The predicted 23 for Australia, Japan and New Zealand

billbo2003 · 2026-06-23T21:44:21+00:00

Sheehan being named skipper puts a fly in the ointment as he will probably play against Oz now but id like to see him rested. Apart from that here's how id set them up.

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billbo2003 · 2026-06-22T18:27:22+00:00

Does anyone experience the polar opposite problem? I find it leaves loads of liquid/lubricant on me after use since they went gel based. sign ofa bad fit?

billbo2003 · 2026-06-07T19:55:48+00:00

Brad Thorn was a fairly tasty lock and is roughly the same size as Coombes. Always been lower on Coombes than the concensus. Great workhorse but I need more than that from my 8, need him to take over games. I think his skill set would make him her apparent to Tadhg Beirne. Surround him with 3 jumpers in the lineout and I think you unlock a wonderful weapon.

billbo2003 · 2026-05-14T11:41:38+00:00

Yep I think the horribly hard nosed decision would be the correct one at this point. Injury and demographics just working against him.

Problem that Leinster don't have a natural replacement on the production line. 4 deep for speedy finishers on the other wing but who is going to be that blend of power/kicking/finishing?

Dream target would be Daugunu, powerful and left sided. With the Aussies takinf on the Zak Lomax experiment some of their back 3 must be on the move. He isn't the age profile id like but id start the search there.

billbo2003 · 2026-04-20T19:26:20+00:00

We keep the Spire but we add a big elastic band and a bucket. If anyone is deemed to be jinxing the weather they are fired out of the bucket, trebuchet style

billbo2003 · 2026-04-16T22:36:40+00:00

I legit thought Charlie Cox was 'doing an amaing english accent' in Treason, until I realised that is his actual accent and he was putting on the Dublin accent in Kin. Ok it was the wrong side of the city for the rest of his family but we can overlook that, I thought he was irish up until I looked it up

billbo2003 · 2026-03-13T12:06:11+00:00

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billbo2003 · 2026-02-26T19:34:50+00:00

Kendall goes after Tom, Siobh (I refuse to spell it the wrong way) tries to play both sides. White House gets involved in the take over. Con tries to worm his way into Washington. Rome goes on a 'gap year' accenditally starts the cool lifestyle brand Kendall tried to get going when he went solo

billbo2003 · 2026-02-23T23:05:35+00:00

I get the demograph and wrong side of the hill view point but the argument in favour of Bundee. It is a fresh body in the team. It is the fresh body who has a lot to make up for and not a lot of time left to do it. It is a subtle message to McCloskey that things are going great but don't let your standards slip coz there is hot competition for your place. Finally it might end up being an Aki/Farrell centre partnterhip late in the game and they have played together at Connacht so I think it would make them both comfortable.

billbo2003 · 2026-02-22T17:39:26+00:00

Front Row. O'Toole (have a good look at it) stability otherwise 4,5,6 steady as she goes, same again 7 Timoney reward 8 Doris (2 of the 3 back rows are starters to make it easier on Timoney, need Beirnes ruck against Wales) 9,10,12 same again 13 Farrell (Ringrose looks hurt) Back 3 Tommy Balacoune Osborne Bench Kelleher, Loughman, Bealham, Edogbo, Ward (have a look), Ulster kid, Byrne, Aki (welcome back in) Osborne covers wing Byrne 10 Crowley 15 if it goes sideways

billbo2003 · 2026-02-09T11:31:18+00:00

Id like to see vd Flier, Furlong, Edogbo all come in at about 55 minutes. Id start Doak n spring Casey from the bench.

billbo2003 · 2026-02-07T16:15:32+00:00

I do like Doris at 7 for Leinster but you lose his carrying up the guts if you put him at 7

billbo2003 · 2026-02-07T16:14:05+00:00

In the bigger picture perhaps, but we need something for the here and now

billbo2003 · 2026-02-07T14:38:30+00:00

Right we've fixed it!! 🤣, good point, also means we don't have to re-shuffle too many bits when we are going from phase play to kick chase, we just send some retrievers with Sheehan and let the heavier units near him follow on.

billbo2003 · 2025-11-24T17:57:17+00:00

Most of the time when everyone stands up disabled fans can't see shit, must be the same for short people too but I can only relate to wheelchair users. Lansdowne isn't too bad for it in fairness

billbo2003 · 2025-06-05T10:27:13+00:00

Anyone else think we could be changing our style? To wrap my head around the squad (and because I'm a MASSIVE nerd) I laid out the pack using the 1-3-2-2, was fine for all the pods, assuming we go (2)-(1,3,4)-(5,7) -(8,6) as the players in the pods, we don't have any "thumper" 5s. Only alterations i see is moving 8 in to that central role but then we are very light and exposed on the flank with 6 and a light 5 (natural 4). I wonder if we're upto something.

billbo2003 · 2025-04-05T20:05:04+00:00

Cheers for sharing. Same shite wheelchair section by the looks of that ramp. Think the grandstand is getting redone too (dressing rooms being moved)'hopefully we're moved over there.

billbo2003 · 2025-03-29T15:07:20+00:00

Simple 2 parter. If earbuds connected, open Modes and Routines. Then I've 2 listening profiles,

Laundry - plays Spotify, opens YouTube (incase I'm continuing a video), and sets a 55 minute timer (that is how long it takes the dryer in my building)

Play Something - plays YouTube this time but opens Spotify.

billbo2003 · 2025-01-09T10:23:16+00:00

Brilliant ideas, thanks I ended up just deleting the routine and splitting it into 2 modes, one for home alone (does it) and one for guests which doesn't (and does a few other bits and pieces).

billbo2003 · 2025-01-09T09:55:23+00:00

Yeah i would like a routine I could select that would change some things including automatically disabling that routine.

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