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Bradley Davies Nearly Broke Donnacha Ryan’s Neck
Worse than Warburton’s tackle at the World Cup
What Did Michael D Say To Amuse ROG?
I’m guessing: ‘It should have been you in those o2 suburban rugby ads’.
Scotland v England and the try that should have been?
There was one moment of contention in todays dreadful Calcutta match between Scotland and England. Greig Laidlaw chipped ahead inside England’s 22, he chased down the kick and seemed to get enough pressure on the ball for the try. After numerous replays the TMO’s decision was no try. Balls.ie remains on the fence.
Stephen Donald stars in “Rugby ball in the groin”
It works on so many levels.
The Incredible, Shrinking Donncha O’Callaghan
Who chopped the prankster’s ankles off?
[Mark Cunning]
Sean O’Brien Doesn’t Do Training
Or so this T-shirt suggests.
Anybody Catch Welsh Coach Shaun Edwards Bitching About Ireland In Last Week’s Guardian?
Last night I was doing a bit of Six Nations research in order to inform my weekend’s gambling and stumbled onto Shawn Edwards’s bizarre column in last Friday’s Guardian. The Welsh defense coach was attempting to write about his team’s preparations in Poland, but he couldn’t stop himself from sniping about Irish rugby team, making a few thinly veiled claims that the Ireland benefits from a range of ‘coincidental’ scheduling advantages that gives them an edge over Wales.
Now Edwards does go on to praise the Irish club sides in the proceeding paragraph, but any genuine gestures of respect for the Irish are tarred by the whiff of conspiracy that he casts over Ireland’s successes. I had no idea this kind of paranoia was alive and well in the Welsh camp. I don’t think it will benefit them come Sunday.
Imagine ‘Winning’ Your Schools Rugby Match With A Heroic Kick And The Irish Times Getting Your Name Wrong
The only scrap of consolation for Newbridge College today is that although they were robbed by idiot linesmen, at least the corresponding match report in the Irish Times got Bray Pres’s fullback Diarmuid Masterson’s name wrong.
The Controversial End To The Pres Bray-Newbridge Game
The Closing moment of yesterday enthralling Leinster Schools Cup contest between Pres Bray and Newbrigde, saw the youngsters from Bray trailing by one point following a try two minutes into stoppage time by Newbridge. With time all,but gone Pres were awarded a penalty 43 metres away from the Newbridge line. With no option,but to have a shot at goal up stepped Pres Fullback, Diarmuid Masterson, for a seemingly impossible kick to win the match.
The ball crept over the bar and Pres were victorious in the most unlikely of circumstance. Or so it seemed until Setanta showed replays that suggested the ball dipped under the bar as opposed to going over it.
With the benefit of slow motion it certainly seems like the ball just fell short, but that will be scant compensation for Newbridge, who in the last three minutes thought they had lost the game ,then won it after scoring a last gasp try,only to lose it again by the thinnest of margins. Sports as the cliche goes is a funny old game.
