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Podcast: Malcolm O'Kelly on ridiculous Alain Rolland
It's the last of our Rugby World Cup podcasts and it's a doozy, mainly because of big Mal O'Kelly's ridiculing of two icons of Irish rugby, Alain Rolland and George Hook.
But erstwhile editor Shane Breslin and Bertie-bashing host Barry Lenihan don't let him away with it that easily and put forward the reasons why Rolland was right to punish the Welsh captain to the full extent of the law, even if it did ruin the World Cup semi-final and left Rolland with a list of enemies as long as the name of an average town in Wales.
Elsewhere, the panel are united in their belief that this weekend's final will be a cakewalk for the All-Blacks, while they also look back on their own personal highlights from the tournament and the George Hook v Brian O'Driscoll Twitter spat.
Listen right here in your browser at the player above, or click here to download the MP3.
if it was a bad tackle its was a bad tackle, intention or not accident or not ruin the match as a spectacle or not. Dropping or Driving to the ground is RED. You are asking Rolland to cheat and just say ah yellow it is son - we will cite you afterwards because its really a red.
Dumb comments like this will only make kids think they can get away with it and in the end someone will end up with a horrific injury
Dumb Ass
They played better than France even after the Red card, so that can't solely be blamed for the loss.
Alain Rolland- vous aviez raison. Bravo!
Alain was completely right! -Karma seemingly comes in many forms.
After the welsh used one ball more than regulation to cheat for a 'win'-I
never thought AR would be the agent to bring some karmic balance to
proceedings in this code. Alain on that decision-had what the welsh would
have wished for He had -2 balls-of course I speaketh proverbally.
addendum It still doesn't make up for 45 years watching the welsh 'do
stuff' they knew would be allowed against the Irish---with a Scots referee.
You see-Gatland was not completely wrong when he said-"the welsh don't like
the Iirish' He could have said the Scots as well.
It's only the moronic 'Oirish meedya' who believe -all is hokey dokey amid
the mythical celts of wales scotland in this archilpelago of competing
rivals. Incidentally-to assist the media luvvies- 'countries'-the
aforementioned nation wales scotland are not countries-(by definition)
.
After racist abuse from many welsh bloggers ---
-perhaps we -French Irish Italians -and English
ought to have a 4 Countries rugby comp-and let the colonies of scots and
welsh land play themselves
Well done England c1971-as they arrived to actually play Ireland c early
seventies. The colonies made an excuse to hide thus preventing a possible if
not probable G. Slam for Ireland.
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ps-the welsh ex rugby forward-now commentator in residence at the normally fair minded BBC--likes nothing better-seemingly-than pronouncing French words -with a flourish. I would bet -like many well paid media luvvies in these archipelago of islands ---he cannot actually speak or understand French-beyond a few words. The same superficiality for Mc Gurk-and Ryle Nugent and Inverdale et alii.