How are you feeling now ?

Nervous about tonights Ireland , Denmark game.

Good luck, Fred.

I certainly wish upon you a better ref than your Northern colleagues got for their home game the other day...

Think of poor wee New Zealand, though: we are 0-0 after the home leg of a tie against World No. 10 Peru ... and have to play the second leg in LIma this week!

We (your Ireland and my New Zealand) should fare better for the World Cup after next (2026) - which is going to have 48 teams in its Finals. New Zealand's zone (Oceania) should get an automatic qualifier - at present we have to beat someone in a Playoff - and I guess Europe will get a few extra slots too. Hell, maybe even the USofA might qualify!
 
A bit like being a cranky butt today

A bit like being a cranky butt today

okie i am a dual irish citeeee n we were just there in Kinsale to see my grandmother. But we are home now, N i no want live here, I hate it here, n I can no wait til i turn 18 so that me and my bf can move to Mayo or Galway, and so i can be around ppl understands how i talk and no has to ask me dozen times what i say, n just being a big baby cranky butt about it lol. Lions needs a cyber hug lol
 
okie i am a dual irish citeeee n we were just there in Kinsale to see my grandmother. But we are home now, N i no want live here, I hate it here, n I can no wait til i turn 18 so that me and my bf can move to Mayo or Galway, and so i can be around ppl understands how i talk and no has to ask me dozen times what i say, n just being a big baby cranky butt about it lol. Lions needs a cyber hug lol

Kinsale is beautiful! There is an amazing tea shop ( can't rem what it's called ) such a pretty place.

Feel good and looking forward to my 2 week break in the sun :wave:😎
 
Kinsale is beautiful! There is an amazing tea shop ( can't rem what it's called ) such a pretty place.

Feel good and looking forward to my 2 week break in the sun :wave:😎
kim i checked out general chat today for the very first time lol or ln i should say lol ....it was fun i enjoyed myself and yessss i was a good chatter lol......and i hate being american lol ireland is so much better, thats where i really want to be.....but anyway i might pop into general more often and say hiyah now n then...kk byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 
kim i checked out general chat today for the very first time lol or ln i should say lol ....it was fun i enjoyed myself and yessss i was a good chatter lol......and i hate being american lol ireland is so much better, thats where i really want to be.....but anyway i might pop into general more often and say hiyah now n then...kk byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


Glad you liked GC , keep going there as i'm Adult Chat Admin and you are too young to chat there 😀:
 
kim i checked out general chat today for the very first time lol or ln i should say lol ....it was fun i enjoyed myself and yessss i was a good chatter lol......and i hate being american lol ireland is so much better, thats where i really want to be.....but anyway i might pop into general more often and say hiyah now n then...kk byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Lionsfan101, I'm a Rugby nut, as you may or may not know.

So much of a Rugby nut that in 2015 me and the lass I wed in February 2016 went on a Pre-Wedding Honeymoon 😛 to Europe so that I could take in/write on the All Blacks' seven-games-unbeaten run to their third world championship.

(I like to be different!)

That World Cup was hosted by England.
The next one (which I will be at, too) is in Japan in 2019.
The one after that - 2023 - has its venue decided this week.
There are three contenders:
South Africa
France
Ireland


South Africa hosted the 1999 World Cup.
France hosted the 2007 World Cup.
Ireland have never hosted the World Cup (and there have been 8 thus far).

I thought Ireland (and in Rugby Ireland has always, even during the troubles, had a unified team) would be a shoo-in - close to other big Rugby nations, compact, hospitable, sociable...


World Rugby's 'recommendation' to their voters, though, is that the thing should go to South Africa. France are rated second. Ireland third. Their Evaluation Report had South Africa ahead in three of the five categories, for a total score of 78.97%, with its proposed host cities and venues, relying heavily on those used during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, proving pivotal. France (75.88%) emerged on top in two of categories – including finances – while damningly for Ireland (72.25%), it failed to do so in any.

Go figure.
 
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