GP Play-Offs.

toomevara

Big day in the Guinness Premiership today. Wasps V Bath and Gloucester V Leics. Predicting a Wasps/Gloucester final with Wasps to win the comp in yet another lazarus style resurrection.

Wasps/Bath last encounter, game of the GP season thus far...here's hoping for more....

RuggieBear

hope they are good games...

RuggieBear

cipriani looks like he's ****ed.

really nasty leg injury

toomevara

Oh christ! Cipriani's ankle gone, foot was definitely pointing the wrong way there...poor lad, hope isn't as bad as it looked,

kmart6

The screams of him was shocking! Going to be interesting to see what Engalnd will do for the NZ tour now!

toomevara

Bloody sky+ ! Wish I hadn't rewound that, that'll teach me for being a ghoulish voyeur I spose... very,very nasty injury...he'll be out for the forseeable with that...poor divil

RuggieBear

toomevara wrote: »

Bloody sky+ ! Wish I hadn't rewound that, that'll teach me for being a ghoulish voyeur I spose... very,very nasty injury...he'll be out for the forseeable with that...poor divil

ditto.:o

kmart6

Too lazy to go downstairs to see it,lol!

taidghbaby

toomevara wrote: »

Oh christ! Cipriani's ankle gone, foot was definitely pointing the wrong way there...poor lad, hope isn't as bad as it looked,

that was nasty looking!! made me look at me own foot just to make sure it was still pointing where it should!

toomevara

aaargh!!! uncontested scrums! the horror....

toomevara

Superb, typically bloody minded display from Wasps...cost 'em dear though...still back 'em to win the thing

Stev_o

Ah feck that means Cips wont be going to New Zealand for sure... pity as i thought that him vs Carter would have been a great contest oh well.

Gloucester vs Leicester. Now usually id support Leicester but by god do they not deserve to be this far so i hope the Cherry and White's get revenge

toomevara

Stev_o wrote: »

Gloucester vs Leicester. Now usually id support Leicester but by god do they not deserve to be this far so i hope the Cherry and White's get revenge

Agreed, plus a Wasps/Gloucester final would be mouth watering, definitely the two form english teams at the minute....

Stev_o

As is Leicester this year they'v had arguably the shakiest 2 minutes iv ever seen from them ever!

taidghbaby

i dont really care who wins as long as tuilangi and vainakoli have a couple of high speed head on collisions!

dc69

taidghbaby wrote: »

i dont really care who wins as long as tuilangi and vainakoli have a couple of high speed head on collisions!

agreed

Stev_o

Goode having one of those days

Cool_CM

Goode is having one of those seasons

taidghbaby

varndell: 0-60 in 2.5 secs..........who needs a ferrari

Stev_o

Murphy's playing well beside having a chunk on the back of his head missing. Some good catches and a nice break

Cool_CM

Lucky not to be a 2nd yellow card there*

*I spoke too soon

Stev_o

Typical Leicester "We dont care if you get binned as long as they dont score 7 points "

toomevara

Really cynical, negative stuff from the tigers...should have had three in the bin..a shame, and awful to watch.

RuggieBear

but thats how they win.

Stev_o

Now thats sheer power breaks through 5 players. Try Leicester

marco_polo

taidghbaby wrote: »

i dont really care who wins as long as tuilangi and vainakoli have a couple of high speed head on collisions!

So dissappointing, it wasn't exactly the big bang Went straight through the Volcano :pac:

Stev_o

What a try by JSP. Man Qera certainly the player of the year in the GP beautifully set up. Game has come into life now

toomevara

RuggieBear wrote: »

but thats how they win.

Absolutely,but I don't bloody well like it! Still they're starting to play a bit of rugby now...How good is Ungaro in the loose? Just the kind of no.7 we need in Ireland....Murphy having a cracker,which is nice to see...

Cool_CM

What a break!

taidghbaby

marco_polo wrote: »

So dissappointing, it wasn't exactly the big bang Went straight through the Volcano :pac:

was in the toilet so missed that.......but didnt miss much by the way you're talking

Cool_CM

taidghbaby wrote: »

was in the toilet so missed that.......but didnt miss much by the way you're talking

In fairness he did break through about 5 players!

Stev_o

LOL what a freak of a try that was

Stev_o

This is what the ML is missing. Brilliant drama to this game

Cool_CM

This is a f*cking great 2nd half!

toomevara

What a classic game of rugby. Brilliant advertisement for the GP, play-off rugby and leaving the current laws in place and un-feckin'-molested. Hope someone sends the IRB a copy of this game....

I'd assumed that the winner of the GP this year would come from the Wasps/Bath game.but having seen that who knows...great stuff, had it all.

RuggieBear

toomevara wrote: »

Absolutely,but I don't bloody well like it!

I don't like it either but look at the teams that tend to win things...they don't tend to play "attractive" running rugby till after the've mugged the oppo up front.:(

Stev_o

toomevara wrote: »

What a classic game of rugby. Brilliant advertisement for the GP, play-off rugby and leaving the current laws in place and un-feckin'-molested. Hope someone sends the IRB a copy of this game....

I'd assumed that the winner of the GP this year would come from the Wasps/Bath game.but having seen that who knows...great stuff, had it all.

Think of the final now and the history im sure Neil Back will be telling them all week about how Wasps robbed him and Johnno's grand farewell and how now Leicester have the opportunity to do the same to Dallaglio

taidghbaby

geordan murphy is the one leicester player with a bit of skill & class!

without him the tigers would look lke a monkey tryin to hammer a square peg into a round hole!!

but you have to hand it to them though, they're an effective bunch!!

Cool_CM

If this is anything to go by the final should be great, fair play to Leicester once they actually started playing they turned it into a brilliant game, that and the fact that 2 weeks ago they were looking at nothing. Feel bad for Gloucester but such is the way the cookie crumbles. Magners League can only benefit from a playoff setup.

toomevara

RuggieBear wrote: »

I don't like it either but look at the teams that tend to win things...they don't tend to play "attractive" running rugby till after the've mugged the oppo up front.:(

Totally agree, my in-built aversion to that style of play must be the last vestige of the amateur era hiding in a long forgotten corner of my soul making itself felt...And in the end, you're absolutely right, their negativity in the first set 'em up for the second half victory. 'Tis true that the Gods of rugby are a jealous, harsh and unfair lot....

Stev_o

Oh and for the people who didnt see what happened to Cips well here's the video

WARNING IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY LIGHT STOMACHED DONT WATCH AS THE CLIP SHOWS THE ANKLE BENT 90 DEGREE'S WITH VIOLENT SCREAMS

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq71TjIEYhk


Looks worse the Czekaj leg break

toomevara

Stev_o wrote: »

Oh and for the people who didnt see what happened to Cips well here's the video

Should come with a health warning for those of a less than robust constitution...still not over it me-self...i've said it before and I'll say it again...poor divil...

Rattlehead_ie

Stev_o wrote: »

Oh and for the people who didnt see what happened to Cips well here's the video

WARNING IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY LIGHT STOMACHED DONT WATCH AS THE CLIP SHOWS THE ANKLE BENT 90 DEGREE'S WITH VIOLENT SCREAMS

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq71TjIEYhk


Looks worse the Czekaj leg break

Not loading for me! Im just home and sick as a dog that I missed this, will have to have a look and see if its on later.

Stev_o

Rattlehead_ie wrote: »

Not loading for me! Im just home and sick as a dog that I missed this, will have to have a look and see if its on later.

Should load im not having any problems with it try it again

Peter B

Stev_o wrote: »

Oh and for the people who didnt see what happened to Cips well here's the video

WARNING IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY LIGHT STOMACHED DONT WATCH AS THE CLIP SHOWS THE ANKLE BENT 90 DEGREE'S WITH VIOLENT SCREAMS

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq71TjIEYhk


Looks worse the Czekaj leg break

Could I just echo this warning. I shall find it difficult to sleep tonight.

Cool_CM

That didn't look nice at all.

Sangre

sky wouldn't even reply it it was that bad.

Peter B

Watched a good bit of the second half Gloucester - Tigers. Was the first half bad? Thought the second half was a great advertisment for the game! Brilliant rugby!!!

Shan75

Fantastic second half.Well done the Tigers and their never say die attitude.They will simply do anything to try and get the win as we in Munster know only too well but you have to admire a team that can win against the odds.
Terrible for Cipriani.I was glad Sky did not repeat it as I didn't really see what happened and don't want to.It's a shame when something like this happens to any player and worse for the game in general when that player is an exciting talent.Too many times broken legs have stopped players achieving their full potential(Including Geordan Murphy who played very well today but overall in his career he was never as good as looked likely before he broke his leg)

toomevara

Re: the Cipriani incident, did anyone see the picture on the front of the sports section of the UK Guardian today? Totally gratuitous and unnecessary, imo....did any of the Irish dailys carry it?

[Jackass]

I can't look at it. Luckily I was out of the room when it happend and have rufused to watch it. Had a horrofic leg injury myself. I think if it's happend to you, you can't see it happen to someone else as you relive painfull memorys in your own mind.