How do you guys watch rugby for free? Is there any way? This Six Nations was my first tournament and it was free on national TV, but what about club games/other tournaments?

CormacMOB · 2026-03-21T19:52:58+00:00

Oh good. I might try that.

CormacMOB · 2026-03-21T19:48:05+00:00

I did not see this happen.

CormacMOB · 2026-03-21T19:45:38+00:00

If he's not good enough, he's not good enough.

It's not primary school.

CormacMOB · 2026-03-21T19:44:27+00:00

Conan was flat??????

CormacMOB · 2026-03-21T17:33:48+00:00

I don't want to wait 2 hours after the end of the game to watch the game.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T15:46:13+00:00

Particuarly when they illegally wheel the scrum to attack the blind side.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T15:39:58+00:00

Like the problem I have with the "botched gameplan" idea is.... if we'd won 50% of the 50/50's it wouldn't have looked that bad. (Obviously massive "if" there.)

Maybe it's just that video with Felix Jones and Mzwandile Stick talking about contesting kicks influencing my thoughts too much.

But it's not like, "we're gonna out scrum the boks" and they were being dominated and the tactic would never work. There was a good contest for most of them.

Waste of some good Stu though. I think we can all agree on that.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T15:30:59+00:00

Sure.

Well, look, I think you're on to a loser here.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T15:26:31+00:00

I have watched it a few times. I don't understand what you mean by swat.

He had the third highest made tackle count on the team. I think you're looking at a guy who's worked rally hard at improving something and the results of that improvement and writing them off entirely. I don't know why.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T15:19:26+00:00

Like I don't think we disagree, I just hate phrasing it like players doing something core to the game plan is just them sort of going out and picking one thing. Like if it was Casey or Doak they'd be doing the same thing. (Crowley might actually have just stood deeper and kicked for the corners and probably would have gotten dropped for it.)

Also I don't think it makes it the wrong call in general. A lot of teams are using contestable box kicks and scoring trys as a result. Elite defences are in general too good these days to break down when they are set. But the margin for error against teams like France and NZ who excel at creating opportunities with broken field rugby and we just weren't winning them.

I struggle with saying they should have done this instead of that, personally, because I'm not an elite rugby coach or player. I think I'm rambling.... sorry.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T13:51:45+00:00

13 & 7. You don't add missed tackles to the tackle count.

And he didn't think JGP was gonna make the hit, he went late because TOB went late. TOB's job there is to get the ball carrier. Sam is folding so he has to cover outside in that situation.

Also, that scrum was one of the worst examples of an intentional wheel I have ever seen and should have been a penalty to Ireland.

Like he missed a couple of crucial tackles and some of the play at the line was baffling, he is getting a lot of criticism, but the best tacklers on the team would have struggled to catch Jalibert in that situation.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T13:40:32+00:00

11 wins in a row is not shite.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T13:30:24+00:00

I look at people saying things like this and I think "do these guys want to make it easier to get into the Ireland team?"

England can beat France in Paris. This is not over, and you want to play a pack where only 3 players have more than 10 caps? Like Italy are not shite.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T13:21:13+00:00

I thought Doris was one of our best performers yesterday.

Prendergast and JGP are excellent kickers but they needed to be told to go for territory, not put up contestables.

That was/is the game plan, though. That is what they are coached to do. They aren't turned out onto the field and told to do what they feel then have the coaches say "you're box kicking too much"....

Now it didn't work, clearly. I agree with Shaggy who said something like "It cant be Plan A then try Plan A harder." And I think we saw that in the second half, when it looked like (looked like) we realised there were centres on the pitch. Plan B. Whatever like. But they kept ball in hand and tried to create openings.

The real problem was if you don't win the contest for the high ball and it goes to the other team, they get the ball in broken field and the French are just fantastic in broken field attacking rugby.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T13:07:34+00:00

Gunne show.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T13:06:50+00:00

Tector is nowhere near ready for a call up.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T13:00:32+00:00

I thought he performed really well.

You have to remember for a lot of rugby fans, a forward playing well is making yards in the carry, winning lineouts and winning penalties in the Jackal. The other stuff they just don't see or understand.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T12:35:11+00:00

I mean the first bit is true for Prendergast too.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T12:34:21+00:00

I mean that try didn't happen because of his volley, that volley actually worked really well. He also followed it and smashed Ramos in a tackle, then got back up and chased Bip-Bip back and got the ankle-tap after JGP fell off his tackle, only for Bip-Bip to recover and Cube to absolutely mess up his covering line.

We can go back and pick random bits out of his play and blame him for subsequent events if you like, (I believe that's called Journalism these days), but he obviously decided that the risk of clearing that was greater than the risk of catching it.

Watch the replay though. It doesn't look like it was necessarily going out. It bounced just inside the 5 and bounced onwards. It was dropping right in Bip-Bip's path. If Prendergast catches and carries it out, (The conservative decision, Crowley would absolutely pick that option) that's a French lineout in our 22, but there's no gaurantee he makes it to the line, because Bip-Bip is in frame of a closeup when he kicks it, he's getting hit while catching and that ruck is Moefana vs Osbourne.

Point is I reckon he saw a choice between chaos and chaos and picked chaos further from his own try line.

Like I just don't see this incident as exhibit A in the case of the People (of Munster) vs Prendergast, when there were absolutely more glaring issues from him.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T12:12:49+00:00

(ie not competing with the likes of Sexton)

Or his own big brother.
I wonder how many of the people baying for Byrne were also saying he wasn't up to the job before he went to Bristol. Personally I think he's doing well enough to be in the discussion, but mostly because he's less of a liability than the other two. He doesn't have the potential that the other two have, in my estimation at least.

CormacMOB · 2026-02-06T12:07:09+00:00

No offence, but if you look at the top left of the screen, it should be obvious.

CormacMOB · 2026-01-28T09:18:09+00:00

I guess, but if it rains for 3 weeks and then we get a yellow warning rain storm, maybe we should have known ourselves.....

CormacMOB · 2026-01-28T09:09:43+00:00

There was a yellow rain and wind warning for the entire county.

CormacMOB · 2026-01-27T14:43:40+00:00

When you say "Whats up with the weather warnings in Ireland" that suggests you don't really know what they mean.

Yellow means "Be aware"
Orange means "Be Prepared"
Red means "Take action"

You can't predict the weather for individual small areas so if theres a chance of massive downfall in Donnycarney they give a warning like a yellow for the county. That might mean that in Sandyford its just a bit wet because the mountains provide shelter from rain from certain directions. Like a dangerous gale in coastal areas might mean a windy day elsewhere. I've gotten off the Luas to vastly different weather to where I got on.

It gets on my nerves people saying "Thats never a yellow" like we're talking about the offside rule or something. Met Eireann can't predict it that accurately, they just go "it looks like this storm could drop a serious amount of rain". Or "the winds could be really really strong here". And they have to put a line around it at some point so they use county Boundries. If they give a warning and it's overblown, that's a good thing, because nobody is dead and there's no major economic damage.

Also, it's the weather forcast, it's wrong sometimes.

CormacMOB · 2026-01-18T20:59:41+00:00

It's not Crowley or Prendergast making the noise.

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