In such a high stakes spot the main one people will compare it to is Jimmy Glass.
That's a cracking header he's scored today
Posts by Seamus Nolan
I swear I have these grand plans to visit all these places but with the kids doing every activity under the sun I've not had time. As a terrible procrastinator I'll need to get those marked off the list soon or they'll never get done
Munster can't get out of their own way at the minute here. Bad decision after bad decision. Feels like they need their own version of Hugh McCaughey to get them in order, a non-rugby administrator who loves the club and can help put them back on track
This is obviously a McMillan call as he worked with him before so ultimately I think he'll have to go too. For all the talk about doing work to find out the character of potential players signing to see if they fit the culture this is a real brain dead decision
Yea think they're a relatively recent addition to the craft scene too. Hear good things but still to get up there for a visit
The Americanisation of FIFA is now complete. Nothing GI won't do for more silver
How they haven't considered the optics of such an appointment is beyond me. I mean we're not too far removed from the Ulster rugby trial that people within Irish rugby structures are all gone and lessons haven't been learned. Absolute incompetence of the highest order
One of our local drops. They've had a bar on the glider route for a pile of years now yet I've still not managed a visit.
As a north coast man, have you tried any lacada stuff? They're based out of Portrush i believe
Setting up a new drill site in the North Sea for minimal returns is capital intensive
There's a lot of good accounts on here in relation to renewables and how North Sea oil is a non-starter for UK. Man is just shouting into the abyss
That's the face of a man who's gonna feel like dog shit for about 3 days after that session, but fair play for getting back at it
Shocked I had to scroll that far to see this guy's face
That's possibly the worst written article I've ever seen
Its a tough one, Exeter on paper are the better side but we've beaten them well before, and Ravenhill is a leveller too. Treviso are the 'easier' tie but on a dry day in Italy you'll really see the best of their top players.
Just hope for a clean bill of health for us and we'll take our chances
He's improved his discipline to be fair. Might be one of those who benefitted from Hendy staying the course tonight, helped keep him the right side of the ref in a higher pressure spot than he's used to, but I've liked his form this year
The criticism has been justified. For a few games recently he's looked like a man with too many miles on the clock but really helped negate a big pack on a night better suited to being a big pack, which was great to see
Surprised he did the 80 but he led the side very well, and carried a lot more like his old self. Imagine he could have the feet up next week against Leinster with an eye on trying to get to Bilbao
As an owner of an actual baby still at this stage I didn't have your baby as being 5ft tall already, she's about the size of my wife already
People on the park and ride bus on the way home debating whether they'd want an away game/ holiday to Italy or home v Exeter for the SF. I know it wasn't LAR's best XV but very nice to book a good win and be at the business end of a competition again
A picture of two teams on a rugby field, one in black, one in white, with the 41-17 scoreline in the background
The wind and rain were pretty grim but can't argue with that result. A few great performances, Doak and Murphy were excellent in particular, played the conditions so well #SUFTUM
Yea that's the sort of thing would stick with you. The fact it's not his usual M.O is crap too, just caught him on a bad day
Never saw it to that extent, 1st game I went to I was early 20s and they drew against Dragons. Only memory is my toes being near frozen.
I do remember the state of the pitch back when they were doing all the redevelopment work, and it didn't hold up to the Belfast rain well at all
My brain goes straight to cold March games huddled in the stand watching chunks of that pitch rip away during and after every scrum
Strong chance of Bilbao if we get through this so fingers crossed
Just making sure the whole family is brushed up on the Scottish verbage in the event of a family trip there I assume
If the weather doesn't meet the expectations I think it's a relatively easy night, if it's bad then it will need a pretty clean handling performance to go through.
Can't see it being pretty but as long as it works out on the scoreboard I'll be happy
Not really knowing their squad that well I assume they expect their whole back row to go up at some point, no lack of propulsion off the ground for them. If he went up I'd be both amazed and in awe of the strength of their props
We can only hope. If they were that stuck for locks I'd have happily traded the giant Georgian for Matty Dalton and maybe we'd have a functioning scrum.
With a miserable forecast I'm apprehensive about this game, and that was before I'd realised they'd brought that much beef up front
RO'G did say he'd only half an eye on this comp so guessing it's whichever warm bodies he can spare filling holes. For a small pack like Ulster on a miserable night it might work. If weather was due to be clearer I assume he'd have went less prop focused
Night is due to be horrible so could play into their hands. Scrum penalties and West kicking 3s all night. We're hardly a big pack at the best of times never mind having a 21st TH scrumming in behind another 20st TH tonight