Just a few links to show what rugby we’ve been harpin on for the past seven days…
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The week kicked off with a popular rant by Brendan Grehan : “Why in 7s name doesn’t Ireland have a team?”
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Then I had the daunting task of writing up Leinster's nightmare in Llanelli : “Scarlets-45 Leinster-20"
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Tim Cronin wondered about “The All Blacks – Depth Perception”
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While Felix McCabe provided us with a thorough “Premiership Round 1 – Round-up”
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We had another guest post from @lions_in_oz, he wondered : “Have We Opened Pandora's Box With the New TMO Reviews?”
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Our provincial columnists gave their sides their first review of the season; first Kristian Ross “Ulster scrappy but get the job done”
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Then Trevor Murphy cracked the blog's all-time top ten list with “Impressive work rate from Munster”
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Finally John O'Sullivan chipped in with “Debutants fall short for Connacht”
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A new Midweek Quiz game kicked off with four questions on last season's Pro12 – how would you have done?
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Liam Sinclair made 6 Pro12 predictions, all of which panned out : “Visser the Scottish silver lining in round 1”
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For my column on Bluemagic.ie I revealed my “Match-Day Ritual”
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A pair of Barnes were this week's guests in “Around The Fringes #69”
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Sarah Lennon continued her series about the women's game in Ireland, telling us all about “The Leinster Women’s Leagues”
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There was none of Mike Tyson's tigers to be seen for Keego when he went to Vegas : “Keego on…Sevens and Stags”
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Our English Lions Selector panellist told us about his skipper and replacements...
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I didn't do as well as Liam with my “Pro12 predictions on SportsNews Ireland” but five outta six ain't bad!
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Queen's RFC gave us a Roots & All update, then we revealed our international team for this season.
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Facebook Likes are up to 862 and they helped me celebrate some good news Saturday morning.
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And the Twitter follower count is now at 3,343; they got to see my short & sweet 30,000th tweet last night.
As you can see it was a busy week…stay tuned for more!
