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How is that not just a straight red, about as clear cut as they get I read elsewhere that barring an obvious punch/gouge etc, refs have been directed to use the bunker. Saw it mentioned and doubted it, but the person saying it was pretty sure. I haven't seen the official guidelines to that effect, ...

TheNatalShark wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 4:15 pm If that was an Irish player rather than Steyn, Johnny Sexton would already be pleading in front of the UN Human Rights Commission

Your tears give me a lovely warm feeling.

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:53 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:08 am
EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 9:38 am Anything I write you contradict. He did and he does
Just reviewed the first half. Still looking.

I'll let you know after second half review.
You need to get out and have more wanks

He'd have fewer kids if he'd done more of that.

anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:21 am Do they normally offload quite so much? I thought the first half was a little bit loose.

I thought they seemed to be pushing it more than usual myself.

Thought there were quite a few loose offloads and general play by the pack yesterday, which isn't typical of the team at their best.
Hopefully they get a bit of a mental break and shakeup over the next few weeks and tighten up those bits for the semi.

Frop.E wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:33 am PR seems to be down again.

Not just my shitty rural connection, so.

Everyone's so wound up about the try. I was surprised it was given.

It wasn't the winning of the match, though.

Dry yer eyes, C69.

Seems to be a lot of buthurt Welsh fans about the Lowe try.
I was amazed that it was given, but can understand it on the basis of the question asked/on-field decision.

It had no impact on the result, and we we done by a bad non-decision ourselves, so meh.

Murray was good in the first half. In the second, because he was slower to the rucks, he reverted to his up and unders, which were either too short or too long, and essentially just gave possession back to the French to run back hard at us. If JGP is OK in two weeks we'll revert to starting with hi...

Grandpa wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 7:20 pm Makes you wonder why they didn't show this angle at the time?

Joue joue

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Just on my way home now.
What a day for rugby.

We're all going to heaven lads, waaaayyyyyy

Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 4:25 pm
redderneck wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 4:24 pm Doris’ pass out of contact. I think I owe the Mrs a new set of curtains.
He has it all.

Ringrose just handed off a French defender like he wasn’t there

Handed him off, and tripped the following two chasing defenders with the discarded body.

Handy having Kelleher back for today!

The lack of scrums was great. Props were able to ball a bit and carry like mad yokes. ToT was good in the final quarter.

Awesome game to watch. Super 3rd quarter. Pretty average second half tbh. Game ruined by Barnes. However well deserved win which would have been much more of the red was given. Maybe not in terms of pure quality rugby, but riding out the french attacks, restricting them to a drop goal, and then pla...

Awesome game to watch. Super 3rd quarter.

We need to stop going so many pick and go phases on their line.
Just need a 10m pass out beyond their stacked forwards and we're in. McCloskey was in there if we'd passed right a few phases before Murray dropped it.

Rob Kearney special.

I note that in the latest Tech job shedding announcement Microsoft are letting 120 people go out of their 3,500 Irish headcount. Whilst unfortunate for those affected, that's 3.5% of their work force. They'd have a bigger churn in six months. How the press are reporting this with a straight face is...

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:55 pm Key Irish issues of the last year to be parsed in the next hour while everyone is here

1. Christy Dignam
2. Vicki Phelan/Charlie Bird
3. Exodus of Landlords
4. The Ditch

Fiver to the person who figures Paddy the Party Planner's NPR account first.

It has to be Murray's call. Hopefully his decision to play is a positive sign that his father is recovering. Not necassarily. A former colleague of my dad was seriously injured in a similar way. Road collision while cycling to/from work. Induced coma, touch and go whether he'd get through the first...

Talking of obsolete. When I was in the OTC at school in the early 1970s we had an armoury with 150 Lee Enfields and a lot of .303 ammunition. We also has two Brens and ammo for them. Every private school in the area had similar, the theory being that we and local veterans could put up some resistan...

This is weird. So many old names.

Abbedan's Gate has a pretty decent climax, IMO. Takes a bit of time to move the pieces into place though. Cibola Burn is probably the most stand-alone of all the novels, and more different in feel, IMO. Probably has a tighter cast and story, though.

Vaguely related; Jupiter and Saturn will appear at their closest apparent distance from our perspective on the 21st (coincidentally the solstice) since the 1500s.

Amos has a class story arc this season, so it should be good. Really enjoying Wes Chatham's version of the character. Much more substance to work with as the seasons progress as his character gets more detail on top of the simple psycho that he appears to be early on.

Expanse season 5 out yesterday, first two episodes. Haven't had a chance to watch them yet, but there should be some impressive visuals this season.

So Amazon confirm that The Expanse will stop after season 6. Natural break in story arcs in the books, TBF. Also, Cas Anvar will not be returning after season 5. Investigations into his alleged behaviours didn't come back in his favour. They'll have to recast Kamal. I really like his portrayal, but ...

Enjoying them?

Expanse season 5 out in 6 weeks. Holy crap, I am excite.

Definitely not a fan of Reynolds, so!

I remember the first time I read something properly sciency that worked well in a book. In Consider Phlebas they have magic anti-grav suits (Banks was very happy to have magic space stuff) which work against gravity due to massive bodies, but they're on a ring orbital. One character goes to float o...

Definitely play in the order released. HoS fits in right after the main story, and BaW is basically a sequel. The ending feeling of BaW is brilliant, too. Just ties off an epic story.

Absolutely play the game. It's fantastic.

I remember the first time I read something properly sciency that worked well in a book. In Consider Phlebas they have magic anti-grav suits (Banks was very happy to have magic space stuff) which work against gravity due to massive bodies, but they're on a ring orbital. One character goes to float of...

Yeah, the first time reading UoW is a headfuck I like Reynold's use of hard physics - Chasm City/Yellowstone is a great setting Reynolds is one of the minority of modern sci-fi writers who has a solid background in the sciences. I enjoy a lot of space opera but most of it is based on handwavium tec...

Apparently sales of the Xbox One X has rocketed since the Series X went on pre-sale. I wonder how many parents have ordered the wrong thing from Santa. Lots. Lots and lots I reckon. My boy will remain happy with the current gen. I'm not telling him about the new one, and when he finds out, he'll ha...

Apparently sales of the Xbox One X has rocketed since the Series X went on pre-sale.

I wonder how many parents have ordered the wrong thing from Santa.

I found it a bit confusing and scattered to start, until I paid attention to the dates at the start of each chapter and put together a rough timeline in my head of events as it unfolded. How did you cope with Use of Weapons? The different chronological sequences across the chapters were much more c...

I found it a bit confusing and scattered to start, until I paid attention to the dates at the start of each chapter and put together a rough timeline in my head of events as it unfolded.

The fact that some Munster heads hate him only makes him more of a legend.

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