Keep your eye on: Mike Ross, scrum nerd, being substituted
Thankfully, Whiff of Cordite has never been involved in the business end of a scrum, preferring instead to stand far away and not think too much about it. Luckily, we have located a total geek who...
View ArticleMoments of the Season Part 1
In keeping with the end of season theme, we’re going to take a look at our favourite moments of the season. First, Egg Chaser takes us through his, tomorrow Palla Ovale follows suit. Chris Ashton’s...
View ArticleIt’s all Jamie Hagan’s Fault for Moving to Leinster
Amid the fallout from Ireland’s Twickenham debacle, one regular lament in the meeja is Jamie Hagan’s move to Connacht. It goes thus: Ireland could have had another tighthead prop to call on had Jamie...
View ArticlePlaying Favourites
In the build-up to last week’s game against Fiji, Gerry Thornley mentioned not once, but twice that the selection of Mike Ross was due to managment’s unhappiness with his performance versus South...
View Article#Flogged
We dreamed up this post lounging around on Northside grass, peeled grapes being handed to us by the Irish Times sports staff, having conned them into thinking we might need them to ghost an...
View Article(Hashtag) Ireland’s Tighthead Crisis
Ok, well, it mightn’t be a crisis, we don’t know that for sure. In fact, we reckon it won’t, but one fact remains indisputable – the man who has started the last 25 Tests for Ireland at tighthead prop...
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