Subtle.
The Ulster game against Aironi is pretty hard to get excited about. Aironi are a fairly brutal team, pinned to the bottom of the Pro 12 table; it’s all so different from last year, when they were pinned to the bottom of the Magners League table. Continue reading
Not intended as a slight on McGahan, but he's down a lot of backs.
If you’re down your entire first choice back three in Howlett/Earls/Jones – one of whom is a Hall of Fame calibre player, one of whom is a confirmed international try-scorer, and the other of whom is a great broken field runner – and you don’t have particularly good centers, what’s the point in playing to your weaknesses? Continue reading
Surely three-in-a-row is out of the question?
Munster’s forthcoming tie against Llanelli is an intriguing match-up, in that it looks to test the old adage “forwards decide who wins the game, backs decide by how much”. Continue reading
Sunny-Bull returns to the squared circle for ten rounds of pugilistic action
It’s a slow enough news day here at Mole Towers, so we feel obliged to give Superstar Sunny-Bull Wull’yums the nigh-obligatory kiwi fluff for his upcoming NZ heavyweight title fight. Continue reading
Howlett out for the remainder of the season
Grim news from the Munster camp: Doug Howlett’s achilles tendon requires surgery and he will miss the rest of the season. Continue reading
This is all a bit Rugby Dump, but the Mole caught this Ngwenya try on Setanta’s Top 14 Highlights show and was absolutely blown away by it. It’s actually one of the best tries I’ve ever seen at club level, so much to admire about it – the action kicks off at about 1:35.
Trying to throw off his Dulwich College roots
Nick Easter had been named and shamed as the worst person on earth.
Chartered flight to Perpignan
ESPN Scrum.com are reporting that Luke Charteris is off to Perpignan. Continue reading
Andrew Bishop - the key to the Ospreys' line-speed and defense against Munster
The Ospreys’ quick line-speed in defense severely hampered Munster’s attack for the greater part of the match. Sean Holley and Scott Johnson have done an extremely good job with the region over the last six months; they’ve shed some seriously talented but somewhat egotistical players in Mike Phillips, James Hook and Lee Byrne, and in the recent past have been operating with a number of important players unavailable due to injury. Continue reading
Back on the bottom of the SpecSavers Fair Play League to boot
Munster’s preparations for their key back-to-back matches with the Llanelli Scarlets in the Heineken Cup were staggered by an unexpected loss to the Ospreys.
The thing about the record books is that they don’t draw a picture – they just record the score. In that light, a bonus-point loss to the second-placed team in the league away from home isn’t a bad result. In any other light, it was a terrible result. Continue reading
Digging Like a Demented Mole 