Laboured metaphor of the week goes to... (1 Viewer)

[Moods For Mallards]

... the great Hugh Farrelly in the Indo, re: Leinster's win:

"THE 19-16 rising. Given the final scoreline, this nation's shadow-induced Anglo obsession, and the fact that this was a story of Irish overcoming English, references to that storied rebellion in the aftermath of Saturday's explosive Heineken Cup final in Edinburgh were to be expected.However, when we set aside the spurious links between rugby and our republican past, there was indeed an element of history being rewritten at Murrayfield on Saturday."

I'm not going to link to this guff.

 

[Froog]

how many of the squad were actually irish?

 

[Moods For Mallards]

how many of the squad were actually irish?

The vast majority.

 

[nooleen]

However, when we set aside the spurious links between rugby and our republican past, there was indeed an element of history being rewritten

most contradictory sentence of the week goes to...

 

[Unicron]

The vast majority.

4 (2 aussie, 1 Fijian and 1 Cook Islander) foreigners in the starting 15, don't think there were many on the bench.

With a fully fit panal there would have been a South African and an Argentinian as likely starters (though the South African would have been in for the guy from the Cook Islands and there's another Irish lad who might have taken the Fijian's place).

 

[Franco]

Only allowed six foreigners on the panel ain't ya? It's going to five next year I believe.

 

[Froog]

i'd say there was some amount of heino's consumed at the weekend.

 

[Unicron]

i'd say there was some amount of heino's consumed at the weekend.

And probs too.

Town wasn't noticeably busier on Saturday I didn't think. Perhaps they were all stuck in their Donneybrook enclave.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Hopefully they'll get to meet the queen.

The true measure of Irish success in rugby is measured by how the English pat you on the head afterwards by including you in their touring team or having you meet the monarch.
Respect from the tans is what rugby, and living in Donnybrook, is all about.
And who'd begrudge it to them?

 

[Vinnie]

I'd sure hate to be rugby right now.

 

[Unicron]

by how the English pat you on the head afterwards by including you in their touring team

Or you know, renaming the thing to include the word Irish in it.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Or you know, renaming the thing to include the word Irish in it.

Exactly.

 

[coast to coast]

i'd say there was some amount of heino's consumed at the weekend.

the most difficult part of the weekend was getting a heineken at murrayfield. a 30-40 minute crushing operation.

but yes, many were still consumed. i was certainly ordering four at a time so as not to go back in to get more.

 

[Gambra]

Town wasn't noticeably busier on Saturday I didn't think. Perhaps they were all stuck in their Donneybrook enclave.

Compared to when Munster won it and you couldn't get in the door to a single bar because of the sea of red.

Edit: In Limerick that is