This weekend sees the biggest clash so far in the Magners League, but first lets take a look at last weeks results.
I took a chance last week and went for another set of predictions for the Magners League. I called 2 out of 4 right so, as they say, I won’t give up the day job.
Week 1 of the Magners League didn’t go well for the Irish teams, and my prediction for Munster to beat Glasgow was backwards (and was kindly pointed out to me also). The four provinces were all beaten and, on paper at least, things did not look well for the new season.
This weekend sees the return of the rugby season for the Irish provinces with the kick off of the Magners League, and I can’t bloody wait.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. Tonight sees the return of the mighty Munster. They play a friendly at Cork’s Musgrave Park tonight against Sale Sharks. The side has been named and features mostly unknown names as Tony McGahon is resting the big guns for the start of the Magner’s League in [...]
Now the real rugby of the South African tour has arrived. And boy wasn’t it a let down – at least from a Lions point of view. Saturday saw the British & Irish Lions lose the first test match to the Springboks. I’m not boasting when I say that this what I predicted, because my [...]
Since I last wrote about the B&I Lions, there have been three matches. The Lions won all three, making them undefeated going into the test series. But, as with the previous matches barring the Golden Lions, I felt that they were capable of more. The game against the Natal Sharks was won convincingly, 39-9, but [...]
So we are nearly halfway through the second week of the 2009 tour and the Lions have played three games. The first was against Royal XV, in which the Lions whimpered to a 37-25 win. Few players actually played well. There was plenty of talk about the poor performance of Keith Earls, and the lack [...]