The IRISH RUGBY thread

[square_ball]

It is a totally different situation to the ladies team unless it was Johnny Sexton or someone that put it on the PA system? Itchy is comparing apples and oranges.

[seafoid]

It is a totally different situation to the ladies team unless it was Johnny Sexton or someone that put it on the PA system? Itchy is comparing apples and oranges.

It depends on what Jim McAllister has to say about it at the end of the day. Whether or not something is a unionist narcissist injury cannot be decided by  a Taig.

[Itchy]

It is a totally different situation to the ladies team unless it was Johnny Sexton or someone that put it on the PA system? Itchy is comparing apples and oranges.

Wrong. The Leinster team were already caught singing this song on a plane long before the girls on soccer team did. This is 2nd time it's been played on the tannoy system. Like I said it doesn't bother me who sings it as it's just a song but girls with working class accents and posh boys with D4 accents won't get the same treatment.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/watch-delighted-leinster-players-singing-16335270

[seafoid]

Good win for Munster yesterday

https://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2023/0101/1344368-healy-scores-last-gasp-winner-as-munster-stun-ulster/

[Cyril Farrell fan]

A lot of people who were defending the soccer girls now want the Leinster lads to be in hot water for a song they weren't singing.

[Itchy]

A lot of people who were defending the soccer girls now want the Leinster lads to be in hot water for a song they weren't singing.

Not true, they are just pointing out the hypocrisy of the two reactions.

[Milltown Row2]

A lot of people who were defending the soccer girls now want the Leinster lads to be in hot water for a song they weren't singing.

Not true, they are just pointing out the hypocrisy of the two reactions.

Think you need to have like for like, the rugby lads on the plane are not actually heard singing up the ra, unless they have and it's been deleted I've yet to hear them. The tannoy and the supporters singing it is not the same..

Either way if some group made up a song which had,  oh a up the UVF it would receive the same attention in national teams were singing it

[Itchy]

So if ulster Rugby were singing the Billy Boys song but weren't recorded singing the words "up to our necks in Fenian blood" that would be grand. But if another team were caught singing that line they should be hammered. Who you trying to kid?It's totally like for like, just total classism at play.

[Applesisapples]

Anyway...bored shitless with the hooha about this song. To get back on point, why is Healy out of favour at Munster, looks a great 10.

[Walter Cronc]

Anyway...bored shitless with the hooha about this song. To get back on point, why is Healy out of favour at Munster, looks a great 10.

Perhaps he's already decided on joining Scotland? Qualifies through mother and they've tried to poach him before. You wouldn't blame him. Cooney could be playing for Scotland in RWC too!

[rodney trotter]

Scotland with only 2 Professional teams, Glasgow and Edinburgh work off a very small player pool. Not that Ireland is huge, but they should have more then 2 teams to bring though more players.

[seafoid]

Scotland with only 2 Professional teams, Glasgow and Edinburgh work off a very small player pool. Not that Ireland is huge, but they should have more then 2 teams to bring though more players.

I don't think the SRU is s fluirseach as the IRFU.
Scotland is currently weak and the country struggled to make the change to professionalism. Maybe soccer has all the money.

[Walter Cronc]

Scotland with only 2 Professional teams, Glasgow and Edinburgh work off a very small player pool. Not that Ireland is huge, but they should have more then 2 teams to bring though more players.

They had a 3rd professional team (Borders) a while back. I think its the stronghold of Scottish rugby but couldn't be sustained financially.

[johnnycool]

Scotland with only 2 Professional teams, Glasgow and Edinburgh work off a very small player pool. Not that Ireland is huge, but they should have more then 2 teams to bring though more players.

They had a 3rd professional team (Borders) a while back. I think its the stronghold of Scottish rugby but couldn't be sustained financially.

The SRU aren't so precious about their players playing in other jurisdictions like England and France so aren't shelling out big salaries for Hogg Russell and Co.

They've got themselves pretty competitive at international level and well capable of beating anyone on their day.

[seafoid]

Scotland with only 2 Professional teams, Glasgow and Edinburgh work off a very small player pool. Not that Ireland is huge, but they should have more then 2 teams to bring though more players.

They had a 3rd professional team (Borders) a while back. I think its the stronghold of Scottish rugby but couldn't be sustained financially.

The SRU aren't so precious about their players playing in other jurisdictions like England and France so aren't shelling out big salaries for Hogg Russell and Co.

They've got themselves pretty competitive at international level and well capable of beating anyone on their day.

SRU income is slightly less than GBP 60m https://scottishrugby.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/SRFS2122.pdf

whereas IRFU is EUR 79m
https://www.statista.com/statistics/580297/irfu-total-annual-income-ireland/#:~:text=This%20statistic%20depicts%20the%20total%20annual%20income%20of,income%20of%20approximately%2079.24%20million%20euros%20was%20generated.
and sterling is worth SFA vs the EUR these days at 1.1 or whatever.
Murrayfield capacity probably compares unfavourably to Lansdowne Road.