The Magners League Thread

[laura]

Rocky Elsom watched the Leinster vs Ospreys game. He has already left the Wallabies.
Leinster Rugby : Rocky arrives to bolster Leinster squad...

[welshrugbyfan]

Rocky Elsom watched the L:einster vs Ospreys game. He has already left the Wallabies.
Leinster Rugby : Rocky arrives to bolster Leinster squad...

They did alright with out him anyway, Leinster 19 - 13 Ospreys.

[Thequeerone]

Yeah Cullen was captain not O'Driscoll

[Badger]

Is there a squad listing for the ospreys?

[jargan83]

try their website?
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[The Man]

Wednesday has the following games from the Magners League on TV

9am - Neath Swansea Ospreys v Ulster

11am - Leinster v Munster

[slomo]

leinster musnster was also on this morning...

[fermain]

I'll be the first to admit we're really struggling to be coherent this season so far. ah well, it's bound to come!!!
BTW the Ospreys demolished us on Saturday... (in case you din't already know)

[welshrugbyfan]

Rocky Elsom had a nice introduction to Irish Derby Rugby when his new team Leinster faced up against Connacht in the wee hours this morning.

Elsom was yellow carded early in the second half, in all fairness he was headbutted in the face and reacted accordingly by throwing a few short, sharp right hands into the face of the offender.

Ugly incident with the try scorer Second row Michael McCarthy from Connacht getting his second yellow card which soon became red in the 48th minute after he took offence to one of his players being taken out with an elbow as he ran in to celebrate the try with his team mates. (It was a dirty move from the Leinster player).

Anyway Connacht held on for a one point win despite being a man down for the last 32 minutes.

[travelling_gerry]

And our friends at Ulster broke the drought.

Ulster managed to find some much-needed respite from their Magners League misery by grafting out their first win of the campaign, beating Edinburgh 13-9 at Ravenhill on Friday.

It was a far from perfect performance but was an enormously improved effort after last week's 43-0 tanking at the Ospreys and with the mighty Stade Francais arriving at Ravenhill next Saturday for the opening round of the Heineken Cup, the four points will help rebuild some of Ulster's shattered confidence.

The win takes the Ulstermen away from the foot of the table, but a mere three points ahead of now bottom side Connacht who play Leinster on Sunday and they now sit one point behind Andy Robinson's Edinburgh who managed a losing bonus point and have now just won once in five outings.

[welshrugbyfan]

And our friends at Ulster broke the drought.

Ulster managed to find some much-needed respite from their Magners League misery by grafting out their first win of the campaign, beating Edinburgh 13-9 at Ravenhill on Friday.

It was a far from perfect performance but was an enormously improved effort after last week's 43-0 tanking at the Ospreys and with the mighty Stade Francais arriving at Ravenhill next Saturday for the opening round of the Heineken Cup, the four points will help rebuild some of Ulster's shattered confidence.

The win takes the Ulstermen away from the foot of the table, but a mere three points ahead of now bottom side Connacht who play Leinster on Sunday and they now sit one point behind Andy Robinson's Edinburgh who managed a losing bonus point and have now just won once in five outings.

If you have Foxtel and ESPN you can watch the Ulster V Stade Francais game this Saturday night at 10.25 PM.

[thunderchicken9]

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Elsom was yellow carded early in the second half, in all fairness he was headbutted in the face and reacted accordingly by throwing a few short, sharp right hands into the face of the offender.

Yeah, it was a nasty headbutt, Elsom was fully justified in defending himself. The #4 for Connacht had already been yellow carded, which shows poor discipline on his part... Pretty miraculous that Connacht held on for the win!

[thunderchicken9]

Oh by the way, WHOOOOO ULSTER!!!!!

[welshrugbyfan]

Ok so I got up at 5am to watch Wales go down, things got better with the Force game and then two out of three Newport Gwent Dragons beat Ulster 26-16 in the Magners League game that I finally got to watch.

Not a badish rugby day.