The Official Irish Rugby Thread

[nelly sham]

That's as bad a performance from Ireland that I can remember over the last few years.
Mistakes everywhere, players, coaches, captain.
They found some amount of ways to get in their own ways.
Against a very very bang average NZ Team.

The subs killed the game too.

Can we now all agree that POM, Healy and Henderson can be sent away now?
We all know Healy needs another cap and he'll get it but let's see some new faces in the team across the next 3 games not just 7 new caps against Fiji.

 

[Handy Run]

Frawley had a mare

You'd think he was an academy lad on the bench to fill out the numbers but got unexpectedly and unavoidably called up

 

[nelly sham]

Frawley had a mare

No no no.
Gifsella will tell us his chip over the top was genius.


The guy is learning to play at 10 for a team where the coach doesn't want him at 10. How could it not work against the All Blacks?

 

[Handy Run]

Can we now all agree that POM, Healy and Henderson can be sent away now?

So long as we get to keep Connor Sleepy Joe Murray

 

[Jukka]

Lowe, we're 10 points down. Wind your neck in ya dick head

There was a lot of that guff tonight for them, but that was especially daft.

Not much change over in players for a few years now and looks like they're well past their peak as a group.

At one stage tonight, 6 of our 15 were players who didn't come through the Irish system. That's fairly damning.

 

[longbigandjuicy]

That's as bad a performance from Ireland that I can remember over the last few years.
Mistakes everywhere, players, coaches, captain.
They found some amount of ways to get in their own ways.
Against a very very bang average NZ Team.

The subs killed the game too.

Can we now all agree that POM, Healy and Henderson can be sent away now?
We all know Healy needs another cap and he'll get it but let's see some new faces in the team across the next 3 games not just 7 new caps against Fiji.

Add Murray to that. Shows what little depth and talent we have. We've had great youth teams lately now is the time for a big rebuild.

 

[nelly sham]

There was a lot of that guff tonight for them, but that was especially daft.

Not much change over in players for a few years now and looks like they're well past their peak as a group.

At one stage tonight, 6 of our 15 were players who didn't come through the Irish system. That's fairly damning.

It's even more damning when all we hear about is the Leinster conveyor belt yet Henderson and POM are starting ahead of their young players.

The transition to the next set of players needs to begin now. Players like Hodnett, Coombes, McCann, Forde all need a look at with the full strength teams. The lads that aren't going to be there for the next WC won't add any value

 

[How bad boy]

Crowley off. He's been anonymous.

And yet, still a hell of a lot better than Frawley.

That bench was a disgrace. There's a point at which Farrell is being just plain negligent. Unloading a bunch of mid 30 year olds on for the last 10 when you're chasing the match is a recipe for disaster.

Farrell needs to blood new players, at least a quarter of that squad is now officially over the hill.

 

[cactus jack]

whats the story with seeding for the next world cup? will we continue to play the old lads just to maintain our ranking?

 

[Handy Run]

whats the story with seeding for the next world cup

Go out in the quarters I'd imagine