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Replying To Ryanteam: "Russians bombing Kiev like no tomorrow, as USA stopped sharing intelligence with them. Trump threatens economic sanctions on Putin, the day after he said the Ukrainians were a deterrent to peace. Putin must be laughing so much!! All this from a guy who said he'd stop Ukraine war in a day!" I'd like to see TV footage from both sides but we won't get that. Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2259 - 08/03/2025 15:48:22 2595397 Link
Pay Up China! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/missouri-wins-24-billion-judgment-against-china-for-unleashing-covid-19-on-the-world/ar-AA1Aurlx Missouri wins $24 billion judgment against China for 'unleashing COVID-19 on the world' "This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world," Bailey said in a statement. "China refused to show up to court, but that doesn't mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation. We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland." Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2385 - 08/03/2025 15:49:28 2595398 Link
Prendergast? Yup. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1021 - 08/03/2025 16:07:12 2595402 Link
I watch rugby and not an expert..what was the idea of kicking into touch instead of taking points especially against France?listening to commentary is very annoying,prendergast to me just had no control and his kicking from play was terrible..a lot of fellas who were dead certs for a lions tour might have put that trip in doubt. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2467 - 08/03/2025 16:34:42 2595410 Link
Replying To CTGAA10: "I watch rugby and not an expert..what was the idea of kicking into touch instead of taking points especially against France?listening to commentary is very annoying,prendergast to me just had no control and his kicking from play was terrible..a lot of fellas who were dead certs for a lions tour might have put that trip in doubt." It's the Leinster Love-in in action. It is ruining Irish rugby and turning people off at this stage. Prendergast is a nice young rugby player but not ready and completely and utterly out of his depth today. Swatted aside and countless hugely costly errors. If he was a Seamusín MacDonnacha from Leitir Mór and played for Connacht, he wouldn't be within an asses roar of that No. 10 jersey from Ireland, but because he's come through and has the full backing of the elite Leinster channels, he appears to have a divine right to the jersey for the full 80 mins today. Young kids that play the game could see the problems today but the IRFU blazers don't and they overload Leinster with 10 centrally contracted players while the rest of the provinces beg for their 1 central contract to go to 2! It is completely and utterly biased and the grassroots people around the country know it, aren't fools, and aren't one bit happy. A sad scenario for the Irish game to be in. togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1021 - 08/03/2025 16:57:36 2595416 Link
Replying To Trump2020: "GOOD MAN TRUMP! https://nypost.com/2025/03/07/opinion/the-message-of-trumps-tariffs-stop-killing-us-by-flooding-america-with-fentanyl/ Stop killing Americans with fentanyl! That's the clear message behind the Trump fentanyl tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico. Today, China continues to provide the flood of precursor chemicals that the Mexican drug cartels use to manufacture fentanyl in both Mexico and Canada." Red herring Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15047 - 08/03/2025 17:40:39 2595419 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "Prendergast? Yup." We've more problems than Prendergast, I'm afraid. The Irish squad's talent level is mediocre enough compared to what France put on display today. I don't rate Prendergast particularly highly, but no Irish players were capable of breaching the French defense today. Ireland were missing 3 starting backs in Lowe, Hanson and Ringrose. Their backups didn't impress, and the Irish forwards got no breathing space either, from the 'two' French packs that saw gametime. France 'didn't show up' in Marseilles last year in 6 nations, or else we wouldn't have been within a sniff of beating them then either. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3996 - 08/03/2025 18:02:41 2595420 Link
Replying To togoutlads: "It's the Leinster Love-in in action. It is ruining Irish rugby and turning people off at this stage. Prendergast is a nice young rugby player but not ready and completely and utterly out of his depth today. Swatted aside and countless hugely costly errors. If he was a Seamusín MacDonnacha from Leitir Mór and played for Connacht, he wouldn't be within an asses roar of that No. 10 jersey from Ireland, but because he's come through and has the full backing of the elite Leinster channels, he appears to have a divine right to the jersey for the full 80 mins today. Young kids that play the game could see the problems today but the IRFU blazers don't and they overload Leinster with 10 centrally contracted players while the rest of the provinces beg for their 1 central contract to go to 2! It is completely and utterly biased and the grassroots people around the country know it, aren't fools, and aren't one bit happy. A sad scenario for the Irish game to be in." The fact of matter is as much as I'd like even distribution our best players are most from Leinster there are no players in other provinces missing out. In fact the absence of Lowe and kelleher and herring Nash coming in weakened us significantly. Leinster are probably better than Ireland with snyman barrett slimani would walk into Ireland 23 Omahony prob shouldn't be starting either. Beirne is a Leinster man. Connacht best players are imports and ex Leinster players. Jack carty & billy burns got goes at 10 for Ireland when never good enough One player who's really badly treated is frawley one bad game and turfed out. They have made a bit of a rod for their back going all in on Pendergast. Frawley and Crowley are two best 10s in Ireland jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1381 - 08/03/2025 18:48:07 2595422 Link
If Prendercast was an Ulster man would he be on that Ireland team? Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2259 - 08/03/2025 19:05:51 2595427 Link
Replying To Saynothing: "If Prendercast was an Ulster man would he be on that Ireland team?" Probably they started billy burns when he was at ulster jm25 (Galway) - Posts: 1381 - 08/03/2025 19:43:30 2595434 Link
Replying To Saynothing: "If Prendercast was an Ulster man would he be on that Ireland team?" If Peter Canavan was a Kerryman would he have 3, maybe 4 AI's instead of 2? Onion_Sack (Dublin) - Posts: 286 - 08/03/2025 19:59:14 2595439 Link
Replying To Onion_Sack: "If Peter Canavan was a Kerryman would he have 3, maybe 4 AI's instead of 2?" 10 Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2259 - 08/03/2025 20:41:12 2595452 Link
Replying To Saynothing: "If Prendercast was an Ulster man would he be on that Ireland team?" If he was, he'd be singing irelands call, but wouldn't necessarily be singing the other one. Two songs is a bit much anyway. Pope_Benedict (Galway) - Posts: 3996 - 08/03/2025 20:41:18 2595453 Link
Replying To Pope_Benedict: "If he was, he'd be singing irelands call, but wouldn't necessarily be singing the other one. Two songs is a bit much anyway." No need for the new one. They stood for Irelands National anthem for years until someone came up with this nonsense. Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2259 - 08/03/2025 21:01:01 2595459 Link
CTGAA10 (Limerick) You say you watch rugby, full stop, You are correct when you say you are not an expert, in fact I would guess you know nothing about the game, an anonymous key board warrior. As for togoutlads (Galway) I wont go into his bla bla bla utterance I wouldn't waste ink on his type of elevated rubbish. you know as much about the game as a gold fish knows about roller skates. We are very proud of this squad who put themselves out ther not only to entertain but to give people who know nothing about the game a opportunity to reticule them. The same critics were saying we were depending on 3 or more non Irish born men to strengthen the team. For the benefit of the uneducated Population of Ireland 4,88 million Population of France 67.3 million. The game was not as one sided as the score suggest, and Sam wont loose any sleep over nonsensical comments supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3126 - 08/03/2025 21:38:13 2595462 Link
The game certainly wasn't as the score suggested, we lost by 15, we trailed by 29 with two mins left, French utterly dominated the game after opening ten mins, Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2047 - 08/03/2025 21:52:41 2595467 Link
Replying To supersub15: "CTGAA10 (Limerick) You say you watch rugby, full stop, You are correct when you say you are not an expert, in fact I would guess you know nothing about the game, an anonymous key board warrior. As for togoutlads (Galway) I wont go into his bla bla bla utterance I wouldn't waste ink on his type of elevated rubbish. you know as much about the game as a gold fish knows about roller skates. We are very proud of this squad who put themselves out ther not only to entertain but to give people who know nothing about the game a opportunity to reticule them. The same critics were saying we were depending on 3 or more non Irish born men to strengthen the team. For the benefit of the uneducated Population of Ireland 4,88 million Population of France 67.3 million. The game was not as one sided as the score suggest, and Sam wont loose any sleep over nonsensical comments" No, Sam won't lose sleep but Crowley might. He's getting repeatedly overlooked for the starting 10 jersey to a player who is patently not yet ready for the role ar this level. And re your baseless disparaging comments, I'll wager that I and my family have forgotten more about the game of rugby than you'll ever know. I'm entitled to comment and will. What I'm saying is certainly not nonsensical and the pro-Leinster disparity at all levels and IRFU over-support of same (to try and buy your province's way to a European title that still won't be won), is being talked about at grassroots level, at clubs up and down the country, one of which I was volunteering at, at 9am this morning, my Carlow keyboard friend! togoutlads (Galway) - Posts: 1021 - 08/03/2025 22:02:44 2595468 Link
Replying To supersub15: "CTGAA10 (Limerick) You say you watch rugby, full stop, You are correct when you say you are not an expert, in fact I would guess you know nothing about the game, an anonymous key board warrior. As for togoutlads (Galway) I wont go into his bla bla bla utterance I wouldn't waste ink on his type of elevated rubbish. you know as much about the game as a gold fish knows about roller skates. We are very proud of this squad who put themselves out ther not only to entertain but to give people who know nothing about the game a opportunity to reticule them. The same critics were saying we were depending on 3 or more non Irish born men to strengthen the team. For the benefit of the uneducated Population of Ireland 4,88 million Population of France 67.3 million. The game was not as one sided as the score suggest, and Sam wont loose any sleep over nonsensical comments" "For the benefit of the uneducated" the population of Ireland is 6.9million, I see the partitionist mindset is alive and well down Carlow way. tireoghainabu (Tyrone) - Posts: 372 - 08/03/2025 22:28:59 2595471 Link
Supersub15 I'm as entitled to my opinion as anyone else..I attended ail matches in all limerick venues and had some great days out..everything with sp was led by the media in Dublin..he can be a great player but he is not ready yet..he was possibly 4th choice for Leinster when the season started..frawley seems t have been completely forgotten..did he not deserve another chance? It looks like Crowley will be used in every position in backs except out half.in all fairness to sp today he wasn't the only player to have an off day..it just seems strange that he looks beyond criticism by any pundit.. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2467 - 08/03/2025 22:37:19 2595472 Link
Replying To Saynothing: "No need for the new one. They stood for Irelands National anthem for years until someone came up with this nonsense." Well said. It's awful guff. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2183 - 08/03/2025 22:41:12 2595473 Link