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2018-2019 Champions Cup

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  • #32
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Saints can't catch a break, can they?


  • #33
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    errlloyd wrote: »
    Austin definitely ****ed that up. There are 3 clubs in the tier one basin, and 7 in the tier 2.

    Edit: ah no, I'm wrong. Just looked weird on TV.

    He'll definitely do something


  • #34
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    They should be pissed at HP Wild

    They should be pissed and ERPC . It's perfectly ok for 4 Irish own teams to be in the H Cup but they weren't?


  • #35
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    AJ MacGinty coming back to the Sportsground! How exciting!


  • #36
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    At least Connacht wont be drawn with Bristol now.


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  • #37
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    They should be pissed and ERPC . It's perfectly ok for 4 Irish own teams to be in the H Cup but they weren't?

    Yes, because they're not owned by a private person who could leave or attempt to manipulate the sport for personal gain at any point in time.

    I honestly can't imagine how anyone fails to grasp this concept. It's not a new rule.


  • #38
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Trip for the Connacht lads down to Bordeaux! Extremely exciting wines


  • #39
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,175 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    AJ MacGinty coming back to the Sportsground! How exciting!

    Are you BT's new hype man?


  • #40
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Timisoara to beat Clermont!


  • #41
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Clermonts C team could run away with that pool.


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  • #42
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Buer wrote: »
    Are you BT's new hype man?

    Nothing new about it


  • #43
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,175 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Jackson back in Ireland!


  • #44
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users Posts: 2,898 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    molloyjh wrote: »
    Clermonts C team could run away with that pool.

    That’s the team they’ll be putting out!


  • #45
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,751 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Why do they make everything so complicated

    Could easily just draw a ball out of each bowl and name that pool 1 and so on

    Expecting Munster to get a hard group yet again. Hope we don't draw Racing or Leicester again


  • #46
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Haha a few Irish lads with palms on foreheads right now...


  • #47
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Paddy Jackson to make a quick return to Ireland


  • #48
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Challenge Cup

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  • #49
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,175 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    And now, for the interval, Austin will perform Riverdance.


  • #50
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Buer wrote: »
    And now, for the interval, Austin will perform Riverdance.

    Healy v. O'Driscoll II is the undercard for the main draw I believe


  • #51
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Perpignan draw Connacht.

    It was always going to happen wasn't it? :D

    Tbh if he ends up first choice (likely) I doubt Jackson will be playing in Galway anyway. USAP won't get a stuff about the Challenge Cup.


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  • #52
    its_phil
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭its_phil


    The return of an international class out half to Ireland...

    AJ Macginty :pac:


  • #53
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Yes, because they're not owned by a private person who could leave or attempt to manipulate the sport for personal gain at any point in time.

    I honestly can't imagine how anyone fails to grasp this concept. It's not a new rule.

    The IRFU could attempt to manipulate the sport if they where inclined yet we take them on faith.

    The newest of the rule doesn't make a difference. I've been aware of it since some French lad wanted to buy Gloucester a few years back.


  • #54
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    The IRFU could attempt to manipulate the sport if they where inclined yet we take them on faith.

    The newest of the rule doesn't make a difference. I've been aware of it since some French lad wanted to buy Gloucester a few years back.

    Nope, nothing to do with faith.


  • #55
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,175 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Perpignan draw Connacht.

    It was always going to happen wasn't it? :D

    Tbh if he ends up first choice (likely) I doubt Jackson will be playing in Galway anyway. USAP won't get a stuff about the Challenge Cup.

    I'd say they'd rest him anyway simply to avoid the PR fuss. But it's still going to lead to a significant focus on the match in the build up until the team is announced.


  • #56
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    I'm surprised they don't use the Lotto style drum. Austin could easily put two balls into the pot and just know that one is on left or right when he reaches back in. Bit of a weird system.

    Some interesting ties in the Challenge Cup, though there's only going to be one story focused on and that's Pool 3!

    🤪



  • #57
    FACECUTTR
    Registered Users Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭FACECUTTR


    I'd put fiver on Benneton winning their group handily.
    Nice trips to Perpignan and Bordeaux.


  • #58
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Nope, nothing to do with faith.

    So what rules and regulations have the ERPC but into prevent tampering by the unions and secondly why can't the same be applied to the Germans?


  • #59
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Having seen the video and watched us lifting the trophy again, I am now pumped. Also, IBF may have contributed....


  • #60
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    get-on-with-it-gif-12.gif


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  • #61
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    So what rules and regulations have the ERPC but into prevent tampering by the unions and secondly why can't the same be applied to the Germans?

    The IRFU can't leave Europe, are shareholders, and are intrinsically linked to the wellbeing of the sport for their entire existence as an organisation. None of that applies to HP Wild.

    Now why the Germans and not SF? That's a good question. But it had to be one or the other as soon as Wild went out to splash his cash on a French team.

    Given the current state of German rugby, I doubt he really cares.


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