Wednesday 19th Dec, 2007
Travellers this way come
After a two-week break from premiership action it is now time to put the cup matches on the back burner and resume the most important job in hand. This is the time when the promising performances of the last few weeks...
Wednesday 5th Dec, 2007
The Froggy Double Header
Who would have thought it? Here we are sitting on top of our Heineken Cup Group with a maximum 10 points. We have already beaten the seeded team who, because of the stupidity of the governing body...
Wednesday 21st Nov, 2007
Oh come all ye faithful will we be joyful and triumphant?
I was about to do my rounds when there came a tapping of someone gently rapping, rapping at the convent door. Imagine my surprise when I opened it and instead of the usual chav slapper looking for a handout and a bed for...
Thursday 8th Nov, 2007
Europe here we come!
Lock up your daughters because London Irish are in town. The form team in both the premiership and the EDF challenge cup are about to embark on their greatest adventure and conquer the might of Europe...
Thursday 1st Nov, 2007
EDF cup match or walk the Mumbles Mile. Isn’t it?
Think Ospreys, think fish eating hawk, think pandion haliaetus, and think one name; Justin Marshall, maybe James Hook and Tango man himself Gavin Henson. Apart from that there is only one name...
Wednesday 24th Oct, 2007
Harlequinade
Harlequins supporters are, in the main, a well-intentioned bunch. Not all are called Nigel. I have heard of a Quentin, several Tarquins and even a Giles. But mainly Nigel. There are, as far as my research shows...
Thursday 18th Oct, 2007
There’s a rumbling from the West
For our first televised home game of the season we host the team that are currently flying high at the top of the premiership having won all three of their away matches and both of their home matches...
Wednesday 10th Oct, 2007
Will we all be pissed off down the Causeway?
I've often pondered on the implications of a long and arduous drive down to the Causeway, the logistics of the traffic and the parking problems and a Sunday afternoon match hardly helps to augment my enthusiasm...
Wednesday 3rd Oct, 2007
Friday night Bath. Marvellous, isn't it?
London Irish eh, not so much London and not too many Irish these days but nevertheless, still our favourite rugby team. Along the way we may have picked up a few Johnny foreigners but so what. What's in a name eh? Take the All Blacks...
Thursday 27th Sep, 2007
Memorial Sunday
By feck, the rounds in the AG Premiership are coming around fast! Third game in as many weeks, and the second away day for the Irish, with a tasty trip to the capital of the South West, Bristol...
Friday 21st Sep, 2007
Flood Warning Averted for Sunday
Ah, the season is alive and well with round two of the AG Premiership on the way. After yet another superb start to the season, well by the fat lads up front anyway! London Irish will go in search of their first point...
Thursday 13th Sep, 2007
Quins with only one home game against London Irish shocker!
Jesus now lads, the season is fecking here! No summer to talk of; Freakin Internationals matches in August; and now the number one sport is in full party swing with the RWC! This fecker on Saturday has sort of crept up on me...
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