I wonder what's the latest a player whp reached 50 caps started their international career? Jamison Gibson-Park was just a few months shy of 30 when he got his first cap. Easy to forget how recent his involvement in the Irish set-up is.
No, YOU’RE spending next hour photoshopping Borthwick into a precariously positioned bus, just on the off chance something really funny happens today
Obviously incredible workrate from Mann last night. The concern from an Irish perspective (and not having done a full watch of last night's match yet) is high opposing team tackle counts were a bit of a hallmark of the Schmidt era during times when our attack was looking a bit blunt and predictable.
“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.
Have just emerged from a couple hours without signal to see the result. A bonus point win. I assume it went smoothly with no concerns whatsoever? I won't be looking into it further.
The #BondiTop
This is such performative alpha competitiveness and it's so cringe
this is a market saying: i don't see what gets better between now and Monday so i'm lightening up and hoping for the best
round of applause please for Operation Epic Fury
My #9games
I had a nightmare first couple of weeks (didn't realise Feyi-Waboso was injured until the game started in week 1, then had Henry "Red Card" Arundell in the squad for week 2) but had a huge week last week thanks to Sheehan, Dupont, Baloucoune, Russell and Ramos. Hoping that's the start of a streak!
Going big on the French backline and the Irish pack. Italian forwards the next biggest contingent.
Yeah I love baseball but it's more something you let wash over you rather than being really all that absorbing minute by minute. That match was a thriller though.
Longing for the day when politics gets so boring that I basically just talk about sport, music, films and video games on here.
Hodgson's Wikipedia article genuinely includes the words "Hodgson has received criticism for not being Jonny Wilkinson", which, while a tad unfair, is also (a) true and (b) funny.
(Incidentally, I'd also forgotten how close run a thing Wales' Grand Slam was that year. We were 6 points ahead of you with 5 minutes to go, England were 3 points ahead of you with 10 to go!)
He was such an average player, and that was the second game in a row where he'd scored a charge-down try that led to England winning a game they'd played badly in (he did it to Scotland the week before).
Luckily against an England team that poor, Ireland MUST have beaten them that year.
Oh. Oh no.
The one that always gets me is the 2012 game, when Italy were 15-6 up after 47 minutes, and then Charlie Hodgson scored a charge-down and Italy missed two late penalties to win it. Sickener.
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That 2023 final ended with a duel between Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout, former teammates and two of the world's best players, and it was such great theatre.
The World Baseball Classic is becoming such a good tournament. So many good teams in international baseball at the moment so there's a genuine aspect of unpredictability. Japan v USA in the decider of the 2023 edition was one of THE great games.
Can he at least swing the bat with both hands and make it look like he's trying
I should replay Bioshock
Anyway the best thing about Atlas Shrugged is that it led to the creation of Bioshock, one of my favourite games, which imagines what would actually happen if a bunch of Objectivists established their own society (spoiler: they all want to be in charge, hate each other and end up killing each other)
At one page a character gives a speech that goes on for over 50 pages.
Lots written about how controversial Atlas Shrugged is, not enough about how truly boring it is. 1,000 pages of badly written didactic tedium. Like getting cornered by a Young Tory.
That's plausible actually
Love* those scrum ads!
*May not be accurate
I don't think it's impossible we beat them by that much, they're in a bad place, but we haven't had a win of that margin against them in 24 years! Personally gone with +17 in my predictor league.
It's definitely more trolling effort than propaganda video, but the thing is that's still really weird, and regardless of the intent I think even otherwise conservative people will be wondering why the White House is sharing stuff like this.
Ireland v England being the early kickoff while Wales v Scotland got the late one was wild. But it's the Thursday/Friday ones I've found particularly frustrating.
