mikerob wrote:The question has got to be asked. How do you pronounce "Ruaidhri"?
Is a "Rory" close enough?
"Ru-ah-ree"
I've met people who claim themselves to be one or the other. Depends on the person, either way he's Sheila or Sheilo (depending on quality)!
Seems like a good signing, not a project or NIQ so doesn't effect the quota, and with his southern hemisphere training, he'll likely be a bit more dynamic than powerful, so will offer more in the loose than Black, but less at the scrum. Unless he turns out to be Afoa part 2 (then he offers more everywhere, except on his days off).
mikerob wrote:The question has got to be asked. How do you pronounce "Ruaidhri"?
Is a "Rory" close enough?
"Ru-ah-ree"
I've met people who claim themselves to be one or the other. Depends on the person, either way he's Sheila or Sheilo (depending on quality)!
Seems like a good signing, not a project or NIQ so doesn't effect the quota, and with his southern hemisphere training, he'll likely be a bit more dynamic than powerful, so will offer more in the loose than Black, but less at the scrum. Unless he turns out to be Afoa part 2 (then he offers more everywhere, except on his days off).
How old is he?
26 I think.
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mikerob wrote:The question has got to be asked. How do you pronounce "Ruaidhri"?
Is a "Rory" close enough?
"Ru-ah-ree"
I've met people who claim themselves to be one or the other. Depends on the person, either way he's Sheila or Sheilo (depending on quality)!
Seems like a good signing, not a project or NIQ so doesn't effect the quota, and with his southern hemisphere training, he'll likely be a bit more dynamic than powerful, so will offer more in the loose than Black, but less at the scrum. Unless he turns out to be Afoa part 2 (then he offers more everywhere, except on his days off).
Some yutes at Welford Road sang a song to that effect after the match, mind you it wasn't a team of Rorys, t'was a team of Rory Bests.
Thanks for the Yutes comment Baggy, the youngest of us was 42
Bullshit 222, the yutes I witnessed about 30 minutes after full time were clearly students, not one in their 30s. Congratulations on your performance but, it was a different one than I witnessed.
I'd had a few but wasn't inebriated .................at that stage. That came later
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Pimpmac wrote:You're right but then I am expecting us to sign a tighthead specialist. We don't want another Tom Court scenario here, we should leave him be as a loosie and let him get on with his job.
Don't mean this post directed at you, in particular, Pimpmac but I always wandered what the "Tom Court scenario" actually was? It's something that's repeated a lot on this forum, yet has always seemed alien to me. Apart from Tom getting utterly duffed in the scrum one day in London, his "versatility" never seemed to be a problem. He started out at Ulster as a tighthead. Whilst initially very obviously out of his depth, he had to makings of a decent tighthead in the final few months of the season before Botha arrived. Seems at that stage, he switched / was switched to loosehead in a bid for Ulster to get their two best props on the park at the same time. Court routinely played well at 3 when asked to do so, even after this switch. Even against the All Blacks in Dublin a few Autumns back. I don't think there was ever really a "Tom Court scenario". Court was never really harmed by being "versatile" for province or county, with the exception of that England game, which, in the latter half of his international career, was a rare appearance at 3. If Court was ever shoe-horned into a position, it was loosehead, not tighthead.
Hey Neil. Firstly let me state that I am a big fan of Tom's and he has proven time and again that he is capable of performing at the highest level and has never let us down. Personally I feel he found his feet at loosehead and that is where he should have been left.
The Tom Court scenario that I mean is more about the castigation by the media that a player can get, (it is often pretty vitriolic if said player is from Ulster) when playing a position that they are not capable of against players of the highest calibre. Mud sticks sadly and in my view Tom has been wrongly tarnished for one performance in a position that at that time he had hardly played. Whilst thankfully he was a strong enough character to ignore it, other players may not have been and I am basically saying I would hate to see another player (especially an Ulster player) getting unfair and undue criticism when placed in a similar scenario.
I could equally have said the Paddy Wallace scenario but that would just be
