Comments on: Best of the Weekend: Leicester and Munster steal wins at the death

By: ro

ro — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:34:31 +0000

doesnt look like ray and brighty will be coming to Ireland for their holliers any time soon then. Ooh dear, what a shame!

By: SY

SY — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:17:51 +0000

I think the villain of the week should be Zebre. Getting beat that badly doesn’t add credibility to their inclusion in the Heineken Cup. If anything, I would think the Italian teams would target these games to show that they belong.

Or, Treviso. That was a bad loss for them.

By: bakkies4

bakkies4 — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:48:44 +0000

To be fair, the majority of Leinster fans I was with were very pissed off at how others were acting and even apologised to Northampton fans sitting near them, although I must say as much as I hate it there are a lot of Irish fans who don’t see it’s just a game at the end of the day, as an Ulsterman the number of fans who will find an excuse for every loss is a bit frustrating, but there are a lot of good Irish fans too, there’s good and bad in every group!

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:18:06 +0000

Nothing new there then Robbo. In my experience the Irish are invariably the worst behaved crowd at Twickenham and in the bars in New Zealand during the last RWC the Irish fans were frequently obscene, nationalistic and most unsporting. Of course not all Irish fans are ‘poor’ nor are all others invariably good but the irish seem to take pride in it.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:18:06 +0000

By: brighty

brighty — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:59:21 +0000

“they” – I’m guilty of generalising there. Apologies. Obviously not all fans are fools, but there was definitely a sizeable contingent of them in that crowd.

Amazing match, best out of the last 2 weeks for a neutral (for a fan I am ecstatic with the Blues wins). To turn around a drubbing like that by simply physically and through force of will dragging yourself out of the hole. Very, very impressive. Manu Samoa will be on the plane to Toulon/Racing as we speak. Did he get MOTM? If he didn’t then that would be insane.

By: brighty

brighty — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:56:41 +0000

I watched the game on TV again yesterday. If there were 100s booing out of 47K then they must be the loudest fans in Ireland. And it was clear that the booing coincided with more than 1 kick.

By: brighty

brighty — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:55:42 +0000

Agreed Robbo – I have been in the company of numerous pompous Irish rugby fans who boo you if you so much as cough when a kicker is warming up – seems they only respect the kickers when they are happy with the way the game is going.

I personally don’t go for the silence and don’t have a problem with making a load of noise. People are not quiet at line outs and other one-man-doing-a-bit-of-skill-restart bits of rugby so the silence at kicks mystifies me. But I do dislike the pompous double standard of only doing it when you’re happy with the penalty/try decision.

By: Staggy

Staggy — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:48:45 +0000

Like!

By: ro

ro — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:38:05 +0000

bit harsh on the Leinster crowd. There was 47k at the match, a few hundred booing, while bloody annoying is hardly a stain on the rest of us. Think a lot of the boo’s were for Hartley when he left the field (panto villian that he is) and not for the kicker. Thought the ‘villian’ played magnificantly and led from the front all day. Saints were the better side and fully deserving of their win. These back to back games are incredible really. Cant wait to read Austin Healy’s ‘reasons’ why Northampton are at a disadvantage to Pro 12 teams ….. oooh wait, they won. Austin?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:26:20 +0000

Chabal should get villain of the week for his vicious assault.

Bit harsh to tar all the Leinster fans with the same brush, sure there was an element no (no doubt the one’s who think that any team of the week without Healy & O’Brien is WRONG and anyone who can’t see it doesn’t know what they are talking about …. and the one’s who think hanging would have been too good for Gatland), but it is a minority. Thought Saints kept their composure really well when maul after maul was stopped with blue shirts on the ground.

By: Robbo

Robbo — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:21:52 +0000

Villain of the week should have been the Leinster crowd – their booing and poor sportsmanship was a disgrace