Bock The Robber

Right.  All out to Thomond Park tomorrow for the Munster – Castres game.  A win there would secure qualification for the play-offs but needless to say, we won’t be so [...]

Munster – Leinster clash in Limerick set for a day when all the pubs are closed

Them and us, but not just in sport. The sheer irrelevance of people like George Hook, Tom McGurk and Ryle Nugent.

Heart, balls, guts and brains

Lions win final Test. Commentators lose the plot.

Springboks choose cynical strategy

I know that Limehouse Dick is a rascal.  I know he’s an incorrigible corner-boy and dodger.  I realise old Scrotum can’t stand him, and yet, for all his uncouth manners, [...]

Hasn’t it been some transformation?  Isn’t there some difference between the Ireland team of today and the overtrained, squabbling, factional rabble who crashed and burned in France during the 2007 [...]

Forget Bertie Ahern. Forget Iraq. Forget global warming. Forget the banking crisis. Tomorrow, Munster meet Gloucester in a make-or-break crunch game that will either see us progress to the semi-finals [...]

We’re going (as I told you) to the game in Dublin.  Ireland versus Scotland in Croke Park. Myself and the Bullet.  Off to see the rugby, and to stay the [...]