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Lansdowne v Clontarf RTE 2 2.00pm

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    #32
    Joe Hart
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    "We'd like to thank the main sponsors of AIL, Ulster Bank"

    "Boooooooo"

    lol


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    #33
    jamiedav2011
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    Joe Hart wrote: »
    "We'd like to thank the main sponsors of AIL, Ulster Bank"

    "Boooooooo"

    lol

    'And Lansdowne sponsors Heineken...'

    'Yayyyyyyy!'


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    #34
    matthew8
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    'Try Lansdowne by somebody'

    'waaaaayyyyyyy'


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    #35
    opinionatedfan
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    great individual try by Colm O'Shea

    conversion missed, 27-25.


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    #36
    matthew8
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    Horrible way to lose.


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    #37
    decisions
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    Stupid uncontested scrums!


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    #38
    opinionatedfan
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    Thats it then.

    32-25


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    #39
    Hagz
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    Two tries from Mark Roche and he set up another one. Great game from him.


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    #40
    opinionatedfan
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    Roche only got one afaik


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    #41
    Hagz
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    opinionatedfan wrote: »
    Roche only got one afaik

    He picked up the one at the very end as well. Commentators missed it.


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    #42
    opinionatedfan
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    Hagz wrote: »
    He picked up the one at the very end as well. Commentators missed it.

    yeah rte totally missed that


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    #43
    Hagz
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    opinionatedfan wrote: »
    yeah rte totally missed that

    And then Quinlan credits Walsh with it. lol.


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    #44
    JustinDee
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    Joe Hart wrote: »
    "We'd like to thank the main sponsors of AIL, Ulster Bank"

    "Boooooooo"

    Why the booing?? In this day and age, that's the last thing a follower of a rugby club would be doing, I'd have thought.


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    #45
    trouttrout
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    Roche was very good, but ...........that hair!


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    #46
    Hype710
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    Cracking advert for the league. Great for Leinster to have home grown props coming through, Moore and O'Connell were outstanding. Ronaldson looks like a very good piece of business for Connacht if that goes through. Encouraging that guys can still pick up contracts from the AIL.


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    #47
    JustinDee
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    Hype710 wrote: »
    Cracking advert for the league. Great for Leinster to have home grown props coming through, Moore and O'Connell were outstanding. Ronaldson looks like a very good piece of business for Connacht if that goes through. Encouraging that guys can still pick up contracts from the AIL.
    I'd like to see written media cover more than a pocket of Div 1A twice or three times a year. Each of the four leagues has some terrific battles taking place as do the provincial playoffs for places in UBL.


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    #48
    Shelflife
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    Have to say that was a cracking game of rugby, great advert for the game.


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    #49
    irishbucsfan
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    JustinDee wrote: »
    I'd like to see written media cover more than a pocket of Div 1A twice or three times a year. Each of the four leagues has some terrific battles taking place as do the provincial playoffs for places in UBL.

    Would love to see more print media coverage as well. But how can that be achieved?


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    #50
    JustinDee
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    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Would love to see more print media coverage as well. But how can that be achieved?

    Up to print media. All the info etc is sent their way regularly. Having said that, Adam Redmond's coverage is excellent and knowledgable.


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    #51
    CIARAN_BOYLE
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    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Would love to see more print media coverage as well. But how can that be achieved?
    Probably most achievable at the grass roots level. . If you get it in the local papers eventually the national media will pick it up.

    I've found that getting into local papers is easiest if you write it yourself. For example if every club had a press officer. Each press officer chose a local paper and sent them a weekly bulletin with a match report for the AIL team and a paragraphh with short summations about the 21s and seconds I guarantee that it would be printed.

    If you can't get a member to volunteer to do the press officer send one of the blazers into a college journalism class. A lot of journalism students would love something regular to write that would regularly get their name attached to a byline.


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    #52
    backgreen
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    decisions wrote: »
    Roche is electric at this level. Is he involved with Leinster?
    think he played u20 for connacht this year


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    #53
    bamboozle
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    Better team won on the day yesterday, landownes scrum gave them a huge platform. Thought there were some great performances from tarf with Burke Flynn rampaging around the park, Reilly nicked 3 line outs and outshone Flanagan, Crawford mixed brutish hits with smarts in the try he scored, Cronin at scrum half was excellent, McGrath on the wing was everywhere, Evan Ryan gave a captains performance with some great steals on the ground, says a lot when a player is keeping collie o Shea on the bench.

    Stand out for me though was Kavannagh at prop, he did his cruciate in sept 2011 and yesterday was his first start since hats off to him, I thought the spell of scrums in the first quarter he held his own against Moore but the ref gave an odd display in penalising us twice for wheeling the scrum then on third scrum he said the scrum went 90. Pity furlong was injured he'd have loved a chance to lock horns with jack o Connell.

    Landsdownes front row was excellent and both props have great careers ahead.

    Good advert for the game, I hope for next season the irfu go back to top four playoff to add the excitement and have as many fri night games as possible.

    Final thing, 5 man bench is ruining the game at ail level. At 1a and 1b it should be 7 or 8 man benches.


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    #54
    thebaz
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    well done lansdowne , they have done brilliant , considering also they were missing at least 4 of ther more senior players , now serving with the provinces.


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    #55
    JustinDee
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    bamboozle wrote: »
    Good advert for the game, I hope for next season the irfu go back to top four playoff to add the excitement and have as many fri night games as possible
    It is at the wish of the participating clubs that the current format of the Ulster Bank League is in place.


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    #56
    Stainalert
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    Incorrect

    Clubs asked for meaningless play-offs that had nothing to do with promotion done away with


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    #57
    JustinDee
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    Stainalert wrote: »
    Incorrect

    Clubs asked for meaningless play-offs that had nothing to do with promotion done away with

    Not incorrect at all.


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    #58
    Stainalert
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    I think you will find that most 1A clubs were in favour of the playoffs for 1A and still are


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    #59
    JustinDee
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    Stainalert wrote: »
    I think you will find that most 1A clubs were in favour of the playoffs for 1A and still are
    I know which clubs want what.
    There are also four divisions in the Ulster Bank League, not one.


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    #60
    CIARAN_BOYLE
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    Stainalert wrote: »
    I think you will find that most 1A clubs were in favour of the playoffs for 1A and still are
    unfortunately for the 1A clubs the vote was held by the entire league.

    Honestly imo it should have been decided on a division by division basis. 1A has the most to gain from post season playoffs because it gets televised which is a chunk of money and some exposure for the sponsors.


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    #61
    Stainalert
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    Play-offs in 1B 2A & 2B were rightly abolished as they were meaningless fixtures with no impact on promotion

    1A Play-offs are a different proposition altogether as without any promotion it is all about winning the title

    Only problem with an 18 game league is fitting in another couple of fixtures without further clashes with B&I Cup


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