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Ireland Team Talk/Gossip/Rumour Thread IV

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    #9482
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    If anyone fancies a bit of shopping there's 25% off everything on the IRFU website until midnight to celebrate yesterday's win.


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    #9483
    glack
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    https://twitter.com/optajonny/status/653531711079350272


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    #9484
    Quint2010
    Registered Users Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭Quint2010


    aimee1 wrote: »

    Guess the SOB citing and Sexton's groin mean tomorrow will be when we hear any more

    Never knew so much depended on one man's groin..


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    #9485
    Stheno
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    glack wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/optajonny/status/653531711079350272

    Wow impressive stats


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    #9486
    Ed The Equalizer
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Ed The Equalizer


    Henwin wrote: »
    wats with the delay in replacing Payne, surely tey will call up Trimble now, the sooner the better

    If Madigan is starting it's a risk not calling up a 3rd scrum half


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    #9487
    salmocab
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    Henwin wrote: »
    wats with the delay in replacing Payne, surely tey will call up Trimble now, the sooner the better

    I have a a feeling they won't call up a back and might leave a spot open till after next sunday. Trimble coming in is only adding a winger to a squad with at most 3 games left and 5 realistic choice wingers already in the squad although one of them will probably be playing centre. With a game v a tough argie team coming up it might be better to have an option to bring in another forward next week if someone picks up a bit of a knock.


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    #9488
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Will be watching this one in Argentina, with my argentine wife, on the sofa at 9am in the morning the day after my 40th birthday.

    2 Possible outcomes.

    Pissed off, with a hangover and the wife lording it over me all week.
    Over the moon, with a hangover, with the wife staring daggers at me all week, possible father in law issues.

    I'll take option 2. All day.


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    #9489
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Jamie is rubbing shoulders with high society tonight.

    CRJBWYiWIAAHbJ_.jpg


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    #9490
    aimee1
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    Magico Gonzalez wrote: »
    Will be watching this one in Argentina, with my argentine wife, on the sofa at 9am in the morning the day after my 40th birthday.

    2 Possible outcomes.

    Pissed off, with a hangover and the wife lording it over me all week.
    Over the moon, with a hangover, with the wife staring daggers at me all week, possible father in law issues.

    I'll take option 2. All day.

    3. divorce?


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    #9491
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    State of him, trying and failing not to laugh at the ridiculous ginger beard.


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    #9492
    aimee1
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    glack wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/optajonny/status/653531711079350272

    good coaching ........


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    #9493
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    aimee1 wrote: »
    3. divorce?

    No, but I´m not drinking or eating anything that I don't personally prepare if we beat them.

    If we lose, I don the Pumas kit and row in behind them, ....begrudgingly.


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    #9494
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    aimee1 wrote: »
    3. divorce?

    No, but I´m not drinking or eating anything that I don't personally prepare if we beat them.

    If we lose, I don the Pumas kit and row in behind them, ....begrudgingly.


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    #9495
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Some teams seem to have more than one player at the palace. I wonder if poor old Paulie was supposed to go too.


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    #9496
    Stheno
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Some teams seem to have more than one player at the palace. I wonder if poor old Paulie was supposed to go too.

    There were three other Irish reps there too, one was Eoin Reddan, can't remember who the others were.

    Edit: The other two were Mick Kearney and Darren Cave

    http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/international/royal-visit-for-irish-rugby-players-at-buckingham-palace-1.2388634


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    #9497
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Stheno wrote: »
    There were three other Irish reps there too, one was Eoin Reddan, can't remember who the others were.

    Edit: The other two were Mick Kearney and Darren Cave

    http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/international/royal-visit-for-irish-rugby-players-at-buckingham-palace-1.2388634

    Yep. I didn't spot them until I knew who I was looking for...

    CRIb6HfWUAEedME.jpg


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    #9498
    Stheno
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    Magico Gonzalez wrote: »
    No, but I´m not drinking or eating anything that I don't personally prepare if we beat them.

    :eek:


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    #9499
    aimee1
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Yep. I didn't spot them until I knew who I was looking for...

    CRIb6HfWUAEedME.jpg

    is that haskell in the middle ...... looking thrilled to be there :D


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    #9500
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    aimee1 wrote: »
    is that haskell in the middle ...... looking thrilled to be there :D

    Yep, Robshaw and Lancashire are there too.


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    #9501
    Quint2010
    Registered Users Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭Quint2010


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Jamie is rubbing shoulders with high society tonight.

    CRJBWYiWIAAHbJ_.jpg

    What's Harry Hewitt doing there?:rolleyes:


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    #9502
    Patrick Wheelock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Patrick Wheelock


    Is there some legal or contractual reason that Paul O'Connell has to retire from international rugby after this World Cup?


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    #9503
    Stheno
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    Patrick Wheelock wrote: »
    Is there some legal or contractual reason that Paul O'Connell has to retire from international rugby after this World Cup?

    Don't believe so.

    highest viewing figures for TV3 for the match yesterday exceeded 1.4 million


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    #9504
    awec
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    Patrick Wheelock wrote: »
    Is there some legal or contractual reason that Paul O'Connell has to retire from international rugby after this World Cup?

    No.

    Though I suspect that getting released for international windows was not put in his Toulon contact and his lack of international call ups would have been something Toulon preferred.


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    #9505
    aimee1
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    http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby-world-cup-2015/thornley-and-cummiskey-on-ireland-s-emphatic-win-over-the-french-1.2387781


    interesting line from thornley about 2 minutes in about how fear might now get france playing on saturday against NZ.


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    #9506
    Patrick Wheelock
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 138 ✭✭Patrick Wheelock


    Thanks for clarifying Stheno and Awec

    the comments after his injury led me to believe otherwise - that the decision could not be reversed.


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    #9507
    awec
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    Patrick Wheelock wrote: »
    Thanks for clarifying Stheno and Awec

    the comments after his injury led me to believe otherwise - that the decision could not be reversed.

    If he really wanted to he could play for Ireland again, but it would come at the cost of annoying his new employer.

    He wouldn't be released for all the Ireland training camps though. Sexton had to get this clause specifically added to his Racing contract.

    When it came to negotiating his Toulon contract I am sure POC and his agent would have been able to improve his terms by saying he was retiring from international rugby.


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    #9508
    noway12345
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    This was O'Connell's swan song. Toulan is a final big pay check for his retirement. He put everything into this, that's why you can feel nothing but sorrow for him. O'Driscoll was very lucky to bow out like he did.


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    #9509
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    I read a while ago that Toulon aren't going to let any of their players go on Summer tours for their countries. The French season has been delayed by the WC so it won't be wrapping up until a few weeks later which coincides with the Summer tours for Wales, maybe others too.

    Point being if you're going to Toulon it's much less hassle to be free of any other commitments.


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    #9510
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
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    Mike McCarthy to replace O'Connell?

    http://www.the42.ie/paul-oconnell-mike-mccarthy-2384501-Oct2015/


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    #9511
    bilston
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    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    I read a while ago that Toulon aren't going to let any of their players go on Summer tours for their countries. The French season has been delayed by the WC so it won't be wrapping up until a few weeks later which coincides with the Summer tours for Wales, maybe others too.

    Point being if you're going to Toulon it's much less hassle to be free of any other commitments.

    I don't think Toulon would be allowed to do that.


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