wrencat1873 wrote:
Exactly this.
So desperate are we for the proverbial silver bullet, that we keep making ever more desperate changes.
To think that pre SL we had a 16 club top flight which looks like becoming a 10 club top flight (and may include 2 French clubs).
It might sound counterintuitive but in last year’s Six Nations there was a neat symmetry between a team’s average number of kicks out of hand and their final position. Ireland, with an average of 27.4 kicks...
christopher wrote:
Matthew Shaw has rubbished it saying
“ You can put the Tariq Sims to Leeds Rhinos rumour in the nonsense category.”
Basically he would be the highest paid...
Trinity1964 wrote:
Another club in a similar position to Halifax is Widnes, nice stadium with a decent following who were top dogs in the 70's and 80's. To see traditional clubs like these...
orangeman wrote:
Unlike Catalan, Toulouse, should they win promotion, will have reached the top table on merit. For all the "it's not expansion", they have played by the same rules as the rest of the clubs in the championship during this weird times and haven't been "tested".
Fans will return to The Sportsground for a competitive Pro fixture for the first time in almost a full year on Friday night, when the Vodacom Bulls visit College Road on Friday night in the URC (k/o 7.35pm). Andy Friend’s troops trained yesterday ahead of the fixture...
The Ulster Schools’ Committee has launched a new cup competition which will be sponsored by Danske Bank. This season will see the Ulster Schools’ U16 Cup feature 25 boys’ teams competing in a new format, divided into two tiers of eight, and a third tier of nine.
Jukesays wrote:
Should have also said
Last week when people were throwing figures of 100k and saying its ridiculous the likes of Byrne/Partington/Smithies etc are on that and getting themselves all worked up and criticising IL/KR is the biggest case of 2+2 equals 11 ever.
Munster are back at Thomond Park this Saturday night against another first-time opponent as the DHL Stormers visit Limerick in round two of the United Rugby Championship. Johann van Graan’s side will...
