Cliché-Free Rugby Thread, Anyone?

Moflojo

There is so much obvious provincial bias on these boards [and rightly so, sure Leinster are just a bunch of overrated D4 sissy boys anyway ] that I thought it might be nice to have thread where clichéd, entrenched opinions are forbidden, such as:

"Mad Dog should be playing at 10 and 12 for Ireland."

"Can't believe there aren't 16 Ulstermen in the Irish pack."

"O'Gara should still be starting ahead of Sexton IMHO."

"Why do we have no money? Nobody loves us. Up Connacht. Square ball ref!!!"

So let me start the ball rolling with this opinion:

Simon Zebo (often derided as an unintelligent player) showed great spatial awareness and creativity when coming into the line against the Italians on Saturday and put players away on the outside a number of times. He was hungry for work throughout the game, and while his defence might be tested against some of the stronger teams, I think he has cemented his place in the starting 15 for at least the first half of the 6N championship.

MJohnston

HE REALLY PUT HIS HAND UP

total former

Cliché-free rugby thread.

Starts with discussion on Simon Zebo.

Love it.

MJohnston

total former wrote: »

Cliché-free rugby thread.

Starts with discussion on Simon Zebo.

Love it.

I think they meant this is creating other cliche-free threads by magnetically attracting all the cliche into this one thread

thomond2006

Simon Zebo is above international standard.

"They're talking about me on boards.ie again."

LorMal

Well, lets see..we don't know which France will turn up but they are bound to exude Gallic flair and joie de vivre. We will need to stick it up the jumper and to hit our rucks hard. Its about who will break the gainline not just flinging it from side to side. Madigan is a flair player but lacks game management. Our coaching ticket will be concerned about injuries because we lack strength in depth.

Moflojo

LorMal wrote: »

Well, lets see..we don't know which France will turn up but they are bound to exude Gallic flair and joie de vivre. We will need to stick it up the jumper and to hit our rucks hard. Its about who will break the gainline not just flinging it from side to side. Madigan is a flair player but lacks game management. Our coaching ticket will be concerned about injuries because we lack strength in depth.

That's Numberwang!

Neil3030

LorMal wrote: »

Well, lets see..we don't know which France will turn up but they are bound to exude Gallic flair and joie de vivre. We will need to stick it up the jumper and to hit our rucks hard. Its about who will break the gainline not just flinging it from side to side. Madigan is a flair player but lacks game management. Our coaching ticket will be concerned about injuries because we lack strength in depth.

Gerry?

SaveOurLyric

Neil3030 wrote: »

Gerry?

Sure reads like him ! I can hear his voice as I read it.

efb

Deleted User wrote: »

"They're talking about me on boards.ie again."

I'd say he cares

Heno97

Pure.Wexford.Beef.

Neil3030

This thread is lacking some accuracy lads. Need to increase the precision or the mods will up the pressure and lock it.

durkadurka

Neil3030 wrote: »

This thread is lacking some accuracy lads. Need to increase the precision or the mods will up the pressure and lock it.

No it's the intensity and physicality that it's lacking

P_1

durkadurka wrote: »

No it's the intensity and physicality that it's lacking

No real pashun either.

b.gud

This thread is all about momentum.

The last thing you want to do is get in an arm wrestle with it, it will put up a fight for 60 minutes but after that the flood gates will open.

durkadurka

To be honest I'm not impressed with the thread management

molloyjh

It's a week too soon for this carry on guys. Without knowing which French team is going to turn up at the weekend we need to focus on the next game alone. The old enemy will have to wait. While winning is a habit Ireland don't deal well with being favourites and you don't want to give a sucker an even break. The first score will be key as rugby is a simple game all about momentum. You can't win the tournament in the first two rounds but you can lose it there. It'll all come down to who wants it more.

I think I've got the hang of this....

Neil3030

molloyjh wrote: »

It's a week too soon for this carry on guys. Without knowing which French team is going to turn up at the weekend we need to focus on the next game alone. The old enemy will have to wait. While winning is a habit Ireland don't deal well with being favourites and you don't want to give a sucker an even break. The first score will be key as rugby is a simple game all about momentum. You can't win the tournament in the first two rounds but you can lose it there. It'll all come down to who wants it more.

I think I've got the hang of this....

This post is certainly a whole new bag of hammers.

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There's a very strong chance that at least one of the sentences in this thread will appear verbatim in a Sunday Independent article this weekend. Predicated both on the alarming propensity of our discussions to be mirrored a weekend later, and also that the SindoRugbyArticleGenerator.exe probably has had all these 'thoughts' entered into it since day one.
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MJohnston

Now you take this, throw in some veiled insults, add a reference to a rugby player from 1873...Baby, you've got a George Hook stew going.

razorblunt

Where's the pashun lads? The pashun?

What would Gaillimh have said?

SaveOurLyric

Gerry delivers !

Headline : "Gerry Thornley : Hard to know which France will turn up".

http://www.irishtimes.com

Losty Dublin

This thread is lacking Gallic flair.

SaveOurLyric

L'Irlande, cette annee tristement sans le centre emblematique, legende irremplacable, l'extraordinaire Brian O'Driscoll (auteur de trois essais contre les blues au Stade de France en 2000)....

Somebody wrote a post a week or two back which took the piss out of Alan Quinlan's punditry style. It would fit right in here.

zetecescort

What's needed is some reference to Waterloo, the Somme, Dunkirk or some other victory for the Commonwealth over the nasty foreigners.