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  • #4532
    neelia11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭neelia11


    The Lost Sheep wrote: »
    Does Italy combining Zebre and Treviso into 1 side help them? And I don't see the Welsh, Scottish, Irish sides/unions agreeing to this. Italians had to pay several million to join. Would Georgians be able to afford that?

    do georgia have some billionaire oil/gas tycoon bankrolling them?


  • #4533
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I don't understand anything about the finances involved. It might help Italy to have one vaguely competitive team rather than two hopeless ones. We'll see what benefit it is to Argentina soon enough I suppose.


  • #4534
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,101 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I don't understand anything about the finances involved. It might help Italy to have one vaguely competitive team rather than two hopeless ones. We'll see what benefit it is to Argentina soon enough I suppose.

    Odd number of teams sucks.


  • #4535
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    awec wrote: »
    Odd number of teams sucks.

    Club Italy + Club Georgia for Zebre + Treviso


  • #4536
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I don't understand anything about the finances involved. It might help Italy to have one vaguely competitive team rather than two hopeless ones. We'll see what benefit it is to Argentina soon enough I suppose.

    Who are they playing over the summer?

    The problem other teams have of needing to have an extended camp and maybe a game or two to gel together could effectively be removed for them.

    Obviously they would maybe need to change a few aspects of play going from Super Rugby to Internationals but it's hard to see it being anything other than beneficial for them.


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  • #4537
    neelia11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭neelia11


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Who are they playing over the summer?

    The problem other teams have of needing to have an extended camp and maybe a game or two to gel together could effectively be removed for them.

    Obviously they would maybe need to change a few aspects of play going from Super Rugby to Internationals but it's hard to see it being anything other than beneficial for them.

    italy go to argentina


  • #4538
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    neelia11 wrote: »
    italy go to argentina

    Oh.... not sure we'll learn a lot there then.


  • #4539
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Oh.... not sure we'll learn a lot there then.

    We'll know which team I'd rather have in the 6N


  • #4540
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    http://anirishmanabroad.podbean.com/e/keith-wood-episode-131/

    Keith Wood is on An Irishman Abroad this week.

    Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet but they're usually good.

    BOD, Shane Horgan, and Jerry Flannery's were all good I thought.


  • #4541
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    CatFromHue wrote: »
    http://anirishmanabroad.podbean.com/e/keith-wood-episode-131/

    Keith Wood is on An Irishman Abroad this week.

    Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet but they're usually good.

    BOD, Shane Horgan, and Jerry Flannery's were all good I thought.

    They're decent but Regan gets on my nerves. Far too serious


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  • #4542
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Synode wrote: »
    They're decent but Regan gets on my nerves. Far too serious

    God yeah, and he talks so slow. I was listening to the James McGee one last week and he had some really interesting stories but Regan kept interrupting him with these rambling long winded questions. I hate how he seems to always try to relate everything to his own experience as a struggling stand up comedian too. Travelling around the UK in a van and staying in dodgy Travel Lodges isn't the same as flying to Gabon to play a ****ty tournament and getting a parasite in your stomach!


  • #4543
    Pink Fairy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Pink Fairy


    Lions talk already, Martin Johnson saying that both Kruis and Itoje should start the tests against the AB's next year.....apparently Ireland are excited about Henderson and Richie Gray is working on his fundamentals! :rolleyes:


  • #4544
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    I assume there were no citings out of this weekend then?


  • #4545
    rsh118
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭rsh118


    Citing? What's that? Certainly not a six nations thing!


  • #4546
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    More chance of a citing of Bigfoot.


  • #4547
    rsh118
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭rsh118


    Nothing to get ex-cited about. What? What?


  • #4548
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,634 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Interesting concept in the fight against concussion. A headband that measures the gforce experienced by the head and flashes orange if you're ****ced.

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2016/0322/776713-brainband-concussion/


  • #4549
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Interesting concept in the fight against concussion. A headband that measures the gforce experienced by the head and flashes orange if you're ****ced.

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2016/0322/776713-brainband-concussion/

    I'm looking forward to the finger prick test getting further along and maybe being trialed. Could be a huge breakthrough if it were to work.


  • #4550
    Teferi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    Joe Marler is up in World Rugby court for the 'gypsy boy' comment.

    Delighted and hopefully World Rugby throw the book at him. Racial comments need to be heavily policed, it's not something that should be anywhere near the game.


  • #4551
    Ceadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭Ceadog


    Never seen so many outraged English BANTERLADS as I've seen in the past hour on Facebook comments. Beautiful stuff.


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  • #4552
    DGRulz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭DGRulz


    Looks like the seeding for Japan will be after 6 Nations 2017

    http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/international/2019-rugby-world-cup-seedings-to-be-decided-next-year-1.2584493


  • #4553
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,634 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Great news for us really.


  • #4554
    DGRulz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭DGRulz


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Great news for us really.

    Indeed. A series whitewash this Summer, 2 All Blacks and an Austrailian scalps and 2017 Six Nations Grand Slam just might see us take that No. 1 spot :P


  • #4555
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,822 ✭ [Deleted User]


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Great news for us really.

    Why? As long as we're in the top 8, we're fine, no?


  • #4556
    DGRulz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭DGRulz


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why? As long as we're in the top 8, we're fine, no?

    Given the schedule we have until the end of this year, when we'd usually be seeded, its entirely possibly we'd be outside the top 8.


  • #4557
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,634 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why? As long as we're in the top 8, we're fine, no?

    Yeah basically this, holding top 8 will be a struggle. Scotland will get some soft ranking points if they manage to beat Japan and could leapfrog us, at which point we will literally struggle to get any positive points.


  • #4558
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,779 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    We won't lose any points from any of the SA/NZ games though.


  • #4559
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,075 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Is there not some meeting in May about Japan possibly being seeded so it will be Top 7 + Japan?
    Or did I imagine that


  • #4560
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,779 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    wp_rathead wrote: »
    Is there not some meeting in May about Japan possibly being seeded so it will be Top 7 + Japan?
    Or did I imagine that

    I think I heard some mumblings about that from somewhere but I don't think it's true. Anyway, all 20 teams are "seeded" its just about where they are seeded. Japan has qualified automatically in their own right by coming third in their group last time. I see no reason why the pool draw would be different just because they are hosts.


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  • #4561
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,634 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    We won't lose any points from any of the SA/NZ games though.

    I agree, the risk is more than we get leapfrogged rather than fall behind. Two wins in our next 6 games (or one win against either SA or the ABs) and we're safe.


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