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With permission I am posting this excellent piece by Piquet over on Munsterfans.com: Mr Wray and his cronies in the PRL need to be spoken to in language that they, as businessmen, can understand, so here goes: There is a product, Rugby Union, that is provided in various countries throughout...

And as this site shows, and Murdoch well knows, that is a product he can sell around the world. One estimate I heard is that 400 million people worldwide have at least one Irish grandparent and a lot of them are in rugby playing countries. I am not a Murdoch fan but his global reach and...

I really don't think the Celtic teams are going to split because they know what the real figures are and more importantly what is at stake. The RFU are staying very quiet hoping that the combined actions of the FFR, and the rabo unions will counter the bull shit spoofing and nonsense coming out...

International Rugby Board chairman Bernard Lapasset has voiced his opposition to plans for an Anglo-French led European breakaway competition. The world governing body is backing European Rugby Cup Ltd in the row over the future of continental club rugby, with Lapasset insisting any future...

It is vitally important for the future of the game in the Southern Hemisphere as well as the North. If the likes of Wray and Griffiths take control of the game, which is what this is really all about, the fall out will be calamitous for the game we all love. You might be interested in this...

The debate is finally opening up as the English press, at fecking last, stop regurgitating PRL press releases and acknowledge that this debate is really about club versus country...

I think the French are about to royally shaft the PRL, great news for our wonderful game.

Is McCafferty secretly working for Murdoch? I just can't believe the bluffing that is going on. Another conspiracy theory of mine is that the old school English club owners are giving Wray enough rope to hang himself so he pisses off. The RFU won't lift the salary cap with Wray hanging around...

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/international/exclusive-ireland-could-miss-2015-world-cup-8831880.html The logical conclusion to the PRL's plan is Ireland pulling out of the 2015 RWC, that means five fewer full houses at the biggest stadia. The PRL plan would be disastrous...

The Rabo unions need to hold their nerve and let the PRL's back of a fag packet plan unravel. This whole business is about club versus country plain and simple. The FFR have come out, all guns blazing because they know the French clubs are trying to take more control of the game at the expense...

Scarlets19- Leinster42. Very impressive performance from Leinster. Their game functioned very well apart from some poor tackling in the first half and a scrum that struggled, although I would say that a lot of the problem was with the power transfer through from the second row, i.e there was...

Moore and Furlong are two lads I think have all the natural ability to make it as tight heads, add in the two jacks, McGrath and O'Connell at loose head and Leinster have a rake of prop talent coming through which is great to see. I really do think Archer will step up this year for Munster and...

Irish squads for the first round of the league, good to see young Irish props starting for Munster, Leinster and Ulster. Munster squad: James Cronin who started against Gloucester in the opening pre-season game in Thomond Park will make his first competitive start this Saturday against...

We have got a very nice month ahead of us with Edinburgh and the Dragons at home sandwiching an early season tour to Italy. We are meant to have our internationals (apart from the three Lions) back for saturday's game which should mean Kilcoyne, O'Mahony and TOD all in consideration. I am...

The Stains didn't wind up laying down too much of a marker as they scraped to a win and it sounds like Moore got on quite well against Corbesiero who, surprise surprise, doesn't fancy the new scrum laws...probably because he cannot get away with being at 45 degrees the whole time. The stains are...

The friendlies continue this weekend, Leinster team v Northampton in friendly this weekend: Leinster: D Hudson; D Fanning, B Macken, N Reid, S Coghlan-Murray; J Gopperth, L McGrath; J McGrath, A Dundon, M Moore; Q Roux, T Denton; R Ruddock, S Jennings (capt), J Murphy. Replacements: S...

See Madigan has signed on until the end of 2015/16 good news for the blue magoos!!!!!

I thought this might be of interest to the Irish posters, much better reasoning than you will ever see from me, http://redscarerugby.com/2013/08/23/theres-something-about-keith/

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/springboks-delay-zane-kirchner-s-arrival-to-link-up-with-leinster-1.1502928 Zane Kirchner might not be with Leinster until five days before they play the hairsprays. Thought this paragraph was of particular interest: “You mentioned Brendan Macken, Fergus...

Unfortunately my understanding is that it is ligament damage, KevinO. Hopefully it is not a Ferris job but it is quite hard to play rugby with only one working hand. Edit Nacewa was forced to retire with an arm injury.