England but England were six points up near the end of the match and had the opportunity to kick a fairly straightforward penalty to make it "two scores". They opted for the lineout, Wales turned it over and Gibbs ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: 2024 Six Nations Chat
- Replies: 1217
- Views: 72956
Re: 2024 Six Nations Chat
The irony is that Freddie would probably have taken that chance too as he's scored several similar tries for England. Supposedly Furby's point of difference is his play making, not his finishing. Did he make any plays vs Scotland?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: International Eligibility
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3047
Re: International Eligibility
I've often said that Princess Anne is the ideal president for the SRU as she has/had one Scottish grandparent.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: 2024 Six Nations Chat
- Replies: 1217
- Views: 72956
Re: 2024 Six Nations Chat
Re: England training squad Forwards Tigers 4 Bath 4 Saracens 4 Quins 3 Saints 2 Sale 1 Exeter 1 Bristol 1 Newcastle 0 Gloucester 0 Backs Saints 4 Bath 4 Sale 3 Bristol 1 Quins 1 Saracens 1 Exeter 1 Tigers 1 Gloucester 0 Newcastle 0 What conclusions may be drawn from this, if any? An East Midlands r...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Wasps revival???
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3625
Re: Wasps revival???
They should be renamed the Hover Flies - a smaller, less irritating version of the original, that may even do some good.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: LEICESTER TIGERS 2023/24 - Crocodile McKeller: Men at Work
- Replies: 2494
- Views: 424951
Re: LEICESTER TIGERS 2023/24 - Crocodile McKeller: Men at Work
How’s about trying to lure Genge back with the carrot of playing number eight (again)?
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:55 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: 2024 Six Nations Chat
- Replies: 1217
- Views: 72956
Re: 2024 Six Nations Chat
Gobsmacked after Freddie's performance vs Wales. Mind you, Furbank did crunch Quin's giant 12 in a recent club match so may have beefed up and toughened up relative to his first cap vs France.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Fans Forum
- Topic: Trailfinders a sad indictment of rugby
- Replies: 190
- Views: 12689
Re: Trailfinders a sad indictment of rugby
How about killing two birds with one stone? Merge Wasps and Ealing and call it Weeping?