Of Ireland’s 5 competitive home games between now and RWC 2027
At least 3 are night time kickoffs: (🇦🇷, 🏴, 🇫🇷)
With a strong chance the South Africa game is also a late one
The Inter-Pro Show returned for our penultimate Six Nations episode, with a full crew, as we feverishly look back and ahead to two make or break games
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The Scottish socials team getting the shithousing in early
Love to see it... and tbf this was a cracking game too
How long have I been waiting to make this pun?
Too long.
Will I do it again? Probably, yeah.
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It’s pretty crazy how in each of the last 2 Six Nations’; a Slam chaser got utterly smashed in Round 4
2024: Ireland fall 42-13 behind to France
2025: France fall 47-14 behind to Scotland
Lightning strikes twice
My Predicted Ireland 23 vs Scotland ☘️
3️⃣ changes from win over Wales
💪 returns for Sheehan and van der Flier
1️⃣st start for Michael Milne
⚡ Craig Casey & Tommy O'Brien also back in the 23
Let's run it back! #SuperSaturday
New ✍️ Ireland v Wales Reaction ☘️
Ireland’s ability to go from 5th gear to 2nd, is a worrying regression after what felt like tides turning in Twickenham
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New ✍️ Ireland v Wales Reaction ☘️
"This emotion and performance rollercoaster has all the hallmarks of an average team, not a good one."
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New ✍️ Ireland v Wales Preview ☘️
"Wales once again have nothing to lose. But Ireland need to keep the good vibes going."
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The biggest old man take I have in rugby is this:
The phrase “Six Nations debut” is such rubbish
Such a rugby thing to say
It’s as expected for Ireland with 5 changes from Twickenham
Jeremy Loughman and James Lowe out through injury while Nick Timoney and Ronan Kelleher start
New look bench too with 6N debuts pending for Tom Farrell and Tom Stewart; and Ireland test debut for Nathan Doak
TOT start
Milne bench
Predictions from The42 and The Irish Times suggsts that Jeremy Loughman is set to miss Ireland's clash with Wales due to injury, but starts expected for Ronan Kelleher (2), Nick Timoney (7) and Jacob Stockdale (11)
Clayton McMillan spoke about this afterwards to us. Can’t remember the full quote but basically said after a month off, don’t be surprised that almost everyone was off their best this weekend
And you could argue the best performance was the Bulls, who played through this break
Clayton McMillan spoke really well on Saturday about learning his way through these international windows but remained upbeat around what he’s seeing in training
For Irish Examiner ✍️
This is great from Donnacha
All the “have to be 100% impartial all the time” is a pseudo intellectual stance that never holds up
People respect DOC and others for standing up for guys they know and like and shooting from the hip
More of this please
Love Donncha O'Callaghan going in to bat for Jack Crowley.
Willy Wonka reference is on point.
Predicted Ireland 23 vs Wales ☘️
5⃣ changes from win over England
💪 returns for Clarkson, Conan & Stockdale
🧠 keeping the faith at 9/10 after superb showing
🆕 potential debut for Doak
5⃣/3⃣ bench split
Make no bones about it, Munster are treating last night as 1 point dropped compared to 4 gained, as an error-strewn performance left them just short of a TBP
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It wasn’t perfect, but Munster snuck over the line and into the top four courtesy of a 21-7 defeat of Zebre in Limerick tonight
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The Inter-Pro Show returned in triumphant fashion this week… and can you blame me?
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URC Round 12 Referees
🔵 Sam Grove-White
🟢 Ben Breakspear
🔴 Mike Adamson
⚪ Fillipo Russo
Ireland's Peter Martin and Eoghan Cross also on the whistle this week
RTÉ have today confirmed that Ireland's record breaking win in Twickenham drew in a peak audience of over 1 million viewers
There was an average audience of 898,000 for a 77% share of the available audience
A further 350,000 fans streamed the action on RTÉ Player
ICYMI: Ireland v England Review ✍️
Ratings, analysis & discussion on one of those great Irish wins.
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Georgia, maybe another European side.
Why not Ireland XV v Wales XV even
With the URC QFs and SFs taking place on the weekends of May 30th and June 6th; but Ireland's first Nations Championship game not until July 6th; will the IRFU look to schedule a friendly in between?
It could fix a long run without games for some players
Ireland players released to provinces
Michael Milne, Tom Stewart, Darragh Murray, Edwin Edogbo, Cormac Izuchukwu, Cian Prendergast, Bryn Ward
Nathan Doak, Harry Byrne, Tom Farrell, Jude Postlethwaite
Indicates a strong 23 vs Wales, and possible returns for Porter, Aki and Henshaw
As cool as it is for Fiji to have a "base"; this is not it
If not at home, why are they playing the 3 UK nations, in their own country (Wales in Cardiff; England in Liverpool; Scotland in Murrayfield)
Typical rugby to trip itself up before a new tournament starts
