You want me to explain to someone what it is I do?
The Mole is a big fan of Newstalk’s Off the Ball, which brings Dexy’s to the airwaves on a regular basis to discuss “ebb and flow of psychic energy” and other phantasmagorical commentary that you can only see properly on the radio. Continue reading
Ireland will show up at next year’s u20 World Cup in South Africa, despite making noises to the contrary earlier in the season. Perennial champions NZ are pooled with Fiji, Wales and Samoa while Ireland face hosts South Africa, England and Italy in their group. Continue reading
Jonny Wilkinson Retires
The great Jonny Wilkinson has retired from international rugby. Continue reading
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
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
Chartered flight to Perpignan
ESPN Scrum.com are reporting that Luke Charteris is off to Perpignan. Continue reading
You beautiful man
Steve Thompson has had to retire a second [and presumably final] time, due to a recurrence of the serious neck injury that halted his career in 2007. Continue reading
Moodos threatened to skip the First XV photo for the annual!
More than six weeks after St Boshington’s School for Oversized Louts lost their last cup match, their report cards have finally arrived at parental homes. If the English rugby public are not disgruntled by this stage, they’re a long, long way from gruntled. Continue reading
They weren't kidding about the blood and gold in Perpignan. James Hook gets the gold, the blood is all Delmas.
Perpignan have fired Jacques Delmas a mere four months into his tenure with the club. Continue reading
Digging Like a Demented Mole 