Despite calls from pretty much every corner now for Crowley to start in Rome, the quotes and tone of this suggest to me Prendergast is going to start again 🤷‍♂️ It's one of the most bizarre situations I can remember covering Ireland. What must Crowley be thinking at all...

"There were genuine question marks about the future of the Lions" 🦁❓ Rob Kearney looks back on the 2009 Lions tour 🆕

Great to go down British & Irish Lions memory lane with Rob Kearney recently 🦁🏉 Rob Kearney: The Gaelic footballer who played for the future of the Lions: skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…

Stunning result for Munster, who barring the shock of the round if Ulster win tomorrow, have no reward at all in having to go to Bordeaux in the quarters - that side of the draw is a brute. To hold out and win it after such a poor penalty try call late on too was massive

Munster signing the likes of Michael Milne and JJ Hanrahan for next season, Leinster - with 11 central contracts, Snyman from Munster and Slimani - are now signing Rieko Ioane too...are we still pretending this is normal?

An UNBELIEVABLE no-look pass by Blues' Hoskins Sotutu to set up a try in the Super Rugby! 🏉😮

In a game lost by 3 points, Munster incorrectly reduced to 14 for 14 mins due to colossal error by officials. Likely ends any hope of home QF & under pressure to make Europe. How did O'Donovan & touchline staff not march on the pitch to stop it? They mustn't have known either...

Great to speak to Danny Lydiate on his remarkable career and British and Irish Lions memories: Lydiate: From scared 19-year-old who couldn't feel his legs to Lions flanker: skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…

From a scared 19-year-old who couldn’t feel his legs to a Lions flanker 💪 Wales' Dan Lydiate looks back on his journey to the 2013 tour of Australia 🦁

Only this iteration of Munster could lose Nash, Casey, Coombes, O'Mahony, Hodnett a week after Euro QF, plus Jager within 15 mins, & a week after that, lose Ahern, Wycherley, Murray with POM, Hodnett, Jager still out - make it 4 seasons in a row now of insane level of injuries?

How on earth has Underhill avoided red there? A monumentally poor piece of officiating from Davidson - in a final! Lyon will have big complaints at the end of this one you'd imagine...

Lawrence Dallagio reflects on his British and Irish Lions career and shares his tour memories 🏉

If SA rugby fans wonder why their teams and supporters are disliked, look at Hendrikse's behaviour and look how it is defended. He wasn't provoked. He was just being a d*ck. In the law book, if shout at a player taking a kick during the 80, it would be order to be retaken.

Sharks behaviour: the verbals, playacting, winking, time wasting, actual staff and bench booing a kicker, all clearly in the mould of Erasmus. No surprise he would have watched and had no issue. The man is a joke…

A strong-looking Lions side. Only four players of 38-player travelling squad won't have been involved yet after the opening two games: Keenan (calf), Gibson-Park (glute), Kinghorn (Toulouse, Top 14 final) and James Ryan (carrying something?)...

'Have no regrets': Has Farrell got big calls right as Lions go for power? - skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…

How Andy Farrell's tourists pulled off greatest comeback in British and Irish Lions history: skysports.com/rugby-union/ne…

Is there a worse refereeing official who consistently seems to get the biggest games in any sport than Piardi in rugby union? Woeful in this SA-Argentina game. Not helped by Tempest as TMO, but unreal amount of errors, including missing most obvious second yellow ever to Moodie

2,500 vs 43,000 and 13,000 vs 82,000 - Red Roses' World Cup opening game and final attendances at 2010 WRWC vs 2025 WRWC, both in England. Emily Scarratt involved in both tournaments. Great to speak to her about the incredible changes she has seen over a stellar career:

Would love to see footage of the ball on the ground the TMO at Thomond claimed he could see because it wasn’t the one broadcast that he was talking over…what is it about Piardi and Munster? Almost always a clanger or two.