The Rugby Union Thread

snakemanStoo

Yup.

Very wet.  Ball is a bar of soap etc.

eSully

Catching bits and pieces on the sky go on the mobile. Sarries are looking good at the moment. Racing players are frustrated.

exocet

Yes

koneguitarist

Bath coach Ford, gone. Wonder how young George will cope now?

eSully

The pro 12 has its own Leicester style fairytale in the making. Connacht just beat Glasgow to get to the pro 12 final in probably the most exciting game I've watched this season

koneguitarist

Pity about the Leicester Rugby team though, hammered by Saracens. And good old Exeter get first final, well deserved win. On today's performance Saracens will win fairly easily, but who knows.

Rocker

Connacht and Leinster in the final at Murrayfield. Should be some night in Scotland..

eSully

Irish Provincial Allegiances for the Pro12 final, they could probably include Wales and Scotland supporting Connacht too

eSully

koneguitarist said:

Pity about the Leicester Rugby team though, hammered by Saracens. And good old Exeter get first final, well deserved win. On today's performance Saracens will win fairly easily, but who knows.

I think Sarries genuinely are the best team in Europe right now. I can't see Exeter beating them but I think it would be great for the premiership if they did.

Evilmags

Anyone see the Twickenham 7s. Scotland knocked out England and beat SA in the final.

scrumhalf

Evilmags said:

Anyone see the Twickenham 7s. Scotland knocked out England and beat SA in the final.

I can't get excited over sevens. Maybe if they used a smaller-sized pitch it would seem like less of a sprint-fest.

Rocker

@eSully, I think most of the Leinster counties, apart from Dublin, are supporting Connacht.  People in Westmeath, where I live, have little affinity with Leinster but we admire the way Connacht Rugby has 'come on' in recent years.  It is actually easier for me, living on the East side of Westmeath, to get to a game at the Sportsgrounds than to the RDS!

eSully

Doesn't surprise me @rocker. I know a lot of people from Wexford/Killkenny/Offaly would support Munster in the past.

I was listening to Brian Moores full contact podcast this week and he had Shane Byrne on who said "Ah Jahsus Brian, I'm a Leinster man through and through and even I'm rooting for Connacht"

koneguitarist

Nervy start by Bristol against Doncaster, hope they finally get promotion, they surely deserve it.

koneguitarist

Really squeaky cheeks time now for Bristol, surely they can't blow it again!

koneguitarist

Well I'm happy Bristol are back in premiership, been a long long time.

eSully

Well, unfortunately Exeter didn't quiet do it against Sarries but if any of the forums rugby fans are online. STick on the Pro 12 final. It's been a cracking game so far and Connacht are beating that shower of shite from Dublin 4 15-0 (sorry @tbm )

tbm

That's ok @eSully! I've just been beaming at the TV. Redden was so classy in his post match interview. Leinster didn't play because Connacht didn't let them. Great game, and this Leinster fan is delighted to see John Mulldoon lift that trophy. They were brilliant to watch today and have been all year. Lam with the cupla focal as gaeilge in his post match interview with TV4 too. Lovely.

eSully

tbm said:

That's ok @eSully! I've just been beaming at the TV. Redden was so classy in his post match interview. Leinster didn't play because Connacht didn't let them. Great game, and this Leinster fan is delighted to see John Mulldoon lift that trophy. They were brilliant to watch today and have been all year. Lam with the cupla focal as gaeilge in his post match interview with TV4 too. Lovely.

As a Munster fan to a Leinster fan we've had some bloody good days out in the last ten years. Today was a fairytale story really. Who'd have thought Connacht, a team the IRFU considered disbanding not that long ago, would go on to win the league. Beating fantastic Glasgow and Leinster sides on the way (as well as us twice but I don't want to talk about that). Brilliant game, class from the teams and pure class from Muldoon, Redden and Lam in the post match interviews. How are Healy and O'Halloran not going to South Africa  :-S

Rocker

tbm said:

That's ok @eSully! I've just been beaming at the TV. Redden was so classy in his post match interview. Leinster didn't play because Connacht didn't let them. Great game, and this Leinster fan is delighted to see John Mulldoon lift that trophy. They were brilliant to watch today and have been all year. Lam with the cupla focal as gaeilge in his post match interview with TV4 too. Lovely.

Well said my friend.  Connacht blew Leinster away or as close as it is possible to do in a Rugby Final.