ON THIS WEEK’S COLUMN…
- WRAP OF A WRAP
- THURSDAY’S CHILD…
- SOLIDARITY
- EARLY DOORS
- LAWS UNTO THEMSELVES
- DEVINE INTERVENTION
- HARPIN’ ON…LEINSTER SEASON OVERVIEW
- TEAMS FOR FRANCE V IRELAND
- TROLL PATROL
- COMPETITION UPDATES (incl Leinster Schools)
- NEXT HARPIN’
WRAP OF A WRAP
As you’ll see a bit down the page, this ‘Thursday Six Nations kickoff’ malarkey is really grinding my gears, not least because it messes up my content schedule. Our preview will record Wednesday evening so I will post this late on Tuesday.
When it comes to the Edinburgh wrap, I was joined by Mr Leinster Royalty himself Tom Coleman who gave an excellent account of the match as well as an overview of Leinster’s season as you’ll see in the bonus chat. We began by focusing on Leinster’s NIQ players. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one cursing RG Snyman during the match on Saturday for overdoing the funky offloads but Tom did a decent job of providing counter point with all the good he’s done, as well as looking at Reiko & Rabah.
ICYMI click here to have a listen.
THURSDAY’S CHILD…
…this year’s Thursday start is because of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
Why is the Six Nations starting on Thursday?
Jonathan Bradley – BBC.com
…had far to go. And I’ll tell you what, you’d have to go pretty far to convince me that any of the reasons given for bringing this match forward to a goddam Thursday make any sense.
I mean, forgive me for not keeping up on the latest bobsledding and luge news but when this day switch was first announced, and I heard it was to do with the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics, I thought that meant the games were IN France. But they’re not. They’re actually in Italy. So why isn’t it their game with Scotland that gets moved instead of ours????
I mean, going by this article it seems that a weekly ProD2 fixture plus several World Cup matches under a very flawed format somehow makes this marquee matchup going to midweek understandable. Excusez‑moi, mesdames et messieurs, but it doesn’t.
HARPIN' ON RUGBY 