Rogby football skills translator

[TonyCork80]

I was listening to the independent podcast yesterday and Eddie O'Sullivan must have brought up the woodshed at least seven times.

I can't enlighten you as to what any of this means, but the context was

1. France are a team that will take you to the woodshed.

2. Tadhg Beirne is a man who has gone to the woodshed many times.

 

[How bad boy]

I was listening to the independent podcast yesterday and Eddie O'Sullivan must have brought up the woodshed at least seven times.

I can't enlighten you as to what any of this means, but the context was

1. France are a team that will take you to the woodshed.

2. Tadhg Beirne is a man who has gone to the woodshed many times.

 

[Rebel CNC]

See? Dorce gets it - rogbish is the way forward
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Fair dues - that's the spirit that'll get Irish rugby out of its current rut!!

 

[Happyhonkaman]

Fair dues - that's the spirit that'll get Irish rugby out of its current rut!!

Its not a rut we are in, its a TRENCH FFS..

Our ghoys are going to need to rely on a combination of overwhelming fire support, infiltration, and specialised close-quarters tactics. They will need to abandon the longer range stuff and aim to bypass the defensive advantages of trenches by moving quickly to close the distance and engaging in hand-to-hand combat

 

[criodain]

Are there a few stock cliches that rugby jocks use in interviews? Like in the soccer, you have lads who will always use the "obviously" "the gaffer" "at the end of the day" "a lot of honesty" "he'll learn from that" "not that type of player" "I didn't see it" etc

 

[Bonbon12]

"We hadn't enough bodies on feet to engage in the contestables".

 

[How bad boy]

Are there a few stock cliches that rugby jocks use in interviews? Like in the soccer, you have lads who will always use the "obviously" "the gaffer" "at the end of the day" "a lot of honesty" "he'll learn from that" "not that type of player" "I didn't see it" etc

Very much so:

"work-ons" - either the match went really well and you're pretending you've learned something from it, or it has gone horribly wrong and you're underplaying just how bad it was

"earn the right to go wide" - you've damaged your opposition enough that maybe it's time to trying running and passing instead of just using big players human battering rams.

"trust the process" - I'm scared of the manager

"full credit to the boys/opposition" or "the forwards did the hard work" - I played really well, probably scored a few tries, but I'm trying to come across as humble.

 

[How bad boy]

"We hadn't enough bodies on feet to engage in the contestables".

Gonna struggle to win the collisions and impose your physicality if you've not got enough bodies on feet to engage the contestables. Certainly not going to be overcoming the honeypotting with many jackals if bodies aren't being put on the line and emptying the tank. Need to front up, put in a shift and control the controllables.

 

[jams]

See? Dorce gets it - rogbish is the way forward
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Baxter basics I think

 

[criodain]

"world cup cycle" that's one that is trun out regularly. Where are we in the world cup cycle? Are we "peaking too early"?