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Matt Williams Leaving Ulster Rugby

May 20, 2009

Breaking news – it appears that Matt Williams is leaving Ulster Rugby!
A shock and total surprise. Sad news for Ulster and Irish rugby, Matt is a gentleman and a superb coach and will be greatly missed.
Sources: last few minutes of the Ruggamatrix podcast, transcribed by mikerob over on the UAFC board:
LK: “the other news this [...]

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Turn about is fair play

May 6, 2009

Leinster beat Munster 25-6 in the 2009 Heineken Cup Semi Final, a reversal of the 2006 result
What a win! What a glorious, glorious win! Here’s some pictures from the wonderful occasion, and it certainly was a massive win for rugby and Ireland, as well as Leinster. After my previous post being a humorous response to [...]

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Limerick Leader News, April 5th 2009

April 7, 2009

Some humour after Leinster’s humilitation in Munster last Saturday.

Limerick Leader News Headlines
Keith Earls was arrested after the Leinster match on Saturday for suspected theft and kidnapping after Gordon Darcy was reported missing.
When the Gardai took Earls down to the station he was asked to empty his pockets. They then found found Gordon Darcy there [...]

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Mauls saved – ELV update

March 31, 2009

The IRB conference (with coaches, refs, administrators and reps from all the major unions) spend the last 2 days reviewing the ELVs.
Conclusion: most have been approved and sent on to be ratified, but vitally the maul collapse rule has been rejected (woohoo, that was always a bloody stupid idea), and the “sanctions” rule, which changes [...]

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6 Nations Final Day Predictions

March 21, 2009

Coming to this a bit late – I’ve missed the first game of the day where France predictably did a demolition job on Italy.
For England – Scotland, I think this is a close game, if Scotland perform like they did in the first half against Ireland then they have a change of winning this game. [...]

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Renaming Aviva Stadium to Nivea Stadium

February 17, 2009

I think Irish rugby will benefit from rebranding Lansdowne Road to something more meaningful than Aviva Stadium, so let’s call it Nivea Stadium, eh?
Man-bags are a great place to carry a couple of extra hipflasks and a few cans of beer.

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