On Tuesday the 18th November 2008, a new piece of history will be written in Thomond Park. New Zealand will play Munster to commemorate the opening of the new Thomond Park. As it happens, it’s also 30 years since New Zealand were beaten 12 - 0 by Munster. You may have heard about it.
The question [...]
I passed by Thomond Park yesterday and some of the seating has gone into the new West Stand. While there’s a bit of work to be done, it looks like the new stadium is really taking shape. The Munster Rugby website has pictures from June, before the seating went in.
The first match to be played [...]
Turns out that instead of a pedigree race horse, I own one of these:
Photo owned by *spud* (cc)
The draw was made this morning for the Pool Stages of the Heineken Cup 2009. This was the first draw to be made using the new ERC ranking system. Having won the Heineken Cup twice in the last 3 years, Munster were ranked number 1. The Pools are:
Pool 1
Munster, Sale, Clermont, Montauban.
Pool 2
Wasps, Leinster, Castres, [...]
I’m sitting here watching the opening minutes of the Turkey and Czech Republic match in 2008. So far the highlight of the game so far has been a Turkish player changing his boots.
After less then ten minutes, I’m bored. Not just with this game, but with football in it’s entirety. I don’t have the interest [...]
