Six Nations: Lions Coach Wanted. Apply Within.
We’ve had the World Cup, we’ve had the group stages of the Heineken Cup, heck we’ve even had some Rabodirect Pro12 League Mega Sized Action, but now all those terribly nouveau tournaments move aside,...
View ArticleEight Games That Defined Irish Rugby: Match Three
The Game: England 13 Ireland 19, 6th March 2004 What it Defined: The emergence of a consistently successful Ireland side The State of Play After the Night of the Long Knives following the All Blacks...
View ArticleNotes for Warren
On Tuesday, the news the world was waiting for broke at last. Warren Gatland is to be Lions coach. That sneaky fiver we put on Declan Kidney last week is lost to the wild. Damn! It was a no brainer...
View ArticleWhat the Hell Is Going On In: The Welsh Regions?
It’s November, and we know what that means: internationals. So while in Ireland the IRFU scrabble around to get 40,000 people to watch the Argentina game, across the water in Wales this is really the...
View ArticlePower of Three Plus One
Gatty has a history of throwing verbal bombs around (the Welsh hate the Irish more than anyone, for example), and he was at it again last week. The rambunctuous Kiwi, and Lions head coach, claimed that...
View ArticleTackling AND carrying? Nah, no-one can do that.
One test down and the Lions have gone one-nil up, yet the odds on them taking the series (starting from generous prices, in our opinion) have barely moved. The Lions may have won, but they erred badly...
View ArticleNumero Uno, and Triskaidekaphobia
There is one story today – Gatty. Brian O’Driscoll is mere collateral damage – Gatty has picked the team he wanted for the biggest game of his career. About the team, more anon, but let’s just consider...
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