The Official Irish Rugby Thread

[Handy Run]

Is this just lip service?

IRFU to 'review' contract system as tenth Leinster star to sign new deal

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) will reportedly review their contracting system with a tenth Leinster player to be offered a central contract.

www.planetrugby.com

We've reviewed ourselves and come to the conclusion that we're a great bunch of ghoys

 

[longbigandjuicy]

How many have Ulster? 2 maybe?

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

How many have Ulster? 2 maybe?

The 4 proud Provences of Ireland my arse :

View attachment 31822

 

[Handy Run]

How many have Ulster? 2 maybe?

The other provinces have one each

 

[How bad boy]

Think there's a really strong case for Mack Hansen and just idiotic timing for POM to get lobbed onto Munsters books.

Ulster are lucky to have Iain Henderson on there, he's barely an Ireland bench player nowadays

 

[El Guapo]

Think there's a really strong case for Mack Hansen and just idiotic timing for POM to get lobbed onto Munsters books.

Ulster are lucky to have Iain Henderson on there, he's barely an Ireland bench player nowadays

Aki is 34, Beirne is 32, Henderson is 32.

Its feasible that there wont be a single centrally contracted player outside of Leinster in 2 or 3 years.

Hansen and Crowley are the two obvious ones but there aren't that many clear cut candidates

 

[Stacky]

At least non-Leinster provincial players might get a chance to play in the Aviva or Croke Park......

 

[How bad boy]

Aki is 34, Beirne is 32, Henderson is 32.

Its feasible that there wont be a single centrally contracted player outside of Leinster in 2 or 3 years.

Hansen and Crowley are the two obvious ones but there aren't that many clear cut candidates

Yeah, I'd say they'll fast track Crowley for political reasons. Was surprised to hear JGP isn't one.

Thought Iain Henderson was older, but he's been playing for Ireland for 12 years now. Fair dues. Probably got another 2-3 good years left in him.

I think the biggest problem I have with it is the spending is that the savings in Leinster from moving players from provincial to central contract have essentially been blown on Snyman and Barrett. There's at least €1M in extra spending there. Barrett is particularly egregious as Leinster have good depth, so it's going to take game time away from the likes of O'Brien, Frawley, Larmour and Osbourne. And maybe one of Ringrose, Henshaw or Keenan, because he's arguably better than all of them.

That €1M would have stretched a hell of a lot further if it was invested in player development pathways in other provinces

 

[Handy Run]

View this content on Instagram

View this content on Instagram

 

[nelly sham]

A lot of anti Leinster chat on here the last few days but it should be remembered that they have donated us 6 players:

Tadhg Beirne, Oli Jager, Joey Carbery, Jeremy Loughman, Sean O'Brien and Paddy Patterson

Jordie Barrett will only be playing for them for 6 months so not worth getting too excited about it imo

That's a bit disingenuous though. Beirne and Jager were told they weren't good enough for Leinster, they went and made their own way in the professional game.

It wasn't that long ago Munster sent a bunch of lads north to save Leinster from Eddie Hekenui and the likes. It actually was a long time ago, I'm just getting old.