Heaslip Retiring / Appreciation Thread [MOD WARNING: POST 1]

irelandrover

prawnsambo wrote: »

PMs sent on behalf of Thomond. Just because it shouldn't just be him telling people. We all need to pass the info around.

Any chance you can send a PM to me about this?

prawnsambo

Any chance someone else can take up the burden?

I'm getting flood control on my PMs :eek:

dubal

prawnsambo wrote: »

PMs sent on behalf of Thomond. Just because it shouldn't just be him telling people. We all need to pass the info around.

Pm here too please

Dunston

PM me please appreciate it!

irishbucsfan

Someone should automate this

irishbucsfan

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Someone should automate this

Ok.

They had some poorly researched article where they commented on the death of a fan or something (it was a high profile terminal illness case, where the fan in question had been raising money). Anyway, ultimately the person in question had not yet died. It was a bloody awful thing to do.

Is what has been openly posted on the forum before about that site. Sufficient? Have they also done something else as bad?

What the feck is this PM? I want PM

irishbucsfan

Can someone PM me and let me know what a tracker mortgage is?

This PM?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JQK4bH0J-o

BBDBB

Deleted User wrote: »

What the feck is this PM? I want PM

You can't handle the PM!!!

Faugheen

prawnsambo wrote: »

PMs sent on behalf of Thomond. Just because it shouldn't just be him telling people. We all need to pass the info around.

Can you or someone else send it onto me as well?

Shefwedfan

Pm please :-)

Still waiting on whatever this is

prawnsambo

Deleted User wrote: »

Still waiting on whatever this is

This really shouldn't be clogging up this thread. PM's sent.

Everyone who has asked has been PM'd. If anyone else wants to know, PM one of those requesters (not me, I've done my bit ) and try and keep the thread for the brilliance and wondrousness that was Jamie Heaslip the erstwhile rugby player.

jamesjohn70

Sad to hear but not entirely unexpected. 

All the best to him.

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ali

BBDBB

before I ask for the PM,

can I ask those who have asked and received it

is it worth it?

prawnsambo

BBDBB wrote: »

before I ask for the PM,

can I ask those who have asked and received it

is it worth it?

It's a reason not to frequent the rugbyl*d website. If you needed one.

salmocab

prawnsambo wrote: »

It's a reason not to frequent the rugbyl*d website. If you needed one.

Is the reason that it’s sh1t

Dave_The_Sheep

To get back to Heaslip... mildly surprised this hasn't been posted.

Podge_irl

Gotta think ROG would have been taken off these days actually.

Can't remember if it was posted but don't care. Just saw it linked from that video - I love this try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Nkc8cmUpI

AbusesToilets

PM?

prawnsambo

AbusesToilets wrote: »

PM?

prawnsambo wrote: »

This really shouldn't be clogging up this thread. PM's sent.

Everyone who has asked has been PM'd. If anyone else wants to know, PM one of those requesters (not me, I've done my bit ) and try and keep the thread for the brilliance and wondrousness that was Jamie Heaslip the erstwhile rugby player.

BBDBB

BBDBB wrote: »

before I ask for the PM,

can I ask those who have asked and received it

is it worth it?

I thought it was some secret about Heaslip's retirement. Not nearly as juicy.

dregin

FOMO. PM. PLZ.

.ak

Enough about the PM folks...

CatFromHue

Some big praise from DOC

His training was always top end. He came in and he wasn’t just happy with the standard he found around him. He pushed it out a bit, and guys like that are valued. Every session, he was competitive. I can safely say that he never wasted a session.

Jamie came in and he knew he was a winner. The rest of us were hoping we could be.

People might think that he came across as brash or arrogant, but that was him. It has led to the different type of Irish player we have now; the player who expects to win. The dressing room before him was hoping to win, and wanted to win, whereas he came in and said, ‘we’re going to win’.

Training with him, and what he was able to get through was incredible. But he had a mental edge in terms of how far he could push himself and a non-Irish mindset of backing himself. The rest of us say, ‘we’ll go out and give it a lash’, whereas he said, ‘No, I’m ****ing well good enough’.

He was the changing of the guard. I feel he hasn’t been getting enough credit.

Ye might think it’s generic bollocks when players say they want to leave the jersey in a better place, but he raised the standards and they’ve become the norm.

Everyone who comes in now has to think like that. I definitely think that he was a game-changer in terms of what he did physically and mentally. He pushed it on fitness-wise, and he gave it a mental edge, too.

It’s an un-Irish thing to say, to back yourself, but he did so because he could produce the goods.

Jamie is one of the guys who has changed Irish Rugby for good.

https://www.balls.ie/rugby/donncha-ocallaghan-jamie-heaslip-384287

joseywhales

Clegg wrote: »

AnneFrank wrote: »

he was always full of it, no doubt we'll have to listen to him now as a pundit

If he was "full of it", which I don't think he ever was, it's because for near enough to a decade he was one of the best rugby players on the planet.

How dare he be an articulate successful man, he should be ashamed. His confidence is a disgrace!

Burkie1203

AnneFrank wrote: »

he was always full of it, no doubt we'll have to listen to him now as a pundit

Well he has 10 major tournament winners medals
Pro12 x3, HEC x3, 6n x3 and a Challenge cup

100 test caps

Full of what precisely? He has a drawer full of winners medals.

Will we see Heaslip rolled out for a farewell this afternoon?

Jack Kanoff

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Will we see Heaslip rolled out for a farewell this afternoon?

I'd say not, if it was going to happen today the IRFU would have announced it?